Volume One… Number 21
Contents:
Macky’s New York Photo Essay
Alumni Shout-Out: Siobhan Crann Winograd, RHS 1991
Tribute to Ms Anita Crevilli
Bloom: An Animated Short Film
American writer E.B. White expresses the delicious daily dilemma of later life succinctly, “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
Macky’s New York
May 16, 2020 - Lincoln Center.
Constellation of emptiness.
This is an outtake from earlier - hard to believe that is Lincoln Center let alone New York City - I guess if you lay in a puddle just right...you can block all the surrounding buildings - strange...looks fake but believe me...I was the guy in the puddle so I know - looks like a crude architectural mock up or an unfinished painting and so when I took it...I realized something was missing...sometimes its not what's there but what's not there that tickles ur mental cue card and only looking at it later did I understand what that was...I will try this shot again - Fyi...the plaza is currently closed so this was as close as I could get with last nights rain.
The gold piece in the distance is called the Constellation of Voices by George Condo - it's a play on psychological Cubism if you believe in that kind of stuff and yes...I did go to high school.
Shot on the east side of 9th Avenue just north of 62nd street looking west to the opera house.
Time 845am.
Siobhan Crann Winograd, RHS 1991, is just the sort of person you want on your side in a fight or disagreement. Fortunately, the vote on the topic of One Village One Vote ((consolidating all the voting days to one day in November)) didn’t involve fisticuffs. If it had, then the smart money would have been on Siobhan as she punches above her weight.
Read the background: https://onevillageonevote.com/582/village-appeal-rejected/
This is not the first time Siobhan has seen a situation and acted. She has founded companies in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Her participation in our common causes have benefited the greater community in more ways than we can imagine. From promoting awareness of Dr. Martin Luther King to ensuring Census participation in Ridgewood, she covers the gamut of how a solid citizen ought to act. Siobhan is a Mom, wife, and a founder of the Ridgewood High School Alumni Association. Many thanks for setting a good example!
Added a tribute to Ms Anita Crevilli who taught history and humanities in Ridgewood High School for thirty-one years (1957-1988). She was the embodiment for the argument that instruction in the Arts in public schools is a necessity not simply a good idea.
This is not created by a member of the Ridgewood Community but after viewing it you would surely invite her in for a stay. It’s taken from https://www.brainpickings.org/ curated weekly by Maria Popova. ********I thought it timely to post this animated short film in that the uncertainty around the pandemic is causing most if not all of us to experience a period of sadness. Hope the message of this film lightens your mood for a while
Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being
During a recent dark season of the spirit, a dear friend buoyed me with the most wonderful, hope-giving, rehumanizing story: Some years earlier, when a colleague of hers — another physicist — was going through such a season of his own, she gave him an amaryllis bulb in a small pot; the effect it had on him was unexpected and profound, as the effect of uncalculated kindnesses always is — profound and far-reaching, the way a pebble of kindness ripples out widening circles of radiance. As the light slowly returned to his life, he decided to teach a class on the physics of animation. And so it is that one of his students, Emily Johnstone, came to make Bloom — a touching animated short film, drawing from the small personal gesture a universal metaphor for how we survive our densest private darknesses, consonant with Neil Gaiman’s insistence that “sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place… to make us warm in the coldest season.”
—Maria Popova
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