YouTube, Reddit, IMDB

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2022 is almost over. Holiday parties are in swing. I have been  busy writing letters and making videos with my little, old iPhone. Lately, I have been really into YouTube, Reddit, and IMDB as well as the usual Facebook/Instagram and Twitter. I have not visited Blogger in quite some time. I see myself getting back into Blogger in 2023.

Please check out my latest video offering. made last night at the art students league.

Here now wishing you a festive December and a new year that includes peace and prosperity all inhabitants of planet Earth. (Over 700,000,000 people lack access to clean drinking water withing a 15 minute walk from home.)

Upper West Side Metro Theater and Change.org

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Insurrection, Spelling, Speaking, and Capitalization

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Now I am in the Institute of Community Living. My roommate PZ—one of five roommates here in 2B just came in. All week, I have been feeling reconnected with the powers that be...trying to stay connected and it seems to be working but not 100 percent of the time.

Tonight, there is a meeting with the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg. https://www.dalailama.com/live

The first time I saw the video I sent to the other page, the video about doing a film project...making pictures—never mind.

Picture making and projects reminds me that I have a new book of short stories—just in, from Thrift Books. It’s a Norton Anthology...but a shortened one...from the year 2000. (GOOG is great.) The first story, by Sherwood Anderson is called I Want to Know Why. I almost skipped over it because of its use of the N-word, but after going back and reading a bit about Anderson and his “tone of melancholy reminiscence in which he projects remembered realities on the screen of a philosophic imagination”...I decided to give I Want to Know another chance. Now I am really into it.

UN Apparel, Four Seasons, Architectural League

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Today I am volunteering to sign people in at an Architectural League event at Cooper Union. The event is a lecture by Julie Eisenberg called Neighborhood.

Yesterday, I made a proposal to the UN for a company called UN Apparel that would create decent jobs and beautiful work spaces and timeless, well-made clothes people need and can feel good about...all with the co-operation of artists and designers from around the world. I learned about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and ten principals.

I have been researching Four Seasons Hotels. Fortune magazine says it is a great place to work. Bill Gates is a majority owner.

1% Inspiration

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Hello.

How are you?

I have been reaching out to representatives and pillars of community hoping to garner support for some ideas that people in the city have had these past five years since I entered the Women's Shelter System. These are ideas that homeless women, workers and urban planners have found exciting and feasible:

Linear Parks--to promote health, education, ecology, transportation with taverns and inns inside and outside the parks. Of course the Highline and the Lowline are examples of linear parks. Empire State Trail is a great example.

2020 Eco Fair-- on the site of the Fairgrounds in Queens, NY. Hotels and other sponsors can bid for building permits that could include, hotels, a Performing Art Center at least as large as Lincoln Center, schools, housing for local people in need, restaurants, indoor public spaces, hike and bike trails, bike parking, and more...all with ecology and education in mind.

Health Spas/Urban Planning Centers--complexes including housing, auditoriums, indoor public-spaces, and restaurants that serve the aging and poor as well as the wealthy and youthful. Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan is a good site for a start.

World Hiking School--serves youth and elderly and everyone in-between, has accommodations as well as educational and fitness courses and offers scholarships to people in need. Could be accredited.

United Nations Apparel--designers and architects from every nation work together to create and market eco-friendly, labor friendly apparel.

(Four) (Free) Regional Universities

1, 000 new indoor public spaces at least as nice as Deutchebank atrium on Wall Street. When it's 17 degrees outside people young and old need to get out of the cold. Lowline might be an interesting example. David Rubenstein Atrium is a great example.

If any of these sound like good ideas please mention them to representatives and pillars of community and philanthropists that may be interested.

I have reached out to AIA, Nikki Haley, Erik Solheim at UNEP, many elected representatives, prominent architects and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

In Summary and in Clothing

Today I am looking at tennis dresses. Stella McCartney has done some beautiful things for ADIDAS often in black. Tennis Warehouse has a great skort by Lucky in Love.

Hello, Vernal Equinox 2016

Monday I went to the opening of the Socially Relevant Film Festival at Albertine Books to think about adapting novels into films. I met some young filmmakers and some writers. Including Amitabh Joshi who has studied at SVA. Here is a sample of his work.  And I met another SVA graduate, (Victor?) who made the film Two and Twenty Troubles.

Here is a nice trailer of the film festival:  SRFF 2016. Here are my notes from the talk:

Socially Relevent FF Language Culture Lela--Nabokov Austin, TX--LBJ Blowup Antonioni The English Patient The desert The dessert Seven act structure One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Cable Internet Film Three act structure One Two Three Harold Pinter Silences and pauses

Play as music Pynchon Celebration Skeleton Words that are SO neutral Nobody in the room Will you be there? Ou est tu? Flesh Catherine Clifton Migula Nobody's Perfect Moods Characters Bridgette--game boy South Africa Wide angle Work Things you love Schizophrenic character Re-read your own movie Larry McMurtry Tom Wolfe Ken Kesey Intelligence Creativity Mr. Wright Columbia, Sorbonne Mark Levy--if only it were true Helicopters Taking time Novel Screenplay The bad check of the French movie Clockwork Art Students Papa You Are Crazy Time Vietnam TTM Moricious 400 Pages Lookout Cartridge Interviews Interviews Interviews Musical instrument Voices Actors Translators Mother Jealous husband

(What is not socially relevant?)

This winter is almost over and was relatively mild. I hope you are having a good 2016 so far. I have also seen Youth, Hail Ceasar, Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next.