Alexis and the high speed French train

Alexis interprets a song from the score of The Fantastic Mr. Fox.  I saw her doing this for the first time this weekend.  Being young, imaginative and involved with theatre, she puts on displays on absolute whims.  I was so moved by this.. and am sharing it.

Happy 50th, Birth Control.

Today, Mother's Day, is the 50th anniversary of the oral contraceptive for women - the Pill.

In a perfect world, every woman would have access to it to prevent pregnancy, and it would be used correctly, lessening the occurrence of abortions, unwanted pregnancies and unplanned children.

Friday Photo: The Gates

I spent some years working for an NYC non-profit organization, shipping art prints.  It was a fun job and it connected me to many exotic people with fantastic names.  Most of the prints were of works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, environmental artists.  I don't recall having liked one print particularly more than the others, but they were all pretty fantastic because they depicted works which were all of grand scale.


They've wrapped entire bridges, buildings, and islands.  This particular image was shot by Wolfgang Volz during their latest installment, The Gates (2005), in New York's Central Park. 


Image: christojeanneclaude.net