DO MEMORIES FADE?

As we move into this Holiday season I get a bit sentimental of seasons past and of friends and loved ones that I have'nt seen in a long while. I recently opened up a photo album that contained thousands of pictures of years past. Its a mixed blessing to document all my activities thru the years. I feel like Ive done so much in the past but i also feel as if its a gauge of what i should be doing. Its wrong to feel that way but I guess i can relate it to the way you can video tape yourself at the worst party ever and in your mind you say to yourself "This Party Sucks Ass" and then a few days later you look back at the tape and someone sees it and thinks you were at a rocking party. Its an illusion that the camera creates that can tweak your brain into thinking things were better than they really were. I know Ive been there and the memories fade or what you felt when the picture was taken disappears. You look at that photo and in your mind you can say that she was looking at you with adoring eyes but in reality she was really looking at her reflection in the lens. In the long run it doesnt matter. No one will really care about that photo, its about the person in front of you because you cant hug a memory, not yet at least.

"Everything's Gone Green"


Help me, somebody help me
I wonder where I am
I see my future before me
I'll hurt you when I can
It seems like I've been here before

Confusion sprung up from devotion
A halo that covers my eyes
It sprung from this first estrangement
No one have I ever despised
Is this the way that you wanted to pay
Won't you show me, please show me the way
Is this the way that you wanted to pay
Won't you show me, please show me the way


Lyrics By New Order

"A PICTURE OF OUR TORN UP PRAISE" Phosphorescent

A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise lyrics
by Phosphorescent

I don't want to take and baby I don't want to break and baby I don't want to try and make you anyway
I just want to lie down, tell my crazy brains to lie down
And then fall away
I won't be alone I won't be waiting by the phone
I won't be dreaming of you dreaming of me anyway
Tell me where you've been and I will tell you where I've been
It will be all ok
I don't have a home it's not a chain it's not a throne
It's just a picture of a picture tossed and torn away
Of anger on your face still not as strange and not as brave
As when you turned away
I won't be the one when all is said and all is done
I won't be breathing like you breathe into the light of day
I'll be in the yard still taking pictures in the dark
Of all our torn up praise
Leave me not alone I won't be chased I won't be thrown
I won't be bleeding for you bleeding for me everyday
Tell me where you've been and I will tell you where I've been
It will be all ok

...

"CAPTURED" CLAYTON PATERSON'S L.E.S FILM

"DIE YOU YUPPIE SCUM!" is probably what you would have heard if you were walking down ST. Marks Street during the days of the turmoil in the Lower East Side of Manhattan when the shit hit the fan in the early 80s-early 90's. Before NYU hipsters and Japanese Tourist Students took over the LES there was a city on to its own that made up Alphabet City. Artist, Punks,Junkies and Hispanics made up the melting pot of Aves A-D. Not to many people had the balls to document the uprisings and battles with NY finest in the days like Clayton Paterson. He was out there documenting with Video and Film Camera at the cost of several arrest and beat downs. To quote Clayton "It can take losing everything you love to find your own significance"


. The film "CAPTURED" is a must if you think you know NY.

An Interview with ROSTARR

When I was in Miami a few weeks ago I was able to interview RoStarr at the OHWOW Gallery in Miami for his Wreckless Abandon Show.

An Interview with ROSTARR from SHADInyc.com on Vimeo.

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JUST ANOTHER ELECTION?

Last night was an amazing night that I wish I could have documented more. Luckily I had a motorbike to drive around rapidly and catch some of the excitement from a few different vantage points. Sometimes its hard to be a photographer because you want to document the action and at the same moment you want to relish in the excitement. I try to get a bit of both. Thanks to Serge Becker I had both. The Owner of La Esquina and Cafe Select thru an Election Party at both of his places and good friends old and new came to celebrate. I heard some good stories from 2 women that I have known for years that had voted as Americans for the very first time. One woman was from Korea and the other was from Iran. Their stories of being able to vote and make a difference in this election really touched me. The look in their smiling eyes will forever be with me when I reflect back on November 4th, 2008

EXPRESS TO 125 STREET

Express to 125 Street from David Perez on Vimeo.

22 Artist One Night

This past Saturday India Menuez, Julian Bennett-Holmes and Kai Perez put a group art show that included about 20 other friends. It was a night of Art and Music with a lot of new faces. The Art consisted of Photos, Paintings, Interactive, and Audio. To my surprise the Acoustic sets were really good! Three different unplugged sets were done I dont have all the names and I think we have a theme for a different kind of show next time. A few others wanted to sing and play but there wasnt enough time. I think this should be a Bi-Annual of sorts if possible. It's a breath of fresh air to see these budding talents literally at my doorstep.