HILL AND BILL

 Irony? I met Bill Mello (left), shortly after moving to Atlanta.....He had attended college at U, North Carolina, where he met Hillel Irving (right)....they dropped out of school during or shortly after their freshman years.....Bill had 'visions' of becoming a clothing designer/model....whatever; Hill, envisioned himself as an animated film maker.......I lived with Bill and my friend Johnny Lowe, from Vanderbilt.....not meeting Hill, for they had destroyed what was 'left' of their eariler relationship, shortly after moving to Atlanta....and wanted to have nothing to do with one another.....I met Hill, while I was living with Bill...only because Hill would bring his 'partner', Maria, to visit Bill...and then..Bill and I, while Hill remained in his car...motor running....waiting for Maria to 'leave'.....This was sooooo neurotic! A year or so later, Bill and I locked horns over a dozen 'things'....and he moved to NYC.....later, after Maria ejected Hill from their 'home' in Adairsville, Ga......he, too, moved to NYC and, discontinuing his 'FILM' career, he because a Master Cake Maker....(long story, abbreviated)....Then, visiting mutual friends in New York, Hill and I finally became good friends.....since we had much in common.....cooking, interest in Film History and photography, and...of course....cooking and eating aesthetically presented creative and unique Foods.....This photo was taken before I met either of them.....photographer, unknown.... It is the only photo that I've seen ....of them.....together...,sorta! Now....only 10,000 more 'old photos and negatives' to 'go through' and 'clean up'......

THE CURSE/REWARD OF THE 'HIGH INSTEP'.....

just a few thousand old photos to organize and "nostalgiacize" about........ I gave to charity Mother's huge collections of shoes......She, like Aunt Frances, preferred Farragamos because he manufactured them in 7 1/2 quad, with high insteps, which was very rare then......I have the same "problem".....narrow heels and ultra-high arches......so spend most of my time in bare feet or plastic flip flops or slide-in sandals.....

LIFE ON 'EARL STREET'....1952

THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS PLAYED 'JOAN OF ARC', "playing like" WE WERE BURNING JOAN ON A CROSS....THAT WAS, ACTUALLY, A 'T'-SHAPED CLOTHES WIRE........IN FRANCE, KIDS WERE UP TO EVEN MORE SINISTRATED ROLE-PLAYING ACTIVITIES......WHO WANTS TO 'be' LOUIS?   

WHAT DEFINES 'GREY'/'GRAY'?

 HUMANS, CONGREGATING, WITH COLLUSIVE, DELUSIONAL CONCEPTUALIACTIONS ABOUT BEING 'DIFFERENT', 'UNIQUE' OR 'ARTISTIC' ....ALWAYS LEADS TO THE PLAINES OF MEDIOCRITY.......

FOOTSIE

 

Watching a bonobo or a chimpanzee drawing with its feet, or armless, legless humans, drawing, painting or sculpting with their mouths......Looking at my relatively useless toes, but for balancing, only good for 'standing or modeling thong sandals......I thought of how much fun it could be.....to use all four appendages ....to run up trees, play on jungle gyms or, simultaneously, write or draw four things at once......

A CAPTURED NAZI SUBMARINE, PARADED AS A SOUVENIR .......AROUND "THE SQUARE" OF HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA.......I'VE DIGITALLY RESTORED THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS THAT 'MAKE' A PANORAMIC OF THE OCCASION......MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER IS 'SOMEWHERE' WITHIN THIS PHOTOGRAPH........

the 'night lights'.....then, an experiment, to go....blindfolded....about the house...to test both memory and awareness......I think this is a response to having watched "Pain And Glory" earlier this evening.... Navigating the Past re-directs the Present and creates more alternative Futures.......