#photography phl

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11/14/24

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2300 Block of Nicholas Street, Robert M. Skaler Postcard Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

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Photography: Food: The Post PHL 7/3/24

Photography: Food: The Post PHL 7/3/24 @visitphilly @ThePostPHL @ForgedStout

I was in Philadelphia earlier this week or the third of the six sessions of Asian Arts Initiative’s Sound Type Music Writers Workshop. I checked out of my hotel and had time to kill before my train back, so I wound up at The Post PHL, a few blocks away from William H. Gray III, 30th Street Amtrak Station. I ordered a Post Burger with Forged Irish Stout. It was really good. Just thinking about it…

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PHL-7: The New Electric Ballroom

Written By: Enda Walsh

Directed By: Emma Gibson

Presented By: Hedgerow Theatre

@hedgerowtheatre tinyurl.com/Electric-Ballroom-Tix

As specialists in digital theatre, we have found ourselves looking for those special “you had to be there” moments when we come in person. We became familiar with Hedgerow Theatre when we saw their production of “The Puzzle” in partnership with LOLST. Through the screen, we saw a brilliant theater production (in fact it’s nominated for a 2024 YHTA Award). So when we trekked from our familiar Center City to Rose Valley on the train and walked from the station to the 101 year old historic theater, Google Maps SWORE was straightforward. (Word to the wise: Get a Lyft or Uber from the station) There, we saw something that the screen can’t capture: a theatre created by a community of people who instantly become your friends. A group of artists and patrons that become bigger and more substantial than the brilliant theatre work we’re watching. This is the community we got immersed in well before the house opened and we entered “The New Electric Ballroom”

L: Enda Walsh R: Emma Gibson

Walsh’s writing has us torn between two extremes. On one side we acknowledge the sheer skill it takes to write a play that shows the ritualization of family trauma sheerly through repetition of text and blocking. Like listening to “Minuet in G” or “Rondo a la Turca” we know that passages are going to repeat but he plays with our expectations so much that our anticipation becomes part of the experience. Yet in the other extreme, we find the minimalism of the plot doesn’t support the premise. We felt let down that, after pushing through this rich use of language, repetition, and ritual there was nothing else there. Maybe Walsh wants us to have that anger, that feeling that something substantial has been done but nothing has really happened. Maybe we’re supposed to be angry that the three sister’s lives are lying in ruin for no reason. Maybe but we don’t know.

Photo Credit: James Kern Photography

We think Gibson’s touch was giving the cast the energy and the freedom to let loose onstage. To feel and express anger, grief, and crippling longing in a safe space. A lot of this might stem from Gibson’s acting and playwriting background. If a director knows what fuels the engine of a play, what makes the motor of a performer purr like a kitten, then they know when to goose the throttle or tap the brakes. Many times we knew that Gibson was trusting these trained actors to do what they were born to do with words that were finely crafted. Then other times we knew that she was the one giving them the final gentle touch to steer them headlong into the scene with a passion and emotion that had us the edge on our seats.

When it comes to these performers we have a problem...they are all spectacular. This is a play where if one performer’s off the whole play falls apart. So the whole ensemble has to work together like a well-oiled machine to get us from lights up to curtain call. This is not years this is decades of performers honing their craft to make a performance like this look as easy as dancing on the promenade. We were captivated by them. They had us watching their every word and movement. They could have played this whole show on a bare stage and we would have missed nothing. That just shows what happens when a show is centered on charismatic and dynamic performers.

L: Georgia Evans R: Elizabeth Hanson

The costume design of this show has made us coin a new phrase, “Look for the hole in the boxers”. It means that when we talk about attention to detail in costume design a simple hole in the boxers changed the game for us. It’s a simple thing that tells us EVERYTHING about a character. And this is why we both want to highlight Evans AND Hanson in their work of bringing all of this design to the stage. With very simple pieces the clothes they changed the story and even characters. That’s the kind of costume design we want to celebrate in this world.

Photo Credit: John Kerns Photography

We’re getting a ride back to the train station from a veteran performer and supporter of Hedgerow Susan Wefel. Wefel graciously offered us a ride when she found out we had walked up and down the blind hills and in traffic to get to the theater. Susan gave us a rundown of the theatre world in the area that only a forty-plus-year veteran could know. On the ride to the station, she gives us inside info about the show that no insert in the program can provide. We have always been skeptical about the prioritization of theatre buildings over the artists inside. Theatre buildings can become idols. We are saying this because we want you to understand this isn’t about a converted grist mill but a community. The space becomes ancillary to a community that loves it and each other. The show becomes part of a landscape in a welcoming atmosphere that makes you feel like you could stay forever. It’s only our first time at Hedgerow but we know we’ll be back. We assure you there is no greater outsider to a theater than a critic and yet they made us feel at home.

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PHL / A/Bound

A/Bound May 20 - June 17, 2023 Reception June 8th, 2023, 6-9 pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to announce the exhibition A/Bound, curated by Eva Moreno and Duwenavue Santé Johnson.

A/Bound focuses on the theme of transformation, legacy, and cross-generational relationship, through natural laws, which is brought into space using selected works by Duwenavue Santé Johnson, Kim Miskowicz, Omi Tanaka, Joseph Carrillo, George Shongutsie, and Chris Donnelly.

The collection of works offers a fresh perspective that speaks to our collective and individual experiences. It provides an interesting view of the human being as an integral part of an ecosystem, in a curious juxtaposition between the transition of the four seasons following each other in the year and the different stages of human development.

We are creating spaces relative to us, how we move, think, and be. A goal of space should "consider" the greater good for the majority of movements that create value with a strong hope that ecologically all of the movement supports a sort of harmony and balance to foster a regenerative environment.  

The Poet's "Testament"

I wrap the sky around myself to keep away the cold and eat starlight late at night to take the place of rich Dew drops scatter below the sky for me to find and drink. and out my poems flow to greet the morn, to last her age. My heart, sacrificed to its grave gains unworldly powers; the spirit flies into lands of dreams the far side of the sky. It seeks divinity in Heaven and brings it back to earth to soothe the sand and grass, bringing happiness, bringing peace. My purpose in composing poems is to salvage the soul.

- Angkarn Kalayanapong (Thai), translated by Allan Ginsberg

A connective mixture of fine arts and craftsmanship from textile arts in the form of beadwork, and hand embroidery, while collages, phytograms, and paintings create visual terrains. Digital formats along with analog photography play a significant role in creating the movement of this exhibition.

The artists represented all share a unique type of systematic molding from forced state relocation, survival through academic pathways, and carrying on one's culture by leaving the familiar.  Each one of the artists has gone through multiple ebbs and flows,  maintaining a practice of resilience, and using creative methods to sustain their lifelong art practice.  Crossing paths during the height of the tides of gentrification in the California Bay Area, not cowering to fear, risk, and uncertainty while taking unexplored roads. This experience has led to certain shared values, notably, sharing learned ideas to help build, create, and explore all the while, understanding that nature is fragile and must be conserved and respected to allow for future generations of all life.

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Racing to Philadelphia International Airport from South Jersey, 6/23/2016

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Deck the Hall Light Show!

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[chrisho1960]

Calamba - Night swim in vulcanic hot spring.

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Speed Limit

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Photography: Vegetable Puns Sign, The Post PHL 7/3/24

Photography: Vegetable Puns Sign, The Post PHL 7/3/24 @visitphilly @ThePostPHL

I was in Philadelphia earlier this week or the third of the six sessions of Asian Arts Initiative’s Sound Type Music Writers Workshop. I checked out of my hotel and had time to kill before my train back, so I wound up at The Post PHL, a few blocks away from William H. Gray III, 30th Street Amtrak Station. While I was there, I came across a sign with a glorious dad joke. I couldn’t help but smile.

[torianphotography]

Model: @nyahmbee_ @nyathe_orginal Photographer: @torianpp Lingerie: @savagexfenty Magazine: @dymelifemag Issue 75 #Torian #Torianpp #TorianPhotography #TeamTorian #GetPublished #Sexy #lingerie #Photography #Art #Model #Magazine #Chester #Philadelphia #Philly #Delaware #ChesterPhotographer #PhillyPhotographer #delawarephotographer #Model #NewYork #NYC #PHL #Miami #MIA #BlackGirlsRock #BlackisBeautiful #Melanin #Canon #Dymelife #DymelifeMagazine #savagexfenty @canonusa (at Lancaster, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn8PrqNLPFQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hosta Plant Revisited (#Nature #Sestet #Summer)

Hosta Plant Revisited (#Nature #Sestet #Summer)

Phil Gennuso Arts This swirling hosta plant,with white tipped, lush green leaves,beckons to me,with outstretched hands and faces,smiling softly,in the gentle morning breeze.