June: “Don’t Spoil a Good Dream”

“Don’t Spoil a Good Dream,” illustration by Frank Mack, calendar, South Pacific Base Command headquarters, US Army, 1945. (In the public domain.)

Sunday at the Ethical Humanist Society of Queens, we were joined by Richard L. Koral from the American Ethical Union and the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester who also joined us for our monthly luncheon thereafter at Jax Inn.

Six Exotic Jews group members also gathered Sunday for an “Exoticon” in Upper Manhattan. We met at General Grant National Memorial where Ariel emphasized Grant’s racism by reading aloud General Order Nº. 11 and then spitting on the site. (See the video.) A British tourist inquired about it, and after explaining, a number of us eventually got onto the topic of libertarianism (and their implying that we were a group of libertarians annoyed me because we are not, but rather a Jewish cultural group). There was also a large group of adolescents there rehearsing a dance routine.

After briefly visiting Sakura Park, those of us who were hungry got food from a local supermarket and we sat, talked and ate on public benches. Then we went to Riverside Park which was really gorgeous and we located what we believe is the Freedom Tunnel. Then came rehydration and dessert at other local venues and more talking and sitting on benches. Afterwards, we rode the subway together to Times Square and then little by little separated from one another as our paths diverged.

While waiting with one of them in Jackson Heights for his bus, our topics turned unsurprisingly towards linguistics (Arabic ligatures, and why the letter jim is a moon letter even though it’s usually coronal).

The Museum Mile Festival in the Rain

The Museum Mile Festival in the rain, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side/Carnegie Hill, 14 June 2011. ☔ (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Related

• Meg Cotner, Mellifluous Ephemera, 30 Aug. 2012.

Belvedere Flowers

Belvedere flowers. Jackson Heights Beautification Group Self‐Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens, the Belvedere and Belvedere Gardens, 35^th Avenue between 84^th and 85^th streets, Jackson Heights, 18 June 2011. ⚘ (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “Belvedere Fountain,” 16 August 2012.
• “Linden Court Bench,” 17 August 2012.
• “Towers Garden,” 29 August 2012.

Related

• Paul Bannister, Twitter, 29 Dec. 2010. Photograph of the Belvedere in winter.

Purple Queen

Purple queen. The Heritage of Pride gay pride march, West 8 Street between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
• “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
• “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.
• “Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching…,” 17 August 2012.
• “Xavier and I…,” 17 August 2012.
• “Making Officer Livingston Blush,” 28 August 2012.

Towers Garden

Jackson Heights Beautification Group Self‐Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens, the Towers, 80^th and 81^st streets between Northern Boulevard and 34^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 18 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “Belvedere Fountain,” 16 August 2012.
• “Linden Court Bench,” 17 August 2012.

Making Officer Livingston Blush

Flirting with Officer Livingston and making him blush. The Heritage of Pride gay pride march, Christopher Street and Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
• “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
• “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.
• “Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching…,” 17 August 2012.
• “Xavier and I…,” 17 August 2012.

The sign says “Legacy”

📷 The sign says “Legacy.” The Exotic Jews “Exoticon 7.0” at the Shops at Columbus Circle, 10 Columbus Circle, Time Warner Center, Midtown Manhattan, 12 August 2012. (Photograph by אהרן Aaron Auslender.)

Putting nearly all my photographs online

Summer sunflowers on 72^nd Street between 35^th and 37^th avenues, Jackson Heights, 18 August 2008. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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I have fallen so far behind in uploading my photographs and videos online that I have decided to work at least an hour every day “processing” them for upload, typically in batches of twenty‐five at a time. I write captions for them, remove a few failures, cursorily “enhance” them in iPhoto, set their approximate geographical locations, upload them to both Facebook and Google+ and then promote them (on those sites as well as on Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed and Pinterest.) If it sounds time-consuming, it is.

I am over a year behind in uploading photographs of events I attended with others and nearly two years behind in uploading photographs I shot while alone. (Originally, I had separated them into those categories and have wound up locked in that pattern.) Considering the number of pictures I shoot (sometimes hundreds in a day) combined with how much I procrastinate, it has taken me many months just to upload the hundreds of pictures I shot in June 2011 alone and I am still not quite finished yet.

My work schedule is as follows: I work on pictures of events I have attended with others. After completing work on all the pictures I shot in one day’s worth of events, I move on to a batch of older pictures I shot while alone. When finished with that, I move back to an event I attended with others. Wednesday, however, I work on videos, and Thursday, I work on the Great Digitization Project, my attempt to digitize and upload the tremendous backlog of photographs and video I shot before purchasing my first digital still camera in 2004.

This past Wednesday, I uploaded videos to Google+ that had been languishing on my hard disc since I recorded them in April 2010! Other than rotating some of them ninety degrees if necessary, they are the original separate video files as recorded. The next step is to combine videos shot the same day and then additionally upload them to YouTube where I can enhance them.

Xavier and I in the Heritage of Pride gay pride march, Fifth Avenue between East 13 and East 14 streets, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photograph by Jenn Maskell.)

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
• “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
• “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.
• “Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching…,” 17 August 2012.

Linden Court Bench

Jackson Heights Beautification Group Self‐Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens, Linden Court, 84^th and 85^th streets between 37^th and Roosevelt avenues, Jackson Heights, 18 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

See the whole album on Google+.

Previously

• “Belvedere Fountain,” 16 August 2012.

Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching in the Heritage of Pride gay pride march, West 8 Street between MacDougal Street and Avenue of the Americas, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is still taking shape on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
• “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
• “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.

Fountain. Jackson Heights Beautification Group Self‐Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens, the Belvedere and Belvedere Gardens, 35^th Avenue between 84^th and 85^th streets, Jackson Heights, 18 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

At the Exotic Jews “Exoticon 7.0” at the Times Square public plaza (a.k.a. the Broadway Pedestrian Mall) in Midtown Manhattan with יעקב, ‎12 August 2012. (Photograph by Delita Álvarez-Barrantes.)

Invading the gay pride march

Guncle’s personal contingent scaled the barricades on Fifth Avenue to invade the Heritage of Pride gay pride march, Chelsea, 26 June 2011. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is still taking shape on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
• “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.

The view from the High Line Elevated Park at West 28 Street, Chelsea, 19 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Walking to Pride II

Guncle’s homemade contingent walking from Washington Square Park, where we got ready, to the Heritage of Pride gay pride march, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is still taking shape on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.

Walking to Pride I

Guncle’s homemade contingent walking from Washington Square Park, where we got ready, to the Heritage of Pride gay pride march, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is still taking shape on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.

• Last modified 3 August 2012.

Preparing to March II

More pictures of Guncle Aaron’s team of people preparing in Washington Square Park to invade Heritage of Pride’s gay pride march in downtown Manhattan last summer.

The entire set of photographs is still taking shape on Google+.

📷 Preparing to join the gay pride march, Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.

• Last modified 7 August 2012.

Preparing to March

Last summer, Guncle Aaron assembled a team of people to crash Heritage of Pride’s gay pride march in downtown Manhattan. We met at Washington Square Park, and these pictures show our getting ready.

The entire set of photographs is taking shape on Google+.

📷 Preparing to join the gay pride march, Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.

• Last modified 2 August 2012.