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Peekaboo's Moment

It's a super night at the Slipper Room: the crowd is good and the place isn't wall-to-wall, the early book release party celebrating Molly Crabapple's Scarlett Takes Manhattan is a great success, and for once it isn't raining. On my personal plate, I'm just over a week away from my Australia trip, and that's exciting. There's a great line-up of dancers tonight, performing to the old-timey romp of the Red Hook Ramblers - Wednesdays the music is live at Slipper. All's well with the world.

Burlesque dancer Peekaboo Pointe figures often enough in my stream, which is not to say we ever get enough of her. I ordinarily favor her left side, the one blazoned with her spectacular floral tattoo. But there are two sides to everything. I like the echo of her pose against the pose of the tattooed dancer on her side.

Today: I do believe it's time to buy a new camera. Last night the current one got a bit too opinionated at times.

Uploaded on Jul 9, 2009

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Spartacus Reflecting

You can't be faulted for not realizing that there's a guy performing in the Alpha Psi Ecdysia burlesque troupe - my pictures have all been concerned with the female members, to date. Which is, I think you'll agree, understandable.

Spartacus Rising has been at each of the APE shows I've seen so far, in both solo and group numbers.

Here Spartacus starts off in a frilled shirt and leather trousers, his hair sleekly tied back with a red silk ribbon, gazing in rapt concentration at a framed photo of - we gather - his beloved. As the picture moves him, he loosens his laced collar, and then the rest, until at last we learn who it is that captures his ardor so completely.

Uploaded on Jul 8, 2009

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Lucida Sans: Rainlight and Stardrops

When I first set eyes upon Lucida Sans it was New Year's Eve, and she wasn't performing, but she clearly loved the stage and spent a fair amount of time on it (the Slipper Room is like that on New Year's - I've been up there myself now and then). We've met a couple of times at a couple of shows since then, but this is the first time I'm seeing her dance.

She's prepared for the weather, as you can see, but the wily rain manages to find her anyway. No matter, there are stars to steer by.

Lucida is the manager and producer of Alpha Psi Ecdysia, the SUNY New Paltz burlesque troupe. And a happy member of the performing company as well.

Uploaded on Jul 7, 2009

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Backlight

One of the shooting challenges this Fourth of July is that the West Side of Manhattan, where Macy's has moved its annual fireworks display, is not really built for viewing: Manhattan is the object of sightseeing, not necessarily the place from where you do the looking.

By contrast, much of the Brooklyn waterfront is about views of the skyline, and so when the fireworks were over the East River there was plenty of unobstructed viewing. With the event moved out into the Hudson River, much of the viewing area has trees, fences, roofs, and streetlights stubbing up into the way. I try to make a virtue of it here.

Mercifully, this street light is not lit; for the most part, I was shooting into the spaces between the bright bulbs.

Uploaded on Jul 5, 2009

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Fireworks and Throng

This year the annual Macy's Independence Day fireworks display is moved from its traditional snug home on the East River, between Brooklyn and Manhattan, to the Hudson River, between Manhattan and New Jersey.

Call me stodgy, but I liked them better where they were. Still, the crowd is for the most part friendly, and the show is something else. As always, exuberant overkill is the order of the night, and the Macy's barges pump over 30,000 explosive shells into the skies over the city in the short course of 20 minutes or so.

It's a hell of a party.

Uploaded on Jul 5, 2009

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Linus Gelber's photostream

Peekaboo's Moment

Spartacus Reflecting

Lucida Sans: Rainlight and Stardrops

Backlight

Fireworks and Throng

Planet of the APEs: Alpha Psi...

Great Balls of Fireworks

Rock, Wood: Hall of Music

The Some of All Mermaids

The Popularity Contest: Your...

NYC Burlesque

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Getting the Hang of Thursdays

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Portrait: the Human Landscape

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