Hold on to your hats, ladies & gents. I finally went through the myriad of photo files stored away on my computer, organized them (and more importantly, myself), and am now ready to flood this little blog with quite a back log of the K.F. images I’ve been sitting on for the latter half of September. We are getting back on track! It’s October, and I have been remiss in my daily updates here.
All right, ready. Set. Go!
September 15: I left for NYC on this day. I have to admit, however, that this particular image was taken in the early hours of Sept. 16 as the baggage folk were loading stuff up for my flight out of Atlanta (yay for layovers!).
When you get to the airport at 10 p.m. for a 1 a.m. flight and don’t arrive at your final destination until 9:45 a.m. in a city two time zones over from the one you’re used to, your internal clock starts to believe that there really are more than 24 hours in a day. So it seemed fitting that I just pretend September 15 and September 16 merged into one big day for the sake of this photo. We’ll call it, September Fifteen-point-47/J day.
Yep, that makes sense.
September 16: I did however, after two flights and an hour layover in Atlanta, eventually, make it to this location, a train platform. This was the train that would safely deliver me to Penn Station, in Manhattan. From there, my travels would continue along a few more trains and subways, cars, through a tornado, and to my final destination of the day.
Mood at the moment I snapped this photo: sleepy, with a touch of exhilaration and in great need of more coffee.
September 17: It was here, to this little warehouse turned art gallery, turned performance space in Brooklyn, NY, that I was ultimately heading. My friends were putting on a musical that they had created from scratch. Well, mostly from scratch. The premise of their musical was based on the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. But what they created from that was something all together new and inspiring, and all their own.
The space itself, 17 Frost, is a character all its own. I mean, check out that paint job.
September 18: The cast warms up before the third running of the musical. I love me a little behind-the-scenes action. Carly (gray tank top, back to us in this image), asked me to take some photos of the musical that night. She and her husband were the co-creators of this musical; he wrote the script and directed it, she wrote the music and acted in it.
It’s collaborations like this that really make you want to find such a team to work with yourself. I was inspired and touched by the entire experience.
September 19: And to close of this New York edition of the K.F. campaign, a classic sort of icon. The first time I saw the Empire State Building, I was floored by its grandiosity and sheer size. Now, every time I visit New York, I make a point of getting a glimpse of it. It’s my favorite building in the city.
It forces you to realize that we are capable of so much.
