Philippe Petit

Man on a Wire, the movie is really good, lots of footage of World Trade Center in 1974.






Philippe Petit wire act at Cathedral of St John the Divine where he is Artist in Resident.!

Upper Cathedral

We were taken to the upper reaches of the Cathedral.










Not into tours but this was something else, notice the stairs winding through solid stone.

St John the Divine Rededication after Fire in 2001

Add the Organ music of the newly refurbished Organ.







Hillary Clinton the day before accepting Secretary of State post.

Thanksgiving Upstate

Rubin Museum Flag Project

http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/flag-project/

Himalaya

I met Tenzing Norbu Lama at Studio Center.

He is a painter visiting as a resident there.

He was the subject of a movie, Himalaya, by Eric Valli.

The Movie is great, with a feel like Akira Kurosawa's, Dersu Uzala.

I recommend it.




The most interesting part is that he then illustrated the movie which is his life.

People from his village are the actors. His real mother the wife of the Chief in the movie.


What I find so interesting, the movie is mythic in feel, but after real events, and then repeated as Tenzing's art, in the book he illustrated.





Tenzing Norbu Lama was born in the village of Tinkyu, in Dolpo, Nepal, and hails from a lineage of painters dating back four hundred years. At the age of eight he went to live in a monastery where he was trained by his father in the art of traditional Tibetan thangka scroll painting and where he prepared to be a lama.

Vermont Studio Center

I was just up at Studio Center. The leaves were just peak and so very beautiful. I got to make a few paintings between the critiques with the Residents. They were a good group.