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Category Archives: On Location

Dog Day Afternoons

06-Jul-08

Fourth of July weekend and out of the metropolitan area for a few days to chill at Arrow Lake, nestled somewhere in god’s country, Poconos, USA. The human activities—hiking, cooking, eating, hanging—were overshadowed by our canine companions, our kiddies for the weekend. The four pedigrees were unlikely play-partners for each other. The youngest, Torri, a [...]

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Fifty-Five-Year Stint

27-Jun-08

On June 19, 1953, Mario DiCrocco, four years transported to America from Italy began a career at The Advance, Staten Island’s longstanding daily newspaper. It’s been fifty-five years, a span that saw his work evolve from lead and ink, to paste-up and film, and then to keystrokes via computer pagination. The composing room where he [...]

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Heat, windows, screens

09-Jun-08

Gail Albert Halaban knocked off her first two Staten Island shoots for her project Out My Window which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Assisted by Georgi Richardson, the first task was to frame up Herb Maltz in his Tompkins Circle kitchen with a view looking out into the Hudson Harbor. Herb’s house [...]

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