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2020 Yard Sales. Heck Avenue, OG. All photos fy Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net

 

By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger, Editors, Blogfinger.net.    Contact;   Blogfinger@verizon.net

 

We are beginning to collect addresses for the June 27, 2026  Town-Wide Yard Sale.   This event is to be distinguished from the Neptune Township sales which are occurring in pieces.  Ours, as before, will happen all on the same date, and we anticipate an enjoyable and rewarding  sale as we have had for the last 14 years.

From now until the sales, we will have this post  in place here, and this will be where we will communicate information and this is where we will begin posting “THE LIST.”     The “List” will contain the addresses of all participants including cross streets and, eventually  items for sale.

We will post the “List”  here in June  and add new addresses as they come in to  Blogfinger@verizon.net    New participants can be added to “The List”  as the addresses arrive to us from now through June 26.   Tell your friends;   give them Blogfinger.net to find basic information.

You can send us your address sign-up now,  and add your items for sale  whenever you wish.  We will save the item “List”  until 1-2 weeks before.  We don’t want early birds knocking  on your doors.   The List will be published here starting in early June.   But you can start signing up now. We will not post your names unless you request that. Send your list to Blogfinger@verizon.net

Only addresses and, later,  sale items will be on the list.  The latter will be revealed about one week before touch down.

We are leaving this post here until June 27  so that those who go to Blogfinger.net for yard-sale information will not get lost.   The content of this post will vary until the sale.

About parking it should be OK. If you drive into town, bring a bike and park anywhere.

This an Ocean Grove secular  event run by We-The-People,  and we expect that mostly Grovers will show up as before, but out-of-towners are always welcome to our historic town .  Bring the kids, the dogs, your band, or your saxophone or  flugelhorn.    Have music at your sale.

Sellers will need a Neptune Township yard sale permit for $5.00. Get them at the Neptune Township Town Hall-building dept.

We will have fliers to hand out soon and we welcome efforts by participants to publicize the sales.  Seller groups of neighbors or friends will enhance the success, fun and games.   We can use some volunteer citizen reporters  with bikes who could monitor and photograph  the sales and report back to the Blogfinger headquarters.

QUESTIONS?   Email to Eileen and me:     Blogfinger@verizon.net

This post will be evolving, so stay tuned.

Eileen and Paul Goldfinger. Editors at Blogfinger.net

 

JAY AND THE AMERICANS:

 

 

FATS WALLER

 

Home of the Brave

Guadalajara, Mexico. By Paul Goldfinger ©

Guadalajara, Mexico. By Paul Goldfinger ©. Click once.

 

 

MARIACHI REAL A SAN DIEGO:  “Sabor a Mi”

 

 

Couple enjoys the sea air and ocean views  at our North End as it is today.  There were also foxes staring  back from  a foxy  airbnb on the other side.   The art work is on the Asbury side of the border, down Mexico way.      Paul Goldfinger photo.  2023. Blogfinger.net.  Click once to enlarge.

 

Yet another open space to be eliminated in town.  This view will be lost forever thanks to OGNED, the CMA, the HOA  and the Neptunites.    These are more or less the same people who brought us the Greek Temple on Main Avenue.

 

She and Him:    “Stay Awhile”

 

Ocean Grove by Paul Goldfinger ©. October, 2018.  Click once to enlarge

 

MEN’S CHOIR  from Sex and the City movie soundtrack.

 

 

 

 

 

Sanibel Island, Fla.. Fashions for the summer of 2017 in Ocean Grove.

Sanibel Island, Fla.. Fashion preview for winter in southwest Florida,. Paul Goldfinger photo. Feb., 2017.  Click for cheeky view.

 

MAX RAABE AND DAS PALAST ORCHESTER  ” Cheek to Cheek”  (Live at Carnegie Hall 2007)

 

Mexican schoolboys. By Paul Goldfinger ©

Mexican schoolboys. Guadalajara.  Photo by Paul Goldfinger   Undated.  Published image.  Prize winner.  Pfizer Lab s calendar contest.

MARIACHI MEXICO de PEPE VILLA    with “Cancion Mixteca”

Girl Lifts Boy

“Girl Lifts Boy”   (1st and 3rd images courtesy Mina Son)

 

New York City

New York City  (Internet photo)

 

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Levitt with James Agee

Levitt’s most important book…

 

By Paul Goldfinger  (re-posted from 2013 on Blogfinger)   We have featured a group of important female photographers.

Those of you who follow photography on Blogfinger know that I am a big fan of black and white street photography.   Some of the finest  photographers in that genre were active in the 1930’s through the 1950’s in New York City and Paris.  Among the best are Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Andre Kertesz, Lee Friedlander and our guest photographer Helen Levitt, who was one of the pioneers.

Helen Levitt (1913-2009) photographed on the streets of New York City for over 70 years, both in black and white and color.  She worked with Walker Evans in the 1930’s, and her work was shown at the first photo exhibit held at MOMA in 1939.  She was an innovator in the street photography genre.

A documentary film maker named Tanya Sleiman has made a film, “95 Lives,” about Helen Levitt, and we heard about it from Mina Son, the producer, in November. Mina was kind enough to send us two photographs for our blog post and also a link to a very fine short film made by Tanya.  I think you will enjoy it, as she tells us about her project. It is a unique treat for our blog.  Thank you  Tanya and Mina.  The fund raising drive mentioned was completed in December 2012.

According to Mina Son, “95 Lives seeks to change the reality that Helen Levitt is a major female artist of the 20th century, someone who innovated in photography and film, yet is virtually unknown outside of elite art circles. This is why we are making this film.

“Through Helen Levitt’s lens, we have found magic and visual poetry in our everyday lives. In helping her legacy live on, we hope her work inspires countless more generations of photographers to introduce the work and life of Helen Levitt to audiences all over.”   Note that Blogfinger has no connection to the fundraising elements of this post

Helen Levitt short    

SOUNDTRACK:  I guess the thing that has fascinated me about photography, ever since childhood, is the magic—-the freezing of a moment.  It is a way to capture that moment and preserve it.  Wouldn’t it have been great if photography had been invented one century sooner?  We could see Washington crossing the Delaware or Napoleon at Waterloo.

Or, in our own lives, we can see how life was over 50 years ago, as in these images by Helen Levitt where ordinary street scenes back then now become extraordinary.  This song matches up with these photos.

 

Jerry Orbach from the Fantasticks:

 

Central Park from 5th Avenue rooftop. By Paul Goldfinger©. Silver gelatin print.

Central Park from 5th Avenue rooftop,  Mt. Sinai Hospital roof.  East 100th Street. By Paul Goldfinger, MD.  Silver gelatin darkroom  print. by photographer.   1969 blizzard.  Click once on image to enlarge.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.  Ocean Grove, NJ. USA.

 

My  photo (above) looking down on a 1969 NewYork blizzard reminds me of the work of famous American photographer Andre´ Kertesz. (1894-1995) who lived on the 12th floor of a Greenwich Village apartment, and it was from his window that many of his most famous images originated.  He worked in black and white and he was photographing  during the years when I lived in New York.

Of course I was aware of Kertesz’ work, but I wasn’t thinking of him when I took the image above.  I would say that coincidence was at play, but I could not deny some subconscious influence.

Here is one of his snow scenes taken from his room 12 stories up from Washington Square Park:

 

Andre Kertesz looking down onto Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. I made no adjustments to this print.  1950’s .

 

But many photographers have been inspired by images obtained from above.  Today I saw a photo posted by Leica Fotographie International .   They did not provide the artist’s name or story, but it is of the same school of photos from heights, and it does remind me of Kertescz.

 

 

MOSTAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.  “Salut d’amour” Op 12.   Edward Elgar, composer  (1888).

 

 

By Paul Goldfinger.  

 

RUBY BRAFF. (trumpet)  AND DICK HYMAN   (organ).     “America the Beautiful.”

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Goldfinger. Ft. Myers Fla  Jan 17, 2020.

 

AMY WINEHOUSE:

 

Nell's Garden. By Bob Bowné. September 5, 2014. ©

Nell’s Garden.  Ocean Grove.  September 5, 2014.  © By Bob Bowné

 

PAUL McCARTNEY.  From his album Kisses on the Bottom:

 

 

Paul,

Between Embury and Webb….down at the beach Nell is always tending to the beauty!

Bob

19th century trappers cross wilderness river. Still image by Paul Goldfinger from the movie Revenant.   Click once

 

Preservation Jazz Band:  “Precious Lord.”

 

 

Woody Allen and John Turturro

Woody Allen and John Turturro

 

 

Review by Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blgfinger.net

Fading Gigolo is a quirky new movie directed and written by John Turturro, who also stars in the film as Fioravante, a florist. But the most important name is that of 78 year old Woody Allen who costars as Moe and delivers his best performance in years. He returns to his old ways of New York style humor, but his character is less neurotic, hypochondriacal, intellectual, and bumbling than the old Woody, and this time he is more real and has some touching and believable moments alternating with laugh-out-loud lines, making the movie worth seeing if you are a Woody fan as I am.

 

Allen and Turturro play old friends who are down on their luck. They form a partnership where Turturro becomes a gigolo while Woody is his “manager.” Tarturro is so charming, sensitive and sexy that women who look like Sharon Stone (she plays Woody’s dermatologist) want to pay to sleep with him. I found that to be a tad unrealistic, but Eileen, who has a weak spot for Italian men going back to Alan Alda in Mash, did not find it difficult to get. The relationship of two old friends with nearly 30 years separating them is great fun.

 

I have to say that there are enough wonderful moments in this movie, including the marvelously rich cinematography of New York City by Marco Pontecorvo and a fine jazz score with Gene Ammons, that you can overlook the sometimes ridiculous plot lines.

 

And the actresses in this film are funny, sexy and beautiful. Vanessa Paradis, a French singer and actress, is cast as a widowed Hassidic woman who is lonely. The Hassidic plot line gets awkward at times, but she is wonderful in that part.

 

If you like the idea of this film and the performers who star in it, then go see it and let yourself enjoy the great parts and don’t get too picky over the elements that don’t work so well.

 

It is at the Bow Tie Cinema in Red Bank on White Street. There is a big parking lot across the street.  —-Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger

 

GENE AMMONS.   “Canadian Sunset” from the soundtrack of Fading Gigolo,

 

July 1, 2010. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net

 

By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor Blogfinger.net

There was a time, even in the recent past, when the Great Auditorium could have a full house.   I’ve seen it with the Choir Festival, but that was perhaps over 10 years ago.

The photo above was probably a concert for Independence Day, but I am not sure.

In the last few years, a number of people have said that the CMA is having trouble getting large crowds to their Sunday services. I don’t have any data on that.  But the Choir Festival has not lately been attracting  as large an audience as the past.  This may be related to COVID.

But if any of you think that the CMA couldn’t fill up that magnificent room, just look at the picture above.

I know that the CMA is no longer interested in large secular concerts, but you can imagine Springsteen or others like him easily filling the hall and bringing in big returns for the CMA.

 

Maybe you think that this idea is one of those foolish things, but imagine Dylan here singing  from his Triplicate album”