Woodstock I

Inspirational Town!
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld. It was Roberts and Rosenman who had the finances. Lang had experience as a promoter and had already organized the largest festival on the East Coast at the time, the Miami Pop Festival, which had an estimated 100,000 people attend the two day event. Roberts and Rosenman placed the following advertisement in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal under the name of Challenge International, Ltd.: "Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions".

Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together originally to discuss a retreat-like recording studio in Woodstock, but the idea evolved into an outdoor music and arts festival, although even that was initially envisioned on a smaller scale, perhaps featuring some of the big name artists who lived in the Woodstock area (such as Bob Dylan and The Band). There were differences in approach among the four: Roberts was disciplined, and knew what was needed in order for the venture to succeed, while the laid-back Lang saw Woodstock as a new, relaxed way of bringing businesspeople together. There were further doubts over the venture, as Roberts wondered whether to consolidate his losses and pull the plug, or to continue pumping his own finances into the project.  [Wiki]

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

Plato, Lysis

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Dance with the Trees

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Khalil Gibran

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New Year Night!

Hoboken, NJ

The music changed again, and now it was the violin that sustained

- How passionately!

- The long-drawn note of contemplation,

- While the two recorders took up the theme of active involvement and repeated it

— the identical form imposed upon another substance—

In the mode of detachment.

And here, dancing in and out between them,

was the Logical Positivist, absurd but indispensable, trying to explain,

in a language incommensurable with the facts, what is was all about.

Island

by Aldous Huxley

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Palisades Park

Palisades Park, NJ (George Washington Bridge)

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Jan 11, 2012

This week's challenge:
'Pattern'.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. - Lewis Carroll

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Feeding The Soul I

Palisades Park, NJ

Heartbreakingly Beautiful!  (Background music)
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