Hi,

I think I saw that there will be an artistic tribute
to those who suffered during the attack on the WTC
tomorrow.  The artist will place many spotlights in
the place where the buildings stood (or in a nearby
location?) and project them upward so that it images
of the building will form in light.  Anyhow, I hope
someone on this list will take a few pics and show
them off.  The computer rendering of it I saw on tv
looked very moving.

On an unrelated note, in the Sunday Cleveland Plain
Dealer, there was a very interesting article about a
"Photo Hobo", a guy who seem to live for nothing else
other than photographing first trains, and then old
movie theaters and neon lights.  He would drive
hundreds of miles, take a picture as the train past,
then try to catch it again some hundreds of miles
later, then take another.  He would go on long trips,
sleeping in the back of his truck, bringing food to be
microwaved at 7-Elevens, brushing his teeth in
McDonalds, etc.   If a car was in front of a theater,
he would search the street and get the driver to move
it or if it had a clutch, well, he just moved it out
of the way himself.  He once went to take a picture of
a theater in Laredo, Texas, found newly planted
saplings in the view, and cut them down to get a
better view.  He often climbed on peoples garages and
on water towers to grab a shot.  An ex-roomate says
that he didn't typically show off any of the pictures,
that he didn't do it to have the photograph, that he
was in it for the hunt, knowing that it was there and
getting it.  He died in 1989 from cancer and left over
80,000 slides to his wife who is marketing them.  Jim
Marcus was his name.  

Sorry, just had to share, it just made me laugh and
re-examine my own obsessions.  

Dave  
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