Today Lary carved over at Catalina Spa, and I went to my second drumming lesson over at Annie's place. Another interesting session, most of us use djembe African drums, they are quite attractive, and have a nice sound too. We had fun doing all sorts of stuff.
Tonight we saw our last film of the Palm Springs film festival, it was Bill Cunningham, a New York fashion photographer, who is a very unique individual. he rides around New York on a bike, and he has been photographing about 50 years or so. He has one or two regular columns in the New York Times paper, and he lived for many years at Carnegie Hall, in very rustic surroundings indeed. He is very eccentric, never married, seems quite a humble though very self possessed man, and his photos are just incredible.
He confesses to love women and fashion, he certainly loves the energy of N.Y. though he said he's had 27 bikes stolen over the years, he's on bike #28. He was previously a milliner of some repute there in N.Y. and is a real character, which comes through loud and clear in this film.
He is still alive, and we believe still taking photos and writing his columns for the N.Y. Times paper.
Many of his work colleagues and friends over the years were interviewed. He also has photographed the gays/ guys in drag there, and he appears to treat them all very respectfully indeed. He loves to wear the blue jacket that the working men wear in Paris, as his clothes are often damaged by his camera.
We learned quite a lot about him, I don't think that many people he knows really know about his living conditions or personal life much at all.
Tomorrow we pack, have coffee and doughnuts at the clubhouse, have a flute lesson at Annie's with our new electronic amp and mikes, and get ready for cruise departure day the next day.
I am really looking forward to being warm during the daytime once again, it is just starting to creep up in temperature, but tonight I was wearing my wool coat, gloves and scarf while we waited in line for the film to start.
About Me
- Di and Lary
- Di and Lary are both retired, Lary was in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Air Navigator, 32 years, and Di did many things, but the most fulfilling was teaching, for 3 years on an Indian Reserve in Central BC and later 7 years teaching ESL, both in Canada and in Europe, in Spain and later Germany.