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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Upcoming documentary on some local people you know from TV (March 30, 7pm!)
« on: Yesterday at 11:01:01 AM »
Curious about this great movie? There's going to be a screening tomorrow night - Thursday, March 30, 2023 - at 7pm in the Glen Rock High School auditorium (where the original December 2, 2021 reunion concert took place). Tickets - which you can get here: https://tinyurl.com/BandedTix - are $10 (and going fast).

Most of the band - including Uncle Floyd Vivino - will be present. There will be an after-screening audience/band Q&A and perhaps a couple of other surprises.

I got a surprise this morning when I opened up my copy of The Record and found a GREAT - and very thorough - article by Jim Beckerman about this event.

I expected the article to maybe be on the front page of the entertainment section, but it actually made it to the front page (1A!) of the main section! You can read it here:

https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/03/29/glen-rock-band-teacher-documentary-he-inspired-eight-pro-musicians/70045061007/

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Hackensack Discussion / Sunday morning girls football in March/April at the Middle School?
« on: March 20, 2023, 11:07:55 AM »
It's usually pretty quiet around here on Sunday mornings, but not yesterday. I heard men yelling and my ears pointed my eyes south toward the Middle School where I saw activity on the soccer pitch: kids running around and men throwing footballs.

Shoot first and ask questions later. The first 8 pictures are what I saw in the order I saw them. Then I asked Google the questions and the answers included something about the Bergen County Girls Flag Football League, its logo and the fact that games will be starting on Sunday, April 2.

If you're interested, go here: https://leagues.bluesombrero.com/bergencountygirlsff

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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / New career?
« on: March 14, 2023, 12:00:01 PM »
1. Anybody remember this shot from 11 years ago? It appeared here (second shot): http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php/topic,2352

2. It's now the front cover of a book of poetry. Whodathunkit?

Unfortunately, the cover is WAY too dark (I brightened it up a bit here) and the bird must have eaten my photo credit. The author assures me that both problems will be corrected.

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Hackensack Discussion / Very Tall New Electrical Poles on River St
« on: March 13, 2023, 03:45:01 PM »
1. On February 7, I happened to notice from my living room that some colorful orange work was being done on an electrical pole on River St.

2. Soon after, I saw a much taller pole that was at about a 45º angle being raised.

3. That was a pretty easy sequence to shoot.

4. Four days later, I'm on the Teaneck Greenway and notice the same pole, the picture window I shot it from and how really tall it is.

5. Exactly a month after that, the sun is shining on a bunch of new River St poles and their really-up-there wires.


Is this going to happen all over town? What's the main reason for such an increase in height?


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Hackensack Discussion / 2023 – Rudy’s Rentals
« on: March 10, 2023, 11:52:27 AM »
You've seen some of these before...........

https://iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com/?p=18055




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Hackensack Discussion / This place'll be mobbed!
« on: March 04, 2023, 11:25:18 AM »
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Hackensack Discussion / What will replace Bruce The Bed King
« on: February 20, 2023, 11:17:57 AM »
From today's Record.............no surprise here.

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Hackensack Discussion / Teterboro Airport-bound jets over Hackensack Hospital 2-13-23
« on: February 17, 2023, 07:35:46 PM »
This is the story that's in the video's writeup.............and be sure to crank up the sound for full effect (and please hit the "Watch on YouTube" link so the view counts):


It was busy at the hospital, so I had to park on the roof of the parking garage.

There's a nice view up there, so after my appointment, I took a few photos..............and then I heard a plane. It was a private jet heading for Teterboro Airport, which is about 3 miles south of where I was standing.

Time for a quick switch to video.

There's been a big stink for years about the noise and pollution of many aircraft flying low - directly over the hospital (and many high-rise apartment buildings on the same street) - and new routes were proposed that were to take the planes over a nearby highway instead.

They might need to work on that a little harder. Here are 4 planes that flew directly overhead in a period of...............EIGHT MINUTES!

And be sure to follow the bouncing sun reflection ball.






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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / The Sears Car Wash
« on: February 15, 2023, 02:02:14 PM »
Let's hope not................

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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / 2023 – You Build, I’ll Shoot (January)
« on: February 04, 2023, 02:00:00 PM »


https://iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com/?p=17977




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Hackensack Discussion / Re: My favorite paper is not having a good day
« on: January 31, 2023, 10:56:55 AM »
I haven't posted on this topic in a while, but that doesn't mean that anything got fixed. Many captions still say that the photo's subject "reacts" when he/she is just standing there doing nothing, but we got a couple of new dopey captions today.

1. Why would the caption advise you to look for the guy wearing purple in a black-and-white photograph?

2. Does anyone in this picture appear to have been "thrown down", as the caption suggests? And when you look at the way the caption writer spelled "Joseph's", do you wonder if maybe he/she got thrown down on his/her head?


There's new twist lately to something that few people put any stock in: horoscopes - something that is usually read for amusement because they're usually so far off.

It appears that a new entity has taken over............one that almost solely involves ridiculous-sounding planetary connections and their effects. Check out these three from this month (and my apologies if you truly believe in any of this).

ONE LATE ADDITION: I just found this sitting for the last month on my desktop...............more great writing.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: The Sears building will be preserved (pretty much)
« on: January 26, 2023, 07:20:53 PM »
From The Daily Voice: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/business/settlement-reached-in-transformation-of-hackensacks-sears-building-report/855161/



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Hackensack Discussion / The Sears building will be preserved (pretty much)
« on: January 26, 2023, 10:05:00 AM »
There's a story in today's Record (the link is "subscribers only") that basically says this: the main 3-story building and iconic tower will be preserved and a 258-unit apartment building will be "constructed around it" (I'm not sure how that works).

There will also be almost 18,000 square feet of retail space along Main St and Anderson St, two interior courtyards and a pool.

Can't wait to see what this will look like.



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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / "Dropping like flies"
« on: January 25, 2023, 01:48:15 PM »
That's a phrase I'm reading a lot lately from boomer posts about their musicians - many of whom I used to photograph and have posted images of on this site.

We lost two more last week - drummer Neil Peart of Rush and David Crosby of CSN (and sometimes Y):

1. Here's Neil at Radio City in 1983.

2. And here's David (right) with Graham Nash during a Crosby, Stills and Nash performance at Madison Square Garden on Halloween 1986 at the Crackdown benefit ("Crackdown on Crack"). Other performers included the Allman Brothers, Santana, Run-DMC, Mick Taylor, Felix Cavaliere and Tito Puente(!).

3. If you're interested, this is what the benefit was about.

4. You'll notice that Graham Nash is wearing a Crackdown artist's pass. Here's mine.

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Hackensack Discussion / The USS Ling's murky future
« on: January 22, 2023, 10:36:44 AM »
This article is in today's Record:

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/hackensack/2023/01/20/uss-ling-world-war-ii-submarine-hackensack-river-muck-baleo/69817992007/



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