Sharing the Knowledge part 18

I'm still around. I've been having internet issues. I trying to decide on switching or just sticking to using my phone as I am doing now.
I thought things were going well, but a small glitch, if you can call it that, has popped up.
I thought everything was cool with my taxes, but it seems both I and the IRS, messed up.
Then I was trying to see what the procedure would be regarding the house in NOLA. I thought if the taxes weren't paid the city would take the. house, but it doesn't happen that quick.
Now I have to come up with a new plan to not have to deal with the city as far as the house being listed as blighted property.
That means trying to find someone to cut down the weeds and see if I can either find a buyer or raise the funds myself.
Thanks for stopping by; do come come​ back to see where the journey leads.

Images from Christmas and yesterday

Artography by Dlonzo
“It’s not just a Photograph, it’s Art!”

Christmas day I worked at ZACH in the evening and then I attended the show A Christmas Carol. It deserved a second look for two reasons.

(Martin Burke and his crew after the final show of This Wonderful Life )

One, it is a great show as I wrote previously. Think Moulin Rouge meets Christmas. The visuals and music were great. It was a retelling of the classic Dickens tale about Ebenezer Scrooge; the songs weren’t all Christmas songs, but they told the story beautifully.

Two, there were a few cast changes. Amma Osei played the role of Christmas Present and Mrs. Dilbert. When I saw the play the first time the role was played by her understudy. The role of Scrooge would be played by Marco Perella. There really wasn’t much difference. I wasn’t expecting any difference, but you never know what will happen. The audience really got into the performance early on.

(Christmas evening, Mitchell Zoll and his daughter.)

I had planned to see the last show, but I was tired after being at ZACH for 7 hours.

(Director Dave Steakley snaps a picture)

 I like seeing the last show because there is usually more emotion in the performance. After all, it’s the last show.

(Kyle Sigrest, (second from the right) is surrounded by friends)

Everyone will be going back to their daily lives.

(some of the cast from A Christmas Carol)

I got to know some of the cast members a little better and they showed their appreciation.

(Mrs. Rutman and her daughter Ella)

Now I contemplate what I will do next as there will be no work for a few weeks.

(Meet and greet in the lobby after the Christmas night performance. I'm sure everyone was feeling Happy!)

I have to create some opportunities and see where it all leads.

(PR guy Jim Reynolds gets tips on taking the perfect smartphone pic.)

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(Eric and Maria Groten pose with Roderick Sanford who plays the ghost of Marley.)

(Ella and a Friend)

(Everyone can take props from the chest and have a little fun with pictures. It helps keep Austin weird.)

(Diego and Madeline strike a pose.)

(Laura Benedick Scott and Kenny Williams giving great face.)

(As the kids are gathered up for a group photo, I took this shot of the Director having a conversation with one of the actors.)

(Singer, dancer and actress Kelly Petlin surrounded by her family.)

(Sam Gorena and Kenny Williams after the Christmas show.)

My next entry, in honor of me turning 54, I will post 54 of my favorite images of 2014. Come back to see if your image makes the cut.

The story behind the Art Part 2 Sly

I first met Sylvester when he was in Junior high school. He was friends with my cousins.   He was very mature for his age and loved movies.

When I started Dlonzo Modeling Troupe, Sylvester became my DJ since he was good with electronics and was also in the school band. I had never seen Sylvester as a model (Although he was the groom in a wedding sequence in my first major fashion show, as an inside joke. He actually liked the model a lot.) I had hoped they would have gotten together. (That’s another story. LOL)

Sylvester and I hung out a lot until I got him his first job at Frenchy’s. It was a sandwich shop near the lakefront in New Orleans. After high school Sylvester joined the military and I never heard from him until 1992. He was living in Seattle. He started telling me about the film festival and the celebrities he was meeting. I had always wanted to make a movie and as a kid the family and cousins were always in front of my camera. Even when they didn’t want to be.

I was good with people and knew if I made it to Seattle something might happen. Since the modeling in New Orleans was coming to an end. (I had gone through some difficult times and decided I’d leave it alone.)

In 1993 I had decided to go to Seattle and this was sort of the beginning of me getting back into the photography. The Seattle International Film Festival had set up interviews with the celebrities and one of the people I had met was a writer, I was brought in as the photographer to take pictures to go along with the story. All thanks to Sylvester.

When I returned to New Orleans, Sylvester had planned to come a few weeks later. One of my cousins and his friend was getting married. It would be Sylvester’s first trip back to New Orleans since he had left in 1984.

I had taken a job working for a friend and I had access to his home. Some how we must have talked about doing some photos. I had arranged for Sylvester to come to the house with me and we ended up doing a photo shoot. After all those years of producing fashion shows, now when I was no longer a part of the scene I would discover that Sylvester was a natural in front of the camera. Perhaps him moving to Seattle opened his mind. Sometimes all it takes is for us to walk out of our own backyard to discover our potential.
Everyone I knew was very comfortable posing for me and I would never ask anyone to do something that I wouldn’t have done as long as I looked good.

The next year when I returned to Seattle Sylvester really surprised me. I came up with the idea which was inspired by a photograph in Madonna’s Sex book. The theme of the Seattle International Film Festival was See what the world is coming to… Sylvester had purchased a pair of the boxer briefs which had the titled across the butt. I was not going to turn down a chance to create some art with my best friend.

Sylvester like myself always wanted to do cinematography. I did both so I had agreed when we would make a film we’d share the job. After seeing the film Bad Boy Bubby, we knew it was actually possible to have several people film a project.

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