Thank you @time for the recognition. And thank you @octaviaspencer for the kind words – a lovely surprise. If I have pushed, it’s largely because I was pushed by others….toward artistry as a thing to take seriously, at least in the act of reaching for it. Some think art silly or indulgent or disposable or tertiary, at best. Maybe I do, too, sometimes. But I also think it’s where we can experience beauty and hope, if only momentarily. I hope the 100 on this list, whatever work they do, have influence enough to help swing us away from the disproportionate, cynical grotesqueness of our time and back toward a more graceful balance. We’ll see.
Belated shoutout to @yikeapparel for the drip (as the old folks say.) Yikes Apparel is Milan Blakely’s company. Check his stuff at yikesapparel.com. I met Milan in 2016 filming OG inside Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility. He played Macon. Milan’s on a new path now. So good to see. Well done, brah. Thanks. And keep Yiking!!
Belated shoutout to @yikeapparel for the drip (as the old folks say.) Yikes Apparel is Milan Blakely’s company. Check his stuff at yikesapparel.com. I met Milan in 2016 filming OG inside Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility. He played Macon. Milan’s on a new path now. So good to see. Well done, brah. Thanks. And keep Yiking!!
Martin Greenfield, born Maximilian Grünfeld – easily one of the most remarkable and special humans I have ever met. Easily. He made the suits for Boardwalk Empire, as well as for multiple Presidents, The Rat Pack et al. Since our first meeting in 2013, I think about him from time to time. The man just glowed and was, of course, natty always – clean as fresh water. See where he learned the beginnings of his trade and the art of survival. Beautiful man. He died today at 95. RIP. From his obit in today’s NYTimes… “For years, none of them knew the origins of his expertise: a beating in Auschwitz. As a teenager, Mr. Greenfield was Maximilian Grünfeld, a skinny Jewish prisoner whose job was to wash the clothes of Nazi guards at the concentration camp. In the laundry room one day, he accidentally ripped the collar of a guard’s shirt. The man whipped Max in response, then hurled the garment back at the boy. After a fellow prisoner taught Max how to sew, he mended the collar, but then decided to keep the shirt, sliding it under the striped shirt of his prison uniform. Max ripped another guard’s uniform. This time, it was deliberate. He was creating a clandestine wardrobe that would help him survive the Holocaust. ‘The day I first wore that shirt,” Mr. Greenfield wrote seven decades later, ‘was the day I learned clothes possess power.’”
If you’re gonna be out there, be out there! Just need somebody to run for me. Wheels ain’t what they used to be. I do love this game. I’d almost forgotten how much. Thanks for the reminder @pll, @paulrabil and everyone who came out, especially all the NYC kids. Super fun event. Beautiful to see the game grow. @pll #repost: Someone NEEDS to scoop @jfreewright from the Player Pool… 👀😂 Award-winning actor and longtime PLL supporter Jeffrey Wright was putting on a SHOW at Street Lacrosse. 👏
If you’re gonna be out there, be out there! Just need somebody to run for me. Wheels ain’t what they used to be. I do love this game. I’d almost forgotten how much. Thanks for the reminder @pll, @paulrabil and everyone who came out, especially all the NYC kids. Super fun event. Beautiful to see the game grow. @pll #repost: Someone NEEDS to scoop @jfreewright from the Player Pool… 👀😂 Award-winning actor and longtime PLL supporter Jeffrey Wright was putting on a SHOW at Street Lacrosse. 👏
If you’re gonna be out there, be out there! Just need somebody to run for me. Wheels ain’t what they used to be. I do love this game. I’d almost forgotten how much. Thanks for the reminder @pll, @paulrabil and everyone who came out, especially all the NYC kids. Super fun event. Beautiful to see the game grow. @pll #repost: Someone NEEDS to scoop @jfreewright from the Player Pool… 👀😂 Award-winning actor and longtime PLL supporter Jeffrey Wright was putting on a SHOW at Street Lacrosse. 👏
If you’re gonna be out there, be out there! Just need somebody to run for me. Wheels ain’t what they used to be. I do love this game. I’d almost forgotten how much. Thanks for the reminder @pll, @paulrabil and everyone who came out, especially all the NYC kids. Super fun event. Beautiful to see the game grow. @pll #repost: Someone NEEDS to scoop @jfreewright from the Player Pool… 👀😂 Award-winning actor and longtime PLL supporter Jeffrey Wright was putting on a SHOW at Street Lacrosse. 👏
If you’re gonna be out there, be out there! Just need somebody to run for me. Wheels ain’t what they used to be. I do love this game. I’d almost forgotten how much. Thanks for the reminder @pll, @paulrabil and everyone who came out, especially all the NYC kids. Super fun event. Beautiful to see the game grow. @pll #repost: Someone NEEDS to scoop @jfreewright from the Player Pool… 👀😂 Award-winning actor and longtime PLL supporter Jeffrey Wright was putting on a SHOW at Street Lacrosse. 👏
Goals. #repost: @meckymk
Prolly just avoid the @brooklynbotanic right now and for the next couple months. Nothing there to see.
Prolly just avoid the @brooklynbotanic right now and for the next couple months. Nothing there to see.
Prolly just avoid the @brooklynbotanic right now and for the next couple months. Nothing there to see.
Prolly just avoid the @brooklynbotanic right now and for the next couple months. Nothing there to see.
Prolly just avoid the @brooklynbotanic right now and for the next couple months. Nothing there to see.
Prolly just avoid the @brooklynbotanic right now and for the next couple months. Nothing there to see.
Really enjoyed being with the boys & girls lax teams at @PolyPrep. Nice energy. My former college teammate @loucandel66 coaches the boys. Lou was a baller – All-American his senior year and led DIII in assists. Dude had me running drills yesterday. I’ve played more lax in the last week than I have in decades. Kinda lovin’ it. (About that last pic: notice the ball – upper left hand corner, but not of the goal.😬 Sometimes you eat. Sometimes you’re lunch.)
Really enjoyed being with the boys & girls lax teams at @PolyPrep. Nice energy. My former college teammate @loucandel66 coaches the boys. Lou was a baller – All-American his senior year and led DIII in assists. Dude had me running drills yesterday. I’ve played more lax in the last week than I have in decades. Kinda lovin’ it. (About that last pic: notice the ball – upper left hand corner, but not of the goal.😬 Sometimes you eat. Sometimes you’re lunch.)
Lent my vox to this poignant doc about a little known happening early in the 60’s civil rights struggle. It took place just outside of DC. I grew up there and was only vague aware of it myself. Check this trailer about the history of absurd discrimination in America (long before Obama invented racism or whatever it is that some try to pass as reality now) and about people from varied backgrounds coming together to work toward fairness and decency. If you’re in the DC area Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round premieres there June 16 at @dcdoxfest.
Rib vault cathedral ceiling with stained glass skylight & stuff
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Two-time Tewaaraton Award winner (best player in college lax) @marcusholman1 in goal there. He’s an attackman in real life. His father, Brian, was a three-time All-American goalie at Hopkins who followed one of my all-time inspirational athletes – in any sport – three-time All-American goalie Mike Federico (siiiick – you had to see him). I watched Federico play in the 1979 NCAA championship at Byrd Stadium and my mind blew. Marcus showed up for Street Lax with two and left with three. My fault, Marcus!!
