Category Archives: Arts-a-Poppin’

Special focus on the Visual Arts (or when I am being extra artsy with the camera) with a side hustle of nature photography

The Amazing Human Towers of Barcelona

Posted on January 28, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

When Ed and I scheduled our time in Barcelona (to attend the Love and Hope Film Festival), we didn’t realize we would be there for the La Mercè festival, the biggest weekend of festivities of the year in Barcelona. So many … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Barcelona, Castells, Catalonia, festival, Human Tower, La Mercè, photography, Placa de Sant Jaume | Leave a comment

Revenge of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on January 15, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

And we’re back, for a fifth installment of my never-a-finalist New Yorker cartoon caption contest submissions. Well, the jury is still out on finalist status of my last two submissions. I’ll update if one of them gets chosen. But don’t hold your … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism | Tagged bar, caption, cartoon, Christmas, clock, Contest, cowboy, emoji, horse, icon, New Yorker, pearly gates, pommel, rock paper scissor, stockings, therapy | Leave a comment

Wing Shots

Posted on January 5, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged airplane, Clouds, New York City, photography, Queens, sky, weather, window seat, Wings | Leave a comment

Moon Over Brooklyn

Posted on December 27, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Eagle-eyed Brooklynite sleuths may be able to trace the route I took taking these pictures one past Thursday afternoon…

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 4th Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic Mall, balcony, blue sky, brooklyn, brownstone, buildings, crane, Flatbush Avenue, Fulton Street, Moon, photography, roof, school building, skyscraper, streets | Leave a comment

Opera Lights

Posted on December 24, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Holiday season favors the splendor of lights. So how about I share photos of the splendid chandeliers hanging in the Met Opera? “Most photographed chandeliers in the world”, the woman next to me said wryly as I raised my phone to … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged chandeliers, family circle, foyer, Holiday, lights, Lincoln Center, Met, Opera, photography, The Met | Leave a comment

Artsy Fartsy Bookcase Pics

Posted on December 17, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

This week we set up our new book cases, and I went a little crazy with my phone’s camera. Some context: perhaps you heard in the news that much of Brooklyn got massively flooded during unprecedented (but likely to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News | Tagged book cases, brooklyn, climate change, Climate Crisis, flooding, glass, light, metal, photography, rainfall, reflection, renovation, September 28, three-five-five-three | Leave a comment

The GAUDI CATHEDRAL

Posted on December 12, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona We visited the famous uncompleted cathedral, the magnum opus of genius architect Antoni Gaudi, celebrated native son of Barcelona, while in town attending the Love and Hope Film Festival. Signs at the site project completion … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Apostle, architect, Barcelona, Cathedral, construction, Evangelist, Gaudi, gothic, Jesus, Mary, Nativity, Passion, Sagreda Familia, spire, Tower | Leave a comment

LIGHTSCAPE 2023

Posted on December 2, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

This year’s LIGHTSCAPE at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is the most spectacular and elegant to date.

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 2023, botanic garden, brooklyn, Cathedral, chandeliers, Color, Elton John, Flower Duet, Fountain, hip-hop, Lakme, lanterns, light, Lightscape, Rocket Man, sculpture, singing, Snow on the Beach, submergence, Supernova, Taylor Swift, trees, water, winter | Leave a comment

Bride of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on November 21, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

I know I only just posted the third installment of my New Yorker Cartoon caption entries, but I already have six more lined up, having been submitting much more regularly lately, and not being chosen as a finalist just as … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism | Tagged aliens, Autumn, birds, caption, cartoon, Contest, dinosaur, Doctor, high tea, lab rat, Macbeth, migration, Mr. Potato Head, New Yorker, Sistine Chapel, The Creation of Adam, Twitter, witch, Zoom | Leave a comment

P&P – DAY 10 – Shooting the Mirror Masks

Posted on November 14, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Our tenth and final day of shooting my short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was all about the three doppelganger judges of the Inquisition, but not as they appear to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Charlotte Purser, Dies Irae, Edgar Allan Poe, Inquisition, Ja'rel Ivory, Jason Chua, Jimmy McCoy, Judges, masks, mirror, mirror mask, musicabre, musical, post-production, pre-production, Radka Salcmannova, Sami Eddy, short film, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum, VFX | Leave a comment

Night Lights

Posted on November 10, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Park Slope’s 5th and 6th avenues Wednesday evening, November 8.

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged 5th ave, 6th ave, brooklyn, chandelier, lights, night, Park Slope, restaurant shed, salon, store window, street light, string of lights, vestibule | Leave a comment

Son of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on November 1, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Well you know what they say about trilogies: the third installment is always the best in the series, right? Look up the first and second installments of my unselected New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest submissions here and here. I had … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism | Tagged Antelope, board, caption, cartoon, chairman, Contest, ice cream, Lion, New Moon, New Yorker, stick figure, therapy | Leave a comment

Palm Trees on Sunset Boulevard

Posted on October 29, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Two Fridays ago, when I spent a day in LA for a screening of P&P, I walked to North Ardmore Ave to take pictures of the house where my mother grew up many years ago, and then walk to her … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Beginnings, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Ardmore, Batman, Budget Inn, high school, Hollywood, Hollywood High, Los Angeles, palm tree, Sunset Boulevard | Leave a comment

Love and Hope in Barcelona

Posted on September 30, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” wins Best Experimental Short Film at the Love and Hope International Film Festival in Beautiful Barcelona Above is a video of my acceptance speech upon winning Best Experimental Short Film at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Alberto Bellavia, Alfred Hitchcock, Award, Barcelona, Cathedral, Catherine Gayer, Chuti Tiu, Cinema Maldi, Darwin Reina, Dean Addams, Edward Elder, Erin Carere, Experimental, festival, Film Award, flamenco, Gaudi, Gothic Quarter, Internatioal, Jon Vamvas, LHIFF, Love and Hope International Film Festival, Marisa Marti, Museum of Catalan Music, musicabre, Olga Montes, Parc de la Ciutadella, Passeig de Gracia, Plaça d'Espanya, Placa de St Jaume, Placa Reial, short film, Sonia Rescalvo Zafra, Steve Wilbur, tapas, The Pit and the Pendulum, Vincenzo Carubia, Will Grave | 3 Comments

The Art of Pompeii

Posted on September 11, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Part 4 of the Pompeii Series Plenty of ancient Roman art was on display in the first three posts of the streets and homes of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But much more art dug up by the archeologists – sculptures and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged amphitheatre, Ancient Rome, art, brass, brothels, erotica, Herculaneum, maenad, mythology, Naples, nymph, Pompeii, portraiture, pottery, religion, satyr, sculpture, sensuality, still life, wall paintings | Leave a comment

HERCULANEUM

Posted on September 7, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Part 3 of the Pompeii Series Above is the entrance gate into the Herculaneum museum/park, and below is the first view one gets of the ruins walking down the path to the official museum entrance. Herculaneum, like its more famous … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged altars, ancient, Augustales, bathhouse, chariots, Ed Elder, Ercolano, eruption, Herculaneum, Marcus Nonius Balbus, mosaics, museum, paintings, Pompeii, pyroclastic flow, ruins, skeletons, statues, thermopolium, Versuvius, Volcano | Leave a comment

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