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Climbing Up the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Posted on September 5, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Join Us On Every Single Step Up The Tilting Tower We took a day trip to Pisa, to see the famous tower in person and climb it. These three videos really give you the experience, starting with this vertical view: … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged adventure, Baptistry, bell tower, Camposanto, Cathedral, climbing stairs, Edward Elder, Leaning, nature, photography, Pisa, selfie, spiral staircase, tourists, Tower, travel, video | Leave a comment

Self Portraits in the Black

Posted on August 28, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Taking a break in shooting takes for my new short film Poe musicabre, I picked up my phone and took some selfies, taken by the stark look and angles created by the blacks I had set up behind myself in … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Poe Musicabres | Tagged angle, black, camera, Edgar Allan Poe, focus, Iphone, musicabre, photography, self portrait, selfie, short film | Leave a comment

14th Street Station

Posted on May 8, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Selfies with Statuettes If you look closely, you’ll notice this is a different moneybags figure from the one pictured above (that one smiles, this one frowns). There are sometimes similar or duplicate statuettes on both uptown and downtown platforms.

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 14th Street, 8th avenue, Alligator, art, Bronze, coins, Life Underground, moneybag, photography, platform, policeman, selfie, station, statue, statuette, subway, Tom Otterness | Leave a comment

Espy and Fly By Norman Mooney Sculptures

Posted on October 29, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Explorations in shapes, materials and reflections

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope | Tagged art, blades, glass, metal, mirrors, movement, Norman Mooney, photography, reflections, sculpture, selfie, studio, video | Leave a comment

… in which Ed has to endure Danny getting “artsy” on the escalator.

Posted on September 14, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope | Tagged AMC, AMC 25, back light, Cinema, Danny Ashkenasi, Edward Elder, escalator, movie theater, multiplex, photography, selfie, Times Square, yawning | Leave a comment

Layover in Detroit, Touchdown in Madison

Posted on July 23, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged airplane, airport, Detroit, Ed Elder, layover, Madison, night, passengers, rays, reflection, runway, selfie, silhouette, sunlight, sunset, tarmac, touchdown | Leave a comment

CANNES IMPRESSIONS – Part 1

Posted on May 23, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

I spent 10 days in Cannes, attending the famous film festival on the Croisette. It’s my first Cannes. This will be the first in a series of blog posts of Cannes impressions, of the festival, the movies, the town. Below … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Aquarium, beach, Cannes, Carnival of the Animals, Cinema de la Plage, Darwin Reina, Film Festival, Furiosa, Grand Lumière, Marché du Film, Microsoft, movies, Nicolas Cage, Palais, pavilion, premieres, red carpet, Saint-Saëns, selfie, The Surfer | Leave a comment

MOMA Selfies

Posted on May 5, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged art, Blue, Danny Ashkenasi, Edward Elder, Magritte, modern art, MOMA, museum, Painting, photography, Pollock, Rothko, selfie, White, Wyeth | Leave a comment

APRIL BBG SPLENDOR

Posted on April 23, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Colorful Impressions at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a Mid-April Day The Brooklyn Museum as seen from the BBG Many more cherry blossom pics, and flower selfies, are at the end of this post…

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged April, blossoms, botanic, brooklyn, cherry, cormorant, Esplanade, flowers, Garden, Japanese, lilac, museum, photography, selfie, Spring, tulip | Leave a comment

P&P wins BEST HORROR FEATURETTE at NYSFFF

Posted on March 27, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

I took the above selfie after the Q&A that followed the screening of my musical Poe adaptation “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” at the the New York Science Fiction Film Festival Saturday near Times Square. And the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged adaptation, Arik Bariedl, Award, best, Colin Francis Costello, Dan Abella, Edgar Allan Poe, Elli Deja Bauriedl, featurette, Film Festival, horror, Joe Leuben, Kimberly David, musicabre, New York, NYSFFF, Q&A, Science Fiction, selfie, The Pit and the Pendulum, Times Square | Leave a comment

P&P SILVER MASK AWARD

Posted on July 10, 2022 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” received the award for Best Horror Short from Silver Mask Live Festival Silver Mask Live Festival requested that I send them selfies with my award certificates, so I obliged:

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged 2022, Award, best, certificate, Congratulations, excellence, festival, Fifteen, Film Festival, horror, live, Los Angeles, season, selfie, short, short film, Silver Mask, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

NEUSCHWANSTEIN – King Ludwig’s Fairy Tale Castle

Posted on September 22, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

On a high hill flanked by the Tegeler Mountain in the Bavarian Alps sits Neuschwanstein, King Ludwig’s “Fairy Tale Castle”. King Ludwig didn’t look far to build his fantasy castle. Hohenschwangau Castle, where Ludwig was raised, lies just across the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 19th Century, Alps, Alpsee, Bavaria, Castle, Cinderella, court jester, Covid, Disneyland, fairy tale, FFP2, Frauenstein, Hohenschwangau, King Ludwig, Lohengrin, Louis XIV, mad king, Marienbrücke, masks, medieval, Neuschwanstein, Schwansee, selfie, swan, Tegeler Mountain, Versailles, Wagner | Leave a comment

MONUMENT VALLEY

Posted on February 25, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

Our final magnificent stop of the Great American West Tour Ed and I took the summer of 2019 was Monument Valley on Navajo land right at the border of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. Certainly saved one of the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Arizona, Artist's Point, Butte, Ear of the Wind, East Mitten, Great American West, Hogan, Hollywood, John Ford, John Wayne, Merrick, Monument Valley, Navajo, petroglyph, photography, selfie, Stagecoach, Sun's Eye, Totem Pole, Utah, West Mitten, Western, Yei Bi Chei | 2 Comments

SELFIE with ADAM

Posted on January 31, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

Friday I attended the live Adam Lambert concert. I missed out on his last concert appearance in New York because it sold out before I made it to the ticket website. But this time I got my ticket early. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On | Tagged Adam Lambert, all female band, concert, Covid 19, dancersize, internet connection, isolation, live, pandemic, Rock, selfie, stand-by, superpower | Leave a comment

A HIGH-FLYING MUSIC QUIZ – while in sunset dappled skies

Posted on January 3, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

It’s time for another Notes from a Composer musical quiz! All musical tracks and/or musical quiz queries will be somehow related to air travel, to tie in to these shots I took out the cabin window of our sunset … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On | Tagged airplane, airplanes, Angela Lansbury, Blondie, Ellen Degeneres, Evita, flying, Flying Away (Finale), Flying Down to Rio, Fred Astaire, Fun Home, High Flying Adored, James Bond, Madison, Mandy Patinkin, Mary Poppins Returns, Mile High, Nowhere to Go But Up, Octopussy, Patti LuPone, photography, photos, Rita Coolidge, selfie, sky, sunset, The Beatles | Leave a comment

IT’S A PUZZLEMENT

Posted on January 7, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

One of Ed’s Christmas gifts to me was three puzzles made out of photos he had taken. This was for one of our traditional “little” gifts we give each other, and Ed boasted of a Groupon offer that allowed him … Continue reading →

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