Academy Award Nominations

Academy Award nominations -- HERE.

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Wolf Moon

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This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights.

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Lola

Whatever Lola Wants- Sarah Vaughan 

Swan at Sunrise

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Tarantella

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Two more performances!  Friday and Saturday, January 22, 23, 2010 at Theater for the New City, NYC

http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/tarantella.htm 

More photos -- http://donaldlbrooks.com/Tarantella.html 

Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809

Disaster in Haiti

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A market area in Port-au-Prince looks otherworldly as people walk past burning debris Monday, six days after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti. 

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AVATAR -- Article in N Y Times Science Section

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Article in New York Times, January 19, 2010 -- Luminous 3-D Jungle Is a Biologist’s Dream

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Tarantella

Set design by Donald L. Brooks for Tarantella, Spider Dance at Theater for the New City, January 2010

Icicles

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Justin Bieber

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Justin Bieber -- One Time, YouTube 24,948,282 views as of 1/3/10

01.01.10

New Year's Eve

December Dusk

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Merry Christmas

Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice, Stonehenge...

Blizzard

Blizzard

Blizzard

Blizzard

December Sunset

Sunset from Osprey Park looking through the William Floyd Estate, Mastic, New York, December 12, 2009

Blizzard

Silence

Silence, 1799-1801, Oil on canvas, John Henry Fuseli, Kunsthaus, Zürich

 

The deep recess was hollow, nothing was there -- no blood, no air, nothing -- an abandoned chamber for the soul, walls charred from a conflagration of immense intensity, tears could be heard from throats echoing from ages unknown, fear and folly, a bottomless inertia with but a slight sliver of light of above, I froze with dark eyes in silence.

Fall Finale

...and now they are no more.

Apology

Ten-year-old twins Brian Thomas, left, and Kevin James Sullivan carry their luggage as they leave London bound for Auckland, New Zealand, in October 1950

CANBERRA, Australia (Nov. 15) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home.

Associated Press writer Jill Lawless reported from London.

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Friday the 13th

The Rest Is Silence

Veterans Day 2009, Calverton National Cemetary, LI NY
William L. Maloney 11/28/28 - 10/04/01 - The Rest Is Silence

11.11.09

The Tell-Tale Heart

Yankees Win World Series

Yankees Win World Series -- New York Times article HERE.

The Wycherly Systers

The Wycherly Systers performing at the Cabaret TNC Village Halloween Costume Ball, 2009, set design by Donald L. Brooks

Cauldron

Cauldron setting at the Cino Theater, TNC, Village Halloween Ball, October 31, 2009, Donald L. Brooks

Satyr and Nymphs

Autumn Reflection

Autumn Reflection, Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, LI NY, photo by Donald L. Brooks

World Series

When Friendships Go Bad...

October 26, 2009 - Monday

What Did I DO Holy Shit

The lady's remarks: stephanie" (10:31:14 PM): Omg .. W.e then no we don't your right sorry I care to much stop living in your own fuckin world and grow the fuck up already stop being such a baby and learn how to be mature about stufffffffff . You wasn't tryna fal back when we was talking last night & its not about fuckin falling back or not its the fact that we should be friendsss but w.e man seriously .... I tried & yu still scaredddd of even that . Face your fears deadassss . "stephanie" (10:31:19 PM): Pz

The gentleman's reply: Remember what u said next time u hit me up to chill or say hi cuz i aint never gonna forget--Who said i was scared who said i had fears i just dont wanan deal with bullshit its simple im tryna move on with my life and u becoming an obstucle break that shit down fuck what we had fuck what was said fuck that poem u wrote for me fuck what i wrote--- u mad cuz u cant have what u want and thats me to be in ya life- u have to grow up ok i dont wanna be ya friend omg my life is gonna end nah u grow up and say fuck it and move the fuck on ---- Damn i wasnt the first one to say im feeling you that complicated the whole situation anywayz?!?? sure as fuck wasnt me i tried to keep my cool bout this but yea im done im fed up u cant handle shit when it comes to me- i aint even talking shit im speaking the truth u loooooovvvve to speak ya mind im speaking mine so just like i had to just sit there and take and move on you do the same muthafckin thing Steph

A Swan in October

A swan on the Cayman River, Long Island NY, photograph by Donald L. Brooks
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10.19.09

Only God Can Make a Tree

Columbus Day

First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, after the painting by Discoro Téofilo de la Puebla

First Monday in October

The Supreme Court