2007-05-09 Erik Schoonebeek, Erik came to work. He and I worked on a setup for a new paintng of Cathy's. He called this morning because he had a cold and wondered if he could rechedule. Because we were on a tight schedule ourselves and are depending on Jacob Moses (a student at Vassar) to come and light the setup (he will be graduationg this year). I told Erik that if he could possibly come it would be very helpful, so he did.]]> 2007-05-09 Elizabeth Orlowski, Elizabeth came over to clean our house.]]> 2007-05-12 - 13 Benjamin Busch, , Ben came over for a visit on his way from NYC to Boston. He is going to Boston to meet with Benjamin Keddy and the other two sound people who are working on the sound for Ben Busch's film, The Forest. Ben Keddy is writing the music. He got to our house in the afternoon of the 12th and left at about 5 the next morning. We went out to dinner and to the South Hills Mall to see Zodiac. he spent part of Sunday in Boston and then went to NYC to buy a new computer (his last one, and Tracy's were stolin out of their temporary aprtment in Big Rapids, MI. Nothing was backed up so this made the loss huge - this is a long story - probably never to be told in Visitors). He missed B & H (the store in NYC) by fifteen minutes. Then off to College Park Maryland to try and finish fixing up that house so it could be sold (another long story). The day sfter that he went to Baltimore for his last day of filming on the HBO series - The Wire - more related to that in a moment. After filming he headed upstate to Albany to take down an exhibition of his photgraphs and was to bring them to Colgate. On route we got a call from him as he was paaing Poughkeepsie on the Taconic. Whe he is done at Colgate he is going to Sherburne, Ny to see if everything is OK at his parent's house and to deal with his brother Nick. then he drives back up to Michigan to spend a few days with Tracy and Alexandra before leaving for Africa to start filming, Generation Kill, a new HBO erioes about the Iraq war. He will have to be in Africa for 17 weeks of the 27 week shooting schedule.]]> 2007-05-14 Jacob Moses, Jacobe came over to set up the lights for Catherine's painting. He Eric and I worked on the setup. (see last entry)]]> 2007-05-14 Erik Schoonebeek, Erik came over to work for us. When Jacob Moses got here (see next entry) and I got home from school we all went up to Catherine's studio to work on a setup for a painting. A bit earlier in the day something rather amazing occured that concerned a cardinal (the bird).]]> 2007-05-26 Peter Charlap, Peter came by to see if I needed a ride to the Senior Studio Majors Exhibition in Downtown Poughkeepsie. Catherine had already gotten home with the car, so we went in two cars.]]> 2007-05-28 Erik Schoonebeek, He came to do work for us.]]> 2007-05-29 Ralph and Michael, L - R, Ralph Arlyck and Michael Hanagan. They met us at our house, the we headed up to Rhinebeck. The four of us had dinner at Gigis. After that we went to Upstate Films to see Everythings Cool by Daniel Gold and Judith Helfand.]]> 2007-05-29 FedX, She came from FedX to pick up a package from us.]]> 2007-05-29 Bugbusters, Mike is leaning against the truck. They came to set traps to capture woodchucks.]]> 2007-06-03 Steve, Andrew and Travis, Steve Bathrick, Andrew bathrick, Travis Bathrick. Steve came to take down a tree.]]> 2007-06-04 Eric Schoonebeck, Eric came to do work for us.]]> 2007-06-06 , Scott Hughes, Scott came by to talk with me about a project I called him about. A concrete ping pong table.]]> 2007-06-06 , Eric Schoonebeck, Eric did sme work for us.]]> 2007-06-07 Greg From Bugbusters, Greg came over to pick up a woodchuck.]]> 2007-06-07 Jeff Syman, Jeff dropped off a new stretcher for Catherine.]]> 2007-06-07 Elizabeth Orlowski, She cleaned]]> 2007-06-11 Judy and Barbara, L - R, Judy Dollenmeyer, Barbara Page. We met here and the went to Serevan for dinner. See Serevan, same date, in Groups.]]> 2007-06-11 Eric Schoonebeck, Eric came to work.]]> 2007-06-14 (roll date, image #17), He is washing the roof on the barn.]]> 2007-06-15 Steve and Andrew, L - R, Steve Bathrick, Andrew Bathrick. They mowed]]> 2007-06-15 Mike from Bugbusters, . A skunk got into the trap for the woodchuck. Mike came to take the skunk away.]]> 2007-06-17 Jehovah's Witnesses, These three Jehovah's witnesses came over to prostelitize for their religion. I told them I would talk with them if they would pose for a photograph. They did and i did. we talked for about 45 minutes. It was basically an intellectual exercise for me. We all introduced ourselves. I can only remember Jacobs name, the man on the left.]]> 2007-06-17 Gordon and Cait, . Gordon Millsaps and Cait Porter came over to help me look through a bunch od audio tapes to find the ones containing phone messages. Gordon in transcribing the tapes onto DVDs in his capacity in the Media Cloisters at Vassar College.]]> 2007-06-18 Eric Schoonebeck, He Came to work for us]]> 2007-06-19 Eric Schoonebeck, He came to work for us.]]> 2007-06-20 Elizabeth Orlowski, Elizabeth came over to clean.]]> 2007-06-21 Ben and Frank, L, Ben Barzune, R, Frank Del Deo, They came to visit with Catherine, look at work and talk. We had lunch here.]]> 2007-06-25 Eric Schoonebeck, He came to do work for us.]]> 2007-06-30 Elisabeth and Ralph, Elisabeth Cardonne Arlyck, Ralph Arlyck. The came to our house and the we heades out together. First we stopped at the Montgomery Place to buy fruit. We bumped into Joy Taylor and Jack Kelly (see Montomery Place in Groups, 6/30/07). Then to the opening of Joel Griffith's painting show in Tivoli. This was all on the way to Rose's birthday party (see Rose's 9th birthday, 6/30/07). After the party we went to see the film, Ratatouille.]]> 2007-07-02 Eric Schoonebeck, Eric came to work.]]> 2007-07-03 Elizabeth Orlowski, Elizabeth worked]]> 2007-07-07 Steve and Travis, They Mowed, L - R, Travis Bathrick, Steve bathrick]]> 2007-07-07 Chie and Josh, L - R, Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh. They were in massachisetts for an opening of a show Chie was in, so they came over for a visit on their way home to Pennsylvania.]]> 2007-07-09 Eric Schoonebeck, . Eric did work for us.]]> 2007-07-12 Tripod, These young men drove up the driveway because they saw that Alec's car did not have license plates. They drive arend asking people if they would like them to take old cars away. I told them that I thought that car was still wanted ( It turned out that Alec's brother gave him a newer car, so he is going to try and sell the old one). They told me to be sure and call them Tripod with the photograph.]]> 2007-07-15 Steve and Andrew, L - R, Andrew bathrick, Steve Bathrick. Steve came to brushhog (clear) and area of scrub. We talked with him about what needed to be done and the left to go to Rhinebeck to go to the Farmers Market and for me to get some clothes at Changes. When we got back there was a message on the machine from Steve about a problem with the gas line. I called him back and he told me that he had accidentally hit the gas line from going from the propane tanks into my studio. He had acted quickly and shut them off. The firedepartment came and shut off the whole street. They were just about the axe to pieces the barn doors to my studio wnen, Steve said, why don't we see if we can just open the doors. Which they did. Then he watched the firemen as the looked around my studio to make sure there wasn't any gas leaking in tthe building. The gas company also came. I called them and they will come next week with new tanks. They said the old ones were out of date anyway.]]> 2007-07-15 Marta Renzi and Daniel Wolff, , L-R, Marta Renzi, Daniel Wolff, Daniel was giving a reading of 4th of 07 , Asbury Park, at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck. They came here first and then we all went to the reading.]]> 2007-07-15 Jon and Joy, , L - R, Jonathan Santlofer, Joy Santlofer. Catherine and I had gone to the Farmer's Market in Rhinebeck (see last entry) We bought a large amount of wonderful produce and meat (from Fleishers). We decided to have a regular Sunday (usually we would have just worked all day ), by going for a ride and going to farm stands, etc. When we got home, continuing the Sunday theme, and having gotten all this great food in Rhinebeck, we called Jon and Joy to see if the were available to come over for dinner, they were. So we spent the next two hours cooking dinner, and they came over. The reason for the dramatic and somewhat formal photograph is: Joy brought over a photograph I took of them and had given them a print of, when they were visiting our apartment in Jersey City, NJ, around 1972, so we reenacted the pose. The photograph the pose is based on is in Visitors/1971-1974/Jon and Joy/Possibly 1972.]]> 2007-07-16 , UPS Man,The Ups (United Parcel Service) man delivered a pair of pants that I had ordered on the internet.]]>