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Yo. Listen up. Here's the scoop. Me, the Mad Man and the Princess are checking out the action on Arthur Avenue.
You hear bout this place afore? Me neither. It's Little Italy...only in the Bronx.
There be all kinda peeps here: fat ones, thin ones, little rat faced ones. Pizza eating ones and ones that look like they don't eat enough.
There be smells of food...GOOD food and loud music and all kinda people talkin' and laughin' and whatnot. Old guys be playing cards and yelling all kinda crap at each other but you can tell they do dis every day and they like it.
Yesterday I told you about the Street Mystic. Today I got to tell you about Casper.
He be standing out front of a store, just smoking and chilling, right? He got him some kinda bad-ass pony tail.
The Princess, she go over to him, all bubbly and sparkly-like and get him to talking about his ink.
He be glad to talk on account of he got miles of ink on him. The Mad Man gets into it and before he know it, the man, Casper be his name, saying all kinda shit about life in Little Italy -- where be the tastiest pastries all kinda that stuff.
So I takes my camera and shoots too. What de hey? Badda Boom Badda Bing, right?
Here he be.
Yo.
I'm sure this was considered extremely risqué a century ago!
This is what a can can show in Paris looks like. Very loud, frenetic, colourful - with people shouting "Who hoo" at each other.
From Wikipedia:
The cancan is danced in 2/4 time, and is now usually performed on stage in chorus-line style. In France in the 19th century the cancan remained a dance for individual entertainers, who performed on a dance floor. In the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere, the cancan achieved popularity in music halls, where it was danced by groups of women in choreographed routines. This style was imported into France in the 1920s for the benefit of tourists, and the French Cancan was born—a highly choreographed routine lasting ten minutes or more, with the opportunity for individuals to display their "specialities". The main moves are the high kick or battement, the rond de jambe (quick rotary movement of lower leg with knee raised and skirt held up), the port d'armes (turning on one leg, while grasping the other leg by the ankle and holding it almost vertical), the cartwheel and the grand écart (the flying or jump splits). Additionally, performance practice of the can-can almost always includes the dancers screaming, yelling, cat-calling and trilling while dancing.
My first upload from Lightroom with Jeffrey Friedl’s Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr.
Ah. It works. Cool.