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It's my birthday...

Actually it's not my birthday anymore... Well if looked at it in Austrian time, where I was born, it's not September 18th anymore right now. Well but I guess since it's not midnight yet in New York I can still count it as my birthday.
I was born September 18th at 03:25 a.m. Counting the six hour time difference between Austria and New York that was yesterday evening at 9:25 p.m. Guess what, at 9:15 p.m. I hurried up to finish the milk shake I just consumed at the Co-Op City Mc Donalds. I thought it wouldn't be adequate to be in a Mc Donalds branch 26 years after I was first breathing air. So now I can say that I was walking through Co-Op City in the Bronx 26 years later. Sounds better doesn't it?

I spend my time today working on editing some sound I recorded a week earlier at Ground Zero before taking the train to Harlem to attend the African-American Day Parade. I got off the 116th Street Station and ran into the Mexican Independence Day Festival. Hm, African-American Day Parade or Mexican Independence Day Festival... I decided to first go to the African-American Day Parade and return to the Mexican Festival a little later when the light was better. I am not crazy about either of the shots I took today.

Regarding my birthday... I didn't set up an Amazon wishlist, a Paypal account for donations or something similar. So it's hard for you to send me huge and expensive presents I figure... I'd say it's ok for this year. But next year of course... If you want to do something for me, let me know if you are an editor or photo editor of Mare, Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Der Standard, Die Presse, Spiegel, Le Monde or some sort other Newspaper, Magazine or publication and want to work with me... :-) Give me a job as photographer!

Posted by Martin Fuchs on September 18, 2005 10:42 PM