Jauresti…

and Jauretsi’s Polaroids…two very good things. I chose (the above) for their content post 9.11.  I recall having dinner on september 10, 2001 before the sky fell and the world  changed forever–at  Cafe Habana— with Jauretsi before heading over to meet another friend, Scott at The Time is Always Now Gallery (the irony is thick).  J’s always inspired me, she’s vintage New York, a downtown Bowery girl, fiercely independent, a DJ with mad collection of tracks.  Most notably, she made the impossible POSSIBLE, a documentary (with fellow filmmaker Emilia Menocal) entitled East of Havana (2006).

My posting barely scratches the surface of J’s work.  There is more to see here (although a note “a few peeks at the monster collection”).  Although Dash Snow worked a more shock and awe method with twisted  Polaroid documentation a la Vice style, personally, Jauresti’s work always made more sense to me.

Polaroids by Jauretsi.