Cyrus Farivar

My first foray into photography. Wired News publishes my photo essay on the ArtBots festival in Harlem last weekend.

So courtesy of Lane, I got a quick trip up into Connecticut. He was taking some Japanese friends living in NYC to visit life outside the city. I hung with Heidi and Martin while the four of them went canoeing and various other things in the Litchfield, CT area. All went well on our way back in our rented PT Cruiser until we hit Armonk, NY and Lane’s friend who was driving said that the accelerator wasn’t working right, roughly…

Say what you will about Barry Bonds, but reaching 700 HRs is no small task. Congratulations, Barry. However, I bet this guy feels dumb now. Six months ago, the Dodgers sold Michael Mahan nearly $25,000 worth of tickets. Now, like an unwelcome home run ball hit by a visiting player, they’d like to throw the whole deal back. Mahan, 28, a Los Angeles investment banker and lifelong Dodger fan, bought every seat in Dodger Stadium’s right-field pavilion for two of…

Well, I didn’t make the Wind Ensemble. But I did hear some people who I think live on my floor playing chamber wind music last weekend, so maybe I can get together with them. So it goes. This week has been our first week of regularly scheduled classes and assignments and such. So here’s what my schedule looks like: Monday: RW1 (9 am – 1 pm) Tuesday: All-Class Lecture (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) Wednesday: War Reporting (6 pm –…

Happy New Year to all my Jewish peeps! Courtesy Accordion Guy:

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For some reason my Airport card decided it doesn’t want to work anymore. I tried pulling it in and out again and it doesn’t seem to fly. Sucks. I guess I’ll have to go to the Apple store in SoHo tomorrow. Hey, Dan Rather, CBS et al., can you say “Whoops!” ? Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn’t Authenticate Papers [Washington Post, Sept. 14 2004] Oh, and uh, you Bush Administration folks. Can you guys say a bigger “Whoops!”…

I love Seymour Hersh, but this doesn’t look good. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 – Senior military and national security officials in the Bush administration were repeatedly warned by subordinates in 2002 and 2003 that prisoners in military custody were being abused, according to a new book by a prominent journalist. Seymour M. Hersh, a writer for The New Yorker who earlier this year was among the first to disclose details of the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, makes…

Well, I had a pretty interesting day that didn’t seem to slow down. I woke up and pretty much went straight to my Columbia Wind Ensemble audition. Went alright. Not sure if I made it, but I’ll find out tomorrow. But I heard wind chamber music coming from one or two apartments away, so if the CWE doesn’t work out, maybe I can jam with them. Rachel and I tried to go to get croissants and hot chocolate at Fauchon…

So begins (or rather ends) another week in New York. I saw this painted on the side of a building walking east on Baltic St. in Brooklyn not 15 minutes ago. I’m out here killing time/exploring the nabe as I came from Cobble Hill, where my potential French tutee lives. I was just interviewed by her Mom at their nice brownstone. Don’t know if I’ll get it, but things seemed promising. In a little more than an hour, I have…