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My addition to the Damien Hirst article, Virgin Mother, right,was featured in artnet magazine
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Articles I wrote
Tompkins Square Park Police Riot | Billy Goldberg (doctor) | Public Art Fund | William Treanor | Mark Barnes | St. Brigid's Church, New York | Arie Kaplan | Evan Wolfson | NY Salon | Ben Georgia | Circus Amok | Second Avenue Marble Cemetary | Nancy Rubins | Brian Tolle | Joshua Rosenkranz | Bob Rosenthal | George Davidson
My stubs
E.V. Day | Robert Polito | Louis Uchitelle | Andrea Masley | Kenji Jasper | Glenville Lovell | Erica Simone Turnipseed | Katherine Newman | Mary Buffett
Floyd Abrams Project
I have created all of these, and they all remain works-in-progress. I hope to have them more finalized by September 15th:
Floyd Abrams | List of prominent cases argued by Floyd Abrams | History and background of New York Times Co. v. United States | Floyd Abrams and the Landmark Communications case | Landmark Communications v. Virginia | Floyd Abrams and Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co. | Floyd Abrams and The Heroin Trail case | Frank Piccolo | Floyd Abrams and the Nebraska Press Association case | Floyd Abrams and the Wayne Newton case | Floyd Abrams and the McCarthy documentary case | Floyd Abrams and the Brooklyn Museum case | Floyd Abrams and Campaign Finance Reform litigation | Mahmut Karaduman | Kenneth Shorter | Helen Whitney | Luella Mundel | Paul Leahy | William J. Brennan, Jr. Award | Learned Hand Award | Thurgood Marshall Award | Libel Defense Resource Center | Ross Essay Prize | Who's Who in American Law | Chambers USA | Mills v. Alabama | Paul Freund | Herbert Wechsler | Guido Penosi | Frank Piccolo
These pages have my photographs
EVERYTHING YOU SEE WAS MINE, BUT NOW IT'S YOURS, TOO
PORTRAITS
Authors, writers and poets
George Pelecanos | Björn Türoque | Mark J. Green | Mark Leyner | Billy Goldberg | Gay Talese | Tommy Chong | Senator Ron Wyden | Nancy Bass | Simon Schama | Dennis Lehane | Alicia Ostriker | Robert Polito | David Gates | Bob Holman | Bob O. Rosenthal | William Cohen | Janet Langhart | Jennifer Egan | Patrick McGrath | Scott Smith | Jerry Robinson | Arie Kaplan | Robert Sikoryak | Danny Fingeroth | Jennifer Miller | Floyd Abrams | Ann Brashares | Libba Bray | Yusef Komunyakaa | Eileen Myles | Philip Levine | Kimiko Hahn | Erica Simone Turnipseed | Glenville Lovell | Kenji Jasper | Stephen Moore | Louis Uchitelle | Peter Stearns | Marion Chesney | Mark Z. Danielewski | Richard Siken | Maxine Hong Kingston | Al Franken | Mary Buffett
Politicians and activists
Mark J. Green | Senator Ron Wyden | Secretary of Defense William Cohen | Al Franken | Maxine Hong Kingston | Stephen Moore | Terry McAuliffe | John Edwards | Barbara Ehrenreich
Artists
Prominent Attorneys
William Treanor | Robert L. Carter | Mark J. Green | Anthony Gair | Mark Barnes | Floyd Abrams | Evan Wolfson | Andrea Masley | Len Elmore | John Edwards
Other people
André Leon Talley | Anna Wintour
Law
Sweatt v. Painter; Fordham Law School; NAACP v. Alabama; Law library; Fordham Law School; Amadou Diallo; Freedom to Marry; Baker v. Vermont; Boy Scouts of America v. Dale; Plame affair timeline; Judith Miller; Pentagon Papers; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; New York Times Co. v. United States; Cahill Gordon & Reindel; Sensation exhibition
Art
E.V. Day | Edwin Torres | Nuyorican Movement | Nuyorican | Fountain (Duchamp) | Carl Hancock Rux | Roy Lichtenstein | Miguel Piñero | DOGNY | Miguel Algarín | Compay Segundo | Pedro Pietri | Caridad de la Luz | Sarah Jones | Slam poetry | Performance poetry | Graffiti | Robert Frank | Marcel Duchamp | Damien Hirst | Joe Strummer | Lincoln Center (Nancy Rubins piece) | Keith Haring | Public Art Fund | Anna Hyatt Huntington | Irish Hunger Memorial | James De La Vega | Howl | Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Juggling | Stilt walking | Robert Indiana | KISS mural | Rube Goldberg
Buildings
Lever House | Rockefeller Center | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | Bowery Poetry Club | La Salle Academy | Seagram Building | Lipstick Building | American Folk Art Museum | Christie's | 383 Madison Avenue | Anthology Film Archives | Saks Fifth Avenue | AXA Center | Time-Life Building | St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center | Bouwerie Lane Theatre | Exxon Building (New York) | McGraw-Hill Building | Hotel Nacional de Cuba | Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York | Abram Stevens Hewitt | Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools | Simon & Schuster | New York Film Academy | Beth Israel Medical Center | Fordham Law School | Lever Brothers | Cartier | Lithography | Performance Space 122 | St. Vincent's Hospital (Manhattan) | New York Medical College | List of hospitals in New York | Malcolm Forbes | New York Aquarium | Mobil | 75 Rockefeller Plaza
Subway Stations
F Line
F Line - Forest Hills | F Line - Roosevelt Ave | F Line - Roosevelt Island | F Line - 21st/Queensbridge | F Line - Lex/63rd | F Line - 57th Street | F Line - Rockefeller Center | F Line - 23rd Street | F - Second Avenue Subway Station |
BD Lines
NRQ Lines
Other
September 11 | gas prices | Water tower | air guitar | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | International reactions to the 2006 Qana airstrike | Ramones | Committees for the Defense of the Revolution | Cuban Revolution; International Atomic Time | Aerocaribbean | Bodeguita | Sociolismo | Culture of Cuba | Bling-bling | skywriting | Sand bar | Lettuce | Smoke | Harry Winston Jewelers | Table dance; R46 (New York City Subway car) | Japanese Maple | Farmers' market | Foreign worker; Migrant worker | The New School | Accordion | Evo Morales | Michelle Bachelet | Stilts | Sheltie | pajamas | 2004 United States election voting controversies, Ohio | Homelessness | Dewar's | juggling | recycling | Meditation | Henry Ward Beecher | Green-Wood Cemetery | Henry George | Henry Bergh | Breasts | Tara Subkoff | sexual objectification | afro | catwalk | Fashion week | Vogue | sequin
Other Places
Tompkins Square Park Police Riot | Tompkins Square Park | Viñales | Union Square (New York City) | The Today Show | | List of Islands in the Caribbean | Pinar del Río Province | Orient, New York | 21 Club | Stuyvesant Town | Street fair | Sex shop | Freak show | | | Fulton Mall | Long Branch, New Jersey | Time Warner Center
Streets and neighborhoods
Loisaida; Lower East Side; East Village, Manhattan; Bowery, Manhattan; Houston Street (Manhattan); Sixth Avenue (Manhattan); Avenue C; Astor Place (Manhattan); Bleecker Street; Alphabet City, Manhattan; Viñales Valley; St. Mark's Place (Manhattan); Chinatown (Manhattan); Avenue A | Museum of Television & Radio
What other people say about Shankbone
- "Bill and I were so impressed with the quality of the photograph you took of us, that we'd love to know what kind of camera you used. So many times we've been photographed for various articles and the cameraman comes with gobs of equipment and not one of the results was as good as yours with apparently so little intrusion. If you could advise us, we'd be so grateful. Again, it was lovely to meet you." Janet Langhart, author and wife of William Cohen.
- "And as for 'digging ditches,' you are already contributing and I am sure will have even more to offer as you complete this latest chapter in your education and self-propulsion forward... And lucky me to have as my guardian a new friend..." Evan Wolfson.
- "David is truly inspirational, beautiful, lovely, kind. He is a revolutionary, and he is revolutionary. I respect David to the nth degree. I only wish for this human being peace." Aoife Meehan, Universal Jurisdiction.
- " articles on public figures...are outstanding examples of some of the work he has done to make critical public policy information more accessible to citizens. David is a great guy, and he is busy recording important things for posterity that others don't even realize lie right under their noses." Mark Barnes, public healthlaw expert, direct descendant of Daniel Boone and addition to the "Prominent Attorneys" photography sessions.
- "...nobody is more Wiki-riffic than my friend David Shankbone. Check him out." "SarahB", Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment
About Me | The penny drops
The first thing you should know about me is I’m like nobody else you’ve ever met. My blood is the only connection between George Bernard Shaw and Jane Bowles. I'm a silly bastard, true of heart and I want the best for those in my life. I do not compete with friends or family. I've driven a motorcycle across Cuba, worked at Enron in London, skydived over Italy and camped in the Amazon basin for a week to get over an intense fear of insects; it didn't work. I saw death on that trip. It's not the first time: I found a suicide in the woods on New Year's when I was 13 (a boy my age named Mike Drinkwater). By serendipity I found out why he did it.
I live in the East Village y hablo Español. I have a scar on my face and a tattoo on my shoulder. David Bowie and The Libertines are all-time faves (I'm always rooting for Pete Doherty to pull through). In the fourth grade the nuns at my Catholic school told my mother in a parent-teacher conference I wanted them dead. I did not.
I'm a big guy (6'3), athletic (185#), slim (32W x 34L) and pale (25% Irish/25% Dutch/50% German). I'm glad I'm getting older (wiser) and I disdain youth. I wear a suit to the office where I manage the assets of one of the founding families of New York City.
I've moved 33 times amongst 3 countries (US, GB and ES), 6 states (NJ, GA, CO, TX, PA, NY) and 17 cities. Airline family, not military. Then it was me. Everything before NYC is forgotten. I like to travel off the beaten path. Happy endings never bore me.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Movies I like
Half Nelson; Desperate Living; Happiness; Metropolis; Donnie Darko; Starship Troopers; Blue Velvet; Vanilla Sky; X2; Grey Gardens; Husbands and Wives; Magnolia; Hedwig; Natural Born Killers; Seven; Fight Club; All About Eve; Night of the Living Dead; Kicking and Screaming; Harold & Maude
Hobbies and Interests
Photography; Keeping it real; NPR, survival, painting; Misplaced Pages; A Swarm of Angels; percolatin'; holleratin'; liberal thought and theory; writing
Music
Libertines; David Bowie; Babyshambles; Dirty Pretty Things; B-Sharps; Kanye West; Arctic Monkeys; Remy Zero; Air; The Flaming Lips; Ghostface Killah; Dandy Warhols; Wu Tang Clan; Spoon; Pulp; Tricky; Nas; T.Rex; Suede; The Fall; The Breeders; Modest Mouse
Schools
Universidad de Alicante; University of Colorado, Boulder; Colorado State University; New York University; New School University; University of Texas, Austin; Austin Community College; Fordham Law School
A few favorite books
À rebours; The Stranger; Still Life with Woodpecker; Travels with My Aunt;The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; Microserfs; A History of the Modern World (8th ed.); Hell's Angel: The Life & Times of Sonny Barger; Naked; The Fountainhead; The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Affiliations
East Village; NY Salon; St. Bart's; Waggytail Rescue
Television programming
I'm only a casual user: Six Feet Under; Simpsons; Family Guy; Colbert Report; Daily Show; Chappelle's Show
Walter Cronkite: "We have too often been disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders...to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds."
STREET SLEEPERS by David Shankbone
Main article: Homelessness in the United States See also: Homelessness See also: Alphabet CityThis series does not judge, does not have an opinion, and does not attempt to make a statement. I am simply photographing the people I see asleep on the streets of the East Village in New York City. No longer the neighborhood of the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, Alphabet City nonetheless has shadows and apparitions of that bygone era.
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Street Sleeper No. 1
- Street Sleeper No. 2 Street Sleeper No. 2
- Street Sleeper No. 3 Street Sleeper No. 3
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Street Sleeper No. 4
Why Street Sleepers?
About a year or two ago New York Magazine did one of those "You know you're a New Yorker when..." articles and one of the entries was, "...when your local homeless person goes missing and you start to get worried." There is one guy named Eddie who has lived on 4th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B as long as I have, which is five years. He is Street Sleeper No. 2. He pets my dogs, I talk to him; I've bought him some bottles of booze—at age 65, he's chosen his life and I'm not going to be sanctimonious about his needs—given him many of my well-made shoes (that are worn down for me) and other items. Batteries, etc. Still, there is another woman who has been in the neighborhood just as long. She is walking chaos. The very depiction of all-consuming addiction: her face is always flushed red and looking bumpy. It resembles, if you can imagine, a face that has spasmed so often from the highs and lows of addiction that there are knots in the muscles; lumps that need the attention of a deep tissue massage. Unlike Eddie, I've never spoken to her. She is angry and always "coming down." I last saw her a week ago. She was in horrible shape; she was leaning against a railing on Avenue B and 6th Street, seemingly convulsing. Her arms were folded over her purple sweater as her body shook like a vibrating bed. I walked by her slowly. I had my camera, but I thought it would be so rude to take her photograph. I have regretted not doing so ever since. Because this woman has a story, and at the very least, a lesson. She goes ignored except by other vagrants (and even they shy away from her). Maybe she is in rehab, or jail. Maybe that was the last day she was alive. And now she's lost forever. That's why I started doing the series. "You know you're a New Yorker when..." I'd say so.