Aren't these the coolest guys - they are really handsome and have great personalities - you coldn't cut a better Gap Kids ad than right here (and the disigners could learn about urban style from the source, duh). I gave them my card and told them I'd post the picture on REALNEO and to send me an email - I asked if they could do that and they said yeah - I told them to call Mayor Brewer's office and to let him know I sent them they need new computers - now working on porgrams with East Cleveland is getting fun.

BTW - about five minutes after I left the Silvermans my phone rang and a woman said "do you take pictures" and I asked if this was the mother of one of the guys I photographed and she said the aunt - she asked if she could have some pictures taken and I said I'd be glad to - I need to call her back - it will be nice to have a real photo journal of this wonderful place and her 26,000 people - keep watching and contributing on realneo.

Since my mom was a professor and dean and the Cleveland Institute of Art I took Saturday and summer photography and design from the youngest age possible until I left for college, Tulane, where I majored in photography. I bought a Nikon F2S at age 12, with money I made cutting grass, and built a darkroom in an abandoned bathroom at my house, so I'm used to spending all day printing experimental stuff - we were just talking about the darkroom impact at the digital photo ISG last week (which has some cool photographers - you should come to these meetings). But I ended up minoring in art and majoring in economics and had to sell my equipment along the way, so I just needed to get my hands on some top quality Nikon equipment again (shooting an excellent D70S - I stonrgly reocmmend this camera) - and since the darkroom is now the computer, I needed a decent laptop with a fast processor and tons of memory (I always have gone with IBM - this one is officially Lenovo but is one of the last with the old Big Blue logo and name), and free manipulation software because I am not going to get locked into any adobe/marcomedia high cost crap - thanks to Charles Burkett and Phillip Williams for turning me on to Gimp.

I was just telling Evelyn this city is aout to see the best photography in it's history, because I am going to kick the bar way up, for what I like to do - and I think that will bring lots of other talented people out to do the same - and we will get all this great content out there in the public domain, in a really useful structure and technology - and context.

Besides me, at REALNEO Charles and Phillip are really into new media, and we are developing the NEO Media Arts Center, so we are making NEO a world center of digitial arts technology and content - and content management - and this will get even richer with video -streaming - just wait.

One thing to note - all FREE - all Open Source - FOSS - FLOSS - beware the man behind the curtain with forked tounge who speaks of Sun and Java but has no Intel or openness - the revolution will not be televised. Peace.