With our Thursday Journal of the Movement of the World segments, we endeavor modestly, dear reader, to bring you a bit of beauty from the world around us. What with the hubbub and the running around and the What Not to Wear marathons, we're often finding ourselves looking back on a blur of a year not knowing quite how it all went by so fast. So, hard as it is, we are trying our best to stop and appreciate things more often. Check out that kick-ass bird over there. Look at that kid helping her mom pick out the exact right potatoes at the store. Take a gander at that dog that looks eerily like Lyndon B. Johnson. That kinda thing.
With that in mind, we apply the terribly inaccurate, toy-like magnifying glass that is the blog to the work of photographer, David Goldman—also a native to the great white north, Canada, thus continuing Canada week here at KoR. Full disclosure here: Mr. Goldman is a friend of ours and used to be our neighbor. That said, his work is truly beautiful. Whether the shot is an actual portrait or not, he always seems to convey the function of a portrait—the straight-on honesty of the moment his subject is in. Last year, Goldman decided to profile a subway performer named Kooky Cosmo the Clown. As he writes: "I had been looking to do a project on subway performers for quite a while when, luck would have it, our paths crossed on the N train in Brooklyn around Thanksgiving ‘08. When I met Cosmo I knew I had found my subject." He proceeded to get to know Cosmo—AKA, Mike Richards—and photographing not only his exploits underground, but also his life at home, after the suspenders and clown hat were put away. Heartened by the project and already a fan of David's work, we offered to help out a bit with a the online gallery for the project. Plus, you know, we lived RIGHT downstairs. How could we say no. Check out the Kooky project here, and be sure to take a look at all of David's other work too. All well worth hitting the pause button in life.
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