Dave Ford Does Earth

Dave Ford Does Earth

A Lifelong Journey Around the World

Current Project: Snapshots of New York City

A few years back I set off to travel the world. The journey enabled me to swim with Amazonian pink dolphins, summit the highest peak on the African continent, and sail below the Antarctica circle. The 1 1/2 year trip netted me a worldwide troop of friends and stories out the ying-yang. Currently I live in New York City and have decided to write about the energetic madness that occurs here on a daily basis.

Kyle Piccolo: Comic Shop Therapist

Posted by Dave Ford

I think it may be time for a “work update”.
One of our new shows at For Your Imagination–Kyle Piccolo Comic Shop Therapist–has really skyrocketed in the last couple of weeks. We are all really excited as we write, produce, and edit this show in house. It cracked the Top 15 in iTunes downloads in the [...]

New York City Present Tense – July 2nd 2008

Posted by Dave Ford

I am sitting on the gritty gray steps in front of Union Square on a evening in early July. It is 8:07. I got out of work around 6, went to gym, and ate dinner.  Union Square is a few blocks away from the gym and it lies on the R line–the subway that I [...]

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Posted by Dave Ford

All I knew about Coney Island before I moved to New York City is that it used to be “the” vacation spot for New Yorkers in the 1920’s. Since those glory days the neighborhood has gone through a long period of decline.
After hanging out Saturday all day on the southern most part of Brooklyn I [...]

101 Degrees in the Big Apple with NO AC

Posted by Dave Ford

Oh my!  We all saw it coming. The Nuge, Wendy, and I have been talking about this for months. How could we have procrastinated like this? How could we have been so incredibly lazy? How could we have possibly not bought an air conditioner before this heatwave rolled in? How have we survived the last [...]

A Brooklyn Highschool and Sean Bell

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Below is the first guest post of my friend Wendy Brown. Wendy teaches the 9th grade at a Brooklyn high school–her classes are ethnically and economically diverse. However, the vast majority of her students fall into the economic category society would describe as “working poor.”
In New York–as well as nationwide–the Sean Bell case is major [...]