Redstone Diary 2008 The City Diary

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes - I can t enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. FRANK O HARA The city! Its streets and buildings, its parks and squares! Public places filled with private faces: faces of strangers, fraught with dedication to their business and their pleasures. The city: endlessly various, inexhaustible, beautiful, frightening, exhilarating. Where every day is a different day: different times, different faces. Be there, here and now, with REDSTONE S CITY DIARY. This year s diary features an image or text for every week. Contributors include Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht,Italo Calvino, John Deakin, Saul Leiter, Jonathan Miller, Ed Ruscha, Marina Tsvetayeva and many others.