Newport Mall Santa
Each year, at least in recent years, I try on Christmas eve to put up a small (very small) pixel image in some Christmas eve - winter holiday theme. Sometimes I have an idea on hand before I start working on it. Sometimes not. Always though about halfway through the same thought occurs to me: I don't know how to draw and have never been able to draw as much as a straight line. By then I have already plinked a large number of colored pixel dots into place with out much of an idea of where I am going with it, and it is too late to turn back.
 This year I have WFMU dj's Benjamen Walker and Liz Berg on the occasion of their live six hour remote broadcast from the Newport Centre Mall somewhere in Northern New Jersey a couple of Mondays back. For atmospheric purposes I have re-imagined the event taking place at night and the Newport Centre Mall as having a transparent Plexiglas roof. This is part of my program of recording "Ego Leonard" moments -- moments of perfect and ordinary beauty. A charge from the Lego ambassador from the virtual world.
The sort of carefully-honed easy nonchalance, that it takes some broadcasters, NBC with their Olympic coverage for instance, a half year or more of day-long meetings to achieve WFMU is able to attain with hardly any effort at all. In the background I have depicted a Santa Claus coming down the Mall escalator. But is it the real Santa Claus or Nick-the-Bard? This is something which may never be known.
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