Philippe Petit, Fears of Children and Freud's Home Movies
Dispatches From the Past
Amanda Stern
August 07, 2024
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DISPATCHES FROM THE PAST
Way back, once a month or so, I’d send out something from the past that I found interesting. I miss it, so I’m bringing it back.
From time to time, you’ll get a dispatch in place of a regular piece.
Like this one.
The Artistic Crime of the Century
Fifty years ago this morning, a 24 year old French high-wire artist named Philippe Petit walked three-quarters of a mile across a tight rope, 1350 feet over the sidewalks of NYC.
No net.
He spent 45 minutes walking and playing, across the sky, waving to the weather, to the birds. He laid down and breathed it all in.
Never say the dentist’s office doesn’t inspire feats of imagination, because it was there, in the waiting room he saw the 1968 drawing of the proposed twin towers, and an idea took shape.
If I see two towers, I have to walk.
I’m not a daredevil. I’m the opposite. I am somebody who wants to affirm life and inspire people to look up, look at the birds and start flying.
There is an event tonight and tomorrow called TOWERING at Saint John the Divine, if you want to get tickets, you can do it here.
The 1950s was awash in educational films. From the terrifying Duck and Cover films (what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion)…
Psychiatrists alone cannot solve the mental health problems of our nation…More and more it will be the responsibility of parents, teachers, nurses, doctors, and ministers.
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