Flash Rosenberg "Laughing at the Speed of Light"

LAUGHING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
Written, imaged and performed by Flash Rosenberg with a special guest cameo by her brother, the famed musician and composer, Ken Rosenberg

The best time you will have all year, promise.

Photographer/cartoonist Flash Rosenberg talks and walks through hundreds of original, projected images to challenge what we see with what we know. This is optical humor. Not jokes. And not just funny pictures, but funny ways of picturing what we think we know to be true in the world. Blending the logic of a scientist, the irreverence of a humorist, with the pith of a sage, she shows how a slice of pizza can define infinity. She demonstrates how to make love archival, and how to laugh at the speed of light. She translates what's visible into verbal snapshots. This smart show is for anyone who has ever dreaded, taken, or been in a picture. Rating: PG-13

Flash Rosenberg is an “Attention Span for Hire” who works as a photographer, cartoonist, writer and performer. She uses photos, drawings, writings and performances to deliver pith, humor, interpretations and memories. Her public art mischief has aired daily on public radio, has been performed onstage internationally, and published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, the Forward, The Funny Times and Lilith Magazine. She is a freelance photographer and currently, Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the New York Public Library. She is a regular performer for Monologues and Madness, the first Monday of each month at The Cornelia Street Café. She is also a poet with Brevitas, performing at The Bowery Poetry Club. She draws discussions between distinguished authors and provocateurs in front of live audiences to create real time, animated Conversation Portraits. Flash contributed the daily feature "Flash Moments," audio snapshots which aired on Michaela Majoun's WXPN morning program between 1989-1993.