six degrees of separation

Last Summer, event-designer friend Yvette (1) 

asked me to light a show at the ACE Hotel. At the afterparty I met Blogxilla. (2)

Bloggy writes a daily hip hop column for “Sexual Intellectuals”.

http://blogxilla.com/

He introduced me to actress/singer Destiny Campbell, (3) 

and Destiny subsequently hired me to light a music video for her. 

Destiny had retained video journalist Joy Daily (4) to direct. 

And Joy has her own internet TV broadcast celebrating rap, hip hop and black urban culture. 

http://joydailytv.com/

One night while lighting her midtown broadcast I met Torch (5), a German/Haitian rapper in the studio that night...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_(rapper)

and he introduced me to Cassidy, (6) in the red hat, a gangster rapper visiting from Philadelphia. 

Philadelphia? I’m originally from Philadelphia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassidy_(rapper)

So while talking with Cassidy we discovered that Grendel’s Lair, a Philly rock club on South Street where I had worked lighting back in the day had become a hip hop lounge where he had just performed the night before---same venue in Philly now under a different name--- and only about ooooohhhh, 35 years later. 

It’s a small, six degree world.