This is David McDermott, who with his partner Peter McGough were artistic sensations during the 1980s. They essentially were the first to ‘life cast’ their art and life, which in their case was a ‘Time Experiment’ whereby they lived in and restored a beautiful period piece house, living and dressing as if it was the turn of the 19th century. They used antique cameras and created photographs, paintings and films as if they lived in that period from their New York home like two Oscar Wilde style characters. David writes that the early 1900s were the pinacle of culture. So if you are going to recreate a time period, make sure it’s the best one. He’s a fascinating guy and has some great perspectives on art and life that most never see. He still lives that kind of life now in Dublin. Well worth looking him up.
I read an article about 20 years ago of him living his life in Dublin, with him and his house decked out in late Victorian, Edwardian era clobber. It was described as a type of performance art. From the photos with the article it looked well done with attention to detail. He's so right about the pervasiveness of pop music. Interesting man
What an absolutely delightful interview. I understand him completely. I'm 62 and the world I grew up in has long since evaporated and been replaced by a culture of phone zombies.
@@bigwiggly9891 McDermott & McGough are American visual artists. David McDermott (born 1952) and Peter McGough (born 1958). McDermott & McGough are known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture and film. They currently split their time between Dublin and New York City.
He is also in the movie “Basquiat” from 1996. He’s in a couple of scenes with David Bowie (who plays Warhol in the film). Because he knew Andy and Jean Michel at the time
I still see interesting characters. Older people generally. You reach a couldn't give a fuck age. We all need to be less obsessed about being judged and what other people think of us. The World itself sadly has less character and style than ever before.
The streets are full of wonderful people - they aren't all conspicuous, like this gentleman, however. Just sit next to someone on a bench and ask them a meaningful question...you'll see.
They are. But you might not know it on the surface. Social media and the ever-present cell phone camera has made so many people retreat inwards to surface conformity.
@@Kittle1 so depressing and so accurate. It's difficult to ascertain depth or curiosity when people are taking selfies or filming their lunch. The horror is perhaps what you see is what you get. I'd like to believe it's other than that. I,m still occasionally surprised. My favourite character at the moment is 92. I doubt she's aware of how I perceive her. But there often lies the charm.
I remember David from back in the 0s, when i worked security on building sites in Temple bar. I never met the man, but i would sometimes see him, dressed extravagantly. once i saw him dressed very much like he just stepped off the golf course back in the 20s. certainly free spirited gentleman.
Me too! I had a few encounters with him back in the 0s, and I genuinely thought he was in his 70s back then. He's kinda ageless I guess. Seemingly as a piece of performance art he lives with only 1930s technology, so gramophone records and open fires in the house.
It is very important to us all that we talk to people and find out about them, it's a lost art. People are afraid to do that today. When I was an English boy in Donegal in 1950 I used to walk with my brother several miles through the country side to see our Aunt and were constantly stopped en-route by strangers asking all about us and our family. It was normal life. We were even taken into a remote thatched cottage by an elderly lady who sat us down and gave us some bread and jam to help fortify us on our walk and grill us on all our personal details. I remember fondly.
@@morten1coping by assuming you aren’t living in unprecedented times while people insert chips in their brain and social credit scores exist. Keep lying to yourself kid.
He's a man out of time, so to speak. If he's in his 70s that means he was born in the 50s. The fashion and music are from the 1930s. Of course it's not in style any longer. That was nearly a 100 years ago. Times change. There's nothing wrong with that. Look at human rights and gender equality 100 years ago. Nothing to write home about. How about gay rights? I wouldn't be too quick to hop in that time machine David.
@@theshamanarchist5441it’s not just that, older generations had higher moral standards among other values and they are obsolete for what, I was going to call it capitalism, but is not even that, this new form of enslaved “freedom” people live everywhere the riches and the poor in different way, and what these new leaders of the world want for humankind. Hey, I am still young and I know I am obsolete for them because the way I think, the values I have, what I value and cherish, and because I don’t agree to this new way of life of consuming and discarding (clothing, decor trends, information, culture, relationships). I am younger and I already miss some places that simply aren’t there, fast tourism has also ruined everything. Why do people want to travel, most of the time when I am cluelessness. And I do love to travel, but not at any price just to photograph myself and drink the same matcha latte as everyone else. It’s kind of rebellious to stay where you are nowadays, that’s the big rebellion, and stand your ground and nurture the old businesses. Can’t wait to drink my expresso tomorrow served by the same lady I know when I was a kid than to go to Paris and shop around Zara.
@rita old people didn’t automatically have a higher moral standard….is that why sexual and physical abuse were rampant amongst the nuns and priests in Catholic Irish schools? Is that why children were being used as virtual slave labor in the workhouses? Is that why the fault of rape was brought upon the victim? Stop. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Sure…people weren’t as annoying and openly disrespectful like Gen Alpha..but children were not protected either, nor were the ”lower” classes.
We are told by the news everyday, that the world is falling apart. This is true in parts but its their narative of the world falling apart, to drive more despair in the hearts of everyone. However, when you stop and notice others, like the man in this video. You realise quickly that there are many good people in this world, far more then the bad. Its just the bad in this world, control the masses and control their media empires. Which enables this feeling of hopelessness. There is good in this world. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
Imagine being this man, seeing the world at a time when it was at its peak. Then watching it slowly degrade in to what ever it is now. Must be incomprehensible. Beyond words.
this really resonated with me for the simple fact that everything changes in our lives and we all miss the simpler times future generations will never get to experience. We all have this hole in our heart.
I knew this man by his voice immediately. He was in the documentary film about Quentin Crisp called "RESIDENT ALIEN". McDermott and McGough. I always wondered what happened to them.
David is completely correct. As I grew up, there were many Davids in the city. Characters, and individuals you never meet NOW. From class, to "anything goes" nowadays. Your elders were respected, and never challenged.
it might help for younger people, for whom many "isms" are rejected, to give the ageism a rest and stop treating people based on their age. We're all human beings. Terms like "senior citizens" are so diminishing and smack of high school. just as most social media sites, especially Facebook, rather grossly smell like high school....
I've been using the term 'fast food culture' for decades now. It describes the way people quickly consume and disregard things without ever digesting the experience of these things. Buy it, consume it as quickly as possible, throw away the evidence, - 'Fast Food Culture'. Peace
I remember reading about when the first McDonald’s opened in Rome in the 1980s. There was massive backlash at such a sight surrounded by ancient buildings and beautiful architecture.
^They’re literally covered in them now 😆 They even obstruct the view of important monuments & historical architecture…not to mention they love to litter their own streets with their wrappers. One more point to drive it home: Italy has the world’s largest Mcdonald’s in the world…sure seems like they hate it! Only place that sincerely loves Mcd’s as much is Paris France but they love lying about that too lolol. The cuisine capitals, it seems, just love food.
@@samaraisnt it takes 10-15 years to completely change a culture. I’d imagine the people of 1980s, who would still have more of a sense of the past times, would never allow this to happen if they could see how things played out today.
Tis true though. I left in 92 and stopped going back in the new Millenium. A friend of mine left in 2022 saying that Post-Covid NYC seemed irrevocably changed. She had a vintage Penthouse in Brooklyn Heights so it was not about Housing Security. It was how the Age of Influence and Wealth unchecked pushed the Creatives out of NYC altogether. The people that moved in were exactly as David described, they rarely read books and had to know your Identity label. You can no longer be just You in NYC, you had to be part of the Culture Wars or ostracised. Thanks for these awesome short encounters with people, so enriching x
@@anonamouse.p4115 The same has happened in L.A. When I moved here it was brimming with creativity and beautiful young people pursuing their dreams. Now they're trying to gentrify Hollywood with over-priced apartments and organic food stores while homeless people sleeping on sidewalks dot the street. It's also gotten filthy as F over the past 10 years but I still love the weather. Lots of people with broken dreams and mental health issue live here, not surprisingly. Not a good place for artists of any type anymore. The rents are waaaay out of control for dumpy apartment buildings that have been here since the '60s and '70s.
@@heyimvee I lived in Dublin in the early 80’s still had to touches of the old Dublin .. some people will of course say it’s improved ,more fancy restaurants night life etc .. but give me the old Dublin any day ..used to love the Palace bar in Autumn .. still there thankfully and Grogans pretty much the same , of course most of the old characters have passed but at least no feckin TV there ..
I would love to get this guy to Cuba, when I went there it was like a time warp to the 1930s, embargoes on the country has had the country stuck on pause in the old era, old street lights old cars old historic hotels dripped in history from the era of Al Capone, Marilyn Monroe, the Copacabana. It was the Las Vegas of its time for the Hollywood megastar and its still evident. The Cuban music and smell of cigars everywhere creates a surreal atmosphere you just don't get anywhere else. This guy would feel right at home 😊
I am half his age and I feel the same. All the rich quirky eccentricity along with the cultural clichés that made places and communities unique is being obliterated.
I'm an old person and am out an about in my neighborhood and beyond as much as financially practical. However, many of us are on fixed incomes. A trip of less than 3 miles by Lyft runs me 12 to 15 bucks. Before the pandemic it was more like $7. Welcome to the age of greed.
haven't checked comments, but just saw this as I was waking up and randomly was watching "all you need is death" and this guy made my day a second time. Amazing dude.
God love him what a delightful gentleman, i love his attire, and i agree with what he said about books. What a breath of fresh air, someone truly being themselves.
1:15 damn… I know how he feels. I live in Canada now, it’s been 10 years since I was back but the home I miss isn’t there anymore either. It was heartbreaking. I feel like a ghost. I don’t belong here and I don’t belong there. It’s a very lonely feeling. ❤️🩹
Your comment inspired me delicate and fierce the obliterated walk in memories of a long gone dawn talk to me of loss tell me of your life this world can be sublime give it time. Mr McD will probably hate this
@@billytrack Oh thank you so very much. So happy to know you feel inspired. I so very much your inspiration bares beautiful fruits for you and I hope you have all the blessings you need. Forever Blessed Be.
He's a legend & hes oozing charm. Im 61 & l agree, the past makes me happy. I feel sorry for this generation. Love his style & wit. Thank you Chris! 🙏❤️
Perversley, Mr David has now becoming one of the Old School types floating around Dublin. The young turks busking their recycled rock n roll may one day compose a lament to him. He looks akin to a character from an F . Scott Fitzgerald novel. His look would have been archaic- even if he were around in the fifties, however its refreshing to see someone who's comfortable in their own skin. The musical choice is interesting. Whilst not citing jazz- his preference for 1925/1936 ditties throws up a lot of the great American songbook and composers. I had an old neighbour - now deceased, who collected Jazz 78s. He used to bemoan that no jazz existed after 1938, as the first wave of jazzers were dying off and swing music became the norm. He had no time for the Blue Note/ Bop/ Tonality jazzers who came in the mid to late 40s onwards. He sorta reminds me of Mr David here, albeit my neighbour didn't look half as cool as our felloe here. Good Work! Hari
They don't want to be found and pestered. You shouldn't suckle 'interestingness' from others like a juice box. Just conduct yourself well. There's more good in even 'boring' people than you might suspect.
@@richperkins5192 “the world as we know it” is always crumbling, as we are always ageing, and hopefully always learning.. and changing with it. If we wish to keep up at all, that is.
@@richperkins5192 the world is also always being rebuilt too though, rethought, redesigned to better fit us as we learn and grow. Better for us, our world, and a future we have seriously damaged with old methods, and old boys never wanting to change, because *they* are OK, and fk everyone else, right? Change is a fact of life. You either keep up, or you fade away.
@@richperkins5192 if you really think that (and I’m assuming that’s your child in the picture), but why have a child if you believe life and the world is only getting worse?
@@richperkins5192 ..and are you passing this doomer nonsense on to her?? I do hope not. Her generation are in enough danger, without their parents stressing them out about it too.
Thank you Chris for making this. Amazing soul. He is the soul of the old world, may his soul wander these streets for eternity, inspiring people to live life to the fullest.
Wonderful video and conversation. I encourage to talk to old people. The more I do it, the more I am amazed about their past. Just last week I met a 80 years old lady here in Germany - she worked in animation studios in L.A., drawing animation movies. We had a wonderful conversation in a small restaurant, sitting at tables next to each other.
Another favourite of mine, you just knew he was gonna be interesting and have something interesting to say, very much his own man who knows his own mind. Stylish to the last stitch, loved him 👏👏❤️
I’m 59 and I’ve made the same cultural observations. Almost everything I knew or was familiar with has been obliterated. I don’t dwell on the past too much but it still kills me that most of it is gone. It’s very lonely at times. I have four grown, millennial children and there is no cultural connection between us.
Not wishing to type cast any New Yorkers, but the first person who came to mind when I heard this delightful & intriguing gentleman talk was Woody Allen...
You have such a knack for spotting interesting people, interacting with them in such an engaging manner, and then taking superb photographs. Just discovered you and find you so inspiring.
Fascinating. I remember Dave Allen making a documentary about eccentrics and eccentricity generally in and around the UK. There even used to be presenters on TV (pre 1990's roughly) who were eccentric/idiosyncratic. It is interesting to note, that world has gradually disappeared - there no longer seems to be room for eccentricity in this brave new world of inclusivity. I loved his genuineness and lack of ego, which went against the expectations of the flamboyant exterior.
Let’s face it, many of those eccentrics were extremely dodgy and dangerous. Think Jimmy Saville for one. I miss the characters but not those ones. Liberal progressivism that breed his sort got us to where we are today.. woke racism, mass immigration and loss of free speech. We’ve regressed in many ways. It’s sad.
What a lovely channel, Chris. What great portraitures of humankind with all its diversity and beauty. Your subjects always turn out to have great depth- totally unexpectedly! So inspiring and beautiful.
A good random pop up video, I like yor style of interview, I am in Aussie and I totally agree with your interviewe, I , myself feel like a time traveller, from what I saw and experienced in Australia at 17 in the 60s& 70s, Its hard to find interesting people these days
Chris, this is my third time watching your interviews and photography. You have a very gentle way about introducing yourself and explaining what you do. I imagine your art is similar to this chaps was thirty years ago. I hope they don’t make you flee from the IRS. I’ve often thought about the many stories that people can tell of their life experiences, given the chance to tell them and I’ve now found you to help listen and share them with us, your viewers. Everyone has a story to tell! It’s just hard to find the right person, who is interested, but YOU are that right person! Thanks for sharing. I will keep watching your entertaining videos, with sincere interest.😊
Its’s 9AM Friday. I’ll be thinking about this interview all weekend. (Just this morning, I was thinking how someone needs to start a music revolution against rock and roll.) I’ll remember Mr. McDermott in my prayers.
This is David McDermott, who with his partner Peter McGough were artistic sensations during the 1980s. They essentially were the first to ‘life cast’ their art and life, which in their case was a ‘Time Experiment’ whereby they lived in and restored a beautiful period piece house, living and dressing as if it was the turn of the 19th century. They used antique cameras and created photographs, paintings and films as if they lived in that period from their New York home like two Oscar Wilde style characters. David writes that the early 1900s were the pinacle of culture. So if you are going to recreate a time period, make sure it’s the best one. He’s a fascinating guy and has some great perspectives on art and life that most never see. He still lives that kind of life now in Dublin. Well worth looking him up.
Mmmmmmm.... Best Cross the street
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I read an article about 20 years ago of him living his life in Dublin, with him and his house decked out in late Victorian, Edwardian era clobber. It was described as a type of performance art. From the photos with the article it looked well done with attention to detail.
He's so right about the pervasiveness of pop music.
Interesting man
WOW. thanks!! That completed this experience for me. That's awesome!
I was struggling to figure out how a 70 year old man could be nostalgic for music of the 20s and 30s. This all makes more sense.
Loved this charming fellow ❤
He is too young to claim the era he loves
What an absolutely delightful interview. I understand him completely. I'm 62 and the world I grew up in has long since evaporated and been replaced by a culture of phone zombies.
Agreed im 5 years younger than you. 😢 times.
A ghost of a man haunting modernity and longing for the world he loved
Poetically put
Who isn't by 40...
I'm 40 and feel the same. People are scrolling instead of living.
He’s correct. We are living the in Winter months of an 80 yr cycle. Art and culture are dead until the next Great War brings spring.
@@kilikdudley Forgive me if i'm wrong but I don't think war brought about the renaissance...
He is one half of the artist team, McDermott and McGough. I remember them from the New York art scene in the 1980s.
Really? That’s interesting. Could you elaborate at all about this?
@@bigwiggly9891 McDermott & McGough are American visual artists. David McDermott (born 1952) and Peter McGough (born 1958). McDermott & McGough are known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture and film. They currently split their time between Dublin and New York City.
Thank You.
He is also in the movie “Basquiat” from 1996. He’s in a couple of scenes with David Bowie (who plays Warhol in the film). Because he knew Andy and Jean Michel at the time
I knew him, just to chat with in the mid 90's. Dublin was a different place then.
Never knew anything about him though
I wish the streets were filled with wonderful people like this man.
I believe he would like that too🌺
I still see interesting characters. Older people generally. You reach a couldn't give a fuck age. We all need to be less obsessed about being judged and what other people think of us. The World itself sadly has less character and style than ever before.
The streets are full of wonderful people - they aren't all conspicuous, like this gentleman, however. Just sit next to someone on a bench and ask them a meaningful question...you'll see.
They are. But you might not know it on the surface. Social media and the ever-present cell phone camera has made so many people retreat inwards to surface conformity.
@@Kittle1 so depressing and so accurate. It's difficult to ascertain depth or curiosity when people are taking selfies or filming their lunch. The horror is perhaps what you see is what you get. I'd like to believe it's other than that. I,m still occasionally surprised. My favourite character at the moment is 92. I doubt she's aware of how I perceive her. But there often lies the charm.
The world is sorely missing wonderful characters such as this gentleman.
How fortunate to converse with such a man .
I remember David from back in the 0s, when i worked security on building sites in Temple bar. I never met the man, but i would sometimes see him, dressed extravagantly. once i saw him dressed very much like he just stepped off the golf course back in the 20s. certainly free spirited gentleman.
Me too! I had a few encounters with him back in the 0s, and I genuinely thought he was in his 70s back then. He's kinda ageless I guess. Seemingly as a piece of performance art he lives with only 1930s technology, so gramophone records and open fires in the house.
A lovely Man, fleetingly knew him during the 90's. Always remember him to be kind, interested and interesting.
What a GREAT Man!!! So sweet, charming, and sincere!!! He is what our world is missing today!!!❤️❤️
❤❤❤
Nah, just a bigot.
Isn't life wonderful when you get to meet such colourful characters. ❤
It is very important to us all that we talk to people and find out about them, it's a lost art. People are afraid to do that today. When I was an English boy in Donegal in 1950 I used to walk with my brother several miles through the country side to see our Aunt and were constantly stopped en-route by strangers asking all about us and our family. It was normal life. We were even taken into a remote thatched cottage by an elderly lady who sat us down and gave us some bread and jam to help fortify us on our walk and grill us on all our personal details. I remember fondly.
Sounds like rare auld times
How did you happen to be in Donegal ?
That's so cool
Imagine how dangerous that would be today for our children/grandchildren.
"Everything is being obliterated "....ain't that the truth
In every generation yes
Yes even our humanity!
@@morten1coping by assuming you aren’t living in unprecedented times while people insert chips in their brain and social credit scores exist. Keep lying to yourself kid.
He's a man out of time, so to speak. If he's in his 70s that means he was born in the 50s. The fashion and music are from the 1930s. Of course it's not in style any longer. That was nearly a 100 years ago. Times change. There's nothing wrong with that. Look at human rights and gender equality 100 years ago. Nothing to write home about. How about gay rights? I wouldn't be too quick to hop in that time machine David.
That's not really true. There is still good art, music, writers, places. Nothing stays the same.
What a fine fellow. A privilege to hear him speak.
Not an Englishman in New York, but a New Yorker in Dublin. Lovely!
Englishman got nothing to do with Dublin mate...
He's so like Quentin Crisp! Even after 30 years you can hear the New York, when he says "stoopid"!
Yeah. I wouldn't want to be stood next to him at the latrine, but I wholeheartedly concur with his observations regarding modernity, ha, ha.
@@theshamanarchist5441 Oh dear, do you suffer from a shy bladder?
Wise man. The New York I miss isn't there anymore. No one talk to elderly. No one listen to them. Like they do not exist.
It's because they're not pretty anymore. Vanity being the order of the day.
@@theshamanarchist5441it’s not just that, older generations had higher moral standards among other values and they are obsolete for what, I was going to call it capitalism, but is not even that, this new form of enslaved “freedom” people live everywhere the riches and the poor in different way, and what these new leaders of the world want for humankind. Hey, I am still young and I know I am obsolete for them because the way I think, the values I have, what I value and cherish, and because I don’t agree to this new way of life of consuming and discarding (clothing, decor trends, information, culture, relationships). I am younger and I already miss some places that simply aren’t there, fast tourism has also ruined everything. Why do people want to travel, most of the time when I am cluelessness. And I do love to travel, but not at any price just to photograph myself and drink the same matcha latte as everyone else. It’s kind of rebellious to stay where you are nowadays, that’s the big rebellion, and stand your ground and nurture the old businesses. Can’t wait to drink my expresso tomorrow served by the same lady I know when I was a kid than to go to Paris and shop around Zara.
So many typos and errors above sorry!
@rita old people didn’t automatically have a higher moral standard….is that why sexual and physical abuse were rampant amongst the nuns and priests in Catholic Irish schools? Is that why children were being used as virtual slave labor in the workhouses? Is that why the fault of rape was brought upon the victim? Stop. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Sure…people weren’t as annoying and openly disrespectful like Gen Alpha..but children were not protected either, nor were the ”lower” classes.
@@ritaamor283You’re pardoned for your rudeness.
He said that there aren't any interesting people around anymore, but, yes, there are. He's definitely one of them, and he's around.
So sad, lived in Dublin in 1980, so many eccentrics , wonderful, exactly as he describes, all styles and quirks and full of laughter.
“The past makes me happy”
That hit me man…
Charming, dignified, classy and joyful 🙏💚☘️
Wow , It is lovely to see one Smart Pleasant Man on a Dublin St despite all the zombies we have nowadays.
We are told by the news everyday, that the world is falling apart. This is true in parts but its their narative of the world falling apart, to drive more despair in the hearts of everyone. However, when you stop and notice others, like the man in this video. You realise quickly that there are many good people in this world, far more then the bad. Its just the bad in this world, control the masses and control their media empires. Which enables this feeling of hopelessness. There is good in this world.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
Very true. I'd also say that _the world_ isn't falling apart, only parts of it. And it's only natural.
Imagine being this man, seeing the world at a time when it was at its peak. Then watching it slowly degrade in to what ever it is now. Must be incomprehensible. Beyond words.
New Zealand in the 1960s was a great place to grow up in.
Delightful. Thank you David and Chris.
this really resonated with me for the simple fact that everything changes in our lives and we all miss the simpler times future generations will never get to experience. We all have this hole in our heart.
Love your work, you know how to ask the right questions without embarrassing.
Thanks Andrew.
This guy gets it...and that can't be taught it has to be lived..
Ha… make America great again. His time was before civil rights and a woman could get credited.
He’s a gay Tax dodging scamer just like Trump😂
I knew this man by his voice immediately. He was in the documentary film about Quentin Crisp called "RESIDENT ALIEN". McDermott and McGough. I always wondered what happened to them.
David is completely correct.
As I grew up, there were many Davids in the city. Characters, and individuals you never meet NOW. From class, to "anything goes" nowadays. Your elders were respected, and never challenged.
Never challenged? And you think that is a good thing?
it might help for younger people, for whom many "isms" are rejected, to give the ageism a rest and stop treating people based on their age. We're all human beings. Terms like "senior citizens" are so diminishing and smack of high school. just as most social media sites, especially Facebook, rather grossly smell like high school....
Unfortunately, some elders these days don't deserve respect.
You probably don't even talk to people lol obviously the old people aren't "dead" this guy is still here
That man is so right , books and culture we have lost.... everywhere has become homogenised......the Mcdonaldization of Europe .....
I've been using the term 'fast food culture' for decades now. It describes the way people quickly consume and disregard things without ever digesting the experience of these things.
Buy it, consume it as quickly as possible, throw away the evidence, - 'Fast Food Culture'.
Peace
The end result of diversity is no more diversity
I remember reading about when the first McDonald’s opened in Rome in the 1980s. There was massive backlash at such a sight surrounded by ancient buildings and beautiful architecture.
^They’re literally covered in them now 😆 They even obstruct the view of important monuments & historical architecture…not to mention they love to litter their own streets with their wrappers. One more point to drive it home: Italy has the world’s largest Mcdonald’s in the world…sure seems like they hate it!
Only place that sincerely loves Mcd’s as much is Paris France but they love lying about that too lolol. The cuisine capitals, it seems, just love food.
@@samaraisnt it takes 10-15 years to completely change a culture. I’d imagine the people of 1980s, who would still have more of a sense of the past times, would never allow this to happen if they could see how things played out today.
Great Gentleman, great interviewing, great photos. Well done, all concerned and thank you
"the New York I miss isn't there anymore" poor guy.. 💔
Tis true though. I left in 92 and stopped going back in the new Millenium. A friend of mine left in 2022 saying that Post-Covid NYC seemed irrevocably changed. She had a vintage Penthouse in Brooklyn Heights so it was not about Housing Security. It was how the Age of Influence and Wealth unchecked pushed the Creatives out of NYC altogether. The people that moved in were exactly as David described, they rarely read books and had to know your Identity label. You can no longer be just You in NYC, you had to be part of the Culture Wars or ostracised.
Thanks for these awesome short encounters with people, so enriching x
@@anonamouse.p4115 thank christ I live in good ol' humble and authentic West Virginia, my home state hasn't been corrupted yet.
@@anonamouse.p4115 The same has happened in L.A. When I moved here it was brimming with creativity and beautiful young people pursuing their dreams. Now they're trying to gentrify Hollywood with over-priced apartments and organic food stores while homeless people sleeping on sidewalks dot the street. It's also gotten filthy as F over the past 10 years but I still love the weather. Lots of people with broken dreams and mental health issue live here, not surprisingly. Not a good place for artists of any type anymore. The rents are waaaay out of control for dumpy apartment buildings that have been here since the '60s and '70s.
Fascinating guy, that you could talk and importantly listen for hours, we tend not to listen enough today
Class. Such a rare thing these days.
We received Andrew Tate and Elon Musk instead. Good luck world.
@@moggadah Indeed
@@heyimvee I lived in Dublin in the early 80’s still had to touches of the old Dublin .. some people will of course say it’s improved ,more fancy restaurants night life etc .. but give me the old Dublin any day ..used to love the Palace bar in Autumn .. still there thankfully and Grogans pretty much the same , of course most of the old characters have passed but at least no feckin TV there ..
A scholar & a gentlemen. A dying breed.
That turned into a lovely interview.
I would love to get this guy to Cuba, when I went there it was like a time warp to the 1930s, embargoes on the country has had the country stuck on pause in the old era, old street lights old cars old historic hotels dripped in history from the era of Al Capone, Marilyn Monroe, the Copacabana. It was the Las Vegas of its time for the Hollywood megastar and its still evident. The Cuban music and smell of cigars everywhere creates a surreal atmosphere you just don't get anywhere else. This guy would feel right at home 😊
I am half his age and I feel the same. All the rich quirky eccentricity along with the cultural clichés that made places and communities unique is being obliterated.
Yes but we have infinity Africans, Pakistanis, and Indians now. I’m told it’s enriching. We should be grateful
@EdmundMartyn yeah...we both know that's not quite eccentricity. Good luck, these are not easy times.
@@autopsychograph ‘Tiocfaidh ár lá’, from an Englishman
"Not The Kind You're Thinking Of" 😂
... that's awesome
P o r n Augraphy?
What a treasure, it is so true the old people are not out and about and reading good books is essential to quality conversation.
I'm an old person and am out an about in my neighborhood and beyond as much as financially practical. However, many of us are on fixed incomes. A trip of less than 3 miles by Lyft runs me 12 to 15 bucks. Before the pandemic it was more like $7. Welcome to the age of greed.
He is so charming
Great character. Reminds me of Greenwich Village in the good ol' days 🖼
What an absolutely charming man.
haven't checked comments, but just saw this as I was waking up and randomly was watching "all you need is death" and this guy made my day a second time. Amazing dude.
God love him what a delightful gentleman, i love his attire, and i agree with what he said about books. What a breath of fresh air, someone truly being themselves.
1:15 damn… I know how he feels. I live in Canada now, it’s been 10 years since I was back but the home I miss isn’t there anymore either. It was heartbreaking. I feel like a ghost. I don’t belong here and I don’t belong there. It’s a very lonely feeling. ❤️🩹
Simply beautiful. The world can still be this sublime if only we give it the time. Blessed Be.
Your comment inspired me
delicate and fierce
the obliterated walk
in memories
of a long gone dawn
talk to me of loss
tell me of your life
this world can be sublime
give it time.
Mr McD will probably hate this
@@billytrack Oh thank you so very much. So happy to know you feel inspired. I so very much your inspiration bares beautiful fruits for you and I hope you have all the blessings you need. Forever Blessed Be.
What a delight
My man has some GOOD taste in music!!
He's a legend & hes oozing charm. Im 61 & l agree, the past makes me happy. I feel sorry for this generation. Love his style & wit. Thank you Chris! 🙏❤️
Perversley, Mr David has now becoming one of the Old School types floating around Dublin. The young turks busking their recycled rock n roll may one day compose a lament to him. He looks akin to a character from an F . Scott Fitzgerald novel. His look would have been archaic- even if he were around in the fifties, however its refreshing to see someone who's comfortable in their own skin.
The musical choice is interesting. Whilst not citing jazz- his preference for 1925/1936 ditties throws up a lot of the great American songbook and composers.
I had an old neighbour - now deceased, who collected Jazz 78s. He used to bemoan that no jazz existed after 1938, as the first wave of jazzers were dying off and swing music became the norm. He had no time for the Blue Note/ Bop/ Tonality jazzers who came in the mid to late 40s onwards. He sorta reminds me of Mr David here, albeit my neighbour didn't look half as cool as our felloe here.
Good Work!
Hari
Or Tennesse Williams, Truman Capote....
This guy is sooooo cool.
The old people are great, I love them, interesting people are hard to find these days. People all look the same.
They don't want to be found and pestered. You shouldn't suckle 'interestingness' from others like a juice box. Just conduct yourself well. There's more good in even 'boring' people than you might suspect.
I somewhat agree with you rebuttal.
Surreal and fantastic.
He is definitely right. The world as we know it is crumbling around us
@@richperkins5192 “the world as we know it” is always crumbling, as we are always ageing, and hopefully always learning.. and changing with it.
If we wish to keep up at all, that is.
@@richperkins5192 the world is also always being rebuilt too though, rethought, redesigned to better fit us as we learn and grow.
Better for us, our world, and a future we have seriously damaged with old methods, and old boys never wanting to change, because *they* are OK, and fk everyone else, right?
Change is a fact of life. You either keep up, or you fade away.
@@richperkins5192 you’re what we call a “doomer”.
@@richperkins5192 if you really think that (and I’m assuming that’s your child in the picture), but why have a child if you believe life and the world is only getting worse?
@@richperkins5192 ..and are you passing this doomer nonsense on to her??
I do hope not. Her generation are in enough danger, without their parents stressing them out about it too.
Can I say what a great channel you have. You’re brave to go up to these people. You deserve way more subs! Love hearing these people’s stories!❤
Thank you Chris for making this. Amazing soul. He is the soul of the old world, may his soul wander these streets for eternity, inspiring people to live life to the fullest.
What an excellent character, I wish the streets were littered with people like David but he is 1 of a kind for sure.
Interesting people are easy to spot
They look interesting.
Great interview ❤
Your snapshot of David really captures his seeing the bleak zombiness of the current culture.
This is a beautiful channel sir. ❤
Wonderful video and conversation. I encourage to talk to old people. The more I do it, the more I am amazed about their past.
Just last week I met a 80 years old lady here in Germany - she worked in animation studios in L.A., drawing animation movies. We had a wonderful conversation in a small restaurant, sitting at tables next to each other.
A character for sure and remembering your name throughout the convo, a wee touch of class
Another favourite of mine, you just knew he was gonna be interesting and have something interesting to say, very much his own man who knows his own mind. Stylish to the last stitch, loved him 👏👏❤️
Lovely man; less than ten years older than me but feels like my grandpa.
Those are great photos of him and an honest interview. One day that gem will be gone and we will have this to remember him by.
I’m 59 and I’ve made the same cultural observations. Almost everything I knew or was familiar with has been obliterated. I don’t dwell on the past too much but it still kills me that most of it is gone. It’s very lonely at times. I have four grown, millennial children and there is no cultural connection between us.
I like that he remembers so much of what we have lost.
What a delightful encounter.
What a refreshing and delightful encounter/interview. And the resulting still photos are gorgeous!
Fascinating man. Another excellent street capture.
I just discovered this great channel.
These short videos about model strangers are really great!
Much love to everyone! Keep it up.
What a wonderful person.
Not wishing to type cast any New Yorkers, but the first person who came to mind when I heard this delightful & intriguing gentleman talk was Woody Allen...
Lovely gentleman. Very wise.
You have such a knack for spotting interesting people, interacting with them in such an engaging manner, and then taking superb photographs. Just discovered you and find you so inspiring.
I watch this channel often and this was one of the best exchanges! Love your genuine interests in people, very inspiring!
What an interesting person love listening to the conversation 😊
Thank you for this very interesting interview. I really enjoy this type of conversation. People are so very interesting. Wonderful!
Fascinating. I remember Dave Allen making a documentary about eccentrics and eccentricity generally in and around the UK. There even used to be presenters on TV (pre 1990's roughly) who were eccentric/idiosyncratic. It is interesting to note, that world has gradually disappeared - there no longer seems to be room for eccentricity in this brave new world of inclusivity. I loved his genuineness and lack of ego, which went against the expectations of the flamboyant exterior.
Let’s face it, many of those eccentrics were extremely dodgy and dangerous. Think Jimmy Saville for one. I miss the characters but not those ones. Liberal progressivism that breed his sort got us to where we are today.. woke racism, mass immigration and loss of free speech. We’ve regressed in many ways. It’s sad.
You've done well with this- absolutely fascinating!
That first pic in particular is a belter!
how magical it was that the photographer ran into this guy on the street.
That is really living in the past. He doesn't seem to think much of where he lives or the people around where he lives.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
What a lovely channel, Chris. What great portraitures of humankind with all its diversity and beauty. Your subjects always turn out to have great depth- totally unexpectedly! So inspiring and beautiful.
This is one I’ll definitely share, comment, like and subscribe. Inspiring words and photographs. One to watch again and again.
What a gem you found. I would call this day a one in a million. Very very nice and interesting man.
"Which accent was I supposed to takeup" is a good answer.
What a cool interesting guy, hope I bump into him!
What a charming man.
What an awesome guy. Nice portraits.
A good random pop up video, I like yor style of interview, I am in Aussie and I totally agree with your interviewe, I , myself feel like a time traveller, from what I saw and experienced in Australia at 17 in the 60s& 70s, Its hard to find interesting people these days
Great character. Need more folks like that who are interesting to talk to.
Interesting looking guy. Interesting story. Thanks for sharing!
What an eccentric fella. He seems very nostalgic but speaks a lot of sense.
Chris, this is my third time watching your interviews and photography. You have a very gentle way about introducing yourself and explaining what you do. I imagine your art is similar to this chaps was thirty years ago. I hope they don’t make you flee from the IRS. I’ve often thought about the many stories that people can tell of their life experiences, given the chance to tell them and I’ve now found you to help listen and share them with us, your viewers. Everyone has a story to tell! It’s just hard to find the right person, who is interested, but YOU are that right person! Thanks for sharing. I will keep watching your entertaining videos, with sincere interest.😊
Its’s 9AM Friday. I’ll be thinking about this interview all weekend. (Just this morning, I was thinking how someone needs to start a music revolution against rock and roll.) I’ll remember Mr. McDermott in my prayers.
What a nice guy. Pleasant and polite.