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I had always thought I was the luckiest
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Jay Myself

I had always thought I was the luckiest son of a bitch in the world when I bought that...

I had always thought I was the luckiest son of a bitch in the world when I bought that building

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I had always thought I was the luckiest
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son of a bitch in the world when I bought that building.
Duration
1 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:00:00
Uploaded
Jun 07, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Oscilloscope,Mind Hive Films

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Photographer Stephen Wilkes creates an intimate portrait of his mentor, Jay Maisel, as he leaves the 30,000 square foot building in the Bowery that he's inhabited and filled with his eccentric collection of beautiful random object...
There was an art director at J. Walter Thompson - Jay Myself 00:01
There was an art director at J. Walter Thompson
When you said a bank, - Jay Myself 00:01
When you said a bank,
It was a firetrap, and I'd lived there for 12 years. - Jay Myself 00:01
It was a firetrap, and I'd lived there for 12 years.
What is, I mean, what the hell is that?" - Jay Myself 00:01
What is, I mean, what the hell is that?"
What I'm trying to do as much as I can is to have fun. - Jay Myself 00:01
What I'm trying to do as much as I can is to have fun.
So some of them will have like a set here, - Jay Myself 00:01
So some of them will have like a set here,
I know everybody's gone through - Jay Myself 00:01
I know everybody's gone through
And before you can look, you have to want to look. - Jay Myself 00:01
And before you can look, you have to want to look.
Before you're gonna be able to see, - Jay Myself 00:01
Before you're gonna be able to see,
And a lot of people don't see things. - Jay Myself 00:01
And a lot of people don't see things.
Objects are there for you - Jay Myself 00:01
Objects are there for you
It was just a little rusted piece of metal. - Jay Myself 00:01
It was just a little rusted piece of metal.
I've had this excess of room - Jay Myself 00:01
I've had this excess of room
Let's talk about when you - Jay Myself 00:01
Let's talk about when you
Uh, let's talk about... - Jay Myself 00:01
Uh, let's talk about...
Is that the one that's hitting you? - Jay Myself 00:01
Is that the one that's hitting you?
Well, you won't lose this light, - Jay Myself 00:01
Well, you won't lose this light,
Not every day, but every, - Jay Myself 00:01
Not every day, but every,
(man laughs) - Jay Myself 00:01
(man laughs)
It's amazing we both reached this age - Jay Myself 00:01
It's amazing we both reached this age