Glass-related aphorisms
05/31/04
Marine Park, Brooklyn. People who live in this house shouldn't throw stones.
Midwood, Brooklyn. Never buy glass from a store with no windows.
Protest the MTA's proposed ban on photography in the subway. Meet at 1pm Sunday, June 6 at the information kiosk at Grand Central Terminal. Bring your camera.
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Burma-Shave
05/28/04
(art by Norman B. Colp)
These are the kinds of photographs the MTA wants to ban. (And not just because they're blurry.) Will we let them? There will be protests. The details of these protests will be posted here. Stay tuned.
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CT
05/27/04
Bridgeport, CT
New Haven, CT
Greenwich, CT
I know that newspapers prepare obituaries for famous people long before their deaths. It's still creepy to see them online.
I recently switched to Verizon Wireless. The coverage is great -- unlike AT&T, it actually works in my apartment -- but they signed me up for some bogus "roadside assistance" at $2.99 a month without asking or telling me, and given that I don't own a car, it's inconceivable that I would have knowingly agreed to it. If you use Verizon, check your bill. If they signed you up for it, too, I'd like to hear about it.
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Chelsea street art/windsock
05/26/04
Chelsea
What's the point of this device?
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Cortlandt Alley
05/25/04
Cortlandt Alley, between Canal and Franklin Streets
More on the alleys of Lower Manhattan at Forgotten NY.
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Walker Street zoom
05/23/04
Lackadaisical: this, this, and this.
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Odds and ends 5
05/21/04
Midtown
Guggenheim Museum
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Bath Beach, Brooklyn
Joe Schumacher: Wet Oil, SUV/Cellphone weirdness, and (again) abandoned bikes.
This is completely ridiculous. (Times article, too.) But most cops seem to think that subway photography is already illegal -- yes, there's a story I haven't told here, and all I'll say is that a lawsuit is pending -- so I'm not sure what practical import it'll have.
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Trucks, Sixth Avenue
05/20/04
The Only Plumber is right up there with this.
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Ten consecutive people walking east
05/19/04
Bighappyfunhouse: found photos.
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Orchard Street
05/17/04
Orchard Street, Lower East Side. I didn't see anyone selling this shirt.
Matt, Tien, and Jake visit the abandoned LIRR Rockaway line in Queens with me.
Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness, especially this gem.
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Gowanus 3
05/16/04
Gowanus, Brooklyn. Yes, that's Steve Buscemi.
A close friend of mine, who has an affinity for unwieldy domain names, is sorry he voted for Bush, and is willing to tell you why. Worth a read.
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Gowanus 2
05/15/04
Gowanus, Brooklyn
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Gowanus 1
05/14/04
Gowanus, Brooklyn (previous Gowanus: 1, 2)
I'm still looking for help from readers in or near any of these cities who would be willing to take a photo for an ongoing project: Petersburg, VA; Washington, DC; and the following UK cities: Poole, Colindale, Hendon, Willesden Green, Hounslow, Ilford, Romford.
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The New-York Look
05/12/04
A visitor to this site, posting as "The Manager," inexplicably writes: "Hey everybody, I like how you are always coming on this website! But from now on you must leave a comment or two. If these rules are broken then your computer will shut-down!"
I do value comments highly, whether they're positive or negative, but a virus threat is a bit extreme.
I have a couple of photos on display through Sunday at Participant Inc., 95 Rivington Street, as part of psy.geo.CONFLUX.
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Boat full of trash
05/10/04
After I climbed over a boat full of garbage that was in my way, the evening managed to get even weirder when I heard a few loud pops and then saw two people running away from them very, very quickly. Gunshots? Perhaps, but I don't really know what those sound like.
ADD links: Heh. Nice. Cute. Ugh.
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E-Dub
05/09/04
"East Williamsburg," Brooklyn. See also this Times article.
New Yorkers: mark your calendars for psy.geo.CONFLUX next weekend. "Part festival and part conference, it brings together visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city."
Kevin Walsh's Forgotten NY, the sine qua non of New York details, uses a bunch of my photos of abandoned lower levels of subway stations.
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Nostrand 3
05/07/04
Nostrand Avenue, Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, and Flatbush, Brooklyn (1, 2)
Bad Scrabble hands (via TY)
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Overcast industrial Sunset Park
05/05/04
Sunset Park waterfront, Brooklyn (more). There aren't many places left in New York with street-running railroads.
New New York photolog: Overshadowed.
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Five boro bike tour
05/02/04
More shots from the tour at Untitled Name Document Image.
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Gel 2004
05/01/04
Thanks to Mark Hurst for the opportunity to attend Gel 2004 at the New-York Historical Society. Thanks also to Sam Brown of Exploding Dog for the drawing, entitled "Satan's Laundromat."