Sunday, February 28, 2010
I shot 30-something photos on a roll of old, old film. I knew the film had expired as many as 10 years ago but I was still bummed when the prints came back from developing. They were dark and dim, though one or two of the prints had ghostly appeal. I should not have given [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
GNASH GNASH GNASH YOUR COMPLETE WORKS FILL A TIME BOMB
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A few weeks ago I left a quarter on a midtown payphone enclosure, imagining that the coin might stay in place, hidden in plain sight, for an indefinite period of time. I had good luck with this little game earlier, stashing a dime and then a quarter on a vast stone wall in Queens, recovering [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
I saw Chuck Schumer (U.S. Senator for New York) on Madison Avenue last week. With the terrorists in our midst I decided it would be imprudent to snap a picture of this public figure, in a public space, being interviewed by a local TV station for public broadcast. I had places to go and things [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
This is an old sign. The Brooklyn B29 bus line has been gone for decades. The B24 endures. This bent sign on Greenpoint Avenue in Blissville, Queens, has probably been nailed to this spot since at least the 1970s. Last night I found a picture I took of this sign in 2007. Back then my shuttered [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
This confluence of pigeons, huddled on a shingled Sunnyside rooftop on a cold winters day, reminded me of some things. It looked like subject matter for a paint-by-numbers. It evoked memories of the Parc Lincoln Hotel, when fat clucking pigeons rustled on the windowpane of Room 317, those sickeningly huge beasts slipping off the pane [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Writing a decent sentence is not easy. Nonsense needs flushing out, wisps of ideas can not sit there, lingering, disconsolate, apart from a delivery mechanism, devoid of a vessel. The original rustling of thought needs decipherable, complementary words which in turn need randomized organization, grooming, hand-crafted presentability. A mini-chaos erupts, words newly born splash into [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Harry Adjip seemed like an interesting guy. The son of a North Dakota Cherokee (who was devoured by a black leopard), Mr. Adjip was born in Hawaii and at a young age traveled to Malaysia. Raised as a Mohammedan Mr. Adjip eventually found his way to America where he converted to Presbyterianism and became a [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Last week’s reasonably huge snow storm seemed like a good test for the tiny dime I recently hid in the huge wall along Review Avenue. Today I went to go find it, and to see if it had survived the storm without leaving its place. I will do the same for other coins I left [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
I checked in on one of my favorite things in New York this afternoon, just to be sure it was present and accounted for. This is the only working rotary dial payphone I know of in NYC. At this rotary one will find current phone books stuffed underneath and to the side. There are other [...]
