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Better Than Real Because It's Not.


Friday September 18th 2009, 8:00 pm
Filed under: General

(August 15) I met Tony at the Union Square farmer’s market to look at tomatoes. The mission was specifically about tomatoes, but also any other sort of business built around nature’s bounties.

tomatoes
There were a fair amount of tomatoes here, but none you’d call a bargain.

coffee bar
Other ideas came to mind as well.

bugs don't dig the cedar
I’d been thinking about this myself.

graffitti
This seemed out of place somehow.

shiny building

gotta be a gehry (it is)
On sight, I thought “That’s gotta be a Gehry”, and indeed it is. I was unaware of either the building or who IAC was. Sorry Barry.

the river that protects us from new jersey
Looking out across the Hudson River

chair art
The practicality of New York

table art
Functional public art. Have a seat next to Tony.


Sunday September 06th 2009, 4:00 pm
Filed under: General

(August 14) Finally approaching the footbridge, artwork caught my eye. I diverted, to discover the Bronx Charter School for the Arts.

graffitti

art

mural

bronx charter school for the arts mural

mural credits

critical thinking

bronx charter school for the arts

graffitti art

art graffitti

<3
It’s not the hole in his chest, or his extracted heart that causes his anguish. It’s the sign on his head.

fish tail

fish head

or maybe they mean another kind of grass?
Keep off the grass you lousy kids!

the land of no.
No parking either!


Friday September 04th 2009, 1:48 am
Filed under: General

(August 14) A couple of weeks ago, I’d figured to save time by walking to my customer one stop away on the local 6 train from the express 6 I’d gotten off of at Hunt’s Point Ave. It turned out to be a terrible mistake from that perspective, but I decided to go back with my camera, which I strangely hadn’t brought with me on the previous occasion.

footbridge
You can see the footbridge, which turned out to be the focus of the traveling I needed to do.

the obelisk
No, the obelisk isn’t peeing, it’s a fountain.

right side of the bronx river
Walking back toward the footbridge, I passed over the Bronx River on another bridge.

left side of the bronx river
There’s several views here I don’t get from where I usually cross this river.

bronx river bank
You can see the sky reflecting off the water.

in the bronx it's a skewl of fish
Down in the water, there were thousands of fish.

fishies
This was the small blob.

huge blob o'fish
That’s not an oil slick, that’s a lot of fish down there.

rail spur
Still in use from the looks of it.

grate not so great
This one is a serious view-buster

make a note of the many-colored building
Wherever there’s train tracks, there will be tagging, which pre-dates the Intertubes.

someone's rails to somewhere
Viza informs me these are Amtrak’s tracks.


Friday June 19th 2009, 1:20 am
Filed under: General

(May 30) Scoping out a celestial event taking place on the 30th and the 31st.

plane killers
The geese were on patrol, seeking their revenge on Capt. Sullenberger.

ima scareds
99 cent pizza!?

not manhattanhenge
If I hadn’t missed it, I would have seen something here

blue

the bright lights of 42nd st. in twilight
This made me think of Deejay.


Wednesday June 17th 2009, 12:04 am
Filed under: General

(May 26) One theme that may or may not be apparent here is that I’ve been photographing a lot of controversies. This exhibit became controversial within days of being removed after having been installed months ago, thanks to the presence of a piece representing someone portraying themselves as Che Guevara.

viva la controversial public art installations!
“Che Guevara”

che guevara
The image of Che is still controversial it seems.
You’d never guess this given what a pop culture symbol his face had become.

hail!
“Caesar”

she's looking a little green
“Dali Woman”