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Better Than Real Because It's Not.


Tuesday August 31st 2010, 1:33 pm
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(August 3) I find myself now, back in Port Jefferson, with just one room, and most of my belongings in boxes in Ronkonkoma. I’m not entirely clear when either of those things is going to change. I don’t remember Port Jefferson being full of douchebags, but people yell dumb shit at me from cars constantly. “Hey asshole, I’m in a car!” Apparently they criminalized walking and cycling while I was in Brooklyn. Who knew?

stony hill rd.
At first it seemed as if time had been rolled back five years. But alas, no Billy.

ghosts from the past
I have strong memories of blading down Stony Hill Road backward, with Billy. Just as Billy is no more, so are my days of backward-blading.


Monday October 26th 2009, 2:26 pm
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And into October, my last month in Brooklyn for now…

steel drums
This guy wasn’t annoying. That’s pretty good praise in regard to subway musicians. In theory some entertainment down there should be a good thing, but really, it’s not.

billy
I’d been thinking about him again a lot, due to my impending move.

william
It really was been all about him for a long time.

zombie sign
This does not constitute proof that crazy sign person is not in fact, a zombie

smith st.
Smith St. and I go way back. I used to pick up shampoo for my boss at the salon 2 doors down back in another life.

yay for terrorist threat alerts
Since the subway system has been crawling with cops, it didn’t surprise me to see the mystery machine turned on at Union Square. I gather it sniffs the air for something, but that’s about all I know.

walnut log
Then back out to the sawmill for a day to turn this walnut log into boards

trimming or art?
This reminds me of this

walnut boards
Unfortunately a big part of the log had been ruined by carpenter ants

firemen
I finally got a good shot here on a swing through Park Slope.


Thursday June 04th 2009, 12:02 am
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(May 25) I was planning on going into Manhattan, but it was already getting dark, and I made the decision to photograph around the Gowanus Canal instead, and I saved $4 which I sadly need.

duck
Seeing animals in Superfund waters frightens me.

toxic waters
I want to chase the duck out of that poisonous water

obama
There’s a lot riding on him now

is he on the other side of the wall?
This always reminds me of Billy for some reason

emptiness
Down 1st. St.

barbed canal
Looking back toward home

the plumber and the water tower

abandoned, but not
I still don’t know what this place is

the end
The early part of this jaunt covers material I’ve photographed before, and this is not the end. Yet.


Tuesday January 20th 2009, 3:29 am
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Meh.

brooklyn snowman
It snowed.

hicksville, long island
And then it snowed again.

dangerous road, period.
I was back in familiar territory.

eight years of being 'home'
Other than the car that’s parked where the lawn used to be,
it looks almost the same as when I lived here.

shoveling the nature out of the way for money
Having grown up in suburbia, it wasn’t until I left it that I realized,
snow shoveling as day labor is a suburban phenomenon.

snow cones
The snow makes the ordinary seem more interesting, more intimate in a way,
by blocking out background.


Meanwhile, underground, the stalactites are the least scary part of a Broadway station
on the G line that looks like it’s going to disintegrate.

F line
It’s hard to get high shots in this city. The trains and bridges provide most of the free ones.

a puppy and his frisbee, in the snow
Speaking of snow, I miss Billy.


Monday December 08th 2008, 12:22 am
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(December 7, 2008) One year ago today, Billy, my shadow for nearly 13 years, had to leave. It is an unspeakable thing.

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