Brooklyn Sweat

Eva: 21st Jul 2005 - 10:29 GMT

Thanks for recording this gem. I hope the stadium project will go away. After a while, we'll have nothing of character left in this city.

GGP: 21st Jul 2005 - 11:29 GMT

that certainly seems to be the direction we're heading in: soul-less and stupid. like the quote at the opening of Wendell Berry's book, Life Is A Miracle:

"We are not getting something for nothing.
We are getting nothing for everything."

Peter: 21st Jul 2005 - 14:57 GMT

yeah im totally doing a huge series of photos in/around the yards if the cursed arena plan gets the green light... all put here for prosterity.

GGP: 22nd Jul 2005 - 02:58 GMT

me too, peter, like photographing endangered species before they're gone. it all feels so borderline, about-to-be-past-tense over there. the details cry out to be captured.

dailyheights.com: 16th Aug 2005 - 19:40 GMT

Glad to see Triangle Sports finally figured out how to program their sign. For a while, it seemed like every time I passed the sign, it said "how many texts?", which I assume is some kind of 'system standby' message.

Then they were trying to compete with the "Pintchik Oracle"... the sign something incredibly obvious and grammatically dubious ... like, "Chinese is the most spoken language in the world." You don't say!

GGP: 17th Aug 2005 - 12:38 GMT

"How Many Texts?" always had the ring of some kind of Biblical proclamation to me...it took me awhile to figure out that it was some kind of glitch, not a cryptic message warning of the apocalypse.

K: 18th Sep 2005 - 23:34 GMT

Everytime I'm in the area, the store is never open! How long has that sign been there? I walked past there maybe a month so so ago and I don't remember seeing it.