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Wednesday, August 3rd 2005

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Peter: thanks... i was pleased at how they came out too, considering that i was shooting directly in to a setting sun, heh.

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

Method: Who is in ICE Crew?

in response to Miami Youth Faces \'Serious Jail Time\':

geekers: Beautiful. Great use of natural lighting! :}

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

Peter: yeah!!

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elaine: a hotel that looks like darth vadar? kc, pic pleeeeease!!!!

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kc: boy did I want to go there when it was still around...there, or maybe the one near suffern (or wherever 17/the Thruway intersect), where there's now a hotel that looks like Darth Vader...my father had a great record album, corporate PR, jazz, called Music to Make Volkswagens by, or something...

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deliccate: saw these guys on TV, Comedy Central: Dave Attell's Insomniac. Now I want to go horse back riding!

in response to The Federation of Black Cowboys

_flyonthewall_: .....not to mention poor ol' Flint

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Moebius Rex: It's actually really really hard to find trucks in SF that are as colorful as these. I like the FRED one quite a bit, but that last truck really blew me away.

in response to Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan

Xydexx: Wow, there is so nothing left of that. I went on a class trip there back when I was in elementary school.

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

annetlux: detroit and some of lansing too...

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

misspick: Ahh! Half my family worked at that plant! I love these pics!

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

_flyonthewall_: Yeah, the big three are on their knees. This photo reminds me of what half of Detroit looks like.

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GGP: there are probably Cadillac-bullfrog hybrids living in the factory floor pools! coooool!!

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Peter: when i lived in hell's kitchen, i had a view of that building from my window. we'd sit there and watch the colored lights change as it flashed, from red to white and back again, all night, while zillions of people milled below...

in response to Times Square

Peter: to properly sing karaoke, you have to be drunk. i think the photos, particularly the second one, give that necessary drunken vibe to this karaoke post ;)

in response to Singin with Karyoke

jack: up that street, on the left side was a place called the tango palace. eventually it became a dancehall for hookers. you could go in there and dance and drink with a girl and a little more and lose a few dollars. they did a movie in...

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Peter: great story, jack. thanks.

in response to The World Trade Center Site

jack: i was 17 when i stepped out of the subway at rector street in june of 1960. i walked down to washington street and cedar street and started working in a printing shop which i would eventually leave in 1978. i watched them tear down the old new...

in response to The World Trade Center Site

Peter: i havent read this story in a long time. i just re-read it and remembered why it was so good...

in response to Trenches

Peter: classic citynoise! i love this entry, and yeah, especially the fact that it reads like a narrative/documentary, heh. good job! i always get a huge kick out of seeing my own neighborhood on here... its like seeing it through other people's eyes, and i'm always discovering new things through other people's...

in response to Flamelets on Vanderbilt Ave

elaine: it's a mini documentary

in response to Flamelets on Vanderbilt Ave

Peter: i really wish i could have gotten further into the site, as opposed to just snapping a few shots from the other side of the fence. you cant really tell in teh photos, but there is alot of debris still around, mostly metal armatures and structural hardware sticking out of...

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

elaine: like the way the road and the river are the same - that suits my sense of apocalypse very well. nice empty streets... fab

in response to Rainbow in Moscow

elaine: swimming pools and cars, and abandoned stuff - i'm feeling jg ballard coming on

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elaine: ooooo blooooooooooooo

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GGP: damn good!

in response to Rainbow in Moscow

GGP: Ooooooooooooh. Love those first 2 shots mucho mucho--they gimme the bloooos.

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Peter: stunning!

in response to Rainbow in Moscow

elaine: i've never seen someone eat their hat. what kind will it be?

in response to london fields lido blues

Fran: 3rd August 2005 15:32: If it re-opens i'll eat my hat. It's due to re-open next year and, after an initial flurry of builders lorries being present at the scene earlier in the year, work now seems to have ground to a halt. I really hope it does re-open as it's just across the...

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GGP: the world is waiting, Peter! at least my corner of it is!

in response to Pet Bird in August

jeeff: the fred truck is my favourite ever.

in response to Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan

Peter: mercury retrograde! and now i hold the brand new super mega awesome cameraphone in my hand, but they still havent activated/unlocked it yet... soon enough, though!

in response to Pet Bird in August

elaine: technology planets lined up against cancerians, shock

in response to Pet Bird in August

Peter: go for it moe! with my cameraphone broken, i havent made any photos in a couple of weeks... if you have some good shots, def post em...

in response to Pet Bird in August

Peter: definitely easy to ride... yeah, i think they called em sociable tandems back in the day.

in response to Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle:

jeeff: i saw a buddy bike here in toronto last week but it was night time & chained to a post with other bikes so i couldn't get a good photo. very cool tho.

in response to Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle:

Pete Williams: I have ridden one of these side-by-sides four times on the annual, 65 mile, London to Brighton charity ride www.bhf.org.uk/events/index.asp? . . . evel=1005&thirdlevel=1015. I borrowed it off the bicycle Guru Richard Ballantine who told me it was called a Barrett Sociable. I cycled with four different partners; two slim girls and two guys...

in response to Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle:

Laura : You really are an unobtrusive photographer...all your shots capture the subjects so well, you'd never know this was a picture. More like a snapshot in time.

in response to july 31 2005 toronto

fuzzytank: hahaha sucka "F tha sixy president"

in response to Politics, American Style

fuzzytank: there clothes still cost to much

in response to PDX Graffiti 616 #2

London writer from '86: what a waste of paint.

in response to Graf Trainz 3: South-East London: Aroe

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