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Friday, December 23rd 2005

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GGP: i love peggy lee! i have a peggy lee story...perhaps some day i will tell it here.

in response to Transit Strike!

jack: i worked with an older guy who new new york back in the early 20's and 30's and remembers joan crawford when she hung out at a bar in the city. well he told me to talk to the doorman at the copa, i'll name him augie, and to...

in response to Transit Strike!

joey: san francisco bay area. california icicles.

in response to Rurality

joey: progress towards the end of the world

in response to 145 Newark Ave, Jersey City

wot wot wot: ight all big up the ogc there fukin tops there the best crew in pboro i erd sum where sum ov u mc can u upload sum 2 www.megaupload.com or sumin kk ight in a bit safe

in response to followup graffiti hunt

elaine: i agree

in response to Poo on Art

elaine: crash bang wallop what a pictcha

in response to Clap Hands

Jamie: Such a lovely sentiment

in response to Poo on Art

Jamie: Stamp your feet Bang it on the big bass drum What a picture! What a picture! Rumtiddleypum pum pum pum pum Stick it in the family... album!

in response to Clap Hands

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: These are cool!

in response to Clap Hands

Jamie: This is posted on location by the way

in response to For Your Information

Jamie: are you stalking me? If this is where i think it is then i was sat around here on wednesday night waiting for a lift. Took a bunch of photos using my crouched knee as a makeshift tripod. This is a cameraphone shot of the greenwoods building before it got...

in response to Are You Going to Be Around Here for Christmas?

Lottie: During his non-violent hunger-strike, it became very obvious how fanatical Margaret Thatcher and the British goverment of those days actually was. This greatly increased the understanding of lookers-on all around the world. The present-day population in Ireland have a very great deal to thank Booby Sands for. He is a...

in response to Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I only had to do the trek three times. And today, my dogs are barking. Not to denegrate the messenger guy ('cos I'm sure he had been walking for days), but he was the slowest guy on the bridge.

in response to Transit Strike and the 59th Street Bridge

Peter: wheres the anti-climb paint when you need it? hehehe.

in response to Clap Hands

Peter: nice! somehow, i missed this the first time around. thanks :) i love the shadow too- nice.

in response to Vespa

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Quadrophenia, man. I just want to add this vespa in to the herd.

in response to The Vespas of Brooklyn Bretta

mick m scotland: i have been down the bogside a good few times and have been in the bogside inn also the cetlic bar and every time i have been there i have been well treated by the locals I also worked at seagate, i always looked foward to visting the bogside and...

in response to The Bogside

Peter: I couldnt help but imagine what it would be like to be riding in a huge gang with folks on all those scooters, all at the same time. sure, the roar would be deafening and the two-cycle smoke would choke, but wow... alas, i am a scooter-geek.

in response to The Vespas of Brooklyn Bretta

elaine: well, yes, i like our enriched threads too. adding pictures makes a thread oh so crunchy!

in response to empty reference repeat

elaine: a herd of scooters

in response to The Vespas of Brooklyn Bretta

Peter: are you kidding? i really love the ongoing series, where we keep adding to them... vespas, graf trux, blank references, robot faces, strawberries, abandoned lunches, etc etc. and this one is particularly sublime, which makes me like it all the more. do keep it up...

in response to empty reference repeat

elaine: time to buy your ballet shoes

in response to abject objects

elaine: really? i thought perhaps it was a bit obscure and just-me ish

in response to empty reference repeat

Peter: wow, its high noon!

in response to abject objects

Peter: this is one of my favorite series on here... ranks right up there with the robot buildings... thanks elaine :)

in response to empty reference repeat

elaine: and here it is

in response to Worst Graffiti Evar

elaine: steelisreal lived here...

in response to abject objects

elaine:

in response to empty reference repeat

Peter: wow. so soler could get up to two years in jail... for writing graffiti. geez. seems like the cops are more mad about the name of the website than they are about the graf.

in response to Dallas Graffiti Writers Busted!

GGP: I wrote a lot more before 9/11 than I have since. That experience really sucked something right out of me. I think this may be the only "writing" or note-taking I did during that time, though I'm not sure. I think I wrote some haiku. Much remains a blur. All...

in response to Notes from 9/11/01

Peter: thats fascinating, jack. id love to hear more of this story...

in response to Transit Strike!

Peter: perhaps, jack, but art can be made with lots of things besides oils and canvas. just think... cameras, computers, musical instruments, film/video, coiture, dance, voice... and even spraypaint. i appreciate and respect your sentiments and your tastes, but we all have to try to keep an open mind about defining what...

in response to Daze

Peter: heh. the rhyme in the second one is funny... nice.

in response to For Your Information

Peter: awesome photos... wow, i love that third one especially. funny- i passed alot of "urban express" foot messengers on the brooklyn bridge when i was doing my commute too... small world. also: took the train to work today for the first time in 3 days, and wow, am i ever aware...

in response to Transit Strike and the 59th Street Bridge

Peter: WOW! great shots! i used to walk under that to go to my old job, but that was back before i had a camera, so no photos... thanks- really- thanks for posting these. that tram is one of my fav things to watch in nyc, so it was cool to...

in response to The Roosevelt Island Tramway

Peter: nice. loving the black-and-white... also: the sign/icon/chicken in the fried chicken shop photo... crazy!

in response to Eating on Almeda

Peter: ahh, the country... looks so much nicer in the snow than the city does, thats for sure... makes me want to get away for the holidays...

in response to Rurality

Peter: ooh, this is a pretty photo!

in response to Hongik University 2005

Peter: wow. i also took notes that morning... notes on what i was thinking, feeling, seeing. i have them still in hard-copy, tucked into a journal i rarely look at. my notes are troubling to read, and i only have once or twice since i wrote them.

in response to Notes from 9/11/01

jeeff: great!

in response to Hongik University 2005

Chad: I live in Tokyo and am obsessed with the size, variation and complexity of the city. I have seen pretty much everything you guys have photographed with my own eyes. Still, everytime I look at Ian and Jeeffs pictures it I notice something new or different it always...

in response to City and Country

Zag: Wooooooooooourp!

in response to Rurality

paddy: Are the ski slopes open all year or just for Christmas

in response to The Roosevelt Island Tramway

Selig: his expressions are great.

in response to street performers pt2

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Thanks Mum. I had two pairs of socks on, just like you taught me.

in response to The Roosevelt Island Tramway

GGP: sounds like just the job for Tim Burton!

in response to Rurality

kc: how lovely. I enjoyed the undiscussed trek into winter! (Then got lost in a minor fantasy about a movie in which a bunch of weathervane creatures try to take control of their direction.....)

in response to Rurality

Chris: Man i use to fly that same sign on Bourbon street in New Orleans Everynight... mine said Family killed by Ninjas need money for Kung Fu lessons.. exactly.. that guy ripped me off... support me if any one remembers seeing me down there... im suprised my pic isnt on here.....

in response to Ninjas Killed My Family - Need Money for Kung-Fu Lessons

jerry: great pics, i used to live just off hollywood blvd, nice to see some pics that remind me of "home"

in response to Hollywood Blvd

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