Thursday, February 23rd 2006

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jack: i had forgotten all those great carvings on the bank. i wish i could go to the bowery in manhattan and take some photos of the old bowery savings bank. it was like a castle inside there.

in response to Williamsburgh Savings Bank

jack: hey, i was there for a conference last september. fantastics lakes, wish i had taken my fly rod.

in response to Full Moon on a Cold Day

jack: i believe #8 is on 167th street, #1 is a montessori in battery city. don't know the rest. the 80's and thru the 300's are located in brooklyn. ps 215 was on ave t in brooklyn and ps 95 was in gravesend bklyn. anyway it...

in response to P.S. 9

mark: hehe thought so :-) i always walk past that crescent on the way to pick up the hire car to drive my stuff back to the land of the English (studying here is great!) and always think what a pretty terrace.

in response to Freezing Fog

jack: it looks like a great setting for a scary movie. has that pre-holloween look. the only thing on the bridge are the shadows and they move as well. is that a star to the right of the moon?

in response to Moon over the Luce Line

jack: thanks all, i can appreciate the prose more.

in response to All Poets Are Alchemists

GGP: great shot, joey.

in response to Halogen Cat

elaine: nice photo. hey, where's 1 thru 8?

in response to P.S. 9

GGP: go for it, Peter! would love to see those. I took some nice detail shots of the fascade today and will post those when i get a moment.

in response to Regional

Peter: i love standing on my roof, looking at downtown brooklyn- i have the best view of the tower... ill have to get out the telephoto and do some serious closeups when the weather clears a bit!

in response to Regional

elaine: goffum

in response to Regional

elaine: d'you see the magical connedtion between us jamie? we were making that link at the same time. spooooky!

in response to All Poets Are Alchemists

elaine: the're so sweet, their little feet. did i ever tell you i used to have my little cat chaos eat cat loves out of between my teeth. it was a bit like being a lion tamer...

in response to Halogen Cat

elaine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermondsey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Lines handy hint, jack, go to google, type in define: then whatever you want defined... bermondsey is south of the river. londonists are often scared of things south of the river, unless they are from there... partly because of the olde legende - you can't get a taxi to go south of...

in response to All Poets Are Alchemists

joey: maebe's feet. standing her ground.

in response to Halogen Cat

Jamie: Bermondsey

in response to All Poets Are Alchemists

joey: doth - you probably meant to type, both

in response to Wood Carvings

jack: does howard hughes live there, who knows? probably someone's toilet isn't working and he had all those bottles anyway.

in response to Dresser Day!

jack: ha ha, but i did make a typo on my true story on the lands end. did anyone find it? elaine, im writing a story on my grandfather and my daughter said it would be better for me to write short stories and post them to see what...

in response to Wood Carvings

GGP: taken today.

in response to Regional

jack: break down the word bermondsey for me, where does it come from, is it a foul word, slang or curse, is it like 'creepers' or 'my gosh' nice writing enjoyable, i guess hellmouth is the entrance for the dead but you got me with 'leylines'.

in response to All Poets Are Alchemists

jack: i was just there on tuesday but the schoolyard did not look as good as it does in your photo. i took a girl to the sunset park pool back in 1959 and it was a rough area at that time.

in response to P.S. 9 Schoolyard

BASICK POFM: When a person holds a can they feel power without strength, power without words, but power in art. From the legendary artist BASICK himself Art Is WAR! Fight the POWER!

in response to 7th Avenue Station

BASICK POFM: Lets see some graff on tha bridges and tracks etc. But to all the graff artists keep doin yo shit and don't let no one stop u! Real shit....

in response to A Trip to NY

BASICK POFM: This site is the biz from the legend himself all graff artist keep doin yo shit don't let anyone stop u! Real shit.....

in response to Bronx river

Peter: i made this shot of the clocktower a couple of days ago. i was going to post it, but didnt because its blurry (accidentally still had the cam set on macro, from an earlier closeup shot), but since you posted it, i wanted to share mine too:

in response to Regional

2bs2ts@comcast.net: I guess I felt the need to wite more about the bird that I wrote about previously. His owner is gone all week days from seven a.m to about six to seven p.m. He drinks alot during the weekend and plays his music in the house very very loud!!!! I...

in response to Parrot Biting

jack: the old williamsburg bank. i went there many times in the fifties with my aunt. as i pass thru the highways around brooklyn i often see that tower and realize it may now be a protected structure under the building codes of the city. i think it...

in response to Regional

jack: he felt the tingle in his stomach continue on for a few days until he started to notice the bulge growing. no, im not talking about a beer belly or a guy getting fatter, im talking about a growth. he knew this was not a sickness, it was...

in response to Chihuahua Bling

2bs2ts@comcast.net: My neighbor has a blue fronted almost a year old. Very unhappy mean bird. I can handle him he seems to love me because I can tell when not to handle him when his tail feathers fan out and his eyes go buggy.This bird is in his cage alot and...

in response to Parrot Biting

mia: this is realy cool thanks 4 helping out with my homework

in response to The Pearly Kings and Queens

jeeff: oh we all told him it was harmless. didn't make much difference to him.

in response to Dresser Day!

silk one: fight the system!!!!!.

in response to Dallas Graffiti Writers Busted!

XENZ: done in daylight or the dead of night its about skills not laws not wether its legal or ilegal it doesnt matter if your allowed, if your getting payed or even if its pure damage its about style and originality its about being you. everyone can try it but not...

in response to graffiti alley / style in progress \'05

elaine: the end of 'the world' as we know it

in response to Lands End Intersection

elaine: oh, yuk! ggp! mucho unheimlich!

in response to Chihuahua Bling

elaine: sounds like the beginning of a novel or something

in response to Wood Carvings

elaine: that 'no complaints today' thing still gives me the shivers....

in response to No Complaints Today

elaine: not impooible, hear that, jamie? it does have a little discontent, but praps more from the surroundings than from you. 'angry' is only one of the elements jack has picked up on, if you look at what he has said apart from that, i think he is picking up pretty good...

in response to Will You Be Waiting for Me in the Star Alley?

an impossible child: I AM NOT IMPOOIBLE thank you very much! :P i dont remember being particularly angry on that day, what makes you say that?

in response to Will You Be Waiting for Me in the Star Alley?

Cyberia: Being the bibliophile I am I'm dying to know what book it was...

in response to No Complaints Today

EvilGentleman: 29 - Idiots who try to pass you at the last possible second before they turn 30 - Other idiots who try to make extra lanes where they do not exist, either passing in the middle of two lanes or on the shoulder. 31 - the fools who endanger everyone's lives weaving...

in response to Things I Hate About... Traffic

colavito's ghost: the other night, after a long night of drinking i was walking home with a buddy. we saw on the curb a colt 45 box full of 40s. i assumed they were all empty and awaiting trash pick-up. out of stupidity and drunkenness i reached my hand in the...

in response to Dresser Day!

colavito's ghost: for a second, when i read jack's post, i, thinking he'd made a typo, read "i wish i could crave like that." as it turns out, he actually typed correctly, "i wish i could carve like that." the moral of this story is that i'm really looking forward...

in response to Wood Carvings

colavito's ghost: i just moved to brooklyn and i'm already in love with the view of that damn tower. let me just say that you don't have to be a long-time brooklyn resident to hate the idea of the ratner development. BOO RATNER!!! BOO!!!

in response to Regional

Guy McLaren: But still, graffitti defaces buildings, costs big bucks to remove and I see in africa now fuckwits are starting to deface natural phenomena like rock faces and stuff.

in response to Dallas Graffiti Writers Busted!

barry: Sorry about the bad spelling guys.Man I would love some times to bull shit with you all,but I will stike to pic,s from now on.

in response to Wood Carvings

GGP: oh, by the way, it's only one dog--with two heads. one good. one evil. one named Oprah, one named Cheney.

in response to Chihuahua Bling

GGP: that first image: truly an artery.

in response to Rainy Night

GGP: the little human things we build at the edge of the shoreline...so geometric. who or what will remember them?

in response to Lands End Intersection

GGP: there is something very final yet open about this image: one senses death here, and the start of something entirely beyond us.

in response to Lands End Intersection

barry: Peter whan I came to N,Y 11 years a go this is how I got my apartment going on till i go my own shit. I sill have a Table from back than.

in response to Dresser Day!

barry: Great Talent,What keen or tree is this.

in response to Wood Carvings

jack: micah i wrote a little something at lands end, its a true story.

in response to Chihuahua Bling

jack: i always knew there were aliens on this planet. is he looking for the belt of orion? actually this guy is happy, he can take his pets with him, but will they allow him in a restaurant? if he goes in a restaurant, he will have to...

in response to Chihuahua Bling

elaine: i dunno, but damned similar!

in response to Chihuahua Bling

EvilGentleman: They have been removing some railcars each day now, but progress is really slow. I went down to take some more pics, but it was getting dark, so the last pic is a bit blurry cuz I used nightshot mode on my point-and-shoot View from the park just west of the...

in response to Train Derails on Bridge II

french: Window is cracked open at the back just enough

in response to Car Poodle

GGP: better that than a duckling necklace, no?

in response to Chihuahua Bling

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