Wednesday, July 13th 2005

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jeeff: if anyone's interested in 'taming barrel distortion' in their photos, try PaulD's advice on this site: forums.dvdoctor.net/archive/index.php/t-28360.html he suggests -40. i think that would work for a real fish-eye like elaine's quilt above. for the average photo i find -10 to -20 works wonders. then you can just crop...

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cooter33: kobe- that's a bike path that runs up the west side of manhattan

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Laura : These photos are great! Makes me feel like I'm there. I especially like the one of the wonder wheel. I love ferris wheels...they terrify me :)

in response to Coney Island Low

Laura : Beautiful

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elaine: twins! how lovely!

in response to Gouch & Sober

elaine: hum, bit of an oversight, obviouly. thing is what happens is i order food, i have my camera, i eat the food, and i think, oh yeah, shoulda taken a photo of that. in the world of mouth v eye mouth wins

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GGP: are people printing some of these stickers on their printers off computers? i'm just curious how that works, from a technical standpoint.

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Laura: Really nice

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Peter: thats why chips got the linkage ;) also this entry and this one of course! ive missed your food contributions lately, heh.

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elaine: i think i've seen a discussion about those chips before - an important citynoise theme

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Peter: i dont eat meat, but man do i like tzatziki sauce!

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elaine: mmm, that looks nice!

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Peter: sorta like a kebab/souvlaki... whatscookingamerica.net/History/ . . . ndwiches/GyroSandwich.htm www.athenspizza.net/specialties.htm

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elaine: and what might a gyro be?

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Peter: i feel like im on the beach!

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Peter: april 23, 2002 -the date i posted these images- was the first day of spring that year... the irony between that fact and the contrasting images was most defiintely intentional ;)

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ea: peter! such an ironical title! I laughed, but then I got kinda sad

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Peter: i moved out of that neighborhood in 2003... the thing i miss the most? probably koronet pizza ;)

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Christian: Yes...Koronet's is THAT Good.

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shoshannah: heh, that cemetary is right by my grandmother's old apartment. (I say old because she's dead now.) She live in the apartment from 1965 (well before I was born) until 2001, and we kept it until 2004 when we moved to downtown Brooklyn. That cemetary is as much a part...

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elaine: jamie, viccy park likes you too, it told me so

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Peter: nothing lasts forever. its got a certain vibe, too, now... which i like alot... actually, thats what keeps me going back... its seedy, graf-covered, beer-soaked goodness :)

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elaine: yer, and i liked fuzzytank calling him 'dudeman' - he has such a turn of phrase! plus the point is that i didn't want to iron things out that much, and i rarely tamper with my pics at all, being a bit old skool about it. somehow philip has ...

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Denise: it's a shame to see what Coney Island looks like now, once it was such a lovely place to go to..

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Peter: i think philip and his odd pose add a certain vibe to it. i like.

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Peter: me too. it rules!

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elaine: i just did what fuzzytank actually told me to do. it was a kind of 7.30 am performance piece... if i really cared about it i would also sort out how dark it is and i wouldn't have let philip be in the picture, especially feeling his tummy up as...

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Ilya: Coney island! I like that place!

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Peter: true...

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elaine: yeah but my point is you don't need to if you turn it into a fillum

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Peter: ahh, you can straighten that out in pshop too, with judicious use of skew/distort...

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Barry Garlow: yo, i know him. He used to swab my decks back in the old days. Shit, we used to swab 'em together. Day and night. Those were the days.

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Peter: i try ;) sinc ethe trains work like clockwork, andi commute at almost the exact same time each weekday, its easier than you might think to run into the same people. i really wish i could do this with a more high-res camera, but i think that would be too...

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elaine: yeah, it's good having the time zone communication w fuzzytank, where i am just getting up and he is still online. the last one still has kinks which obviously would be easy enough to iron out. i like the corve of it, which of course it doesn't have in reality,...

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elaine: the same bloke in virtually the same place. it's uncanny!

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Anonymous : Hmm, the population of Wolverhampton is something like 350,000. Knowing how coincidences happen though, it's just possible someone might actually know him!

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Peter: thanks for the correction!

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Hectop: Ok, a bit of correction here from someone who lived on Bay Parkway @ 65th Street for 14 years: Washington Cemetery is quite far from Avenue X, actually between avenues J & M, split by McDonald Ave where the F train runs. The view in the shot is from East...

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elaine: it's the first public park. birth of leisure, innit. it is nice having such a big park nearby. the royal parks are all west of the city, and most green space is 'fields' or 'commons' which tend to be unlandscaped as they are where i could take my flock of...

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jeeff: the 'no vehicles beyond this point' sign is blatantly lying.

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nemesisbecoming: When I was younger and we would take school trips via the train to Coney Island or the Aquarium or something, when the train would go over the cemetaries, we would supersticiously have to do the Holy Cross over and over until we cleared the cemetary. I forgot what the...

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Peter: i had never heard of it til i moved to nyc... look, saugerties has a website! saugerties.ny.us

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Peter: yeah, they should call them "no parking signs around here, because they prevent you from using so many potentially great parking spaces, heh...

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Peter: mmm, dog.

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Peter: id hiss too if my house was full of stagnant goo and traffic cones ;) nice find, jeeff.

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Peter: hool, i always like it when you toss in a b&w shot. theyre always superlative.

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Peter: looks good here too. ive alwayes enjoyed shots like this of buildings... its just like looking up at it yourself, from ground level.

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Peter: nice building... i love the golden hour, myself. its #1 for photography. that abandoned building looms creepily. also: the most fun part of this entry was watching the development of the montage from the original to the last one posted in the comments... nice job elaine. i want a new copy...

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Peter: whats up with that park? it looks so green, desolate, clean and rose-filled! it also looks huge, and without all the traffic barriers, signs, and official air that parks around here have. thats very cool. it looks rural. also: i love how these photos are arranged... it reminds me of a...

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Peter: nice... i love entries like this that seem to complete the topic with lots of photos. also: the blank truck is cool. what fascinates me is the text at the bottom of every parking sign that says Seattle (then has a number). wonder what the numbers mean? i guess some sort...

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Peter:

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Jamie: i like viccy park

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elaine: ok, but there is nothing i can do about dudeman's pregnancy fantasy, bless 'im

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fuzzytank: aww now giver' a crop an the corners go away in the only thing lookin wierd is dudeman with his shirt up over his belly let it shine buddy'

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elaine: ok, done. is some improvement, though now the corners look weirdly folded. obviously all this does save time, and if you were really picky it would be a great first step before hand tweaking

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elaine: i like the way this works as a photoessay, with the open invitation at the end...

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elaine: ha ha fuzzytank, you got an eye. i never noticed that particular one first time i looked

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elaine: yeah, me too. i am always a bit shocked when i see what other people live with in the way of computer screens... lukily my cast off puter was my brothers, which he built for gaming, so it's all just peachy spec

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elaine: ta, i will look out for that. i am fond of him too, i took the one i just added to sixy trolls ages ago, but for some reason never posted it til now, and then suddenly this one - it's like the universe speaks through him and drew me...

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fuzzytank: so is there more than one guy?

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fuzzytank: why would you some kinda hate (power of 31) washers? esp. when the sweet sounds of the 80's are balstin their arrival? OH! and i totally had hal confused with somebody else

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fuzzytank: old man matching buildings -real nice.

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fuzzytank: ;) hit advanced blending next time to get rid of the wrinkles :) but i do like the red monster a lot

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jeeff: looks clear to me, but i'm at high res

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Amy: I'd like to talk with the phtographer of these pictures about maybe using them for something. I'm not sure how to go about that because I don't know who to talk to so if you know anything about that please contact me on AIM my screen name is somekindahate31 or email...

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joey: doesn't water come out of fire hydrants? does water ever come out of those fire hydrants? why do we even call them fire hydrants anyway?

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damn jpeg distortion: joey

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joey: YUCK...

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patrick p: i see that muther fucker every weekend at fells when i go skate,he is a kool guy

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