Thursday, May 5th 2005

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Stacey: I love this site - found it through Daily Heights. These pictures are awesome and show Underhill beutifully (I live there also). I have a question for you Peter - you focus alot on tags are you or were you a graffiti artist?

in response to Prospect Heights:

elaine: you hexed my hoover, and i've got my mum coming tomorrow

in response to Aaron\'s Vacuum Hospital

Jamie: I was eventually frustrated into buying a Blink. It held around 100 VGA shots though it had poor resonse times by which i mean the period in between clicking the button and the camera actually taking the photo. I put this down to the real time jpeg compression. Any lateral...

in response to Zone & Shrub

Jamie: The lack of detail and having to get up close is something i remember from a few years back when i used to carry around a cheap mini toy digicam around with me wherever i went. Most of my photographic record of that time is in extreme closeup. It was...

in response to Zone & Shrub

elaine: well, that's what i meant before about it being like pinhole - the restrictions make you have to think about things in a different way than if you have loads of tech spec

in response to Zone & Shrub

Jamie: Yeah but don't you think there is a special quality in art designed not to last. It has finite appreciability.

in response to Brooklyn Street Art Initiative

fuzzytank: hmm i think actually this guy sometimes hijacks my puter he writes all the rants promise

in response to Brooklyn Street Art Initiative

fuzzytank: hahah the scale of that girl is awsome

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

fuzzytank: oh i like that one a lot, just popped up in the from the archives bit for me

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

elaine: why? what was the make?

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

kobe: wow the colours in that second one are tops.

in response to The Lloyds building and Leadenhall Market

kobe: yea that looks very much like a hibernating monster. or a petrified one at that. i like seeing all the nature shots from brooklyn. theres a whole new side to that city that ive never seen before i guess.

in response to Brooklyn Botanic Garden Creek

kobe: chalk seems like a bad medium for street art, dont you think?

in response to Brooklyn Street Art Initiative

kobe: those top two make it look like the traintrack goes on forever and ever and ever

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

kobe: the reflections in the glass, and all the colors, look great.

in response to Revolving Door

kobe: ha ha ha, its entries like this that make me smile every time i come to this site :-)

in response to Abandoned Lunch

kobe: my goodness, what a wonderful series of photos! the great wall is one of those landmarks thats become ubiquitous, but you rarely ever see non-postcard-style candid shots of it. nice. china sure is beautiful.

in response to Beijing & The Great Wall of China

kobe: cool thanks for the tips !

in response to Zone & Shrub

kobe: when i hear the word lionel, i think of those toy train sets they used to make.

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

Peter: more cone photos here...

in response to Saturated Traffic Cones

elaine: hee hee hee but you still don't know if it would be 'awesome' it might be as banal as fuck... anyway you know i am just yanking your chain for being an enthusiastic american puppy, which is a good USP

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

Peter: the copyright symbol in graf reminds me of SAMO...

in response to Brooklyn Street Art Initiative

Peter: whenever i hear the name lionel, i cant help but picture lionel from "as time goes by", which is quite unfortunate. i mean, the man has jowls!

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

Stacey: I saw this also but was rushing and didn't get a good look - if I had to guess it is "graffitish" in the style of letters - lots of old school graffiti artists use the copyrights symbol before their names. It will be interesting to see if this...

in response to Brooklyn Street Art Initiative

Peter: thats the whole point of this site- the banalities of an everyday urban existence that, though familiar and perhaps uninteresting to you, might be fascinating to people who have never been to your city or country, never seen all the oddities around you that you take for granted, etc. i...

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

elaine: n.b. lionels are flared trousers in london

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

elaine: how on earth do you know? you night hate it! i want to snap the clock at bethnal green tube, the sign for a cafe which seems to be called 'cafe open' and a sign that says 'nicks barbers' which is either a deliberate double entendre or just daft signage......

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

Peter: as of last night, someone had torn down most of the lionels... actually, removed them very cleanly and carefully, as if they were going to keep them, perhaps? they stayed up about a week, and endured several heavy spring rainstorms. there are still a few across the street, though.

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

ea: love tutorial turned independent study title track plays with ferris wheels spinning in the fog just out of reach

in response to run off and..

Peter: awesome. as always, we'd love to see it.

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

Peter: or maybe this...?

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

Peter: you mean something like this...? I'm sure that would be really classy. *ahem*

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

elaine: well ya got ya mojo on with these boys i left my camera at home today and saw loads.. but am back to stratford tmrw to the dentiss, and will retrace my steps if i can

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

kobe: what sort of car do you have?

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

DallasTT: Im wanting to do a photo shoot of my car next to these with a D70 where would I find these

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

Peter: im not obsessed, just happened to post two vanishing point entries this week :) yeah theyre cameraphone shots... thus the lowres. i gotta get in the habit of carrying the real digicam around, one of these days...

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

elaine: well, it's almost as if you were a real person!

in response to Revolving Door

elaine: i am not always 100% with your vanishing point obsession, peter, but this time it's positively vorticist. i also like the vertical swimming pool you got there. are these camphone?

in response to Track 5, Newark Penn Station

Peter: kobe: yup! refer to www.citynoise.org/post.php for those commands.

in response to Zone & Shrub

Peter: paul g, i didnt want your door to get lonely, so i took a photo of a revolving door at my office for you... entry here...

in response to Pyramid Scheme

Peter: those garbage cans are purportedly rat-proof, according to City Sanitation. let me be the first to tell you that this is not always the case...

in response to Snow/Trash: NYC

elaine: i'll say. it is my private belief that you can't put that much human suffering somewhere without it being haunted

in response to birth of industry

Peter: me too!

in response to The Strand:

elaine: mmm tooo hot. nice. i look forward to complaining that

in response to The Strand:

Peter: well, if someone is going to go through all the trouble to replace the aging bags, then someone definitely needs to be willing to document all the hard work. thats where i come in...

in response to Defenestration of Bedclothes

elaine: this one has a little grumpy face and a claw, but shh, it's asleep

in response to Brooklyn Botanic Garden Creek

elaine: this is a good thing. i try to do it as much as poss - within the bounds of personal safety

in response to Lost People

elaine: but do you go up ladders, get em down, and put up new ones? no you don't, is my guess

in response to Defenestration of Bedclothes

kobe: the blood and crip seem to really take their game really seriously. i wouldnt fuck with any of those guys.

in response to Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights

kobe: oh my god. im glad he survived.

in response to Bike Messenger Pinned In East Side Crash

kobe: i like that "zone" photo. how do you make links in comments? use the same commands as in making a post?

in response to Zone & Shrub

kobe: that place looks like it could be haunted.

in response to birth of industry

kobe: this is osme bloody fine photography hool.

in response to the portable female

kobe: im glad you took a photo of that potted bush. i bet no one has ever taken a photo of it. now it is on the internet. lucky bush.

in response to the portable female

kobe: thats a cool map. these irish storefronts youve been posting look like theyre from the 1970's.

in response to Aaron\'s Vacuum Hospital

kobe: sweet. im curious to know if anyone even noticed you standing there making these photos. all those suits look so busy.

in response to Pyramid Scheme

Jamie: wow, thats some cryptic schoolyard shizzul. also: what exactly is a slob ass bitch?

in response to Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights

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

information: it seems that, out of mutual disrespect for each other, many crips dont use the letter "b" as a diss to the bloods and many bloods dont use the letter "c" as a diss... like, bloods call crips "brips" cause "b" is mightier than "c", and vice versa. some crips...

in response to Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights

Jamie: Lakeland Forum. It's a 1970s sports centre/swimming pool complex. Enniskillen is surrounded by Lough (lake) Erne. It is essentially an island. Lakeland is henceforth used as a prefix for many local things such as this.

in response to Aaron\'s Vacuum Hospital

Peter: the barber shop crew smokes alot of cigars, too. im not sure what theyre called, but you know the ones you get in a little pack that have the wooden mouthpieces?

in response to Prospect Heights:

Peter: me too. ive been enjoying using the low-res camphone a bit as opposed to the usual digicam... a new way of looking at things. i am very limited with my palate and depth and detail with this device, so i have to think alot more about capturing something, and how...

in response to Zone & Shrub

Peter: paul g, id love to hear more about your views on "the new chicago"... cities develop personalities in the most sublime ways and flux like crazy... i know very little about chicago, but id definitely love to hear anything you could report back to us about this flux.

in response to Mr. Chicago

Peter: im totally not a schmoozer, but i do try to go beyond my usual private disposition to connect with a few people i come into contact with very regularly and single them out just a tad, these folks who no one would even notice or care about otherwise. like the...

in response to Lost People

Anonymous (4.114.144.208.in-addr.arpa.net): The muffin shop kicks ass. And that barbershop is where reporters always go to interview NYC Haitians on political happenings back home. Those guys do nothing but debate politics all day.

in response to Prospect Heights:

Peter: BREAKING NEWS: as of yesterday afternoon, the bedclothes were no longer defenstrated. the tree is empty and clear. and though it was too dark to get a good photo, i will try again soon. also: i like making photos of all those bags in trees.

in response to Defenestration of Bedclothes

Peter: if i had to whittle my experience on this site down to one single epiphany ive had about the world, id have to say it would be that some irish folks sure love to proselytize! its like a bad tennis game, the same ball of an inarticulate argument being lobbed...

in response to Northern Ireland Memoirs: Part One

Peter: i love that last photo. everyone always saves the best image for last :)

in response to run off and..

Peter: so much action contained, minute by minute, in revolving doors the world 'round. yay chicago!

in response to Pyramid Scheme

Peter: was there an art auction or something? maybe the end of the school year for art students? its not every day that you see that many people walking about with paintings, but i am definitely glad that you were there to capture some images. pretty. i especially love the last...

in response to the portable female

Peter: heh heh open bag surgery and hose bypasses. did you know central park has a castle too? www.centralpark2000.com/database . . . ase/belvedere_castle.html though its much too small to house a museum. it holds a weather station and some info about the park. also: whats "lakeland" on that map? theres a town here in florida called...

in response to Aaron\'s Vacuum Hospital

elaine: cor! milk and cookies keeping you up?

in response to Aaron\'s Vacuum Hospital

elaine: it's a kindly idea, the vacuum hospital. i like the no right turn sign, it being bent seems to change it's meaning

in response to Aaron\'s Vacuum Hospital

elaine: no, seriously, i am an uber-stalker, i can see inside your head and read files you thought were deleted. RA!

in response to birth of industry

elaine: he's really working out how to run off exactly, the finer points of the piggy bank, the note to the parents, what to pack, and how he's going to talk his way in

in response to run off and..

elaine: or, it's a strikingly manageable very good day trip spanning a lot of history and something likely to appeal to everyone

in response to birth of industry

Jamie: oh my god my very own stalker. excrement

in response to birth of industry

fuzzytank: for some reason i thought the kid in the second phto was hillllarious, its all in the expression.

in response to run off and..

elaine: not at all, switched on sort of a teacher, but, yes, manageable in a day, just about. cromford mill is just south of matlock walking distance, nine ladies just north west short drive, and chatsworth another short drive north again. what a great day out either that or i am a...

in response to birth of industry

GerryBhoy: UP DA RA! go home british scum

in response to Northern Ireland Memoirs: Part One

Jamie: Yes. The nine ladies. That was them. What a haphazard coincidence.

in response to birth of industry

elaine: someone told me a tale the other day of an art student who is, as we speak, going round with ladders, taking down old bags in trees and REPLACING THEM with new ones. it makes me tired. maybe i really am old. or just constitutionally bad tempered

in response to Defenestration of Bedclothes

elaine: mmm, perhaps they were the nine ladies OS 119.249636. i went to see them another time when i was trying to seduce this boy, but that's another story.and another photo somewhere... now i can't remember which ones i took my mum to but they were further west

in response to birth of industry

Jamie: wow, another surpressed memory. we went to see some standing stones too. small ones. they were in a clearing of sorts set in a circle. i remember thinking even then, at the age of 9 or 10 that they were pretty cool

in response to birth of industry

Jamie: your photo reminds me of this:

in response to Defenestration of Bedclothes

elaine: maybe you did. i went to chatsworth that holday too, but this was better. i also dragged my mum off to see some standing stones as well, but made up for it by letting her buy me tops from the john smedly factory outlet... i know loads more about it...

in response to birth of industry

Jamie: do you know what? that photo has reawakened a distant memory of a primary school trip to derbyshire many moons ago. we visited chatsworth house and i'm sure we totally visited this place. wow, that's made my morning. fandabidozi.

in response to birth of industry

elaine: yeah, it's got 'stills' mojo

in response to Pyramid Scheme

fuzzytank: A: 'strongly agrees with sine' B: dammit hool how can we live up to these standards?!

in response to the portable female

fuzzytank: Oi thats some hot black an white i like the simple fact that its a entry, which changes every moment

in response to Pyramid Scheme

fuzzytank: the words seem like a rap by ManM and i cant see past the "" the first is most interesting with the suits not sure and the second is nice like it existed on a tvg screen ina simple apartment and the third is.. well its artsy and alright but the...

in response to Pyramid Scheme

elaine: i am fairly friendly, less to random strangers than, say, to local shopkeepers and the like, but i also don't care about chumming up to people. when i started working at the local college, being the cynical no-good type that i am, however, i did foster a relationship with the...

in response to Lost People

elaine: now, also i see he is wearing trousers and not a boiler suit, which doesn't change what he is doing, but it does alter how i read who he might be

in response to Mr. Chicago

austie jonez: that last one looks like they are headed down. it took me 3 takes to see they are not about to walk down an escalator of concrete.

in response to the portable female

sine: fuck! my eyes are melting. so HOTT.

in response to Indy Graf Jam

sine: mmmm... people carrying art in the streets. double-porn.

in response to the portable female

Paul G: dork. i just left a comment for you, about the last pic in your post, before i saw this.

in response to Pyramid Scheme

Paul G: god damn that last pic knocked me out like a sucker punch. you are still my king.

in response to the portable female

Paul G: i like the abstract quality of your low-res images. all hyper-realism, all the time, can be fatiguing. smudgy, inky, rough gestures are fun in painting and photography: freeing, in a way...

in response to Zone & Shrub

hool: paul, great to see people pictures. i like the last one best.

in response to Pyramid Scheme

Paul G: the pose of the (a) well-dressed young men on the steps is more telling than is the pose of the (b) older man lying on the sidewalk. (a) + (b) = the new chicago, and the new america, and nothing that i want to be a part of.

in response to Mr. Chicago

kobe: dude, graf welcomes women with skills with open arms. this is two double-oh five, bay-bee! bring it on a fresh tip!

in response to Robotic

Peter: all good :D welcome! we hope you post more. i loved this photo, btw. im in nyc also... brooklyn. i just asked cause i wanna edit this entry to add the location ;)

in response to City Hall Park at Night

Peter: thats like "hell-fuckin-yee-uh. gotta give props. this is the new era of graf.

in response to Robotic

fuzzytank: uhh so, is that like ah 'awwww i like girly graff' or more like ah 'damn girls tryin to compete' ?

in response to Robotic

fuzzytank: when i was in Prague the first time the students there had to design these sorta vent structures as one of their projects. they had big freakin models made outta all kinds of materials and it didnt help that i couldnt read any of the descriptions ;)

in response to Cement Thing, Part 2:

fuzzytank: what the hell is a brip?

in response to Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights

fuzzytank: i really like the first two, dark shots ( of smaller things keep me interested. because the night shots of cities seem familiar and, night/inside of little details really create a different perspective because they dont fit into a populations combined experience.

in response to Night in L.A.

fuzzytank: woohoo you gonna get us some photos?

in response to Who needs Graf Trux...

Brip killa: FUck BRIPS BOTTOM LINE

in response to Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights

SOO-WOO WESTSIDE BLOOS: F*cK ALL U BRIP AZZ NIGGAZ WHEN I SEE YALL NIGGAZ ITS WAR! BLAcK P. STONE BLOODS ALL DAY . WHATS POPPIN TO ALL MY EASTSIDE BLOODS. BROOKLYN STAND THE F*cK UP.cK ALL DAY 5 POPPIN 6 DROPPIN .

in response to Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights

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