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BZZZP: wow how old is that.. actual folded strips of tin for that sign.... BZZZP: this is a perfect icon for my having taught my dog to freak out when i say "gray menace!" and look up in the trees. she loves to chase the squeels.... BZZZP: every local hub of tokyo makes times square cry sad little tears... BZZZP: who said "birds sitting a fist apart on a wire"? it's stuck in my head every time i see birds on wires now. either powers or coupland i think... BZZZP: i'm sad i missed this entire whippage... BZZZP: if you walk a bit up and over, thewre is the absolute best view of it to be had from just in front of the art director's club on 28th... BZZZP: i was chased on down this "street" on my bike by 2 rottweilers.
the workers came out of the shops and hooted. i have no illusions as to whom they were rooting for.
good times. i...... BZZZP: they have the internets in norton? wow.... BZZZP: that's a nice one through the mesh... BZZZP: what is it with these people that work at the c-town supermarket and their obsession with sucking dick?... BZZZP: ah. memories. shot on film.... BZZZP: p - how well fenced and patrolled is this place? i'm getting some ideas.... BZZZP: i've always felt somehow exploitative every time i've pointed my camera near anyone in a disadvantaged position with the idea of drawing out some sort of commentary...
that said, this is a damn good photo.... BZZZP: he -would- be singing about something to do with coke.... BZZZP: that first image is begging for a claustrophobic crop just at the knoll behind the adults. begging.... BZZZP: thanks. i come back from time to time.... BZZZP: the fun thing is that hairspray sign - they removed the mouth because it was determined to be too offensive. ... BZZZP: if that bus driver can't see a volvo suv, they're certainly no ally of any bicyclist... BZZZP: always love it when the rays come through like that... especially good with fast-moving clouds and a good vantage point, you can see the rays trace the landscape... BZZZP: [[http://www.citynoise.org/article/3452]]
... BZZZP: yep, wow, got me there. snore.... BZZZP: heh didn't kn ow that existed... funny... BZZZP: that first photo gets me, hard... BZZZP: Yeah, NE corner.... BZZZP: Jeeff, yeah, that's one of them. usually i space the thumbs out a bit more but that particular night was a constrained exercise, and this suited it.... BZZZP: It's the bitten apple that makes looking at this in biblical terms inevitable... BZZZP: i need to hit up the astoria noise, myself...
http://www.horriblemonster.com/things/20060206/night-walk/
that and got some new day-noise but not yet imbued with a thesis/soul, so difficult to care about
... BZZZP: "the second one from the right looks like it means to do harm."
yeah, that's me.... BZZZP: just in time for the centennial/centenary etc festivities, incidentally... BZZZP: heheheh it's still doing it:
[[http://betapundit.blogspot.com/2006/01/microsoft-app-crashes-on-billboard.html]]... an impossible child: BZZZP thats interesting, never been to ny but interesting... guess there is a similar magic to all cities at night... or all cities on rivers at night
jeeff: is that a bad thing or a good...... BZZZP: looks just like what you see of manhattan going from brooklyn to queens on the BQE... BZZZP: and the words 'brackish' and 'befuddled'.... BZZZP: looks exactly like liberty city in gtaIII.
what does it say that after so many years, that's still my immediate and strongest impression?... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: This is almost a robot building with lots of eyes and broad shoulders.
If you have a cold with the snuffles, are you allowed to lick the zinc facade?
More Iowa please. (Peter, Bzzzp, Barry, Sine, GGP,...... BZZZP: oof! it's all about the composition and colors of the first pic. hawt.... BZZZP: wouldn't it make more sense to just paint in the negative space a color distinct from that of the original wall?... BZZZP: it's also a mixture of bare bulbs and bulbs-in-flimsy-cups... with tinsel
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detail from another pic... BZZZP: it IS hobo xmas under there. they've scattered a bit since twin donut burned down, but they're still there, hangin around the bodegas and benches. why, i dunno, but i think they sleep in a...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Yeah! You rock, BZZZP! Is this right under the Ditmars station? They look like naked bulbs and a bit of tinsel. We should go and throw some sneakers up there.
(great shot, by the way.)... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Yeah! You rock, BZZZP! Is this right under the Ditmars station? They look like naked bulbs and a bit of tinsel. We should go and throw some sneakers up there.
(great shot, by the way.)... BZZZP: for y'all citynoisers - "animum pictura pascit inani"... BZZZP: those bastard lights on broadway piss me off. why half-half? why not just do whole sets further apart? arg.
then again i'm never sober when i'm on broadway, so that may have something to do with...... BZZZP: tho of course we mustn't forget the plain quietly warped, like this guy:
[[img:6677]]
wearing a girl's coat as a headdress, fishing off the pier, a hundred feet inland, smiling.
... BZZZP: coney in winter is all about shoot the freak.
[[img:6676]]
there are 26 freaks working there, and they make an avg of $150 a night.... BZZZP: fyi, the graphic itself sez "WHY?"... BZZZP: there's plenty of good stuff in the US that hasn't been hidden...
[[http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001511.html]]
fun also:
[[http://cryptome.org/sat-addict.htm]]... BZZZP: that dash with you in the mirror is haute.... BZZZP: yeah it's an absolute crazy-person-drawing disregard for what's supposed to be acceptablee in a van-wrap, or any image on side of van. like an alien did it... and they glopped it on with thick sloppy...... BZZZP: that light slays me. perfect.... BZZZP: fuzzy's comment rules.
ps rules also the levitating girl.
ps gramma wha... BZZZP: i am so incredibly mindfucked by you descibing the colors of things in b&w photos... but yeah thww clothesline one is niice. i should ggo shoot this building by the qboro that has the same...... BZZZP: I have been ssaying that to myself for years, literally. I keep waiting for a mpx bump on the canon dslrs, can't qquite swing the 22mpx medium format back.... BZZZP: I feel compelled to respond to this with:
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St. Petersburg, Russia, directly in front of the statue of Peter. ... The less than exciting explanation is that many couples stop here as part of their wedding...... BZZZP: and sometimes it's clear why gibson might live there... hot.... BZZZP: it would be so incredibly beautiful if the elderly got the mind-twist to start their own graffiti movement. it's great fun just imagining what it would be (once you get past the yuk-yuks about "dang...... BZZZP: do you know what it would have cost to get even sweatshops to make unique textures for that entire chunk of land? and we would have had to ship it on 2 disks instead of...... BZZZP: @VZ:
> This sounds like a challenge.
It does. G'ing for plane graf now, see nothing... anyone know of this ever happening?... hopefully to something bigger than a cessna...... BZZZP: this one dreams it was nessie:
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i think i recall reading somewhere that the idea is to underexpose shooting things like swans and polar bears, not to let the highlight detail get blown out... no help...... BZZZP: gonna guess late flash on a long exposure. eg "shutter open... ... ...flash, shutter close"... BZZZP: this all makes me very sleepy... BZZZP: well, there IS the E/F down there, right under the qns citi building... (which is also under the 53rd st one) the NW/7 is actually a few blocks north, despite what it looks like in...... BZZZP: it's official, ontario looks like that graphic from educational films and antacid commercials where particles are chewed up in magical cartoon xray vision and swallowed. still don't see skull. jaw, maybe, maybwe, with windsor and...... BZZZP: that last one makes me happy.... BZZZP: it's facing south, actually, from a ways up in lic/astoria... those lights you see at the bottom are the queensboro plaza NW/7 platforms.
speaking of neo-tokyo/akira scenes, the poulaski bridge between queens and bklyn is excellent...... BZZZP: ami retarded, then, for thinking it's a skull? i don't see ontario in that.... BZZZP: that's what i get for starting off the week drunk.... BZZZP: hot. is thee building face curved or is that just a weird lend effect?... BZZZP: bike room - as always am sstruck by bicycle clustering within available space, and trying to get at thought that went into room layout... BZZZP: i need to start carrying around some detonating cord to "liberate" an aero like that... ... BZZZP: this is what i love about symbols on old things. we here have nothing like that level of random history, or very very rarely. ... and nothing at all that could be that old.
thanks for...... BZZZP: nah it's the side of a building opposite "blue angel inn" ... stucco, i expect, like everything in vegas.... BZZZP: heh are those miklis?
also, any meaning to those x'd O symbols?... BZZZP: i've found that if you go "oh man that's a hot car, is it yours, can i take a picture of you with it," you usually don't get your ass kicked.
on a related note, overheard:...... BZZZP: that's some hot crack. maybe she was trying to fence it and the deal went sour.... BZZZP: find some good countrynoise. make the city cousins weep & all that. haute.... BZZZP: see [[http://nyc.photobloggers.org/archives/2005/05/22/mta_abandons_plan_to_ban_subway_photography.php]]
... BZZZP: na, somewhere in qns... BZZZP: wow yer speedy. good to see site's living again. gotta find something to show... BZZZP: last shot, front bike on left... is that a derailleur? hmmmm... BZZZP: how the fuck did this become labelled philly? it's in ny... BZZZP: cn is one of those things i forget exists for long stretches of time and then remember and am always pleased to see it and pick through some of the newer entries.... BZZZP: hot!... BZZZP: the only thing that's bugged me about this site's colors for ages is that links are practically unreadable on the sidebat/topbar greys. Other than that, it's just right.
... BZZZP`: the photo is just not big enough...... BZZZP.FB: insides of an OTB joint... BZZZP.FB: you have to click it dumbshit...
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