Spring Migrations

Brooklyn, NY - GGP - Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 : goo

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Here is the story of how I found something I didn't know I was looking for: a place to celebrate place: citynoise.org.

Walking around my neighborhood taking pictures, I found these wonderful pieces of dualing street art.

Shortly thereafter, I came upon this.

And yes, still another.

The funny thing is, I'm into birding and with spring migration on in full force, I've started collecting images of birds in street art--they seemed to be cropping up everywhere, along with the real birds.

This lovely slate-colored flock was found on an engraved (marble?) stone in front of the old ASPCA building. On the other side of the stone, now partially sunken under layers of cement (ala Statue of Liberty/Planet of the Apes), is the original inscription/dedication. I imagine a very rich lady in an ample fur coat writing a big check to the ASPCA in honor of her maltese, Fifi.

Seeing all these things, finding these treasures just steps from my doorway makes me want to bring them to the attention of others who might enjoy and appreciate them. During these walks, I have been wishing I had a forum to share these images in some way, but I am not technologically engaged enough to put up a website of my own...I didn't yet know about citynoise.

Anyway, when I got home from the walk where I first encountered PET BIRD, I was jazzed and immediately googled PET BIRD and found citynoise. what a great discovery and what a joy to find a place of like-minded denizens with eyeballs firmly attached to brain and cam and heart. That's my tale of how the birds led me to citynoise. Special thanks to Peter for capturing PET BIRD and being a kind and friendly host. (This endorsement was not brought to you by any pharmaceutical company or by Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth")

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SuShI_hp: i likeb the lost petbird sighn thats creative

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