untitled (green siding) 2008
The elegantly-minimal Polish-language sign reads “haircutter, ladies and gentlemen”. I saw it this afternoon mounted on this colorful blank wall near the extremely tidy intersection of Nassau and Humboldt streets in Greenpoint.
Category: Image
Chinatown still life trompe-l’oeil
untitled (red battens) 2008
Only, it isn’t trompe-l’oeil. It is what it appears to be.
three (3) D.U.M.B.O. doors
untitled (3) 2008
Ten days ago while I was in D.U.M.B.O. I casually snapped this detail of an old brick wall. I was intrigued by the weeds growing out of cracks in the worn masonry and rusted iron of the dignified mid-nineteenth-century former warehouse of which it was a part. The massive structure had long ago lost its purpose and it now hovered above a neat lawn on a Brooklyn shore being made safe for investors and young families.
Only as I looked at the picture just now while I was putting it up, remembering what the huge pattern of brick and shuttered openings looked like on that drizzly day, did it occur to me to relate it (the scene, not my photograph) to Piranesi’s “Vedute di Roma“, which described the weedier walls of a much more ancient city 250 years ago.
one really giant shrimp
untitled (green shrimp) 2008
This beautiful salty oxymoron is permanently mounted above a wholesale seafood business on Madison Street in Chinatown.
Brooklyn Bridge Park, in clover
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Just west of the East River shore in Brooklyn Bridge Park a large lawn supporting several huge patches of clover was dotted with raindrops this past Sunday.
Brooklyn Edison Company
untitled (B E CO) 2008
blindness in Williamsburg
untitled (Blindness) 2008
I just found this a few minutes ago while looking at my gatherings for my day in Bushwick and Williamsburg. I probably shouldn’t admit it, since I like the image so much, but it was just one of those captures I manage to dredge up while carrying my feather-triggered camera around dropped more or less at arms length. The wall is on Metropolitan Avenue just east of the BQE.
Times Square ghosts
untitled (yellow slickers) 2008
Early last Saturday we met up with a visiting friend who had never been to New York before, so of course we didn’t let the rain keep us inside. We ended up walking all over Manhattan. In the midst of the worst of it I found this handsome family of ghosts sheltering, like the three of us, under a marquee on Broadway in Times Square.
Greenpoint industrial yard
untitled (Greenpoint boxes) 2008
rising sun on LOISAIDA
untitled (rising sun) 2008
Somewhere on the Lower East Side this sun rises all day and all night.