I am VERY UNHAPPY that Midwest Airlines is out of business. I don’t have any confidence that Republic Airlines (who grounded all the Midwest jets and fired all the pilots and attendants) will make my trips home as pleasant as Midwest has done over the years. Message to Republic Airlines: It’s not about the cookies!
Posted at 9:30 am on 10/16/2009 in Travel | 2 Comments »From yesterday’s bike ride through Bushwick, here’s a photo series called “The 5 Stages of a Project” as depicted by guard posts.
Excitement, euphoria (Stage 1)
Search for the guilty (Stage 3)
Punishment of the innocent (Stage 4)
Distinction for the uninvolved (Stage 5)
Hidden Harbor / Working Harbor Sunset Tour, 2009
Last night I went on a sunset cruise through New York Harbor with Michael and his parents. The Hidden Harbor Sunset Tour was sponsored by the Working Harbor Committee, and for two hours the guide pointed out and explained tug boats–both pushers and pullers, graving docks, floating drydocks, container ships and ro-ros, ferries, fireboats, bridges, barges, tankers, cranes, warehouses and other industrial maritime features. We saw a lot of water traffic, and the guide pointed out that although there are much fewer container ships these days they are much bigger. It was awesome to see everything so close up.
Our boat started at the Pier 16 near the Brooklyn Bridge, and we sailed around the edges of Brooklyn by Red Hook and Sunset Park, and even went into the Eerie Basin for a bit. Next we passed Governors Island on our way to Staten Island, through Kill van Kull and past Snug Harbor. After slipping under the Bayonne Bridge we traveled up to Port Newark and Port Elizabeth. Finally we headed back, passing the Robbins Reef Lighthouse and the Statue of Liberty.
The weather was absolutely perfect, and the harbor looked bright and vibrant. I’ve posted quite a few photos here and will post more in the series over the next few days.
Posted at 9:08 am on 7/15/2009 in Atomische, New York City, Transportation | No Comments » 
This year we arrived at our favorite spot before the parade actually started, so managed to see Dykes on Bikes! But the early start meant we also got tired of standing and I left about 3 hours into it … even though the parade was only half done. Other highlights were seeing my friends march with GOAL, and of course the after-parade scene in the West Village where revelers were all too eager to pose for the camera.
Posted at 9:23 am on 6/29/2009 in Events, New York City, people | No Comments »
Farmers Market Photos: 5/30/2009
The farmers’ market at Grand Army Plaza is really picking up steam.
After dropping off a bag of clothes at the clothing recycling booth, I paid a visit to the sexy Madura mushroom man (above) and picked up some baby bellas and another fungal delight I forgot the name of. He promised it would taste “nutty.”
Next on to the Tellos Green Farm egg lady, who was selling blue-green eggs. When asked, she assured me with a straight face that they were from blue-green chickens.
I stopped to look at the asparagus (so big!) but ended up buying a bag of spinach instead. Hoping for those Popeye arms.
Check out the full photo series for more!
Posted at 10:42 am on 5/30/2009 in Atomische Photos, New York City | No Comments »
The weather was great and the train ride wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, despite all the routing changes. The beach was pretty crowded even though all the “Beach Close” signs were still up. Stay tuned for more photos to be posted later.
Posted at 7:24 pm on 4/26/2009 in Atomische Photos, New York City | No Comments »
On average, my Atomische photoblog gets about 600 page views per day, reflecting about 200 unique visitors, who look at an average of 3 photos each. That doesn’t include robots, like Google, Yahoo and others, who visit the site every day looking for new posts.
Yesterday around 10am I noticed a huge spike in traffic and peeked under the hood to see what was up. Following through the chain of referrer links I discovered that the lovely Mrs. Mudskipper posted a link to my photo over on the social bookmarking site reddit. A handful of visitors there voted the image “up” which kept it on the list.
So, by the end of the day my site had 4759 page views, made by 4066 unique visitors. That photo “Go Humans Go” received a total of 3833 views. (Take note that without the reddit bump, my site would have had traffic far below normal.)
To Mrs. Mudskipper, whoever you are, I say thank you for helping bring my art to the people!
Posted at 11:09 am on 3/25/2009 in Atomische, Photography | No Comments »
Today was my second time attending the Hindu spring festival Holi (also called Phagwah or the Festival of Colors) out in Richmond Hills, Queens.
Last year I had no idea what to expect, and it took me a while to get into it. I was also worried about dust on the camera. This year I planned ahead and made a clear plastic camera cover.
There’s a short and sweet parade, mostly for sponsors and politicians. But the fun really starts at the end when the crowds gather in the park to exchange colors. Everyone goes a little wild, with kids throwing colored powder, baby powder, and also color liquid at eachother. The teenagers get really crazy, but the little kids and grownups get into it too.
The rowdiness is fun but never gets out of control. Everyone is smiling and laughing. The festivities really bring people together, and total strangers have no shyness about approaching eachother to apply colors.
In the photo of me above, each unique color was gently and lovingly applied by hand by a different total stranger.
Posted at 8:34 pm on 3/15/2009 in Atomische, Events, New York City, Other People's Art, people | No Comments »
Went solo today, so made a very fast efficient trip. Sprinted to the G train, got off on Broadway and walked west, then up and down the streets of south Williamsburg until I got to the bridge, then over to Bedford and south again to Broadway, then east back to the G train. Round trip was about two hours. I took a total of 225 shots, including about 50 of a single, very interesting textured wall. More later, but here’s one for posting on Atomische tomorrow.
Posted at 8:15 pm on 3/14/2009 in Atomische, New York City | No Comments »
Trevor Brown: Stripping the Familiarity from the Everyday, New York Times, 3/7/09
The opening for Trevor’s exhibit “Ordinary Wonderful” was a huge success. He wowed them with his presentation–and presence–and got a nice write up in the new New York Times blog “The Local.”
Posted at 9:59 pm on 3/7/2009 in Other People's Art, Photography, people | No Comments »
