..a band entertaining some kids in union square..
Category: street
..i never knew kitties liked shakes this much..
..looks like a comic bubble from the conversation she’s having.. some unintelligible mumbo jumbo, then a 35.. must be haggling some deal.. 🙂
..mike noticed a trend of women’s derriere up here the past few posts, i kinda hadn’t noticed that, so here’s a different view.. Â 🙂
..also, wolfram says today’s gonna be the longest day of the century.. with temps hitting the 100s here, i think i’ll just stay home..
..collect $200 as you pass.. oh, wrong game.. sorry.. 🙂
..several people looked up to see what i was shooting at, little did they know that i was shooting “it all”.. 🙂
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surround sound
..this alley has great acoustics..
..swapping numbers on the subway stairs..
..i honestly was just taking a shot of the trash can.. ;D
..one of the many hazards of shopping..
..here’s a couple lounging by the river, oblivious to everything except for themselves..
..captured at the same time and place where i got this.. trying to visualize some ideas that have been simmering in my head for quite some time.. there’ll be more to come from this place.. 🙂
..on a different note, the lakers lost game 3.. argh..
..i’m sure you’ll get to your destination in no time when you get this pedicab..
..i guess this book stinks..
..time to meditate.. here’s a pair of yogis doing yoga on the boardwalk..
..unless you won’t give me nom noms..
..the best place to put your ads..
..oops, broke the theme.. lol! i’m jumping over it to have this one instead..
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street view
..what do you do when you wanna capture manhattan a-la vincent laforet but can’t justify the moolah to get a ‘copter? get up the tallest building you can find and dangle your camera out the ledge, and voila.. (just make sure to wrap the strap around your wrist..)
..this here’s looking up the north face of the empire state building..
..seeing that soccer is not among the top sports played in north america (i just googled it), i guess it’s wise to bring the game to the crowd for them to appreciate it..
..moving on, i posted a link a few days ago about “participating” in the NYPH (NY Photo Festival) 2009.. well, i got an email a while ago and one of my images were shown via slideshow and they took a picture of it and sent it to me.. yay! (you’ll have to excuse me, i get pleased easily.. ;D )
..i’m no expert in soccer so i’ll just call this move a crossover (just like in basketball)
..imagine if they played this at wall street while wearing suits, now that’d be cool..
*..i’ve updated the title, apparently, this move’s called a regate.. (thanks to albert) 😀
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fdr
..taken near the east river park, dropping loogies on cars passing by.. i’m just kidding.. 🙂
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helmsley
..a “normal” perspective of the helmsley building.. click here to read more about it and see a more “radical” perspective..
..a couple waiting for a cab.. or the stop light to go green.. i can’t remember.. 🙂
*the page doesn’t seem to open up with internet explorer, i’ll try fixing this on the weekend.. in the meantime, this is a sign for you guys out there to jump ship and use mozilla/chrome already.. haha..
..a long exposure shot in front of the st. george’s police station.. try doing this in front of an NYPD station, let’s see what happens to you.. 😀
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institute of higher burnin’
5pointz.. this is how it looks like from jackson avenue.. an ever-changing canvas of urban art.. this was taken last 2007, i wonder how it looks like now..
..what better way for a seasonal easter sunday post than this shot of the saint patrick’s cathedral a la moleman..
..amazing what a few steps and a different angle could do to change how an image looks.. the reason why i had this one tilted so high up is because of the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral, it just doesn’t look right..so for this one, i tried covering it up with light trails which seemed to do the trick.. (i guess)
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scent back to trail
..if you look at THIS.. walk around to the right.. take a few steps.. turn right again.. take a few steps again.. turn around.. voila! you’ll see this.. the bermuda perfumery..
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scaffolds
..okay back to bermuda.. taken on a walk along front street, looking for some grub.. saw these pretty cool scaffolds that are a whole lot different than those i usually see in nyc.. that over there is the missus.. ;D
..here’s the bling-bling district.. shot wide open, hand held with ultra high iso, in the middle of the street.. colors are kind of blah so opted for the black and white..
The Diamond District is an area of New York City located on West 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of many New York attractions. It is located one block south of Rockefeller Center, three blocks south of Radio City Music Hall (along the Avenue of the Americas), three blocks south of St Patrick’s Cathedral (along Fifth Avenue), and one block east of the Broadway Theater District. The Plaza Arcade, lined with shops, connects the street to Rockefeller Center.
The district was created when dealers moved north from an earlier district near Canal Street and the Bowery that was created in the 1920s, and from a second district located in the Financial District, near the intersection of Fulton and Nassau Streets, which started in 1931. The move uptown started in 1941. The district grew in importance when the German Nazis invaded the Netherlands and Belgium, forcing thousands of Orthodox Jews in the diamond business to flee Antwerp and Amsterdam and settle in New York City. Most of them remained after World War II, and remain a dominant influence in the Diamond District… (wiki)
**for those of you curious as to how it’ll look in color, here ya go..
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chelsea styles
..taken on a stroll through chelsea..
*i’ve uploaded some images from this photoblog to panoramio and geo-tagged them if you’re curious where i take my photos..
..on a whim, here’s another one from the moleman series.. i could’ve named this the sewer rat series.. i think that sounds better.. hmm..
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no name lane
..i tawt i taw a puddy tat..
..click image below to see how this post’s title came to fruition..
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doggie runway
..a few steps away, a doggie runway..
..look at the image below to see what i’m talking about.. 🙂
..chinese fast food.. bermuda style.. a few blocks from where we stayed..
..thanks to all who passed by here the past few days, i’ll be back to visiting in a sec.. lemme just take a nap.. ;D
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light of all
..it seems i’ve been bitten by the tweakies again.. the sun on the light post was just too good to pass up so i tweaked away (or at least attempted to.. 😀 )
..this here’s the arlington street church..
Arlington Street Church is a Unitarian Universalist church located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1729 as the “Church of the Presbyterian Strangers”, it became independent in 1787, taking on a Congregational model. In 1803, it called William Ellery Channing as its minister who defined “Unitarian Christianity” and launched the Unitarian movement, making the Arlington Street Church one of the first to define itself as Unitarian. On May 17, 2004, the church was the site of the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States. (more)
..and, if you were wondering about that blue cast.. yeah.. it’s deliberate..
..here’s a couple walking down beacon street ( i guess.. 😀 )..
..buddhist monks enjoying the view..
ei, bro.. this is soooo zen!
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empire-zilla
..same place where i got this..
..i was just looking at this photo and instead of the empire state building, i was thinking of godzilla.. how weird.. oh well, time to hit the sack..
..well what do you know, it works! haha..
..taken a year ago this day at the union square subway station.. japanese tapdancers.. that’s what this post’s title is.. tapdancer.. (i’m not sure if it comes out on your system right.. it’s in katakana).. same place where i shot this..
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in a pinch
..while shooting this one, a guy looking like a state trooper approached me and asked if i was with some newspaper or something like that (i guess, you’d have to have a permit for that sort of stuff).. eventually i convinced him that i was just some tourist going around the city.. so i got the usual tourist treatment with the obligatory tour + lecture.. 😀
..an artist showcasing (and selling) her work..
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oohs and aahs
..a pair of ladies looking up at the flatiron building..
..it’s the weekend! i feel like flying.. nah, i’ll just stay in bed..
..taken at the same time when i was out looking for the ‘manhattanhenge’ a few months back.. saw a biker doing some stunts for the CBS morning show thingy so i decided to drop by and shoot a few..
..a little girl doodling on the street.. nyc rocks!? 😀
..money makes the world go round, the world go round.. la la la..
..here‘s something funny to watch this monday (and educational too.. i promise.. all that stuff about photographer’s rights etc. etc.)
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running man
..running man.. that’s a dance move, right?
..this here’s 432 broome street (as seen from google street view).. i’ve passed this place multiple times and often see bustling activity going on inside, however, this time, the door was closed and the mural looked good, so i snapped away.. as it turns out (according to google), this establishment is owned by Josh Hadar of Hadar Metal Designs.. and they make pretty wicked bikes.. check it out here..
..a graffiti-laden ATM somewhere off SoHo…
Answers.com Katsu – (Japanese). In Japanese zen, an expletive uttered by one who has had a breakthrough experience, such as solving a kÅan or realizing enlightenment (bodhi; satori). In ordinary usage, it is a verb meaning ‘to win’ or ‘to gain dominance over’. There is also another word pronounced ‘katsu’ that occurs in Zen literature represented by a different Chinese character which means simply ‘to shout’.
..John Stewart from The Daily Show always ends his show with “your moment of zen”.. well, every payday for me is a moment of zen.. lol! and i end every atm transaction with an expletive.. haha..
..it’s a friday.. too bad the giants aren’t in the superbowl.. tsk3..