Quotidian New York: February 21, 2009

I spied a nasty-looking board on the street, with many nails hammered into it. After looking at it for a while, I realized it was what was left of a home-made Christmas tree. Ingenious, if not somewhat dangerous. And still, it was left curb-side, which is exactly what people do with their real Christmas trees. And who's to say it's not 'real?'

My walks and rides through everyday New York, mostly in Brooklyn, sometimes elsewhere.

A sketchbook of photos and movies..from photography to witnessing, from space to place.

Reading Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, I have to reaffirm the value of observation in the sphere of the everyday - some of quite casual, and none of it objective - as the first step in creating social change.

Reading Marc Auge's Non-Places: Introduction to An Anthropology of Supermodernity, it's easy to recognize the human specifics, traces and personalizing that occurs in places and non-places alike. Places tell stories.

Hey! these are original images (except for war photographs from Jan 15, 2009), so please contact me if you think you might be thinking about downloading anything. My photos and movies are, in fact, licensed. See license info link on this page. Thanks.

Quotidian New York

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Crown Heights - on my way to pick up some take-out from Chavella's, arguably the best Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn

Back in Crown Heights, what one observes

Upper East Side Shop Window - Decked Out, American-style

creative commons

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