Quotidian New York: August 29, 2009

The neat green trash of trendy Soho.

The grand gate - entrance to the Manhattan Bridge, Chinatown

At the Atlantic Avenue subway station a pretty lady exits the scene.

Where am I and how did I end up here?

Aboard the Bolt Bus to Baltimore. $15. from NY, wireless and seat belts.

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.

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Quotidian New York

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Sometimes one has to go to Baltimore and Northern Virginia

The wisdom of trees and other items on no particular list

Milk, in another form, quite monstrous

Walking after midnight

creative commons

Who are you??