Quotidian New York: September 1, 2014

Summer in Venice, a ride along the Grand Canal. What you cannot sense from this video is the soft quality of the air in Venice. Beautiful and dreamy, regardless of crying babies and people elbowing you right and left just to get a view. No complaints from me!

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

Monday, September 1, 2014

Riding the vaporetto in Venice, Italy

The two o'clock bells at Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan

creative commons

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