Quotidian New York: September 23, 2014

A wrapped building just a block from my house.

Stay with it for a minute and watch the wind move between the building and the blue covering...and the background sounds are of a little tailgate party happening just down the block.

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

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Billowing blue building on Van Buren Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

creative commons

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