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| Someone has created a timeline of radical history to correspond to the annual rings of this American Elm that was cut down recently. Avenue B near Tenth Street on the East side of Tompkins Square Park. Read full account. |
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| 1931 is the earliest date in the center of the stump. "Dutch elm disease reaches the United States." |
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| 1953 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg executed. |
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| 2001 – Loss of rights through Patriot Act. |
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| Dancing around the fire, Tompkins Square Park. See more here. |
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| Here’s a few video captures from Tompkins Square on the night of the blackout. Getting decent frame captures is a laborious ordeal using my Snappy device. This frame was illuminated by someone’s flash, giving me a fairly sharp image. But the images come out much grainier than they appear on the television monitor. Out of about 80 attempted captures I’ve gotten three images somewhat worth showing. I even tried photographing the monitor with my digital camera, but the exposure time of the camera gives me two or more frames resulting in a blurry mess. |
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| This guy was getting cheers for his fire jumping prowess. |
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| He takes a bow. Scroll down to see the morning after of this bacchanal. |
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I’m putting these photos up shortly after midnight on the 16th, but posting them to the blog dates they were taken.
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I was at 101st Street and West End Avenue when the power went out at 4:11 PM. I was lucky I could easily have been stuck on the subway at that time. I talked to a couple of young women covered in soot, who said that was what had happened to them. By the time I reached these skaters in Central Park my feet were aching in my worn out sneakers. |
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| The mobile hot dog vendors in Central Park, independent of grid power, had long lines of people anxious to eat anything. |
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| Why these clocks stopped a full forty minutes after the power went out is a mystery. It was around 6 when I passed by. 52nd and Madison. |
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| Waldorf hotel workers forced onto the street by the blackout. |
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| Second Avenue around 50th Street. So many people were walking home that they took to the street when they could. |
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Sunset, looking west on Houston Street near Essex Street. I have some video footage from later that night of a wild scene in Tompkins Square Park. I’ll have some still captures from it up soon. |
| The air is thick, foul and lacking in oxygen. No pix of mine today are worth posting. Instead I bring you this manufactured absurdity. |
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Flying shrub action figure. $39.99 |
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| A truck that tells us it has "Home-Like Food." Mmmmm! Broadway and 100th Street. |
Not quite Donald Duck. What’s with the black sideburns and green ass? Maybe it’s Donald in disguise? I’m sure Walt wouldn’t have let this mutant out of his factory. That red step/protuberance is a definitely a bit strange. These kiddy rides with extremely ugly paint jobs are all over the Upper West Side. Broadway near 100th street.
Repaint April 2007. The pink tail is an interesting touch.
Nice spray job on this one, in front of Two Boots on Avenue A. February 2006.
Another interpretation, Grand Street in Chinatown.
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| Adam Purple about a quarter second before I had to jump out of his way as he came up on the sidewalk at Second Avenue and Second Street. Behind him is the Anthology Film Archives located in a former courthouse. |
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