ELA in Love at First Byte
Sunday, August 31st, 2008This is too strange and funny to try to describe.
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Warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
Sunday, August 31st, 2008No-knock police raids and warrantless invasions of property in Minneapolis prior to Republican Convention.
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On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town. - NY Times
Coverage on Salon
Via BoingBoing
Tats Cru Hippies
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
A member of Tats Cru painting the mural wall on East Second Street.
This guy was posing for a photo and seemed happy that I took his picture as well.
Sen. Barack Obama’s Full Speech to the DNC
Friday, August 29th, 2008we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”
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Transcript
Feral Child – Elephants VOTE
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Is it my imagination or are those Elephants rubbing their Republican asses on the Vote again?
New Museum Bowery
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I haven’t been able to persuade myself to visit my neighborhood museum. It could be that it looks too much like a refrigerator, especially with that rainbow refrigerator magnet out front. If they were going for that, they should have gone whole hog with school lunch schedule, crayon drawings and baby pictures. And their website left me completely uninterested in any of the art. A taxidermied headless horse hung by it’s neck, a perverse trophy on the wall, yikes! But it must have a great view, and I feel compelled to get some shots from up there.
This neighborhood was once dominated by new and used commercial kitchen equipment stores. Now only a few remain. The big show was always the messy sidewalk cleaning of used stoves, removing years of carbonized meat fats, using god-knows-what sorts of solvents hosed down the storm drains. The unenviable job employed the homeless,staying in the nearby Bowery flophouses.
Crane Barge – East River Park
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
This crane barge was active at dawn, but the progress in restoring public access to the waterside in the East River Park is glacial.
I wonder how they keep the barge steady enough to support such a long lever arm. I suppose anchors towards the river and some sort of rigid extension on shore. But I couldn’t get close enough to see, I’m shooting through a chain-link fence.
The park was lovely, cool and quiet at that time of the morning. At least it was until the three traffic helicopters parked overhead. They are so annoying, especially when they are parked over my apartment.
This Can’t Possibly be Orchard Street
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
The Earthmen have landed and are terraforming the Lower East Side.
