Xmas Tree for the One Percent
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Gift store window on Avenue A.
Temperance Moon
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Moonrise over the Temperance fountain in Tompkins Square Park.
Occupy Food
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Marching from La Plaza Cultural Community Garden in the East Village to Liberty Plaza the home of Occupation Wall Street. No GMO. No Fracking, Go Organic.
Faile Wall
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
This has been up for awhile but this was the first chance I’ve had to see it. The distortion comes from the photo being an Autostitch panorama, knit from four photos.
OWS General Assembly Under Krishna Elm
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Early OWS general assemblies were held in Tompkins Square Park underneath the American Elm Tree held sacred by Hare Krishna devotees. Underneath this tree is where their movement started. I took photos in July and September there prior to the occupation of Liberty Plaza. OWS Day 40
Muffin Milk Paste
Friday, September 30th, 2011
I started seeing the tag “Muffin Milk” scrawled on walls around the neighborhood this past February. It is so incongruous, making illegal graffiti with such an innocuous concept, that it makes me laugh. Now it looks like the tagger has gone on to something else. Mickey Mouse body and is that a Nike swoosh?
General Assembly under the Krishna Elm
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Saturday Sept 3 this iconic location under this American Elm in Tompkins Square Park was used for one of the General Assemblies to plan Occupy Wall Street.
Neighborhood History on an Elm Stump
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
This Elm was cut down in 2003 and I shot these photos then. It may have been afflicted with Dutch Elm Disease. Some neighbor nailed wooden tags to the rings giving radical perspectives on local and national history starting in 1931. It looks like the tree was a few years older than that. The stump is no longer there, the tags lasted a few months. The tree was near the corner of 10th Street and Avenue B. No tree has grown there since.
I was inspired to dig these photos out of my archives by the initiation of the online interactive map for my Tompkins Square Park Tree Identification Project. This project is rolling out slowly, I have thousands of photos to edit and add.
I shot these photos in 2003 with my cheap first digital camera and have enhanced the tags for legibility. The 1981 tag refers to the discovery of AIDS. The 1988 tag has police riot scratched out and replaced with “dirty animal.” The 1989 tag mentions Dinkinsville though David Dinkins wasn’t Mayor until 1990.
