12/14/12 Night
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Wandering around my Lower East Side neighborhood on Friday evening, amazingly quiet. Music guitar improvisations over an Otomata backing track.
Friday Night on Stanton Street
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
12/12/12 Night
Thursday, December 13th, 2012
I took my camera on the streets of my neighborhood on the evening of 12/12/12. Nothing in particular was happening so it needed something to tie the footage together. I improvised the guitar music over a track created in Otomata, an online program that creates music similar to the way cellular automata like the Game of Life creates movement. The audio is a bit over-modulated, but what the hell, I got it done before midnight. I’ll do better next time.
The girl in red asked me what I was doing and could I take her picture. I told her I was shooting time exposures and yes, if she could stay absolutely still for 3 seconds.
Suffolk Lot Buttresses
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
The wall around the lot at Suffolk and East Houston Street, soggy from the rain, peeled open at a corner revealing what’s behind. Buttresses appear to be holding up the adjacent empty building.
Random Walk Around the Neighborhood
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Vacant lot on Attorney Street.
It was a gray Sunday afternoon here in NYC. I had no inspiration for a photo destination. So I flipped a coin: heads, I go out, tails I watch Netflix. It was heads. I grabbed my gear and a die. Jiggled it in my pocket a couple of times then looked at it to see which side was up. 1: I go north, 2: go south, 3: go east, 4: go west, 5&6 continue in the direction I was heading. At every intersection I repeated the process. If I was unable to proceed I rolled the die until I could. The process is weighted so that it will take me further afield, by going in the same direction more often. But you can change the rules to suit your taste. For example 5 could be stay in that spot and try to find something interesting to shoot for five minutes. And 6 could be pick your own direction. The idea is to take me to places in my neighborhood that I don’t normally go. These particular rules are ideal for a city street grid, but they can be modified for suburban strolls by substituting: left, right, forward, backwards, etc. If the roll takes you back the direction you came, walk on the other side of the street.
The result today was, the sun came out, and I got a bunch of photos that I would never have found if I didn’t go on a random neighborhood walk.
Looks like this location on Avenue C for the New York City Housing Authority is for rent.
Not sure what to make of this paste-up piece off Avenue C, but maybe it makes cents to you.
I interpret this sidewalk piece on Stanton Street to say I kill you.
Sandy, Emergency Food and Water
Saturday, November 10th, 2012
The National Guard and Operation Blessing handing out food on the Lower East Side.
Outside Hamilton Fish Park.
Meals Ready to Eat and bottled water given out by the National Guard.
What is inside an MRE?
At Our Lady of Sorrows Church.
I saw this truck having a hard time making the turn onto Stanton Street early Friday morning.
The food given away by Operation Blessing.
A generator was set up to charge cell phone batteries.
East River Park after Sandy
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
The most damage I saw to trees from Sandy was in the East River Park. A pin oak, maybe this squirrel’s home, damaged by Sandy.
This playground flooded during Irene as well.
I thought it was unusual that this Linden tree’s trunk snapped instead of the dislodging the roots.
These trees snapped a lamp-post.
You can see that the water topped these benches.
Remnants of bee hives, that I think were housed at the Ecology Center, were scattered all along the path.
Sandy Storm, Monday Evening
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
The downtown skyline around 9:30 after the power went out. I think that’s the Goldman Sachs building with its own power.
Sandy from about 6 PM to 9.
Red Square on East Houston Street.
Pre-Sandy
Sunday, October 28th, 2012
It was a little breezy, and misty but otherwise pleasant on the East River Promenade this afternoon.
Fishing and running.
Duct taped basement entrance on Clinton Street.
Housing on Delancey Street near the East River. This was the only window I saw taped. I’m fairly sure this building is in Zone 1, but I saw little sign of evacuation.
These people, heading west on 10th street near Avenue A were either evacuating from Zone 1 or dressing as evacuees for a Halloween Party. Aside from them I saw little sign of evacuation or panic buying. I did not see long lines or empty shelves in the markets I passed on Clinton, B, or A.
The Remedy Diner taped up and nearly deserted.
City parks closed at 5.
I heard the Mayor say that all high rise construction sites have been inspected and secured against the wind. These are the cranes on the top of WTC1, this afternoon.
Pan on Rivington Street
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
