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The definitive self-portrait gallery from Burningman 2009 from my uber-geek pal wrybread.
This year’s batch has been edited of some Inappropriate behavior and nudity but it still is NSFW. The backgrounds are all green screened.
I’m not sure if that squawk you hear in the middle of the video is coming from Emily or a squeaky car door.
Turns out that Emily may actually be named Samantha.
A lucky composition, as the artists working on the right skateboarded in front of my camera, as I was shooting the spraypaint action of the artist on the left. This was last Saturday at the Howl Festival.
Around 8:30 this morning I saw high school students being hurried east along Houston Street. I figured they must be heading to a September 11′th memorial of some sort. The most likely local spot, I thought, would be the local firehouse on East Second Street. I hurried out, but they were out of sight by the time I hit the street. Well they weren’t headed to the firehouse. The only memorial I saw there at 8:46 was one guy testing a loud powerful saw, the kind used to cut through metal. I took it as a tribute of sorts, a wake-up-call perhaps.
“5-5-8087″ is what comes in on the teletype, it indicates a fifth alarm assignment at box 8087” – the World Trade Center.
I went to see if Emily would make an appearance at sunset. Four out of five times that I pass the cemetery, Emily is nowhere to be found. It is hard to catch her unaware, I have yet to do it. If she is anywhere near the fence when I show up, she’s hopped to the rear of the cemetery by the time I’ve gotten her focused.
If I were a real wildlife photographer, I would bring a heavy tripod a better camera and put mosquito netting over my blind. But this is hand held footage from my pocket camera on full optical zoom, and the camera jammed against the iron fence, it came out pretty shaky. Mosquitoes were biting my legs. Give me a break.
The unconfirmed story is that she has a broken wing and was brought here from Utah. You can see the level of her mobility in the video, hopping up and down branches.
Manhattan was almost empty this Labor Day weekend. The singer for SoundHouse worked it hard in Tompkins Square Park at the Howl Festival.
Neighborhood artist, Sally Young, at her booth at the Howl Festival in Tompkins Square Park. On the bottom left is a book of her photos of graffiti, top middle is a sack of photos of the destruction of the Cooper Union Hewitt Building, top right is a chess set, bottom right are buttons made from her photos.
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Japanese drumming troupe, Taikoza, at the Howl Festival in Tompkins Square Park on Sunday.
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