I think these are from an Obabma fan, but they could just as easily be from someone looking to make fun of his image.
I haven't seen the traditional finishing flag on top of the Hotel Ludlow yet, but these rebar look shorter than the ones they used for adding a new floor.-
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Hotel Ludlow - Sunrise Moon
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
No More Circuses and Bread
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Message adhered to the street by the “Not so Cool Kids.” Panem et circenses is an ancient Roman metaphor for people choosing food and fun over freedom. - wiki
Ludlow Hotel Lights
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Reminded me of Blade Runner, but then I’d just watched the director’s cut.
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.
