Three popular ways to get around the city,
decreasing in expense from left to right.
If you were blind and had an eye operation and this was the first
thing you saw, you’d probably think your eyes were still fucked up.
The standard method of gravity-based suicide is to jump from
a building to the street. But in Manhattan the buildings are
tall enough that you could do it by jumping off one building
and splattering yourself on the roof of another.
Still, I bet no one’s ever done it; it just doesn’t have
the cachet (I almost said “impact”) of the sidewalk death.
This Chatham Square apartment complex was supposed to be straight,
but the architect left the model too close to the heater and it warped.
When it came time to build they just went with it.
The matches on this Lower East Side soccer pitch are admittedly not as
exciting as the ones on Univision, but you can still get stabbed by
angry Brazilians, Chinese or Peruvians for giving up a goal.
This is the absolute last stretch of ungraffiti’ed concrete
in Manhattan. Guarantee you it’s gone by tomorrow.
Just ask the owner of this building.
In Corona, Queens, you can go into a bar and find Mexicans drinking
Corona. It’s like finding gym nuts living in a part of town called
Protein Shake, or French people living in Bordeaux.
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Funny enough, my first response to the ungraffitied wall was "What the hell is that?".
four ways if you count the reflection of the girl walking in the scooter.
oops, y "girl walking" i mean "person taking photo." it looked like a woman in a hat walking away for a minute, sorry. but my eyes aren't that good.
Those chandeliers remind me of the light stores in Korea. You can buy chandeliers shaped like pirate ships of olde.
That last guy looks like he's walking those bikes.
"That last guy looks like he's walking those bikes."
Hah! Good one.
"...but the architect left the model too close to the heater..."
Being an engineer, i found this entry especially funny. We once worked on a project that way extremely delayed b/c the arch designed the building as a splitting log and it took forever to find a way to fireproof the wood exterior they demanded. Stupid artsies.
When are you going to grow up and get married?
too much unmarked concrete is never good.
hm.. seems to have less comments now that u've switched from LJ.
Do you take the picture then caption later or do you already have the caption in your mind as you take it?
both the pics & captions are true gems.
Man, you and your photographer buddies could have some serious fun with this site.
http://posingwithpickles.com
You'd set that place on fire.
Peace.