Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Currently: Buenos Aires |
Gay Pride I
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The Venezuelans
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Tickets to the Pier Dance [I didn't go]
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Will [my brother] & Caren
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| Me & Will I went to a party on Greenwich St. & Charles at the end of the Parade route and watched the floats go by. My blogging friends each wrote quite personal reflections on gay pride: Luc, Bryan, and Aaron. |
| I'm working to get my Gay Pride pictures from Sunday edited but in the meantime here's a backlog shot. |
The Plaza behind 1166
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| I enjoy the plaza behind 1166 6th Avenue [at 46th street]. It's sheltered from the street, very nicely landscaped and is always filled with people during the day. Apparently it was renovated not so long ago by a firm named Hoffmann Architects. It looks like the made the present plaza more reader friendly [chairs instead of fountains]. City Hall has a website listing such 'privately owned public spaces'. Interestingly, while I was taking pictures one of the building's security goons told me to stop. Enjoy the "public" space but don't expect to excercise your public rights. |
Those Umbrellas
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| I'm sure there's some factory in China churning out those cheap black umbrellas with the oddly curved handle that are always sold on the street in New York. I go thru about four or five of these per year and I've always bought them on the street; $3 when sunny, $5 in the rain. I just discovered that a 99cent store very near my office sells them. |
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| I love my mini-disc player. It's inferior to an iPod in all ways except two: It gets 52 hours on a single AA battery and I bought it used for $60. [I just checked on eBay and they're selling between $25-50] At the highest compression rate you can fit 5 hours of music on a single disc which is usually enough. For a weekend trip I'll take along two or three discs and I don't have to worry about bringing along a charger. You can record discs from a computer but Sony makes you use their shitty software and record in ATRAC format. Since my model as audio-in recording I just hook it up to my computer and record in real-time, leaving it to record overnight while I sleep [longer but easier]. |
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| Tin tile ceiling at Bread, a good sandwich place at 20 Spring St. I found this blog of a couple posting their 1980 vacation photos from South America. Lots of faded colors and 70's styles. I liked this one of a street dancer in Brazil. |
Guggenheim
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| There was this work by Donald Judd, one of his typical minimalist boxes. It was laid on the slanted floor. This just seemed wrong. A square box in a round building. |
Dia:Beacon
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| This is inside of one of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. Dia:Beacon doesn't allow photography [the bastards] so we had to sneak these photos when their hipster security goons weren't looking. |
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| My friend Luc went back to France on Tuesday. We had a lot of fun hanging out in the city. I'll miss him. |
New York City Panorama
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| I love the New York City Panorama at the Queens Museum of Art. Among the many details I can analyse for hours is the way the housing projects on the Lower East Side really stand-out from the tenements. Damn you, Robert Moses. |
Unisphere
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New York State Pavilion
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| Gems of the 1964 World's Fair. The Pavilion, designed by Philip Johnson and now abandoned, makes me think of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. It looks like some building on Trantor after the fall of the empire. [more photos from today, from 1964 and background]. |
Flushing
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| I had a great meal at Spicy & Tasty in Flushing. As a neighborhood Flushing seems totally oblivious to Manhattan. The Municipal Art Society has an exhibit of Photos of Governor's Island. I went there last summer [my photos] on one of the first tours they did. |
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| I was at the Met yesterday [again]. At the end of the Christo and Jean-Claude exhibit were... Christo and Jean Claude [!] talking about their gates project for Central Park. Jean-Claude insisted that her hair color was not the inspiration for the color of the gates. |
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