mo hop in chinatown. this car was parked on the sidewalk (like on the sidewalk) as you leave mo hops. it had correctional facility plates and pass. Mo Hops is just around the corner from the courts so cops and criminals go there to eat late at night.
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dead buttons in chinatown.
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ricky powell's slideshow was funny. amongst photos of run DMC, famous graffiti guys, rockstars he also had more touching photos such as ones he'd taken off TV, ones of his cat and ones of chicks he'd had sex with. hey homeboy, throw in the towel,
your girl got dicked by ricky powell.
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so this guy comes up to me at a slide show by ricky powell and says "hey dude, watch your backpack" i'm like "yeah sorry, did i hit you?" he's like "no dude, i just worry, you know... backpacks". anyway so this is a photo of ricky powell with my backpack.
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company name "federal standard abstract" it's solid, yet random...
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man fills soy sauce bottles from other soy sauce bottles in chinatown.
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the better photo was from the other angle, out on the street.
this is paul.
paul, this is up for you so you can see the photo as we discussed.
hey, click on the link below to leave a comment so i know you saw it.
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MoMa. Girl on stairs.
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MoMa. Went back to the museum of modern art with my friend 's members pass which meant i skipped all the lines. This is an excellent infinite-reflection art thing. we're lookin through a 1-way mirror (like in line-ups on cop shows), looking at reflective things.
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line. this is a line to go up to see the top of the empire state building. here you see it going down one side of the building. you don't see (and these people couldn't possibly imagine) it going down the other side to get into the door. then the line that snakes through the building, down the escalator (that could be hilarious), then finally to where you line up for tickets. then you line up to get to an elevaltor (that's where i lined up for 20 minutes and they warned people that there was zero visability) to... to...to... another line where you swap elevators to go up the rest of the floors. even when i went up, the people up here were reassuring visitors "it's all right, you're almost there" , then there's another lining up area to get outside. fuck. the people down below would be there for like 4 hours lining up.
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left for dust.
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this is me chasing one of those little police buggys on my bike. it looks so funny with it's siren on. as you can see it's braking as we speak. sucker.
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riding up the east river on the way to the australian consulate to find out if my soaked passport (from the rain the other night) is too fucked-up to use. it's a sunny day, i am pretty pleased.
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this homeless guy is going through his rubbish as i am riding by. what is so great about him is that he has a turban made out of rubbish too.
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this is where the world trade center buildings used to be. man, they are not there anymore. i was talking to someone in brooklyn about 11/9 and they mentioned the horrible smeel of flesh and gasoline in the air for days after. the other friends in brooklyn still have a piece of paper that floated over the river into their backyard. it was a chared ledger full of unemployment numbers
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the wait to go on the helicopter was about 2 hours. it was a bit like waiting for a ride at the show, where once you're comitted, you can't go back. the best bit was taking off and landing... totally exciting.
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this man is taking my photo so he can sell it back to me when i get off the helicopter.
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helicopters are great.
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this guy delivers paint in a daniel boon racoon hat.
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this is the building where they filme "the late show" with david letterman. next door is the cafe the cut to during the show. i remember one episode where letterman hit baseballs from this roof. new york is so famous.
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this guy is not crazy but he does rule the world. he walked by while i was eating pizza. his coat is like fur (hopefully real) and his turtle neck has "floyd" embroidered on it.
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here i am enjoying a pizza and the readily avaliable diet doctor pepper. i am watching crazy people go by on the street.
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i went to the museum of modern art today. outside are these "garbage flowers" where some nice man has... well made flowers from garbage.
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fao shwartz is pure greatness
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fao shwartz is pure evil
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this i think is a serial killer family wagon. if you're whole family of serial killers wants to go on a road trip, everyone hops into one of these. killing spree.
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more great old decaying signage. i don't know what would be so "porto" about steel "portovaults"
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deadbike detail. the man in the bar yesterday who had liked the deadbike idea was waxing on about how nice details would look in black and white. he imagined getting photos of cats walking past spokes of dead bikes, with shadows falling on walls. i tried to get a cat into this photo but it would not have a bar of it.
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tsubi opening night. this was horrible. so many hipsters. i foolishly went deep inside trying to find josh and / or a drink, all i found was someone trying to get deeper in than me saying sh heard they had animals here. i don't think they did.
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what a nice town new york is. i've always found that if you go into a bar and start talking, people start talking back.
i got (un)intentionally trapped in a little bar today where the nice barlady kept buying me drinks. had an excellent day watching people change over / come and go. lots of great manhattan moments.. the guy who's father was a bookie but got run out of business by cocaine syndicates, a guy from jersey who kept buying stuff from dudes selling stuff (a little reading light, a hat that had earphones in it (he lived in florida)), a guy who i'd met before and was nicely imbued by the dead bike idea as a photographer. great.
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there is no photograph allowed in the guggenheim. but here are the toilets. as you'll notice, not much knee space and not very arty.
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me in a big mirror installation in the gugghenheim.
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more pigeons, in central park
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so my adventures on the bicylce in manhattan cam to a great/evil culmination when it started pouring down with rain. once i had resolved to get wet though, each taxi that sprayed me with sheets of water just added fuel to my enjoyment of the evening. see also : turning up to a bar and having to ring my socks out in the toilet. this is a picture from underneath my umbrella in the rain.

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time square in the rain. from a distance, like akihabara, but with more starbucks.
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this bike is still half alive. but it's been badly hurt by that guitar cable. again, if it was not tied up the bike easily could have escaped.
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dead toys. not really sure if they are dead or just innocently hoping someone will pick them up. out of the trash. when a toy gets thrown in the trash, it loses it's hugability. if i was a toy, i would prefer to be dead.
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ever wondered where you find redemption? stop seeking. it is here at the redemption office.
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this is on the way to brooklyn in a pt cruiser with the top down. the driver is just learning to drive and the top is caught half way up behind my head.
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panorama of brooklyn. where i have put the orange dot is where there will be a sports stadium. designed by frank gehry. amazing
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o.k. maybe the cop with the gold tooth with the star was a great "only in new york" moment. but this might trump it. Meet Ms. Subways.
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in the stairwell of friends appartment block in brookln. a stack of tapes (the top one is "rock the boat") and a full box of medical surgical masks (with earloops). something pretty amazing about to happen here me thinks.
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this is al. his father is frank gehry which meant he had occassion to use one of the greatest conversation openers i heard all day "oh yeah, my dad is on the simpsons tonight"
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this nice policeman helped me find delancy station. he had a gold tooth with a star on it. when you get asked if someone can take a photo of your tooth, you have to smile like this.
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dead bike. this one was accross the road from the one that moved. it was very beautiful, white bones, mostly gone.
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oh my dog this is one of the already documented dead bikes but it had moved. i'm starting to feel a little weird, like someone's watching me, and they don't want me to know too much.
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o.k. this was a unexpectedly funny. i was in a bar,, waiting for people (yo people) and they were chatting about laundry.i told them that while i couldn't guarantee it, i thought i had a laundry trick that if i showed it to them it would blow their minds.the chick with her thumb up in the photo has taken her t-shirt off and provided it for me to do the trick to (i thought lea would be proud). thank god, everyone had their mind blown and they reassured me they would never forget (me). thankyou chinese / japanese laundry folding trick.
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nice moment riding down a manhattan street. you get people trying to hail cabs with their hands up in the air top flag one down... me on my bike screams out "yeah high five" and slaps hands with dude hailing cab. everyone left happy to be in new york city.
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in union square. many years ago i was in new york and had wheatgrass for the first time. today i had it again, from the same people. this was heart warming.
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dead bike. looks like it may have been beaten up with that plank before giving up.
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