Dragon on Mott Street during the Chinatown July 4th parade; on July 3, 2005.

Nick at "Cup and Saucer" coffee shop at Eldridge and Canal Streets.

July 4, 2005 Coney Island sunset.

New Sallie Mae information:

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Sunset last night, 06/24/2005 looking west along 58th Street from Sixth Avenue.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan singing during our INTOX Grassroots fundraiser on Monday June 20, 2005. It was held at the Sundaram Tagore. The event was sponsored by Ibrahim Quraishi artistic director of Compagnie Faim de Siecle and EGO Magazine.

The event was held for CFdS which has been commissioned by the Asia Society to produce a new work 5 Streams. 5 Streams will be workshopped at Mass Moca in October 2005 and premiered at the Asia Society in January 2006.

On the Beach

On the Beach
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Black seems to be a bit impractical for beachwear, especially on a very bright sunny day with temperatures in the high 80s.

Too much of a good thing!

Too much of a good thing!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Can a person wear too much green? Obviously she doesn't think so.

Mother of 16 year old pleads...

"I don't want to live here anymore," the mother said. "I always
thought that this country is better for my children, but now..." She
broke off and began sobbing. "She's just 16," she cried. "I just want
my daughter. Please, can you help me?"

--Shobak.org

16 year old Bangladeshi girl held as a "terrorist"

From A 16 year old Bangladeshi girl has become the target of a terrorist
investigation. We believe she is being scapegoated unfairly and
victimized. Her lawyer has failed to represent her and Bangladesh
consulate in NY has (shamefully) failed to take any action on her
behalf.

-- Shobak.org

By Neil Steinberg in this mornings New York Daily News:

Excuses make heads spin — scout's honor

"Is there a postive spin that the Boy Scouts of America hasn't applied to Douglas Smith, a top scout official, pleading gulty to possessing a huge cache of child pornography? None of the boys in the hundreds of photos was a scout — well that's good! And no actual scouts seem to have been involved — also good! He did his ogling at home and not at work — a plus! And he's really, really sorry.

Did the scouts leave anything out? At least Smith isn't gay — that would be violation of scout rules."

Is anyone surprised there are no civilian border guards watching the borders of the United States where good old europeans can get in? Again Orcinus gets it right.

Fire in Greenpoint II

Fire in Greenpoint II
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

After doing taxes for a friend in Greenpoint, took a slight detour to the last dousing of a three story house fire. They were just setting up the final barricades and I was chased by a self-important volunteer cop (auxilary policeman).

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Took a two bridge walk on Sunday; Brooklyn Bridge through DUMBO and back to Manhattan over the Manhattan Bridge. Goal is to make it a four bridge walk; BB to MB to Williamsburg Bridge to 59th Street Bridge and subway back.

Gate Reflections 1

Gate Reflections 1
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

There will be thousands of pictures of The Gates on all sorts of pages. I think the pictures are an attempt, a feeble one, to portray what the photographer experienced.

I add a couple of my own.

Look here for a sequence of the gates blowing.

Thank you Christo!!
Entrance to the Park on Fifth Avenue in the mid 60s with The Gates stilled wrapped,
...and later in the morning.
Reflections on a pond in the Park...

Hey You up against the wall

Two wall paintings on Mott Street, just below Broome Street.

Eyes are upon you!

Eyes are upon you!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

If you have the feeling that someone may be following you or looking over your shoulder while walking on the mezzenine level of the Chambers Street, WTC subway station, you may be right!

It is now officially less than 4 years before a new president. Less than 4 years of bush unless he tells us that he heard from god that he should have a thrid term and there was no need to hold an election since it was god that declared that bush should have a third term.

Foggy morning pictures.

Again waiting for the bus on Second Avenue last night and took more sequences. The movie size is 1.7 mb and the images are again played at .5 seconds each. The same critical review as before. I apologize for the clashing colors that surround the images, but I like ugly colors.

Was waiting for the bus on Second Avenue last night and rested my camera against the bus stop and took some sequences of 10 pictures each and put them in a quicktime move. The movie size is 1.2 mb and the images are .5 seconds each. It is not particularily exciting "video".