Walked down Atlantic avenue Saturday night in search if a lottery ticket. Pretty sad but nice walk. :-)

Atlantic avenue Saturday evening

 

Circle line on July 2, 2010. It has been about 15 years since I last took the "cruise" and it is still exciting to see Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and even Jersey from the water. :-)

 

All images I sent and received via Text Message. :-)

MTA's new buses on the M-15. List of bus numbers I have seen; dorky I know but .... ! :-)




Listing of buses: (separate webpage)

iPhone and AT&T usage: (separate webpage)

Last night of fireworks for 2009 at Coney Island. There was a full or nearly full moon which added to the pyrotechnics.

Trip to DC with Michael Quan and Mohamed Ourais. Here are their pictures on the DC Metro riding into town from Maryland.



Mohamed



Michael

SEPTA TO 3OTH STREET STATION

Took the train to Philadelphia on Friday 12/26. Went to see the city, yes but mostly went to get a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich at Rick's in the Reading Terminal Market. Shit was I surprised and disappointed when I found out Rick's had been "forced" to close. Had to settle for a fresh turkey sandwich; it was good but it wasn't a cheesesteak sandwich. I have found that the Philly Cheesesteak sandwich doesn't travel well and it is best in the city of brotherly love.

Long winded intro to the video; Before and into North Philadelphia and then before and into 30th Street Station.

145th Street, Lexington Avenue Line

Waiting with a friend for another one to arrive at 14th Street on the Lexington Ave line; some trains in and out both uptown and downtown.

Out the Window of Cafe-Cafe

Sitting in "Cafe Cafe" on Greene Street in SoHo looking out the front window; not much happens.

TUNNEL ART - NYC SUBWAY

Tunnel art in the tunnel between DeKalb Avenue and the Brooklyn portal of the Manhatten Bridge on the "B" and sometime "D" train.

From Fulton Ferry pier.

Christopher Street at the other Holloween Parade, it is early in the evening gets better.

From the roof of apartment building; N or Q train over the Manhattan Bridge going to Brooklyn.

Evening walk to the river.

Down to the river on a bright sunny autumn day.

Taken from the third floor of Pier 17, South Street Seaport.

Took the free ferry to Ikea on Sunday. Walked around the new Erie Basin Park, old Todd Shipyards in Red Hook. I walked across the street and took this panorama of this "industrial" basin.

Down to the Rockaways to take some pictures of the "surfers". I am not sure how big the surf gets normally but there wasn't much of a surf and there weren't many surfers there.

From St. George to Whitehall on the Staten Island Ferry. Two Coast Guard "gunboats" raced to nowhere with lights flashing and if they had sirens they would have been wailing too.

On a bridge over the Charles River.

Out on the fishing pier this guy was taking a midafternoon nap.

Coney Island again this afternoon. New Nikon Coolpix P5100 camera, dropped one Samsung and kicked the other, so out of convenient video cameras. I am sure this will fill up my harddrives nicely.

Took six(6) videos of different Cyclone runs. I just wanted the first drop. Spliced them together in QuickTime Pro.

Again with the fireworks.

Last night at Coney Island (06/27/2008) fireworks finale.

First night of fireworks at Coney Island.

Coney Island three times last week, twice at night and once on Sunday. Some of the many, many images I took; most of them were on Sunday from the fishing pier.

I was standing on the pier talking to a young fisherman and as I was taking pictures about five or six people came up to me to ask me to take their pictures with the rides in the background. I gladly complied and then took their pictures with the rides and then had to explain to them about the Parachute Jump as I moved them to where I could take their picture with it as the bacground.

Last year in Vienna I was out walking and crossed a bridge over a small train yard.

Pre Xmas gathering at my sister-in-law's

Instead of taking the LIRR from Penn I decided to take it from Jamaica. I took the "J" Train (Jamaica Avenue el) from Essex and was fortunate to have a semi-clean front window.

I hadn't been on the Jamaica Avenue el in the daytime since high school. When I was going to school in Brooklyn, Bishop Loughlin, I sometimes took the Myrtle Avenue el to Myrtle Avenue changed to the Jamaica Avenue el to 168th Street and then the buses home. This was instead of the more direct route: "GG" Clinton Washington to Queens Plaza and then the "E" to 169th Street and then a walk to the 165th Street bus terminal.

Because of the length of the trip and the limitations of Youtube and anyone who views the video, I broke it into six segments:

• Essex to Marcy over the bridge
  
• Marcy to Myrtle
  
• Myrtle to Broadway Junction
  
• Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills
  
• Cypress Hills to Woodhaven
  
• Woodhaven to Parsons Archer
  

Essex to Marcy over the bridge


Marcy to Myrtle


Myrtle to Broadway Junction


Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills



Cypress Hills to Woodhaven


Woodhaven to Parsons Archer

Couldn't even afford a flashing red light!

Budget cuts are happening all over the place. There is no organization safe from them:

Ride up to Dyckman Park via the A Train.
Video of ride from 155th Street to Dyckman St.

Staten Island Ferry from St. George to Whitehall.

Waiting for the Staten Island Ferry watched this young girl play "pickpocket" with her father's MetroCard and pocket.

Down to Coney Island again last evening for the Friday fireworks. Took some good images of them and put them together in a slide show. I have uploaded a version to YouTube:



Had great audio, but alas it is copyrighted so I have removed it.


I can email full sized images if anyone wants them.

Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Sunset over the harbor, taken from water taxi pier in the East River just below Wall Street. It is a sequence of stills put together in a Quicktime movie. The individual images are at .25 seconds.

There is a copter landing from the left.

Found a time lapse video I made in May 2001. I put a web camera at my window and had it take a picture every 15 seconds and then left for work. I returned home later that evening and this is the result:

I was awakened early this morning by the sound of fire engines going down the street. Usually I fall back to sleep as they continue down East Broadway past my window; but this morning they stopped in front. Now I was awake. I live in an old tenement and with the engines stopped just outside; it was time to investigage. I looked out the window and saw that the main activity was two doors down so I could put on some clothes and go out on the fire escape and take some pictures.

Here is a video pan of the engines that showed up for the show. It is taken using the video mode of my Canon PowerShot A95:



B&W version using B&W in the video mode:

Second You Tube upload. This one is a set of still images taken in sequences and put together into a "movie" I like how it tricks the eye into thinking it is has movement. I know that is what a "real" movie does, but this isn't as smooth and yet it still tricks the eye. I had a audio track of a Ray Charles song with it, but copyright rules would frown on it in a public space.

Did my first You Tube upload. It is a movie I took from the first car of an A Train on the way back from JFK. It is pretty hokey, but if you like looking out the door of the first car it isn't bad.

From Orcinus, Dave Niewert's excellent blog;

"The other kind of terrorist

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Hey, here's another addition to that gallery [picture of David McMenemy] (inspired by Michelle Malkin) of terrorists who happen to be white fundamentalist fanatics:...

Jennifer Pozner's Newsday column hits the target precisely:

On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.

No national newspaper, magazine or network newscast reported this attempted suicide bombing, though an AP wire story was available. Cable news (save for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) was silent about this latest act of terrorism in America.

Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism -- even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war."

Some pictures I took during a walk in Inwood Hills Park at the upper limit of Manhattan Island.

Upper Manhattan

During last evening's thunderstorms. I was lucky to make it under a scaffold and awning before the skies really opened up.

New store opening across East Broadway this afternoon.

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According to the news sources , Yahoo, Bush authorized Libby to leak secret information and Chaney is probably involved. Sounds like federal offensed to me. If they both are removed here, from the Cornell Law School US Code collection, is the "Law of Presidential Succession":


TITLE 3 > CHAPTER 1 > § 19 Prev | Next

§ 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act
Release date: 2006-03-20

(a)
(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
(2) The same rule shall apply in the case of the death, resignation, removal from office, or inability of an individual acting as President under this subsection.
(b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

In Slavoj Zizek's book, The Puppet and the Dwarf - The Perverse Core of Christianity he writes:

"The first thing we should add to this today is that the same goes for advocates of religion themselves: how many fanatical defenders of religion started by ferociously attacking contemporary secular culture and ended up forsaking religion itself (losing any meaningful religious experience)? And is it not a fact that, in a strictly analogous way, liberal warriors are so eager to fight antidemocratic fundamentalism that they will end up flinging away freedom and democracy themselves, if only then can fight terror? They have such a passion for proving that non-Christian fundamentalism is the main threat to freedom that they are ready to fall back on the position that we have to limit our own freedom here and now, in our allegedly Christian societies. If the "terrorists" are ready to wreck this world for love of the other, our warriors on terror are ready to wreck their own democratic world out of hatred for the Muslim other. Jonathan Alter and Alan Dershowitz love human dignity so much that they are read to legalize torture -- the ultimate degradation of human dignity--to defend it.

Snow(?) Pile

Snow(?) Pile
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

This is what a snowpile looks after lying on the ground after 4 days in the streets of New York. It redefines the term, "pure as the driven snow!"

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".