Comments about focus

There are 100 comments about "focus"

Who Cares for Kensingtion: OG FROM GCC, Good piece! Take it back 1 block at a time. All in a given block may not participate, but those that do should stick together and clean it from end to end...and......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

C: I haven't read all of the posts, but have read many. It was quite interesting to find this post when doing a random search for something else. My family and I moved here......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Who Cares for Kensington: I'll leave race out of my comments and will continues to focus on the radical change of culture and values. The changes are what thay are and I am sure that the government nor activists......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Peter: i noticed the rear-view shots; nice technique. they threw me at first as everything wasnt in reverse. tricky! i love these little series that are borne from the everyday banal stuff... whether it be passing through......

in response to: McBuffin by EvilGentleman

Anon: Anything done in public is public domain, and international law, as a whole, is of this mindset, both legally and socially. It's quite simple, actually. Don't want someone taking photos of it? Then don't do......

in response to: A Homeless Man Sleeping with His Most Cherished Possession by Leroy Allen Skalstad

EvilGentleman: Jennifer, you must be unfamiliar with this site to post comments such as you did above. If you browse CE's other articles, which you can do by clicking on his name just under the main......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

EvilGentleman: This was one of the more educational posts that I have done, at least in the sense that I learned a lot from doing this post. When I initially shot the photos, I was focused on......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

B Street: I grew up across the street from one of the few working factories in Kensington starting in 1965 until I was forced out 22 years later. While I too have fond memories of wall ball, swimming......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Jilch: I agree with several postings here. I love living here in Jax. I am a technology professional, who lives in the south side of the city, which is much cleaner than a lot of parts......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Joe : It has been interesting to follow the postings here and I have tried to have some open sessions with others that shared my history. I will continue to follow the postings in the future, but......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Yet ANOTHER New Jack (not the ones above): YO BILROCK, thats a wack move calling him out like that. You just obviously wanna shift the focus onto this person's identity, and are totally ignoring the very valid points he's makin. Are you are......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

CB : It is easy for anyone to put down our inner city areas and declare them a war zone. But the truth of the matter is that if we had more people involved to make change......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Tex: Since Hutchinson is such a great and growing town (LOL), and no one really wants to go there, they lost their airport traffic years ago, then they lost the bus depot which is really a......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Nobody: Saul- perhaps sarcasm doesn't travel well through the internet. I do have a few points for your consideration, though: 1. "thats there [sic] idea of a community. Whose idea? The people who live in the projects? I......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Tex: The powers to be will never focus on building Hutchinson to be a city that provides for it's working middle class or enable people to get the education they have to have to get there.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Tex: You are absolutely right, we should be thankful for what we have and the great country that we live in. We are very blessed and fortunate to live in a country where we have......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Junito: If this discussion had taken place face to face the Kings and Folks would have shot at each other and hit another innocent victim. This is probably how Miquel died. Lets stop the violent comments......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

BILROCK-161, RTW.: Post-84 new jack, Nobody was dissing new writers in general. Only the young pups who think who-the-f_ck they are, and all they do is throw-ups???. You should check whom you call an "old Geezer. The only......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

jeeff: "block-busting" is a little different than what you describe, and probably not exactly what went on here. in the US, real estate agents would leave pamphlets and things in target neighbourhoods warning that minorities......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

Tex: Yes I loved Hutch, I especially loved it when I was able to leave town and come down here to Texas and get a job that paid over twice as much as what I was......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Michawl Weston: New York City graffiti trains were the 80s. Today these kids paint the stainless steel trains just for a picture!! The trains dont even move out of the spot they were painted because they say......

in response to: NYC Graffiti Train, 1995 by Metro

magu nguru: well i have a website that aims to focus on development issues for the country and to inspire growth and the like well for cheche do you have any ideas on how to improve the......

in response to: A Call for Reason in Our Country Kenya by magu nguru

Elicar: Thank you! I like the first two! I took so many pictures of the second one because I can't seem to focus. When I did focus, the white background did not make it so clear! There......

in response to: After the Storm by Elicar

Diane Dole: Hi Tammy, it has been a while since we have seen each other we have had some great times together in the past. When we all got together especially at our guild meetings we thourougly......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

XXXXXXXXXXX: I don't really understand what happened with the whole Saber/River dis, or why the all city king of NYC would do that, the reasoning behind it, or what. I guess there are too many rumors......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Former Kansas Resident: I won't elaborate with a story, but I know from first hand experience that the judicial system in Hutchinson does have corruption. The focus is on making money and not administrating justice. It's basically......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Pettis - December 09, 2007: Your comments resonate the truth in so many ways. When you peel back the years, you'll find that many families raise their children in the Henry Horner Homes. The Mitchell family was a......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

EvilGentleman: I still come back and look over this article every once in a while. This time, I followed a link on Wikipedia leading here. The memories have begun to fade, yet that last shot, the one......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

Cloned Prince: I wrote a Parkour Rap! Things just aint the same for todays traceurs, Cops and pigs want to see us in handcuffs Yamakasi and the Belle are aging, The old traceurs, well they're all changing, Making way for new......

in response to: Parkour Trip to Lisses by Ben Nuttall

Peter: dangerduckie: if theyre in {cleveland} or {detroit}, it would be hard for them to qualify for the title of ##ugliest buildings in {new york}##, yeah? sure, {nyc} has more run-down and burned out places- it is,......

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

Mark: Thanks for posting the photos of Barton power station; they have assisted me enormously with my research. I'm a legal academic in the field of environmental law and am putting the final touches to a......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

CartLegger: To me, its about one's inner relation to the outer environment. The terms was originally conceived of by the Situationists of 1960's France as an conceptual art activity focusing on one's experience of space. More recently, American......

in response to: Conflux Festival: CrippleBush Ghost Tour by CartLegger

Momma' Becky's daughter: Well, I actually Don't think that Hutchinson Is all THAT terrible... I mean, I know it's really not a whole lotta' fun, and there isn't much to do here... but the beauty of becoming an......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

QQbiker: Not yet. LowJack is an option, but they focus on cars. Quite expensive....

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

Former Salt Hawk: I read this multitude of comments with bemusement, shock and sorrow. I was born and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and, like the old familiar Neil Young lyric, "All my memories are there". ......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

EvilGentleman: Testosterone makes us men do silly things. If I had been there, I may have snapped a few focused on the models, a few focused on the cars, and a few focused on the crowd.......

in response to: Train Station Gawkers by Chiamattt

CE: According to an article in ##The Star## "...eviction notices were sent to tenants at 48 Abell St., an old three-storey warehouse occupied by artists, designers and the like. The building, whose fate has been the......

in response to: 48 Abell Bites the Dust? by jeeff

Sandinista: Yea I think edmonton should be higher on this list but its always so poorly photographed. I agree calgary's is better in fact probably the second best but not that much better than edmonton. I......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

CE: So is the AUP a high school with an urban planning focus or is it a college? I just don't understand the New Century High School Initiative that they talk about in the video....

in response to: Destructionconstruction by jack

CE: There's a dedicated academy of Urban Planning in New York? I have been toying with the idea of trying to get a high enough GPA to be able to go to Columbia someday to......

in response to: Destructionconstruction by jack

EvilGentleman: We have both tended to focus on the area of downtown near Guy-Concordia metro, probably due to our being Concordia students. I also hang around with the native crowd in the west end of downtown,......

in response to: RCA Building by Cinic

Angebee: I live in one of these buildings. The architects won all sorts of awards for the fact that we have a "green" project. What people don't know is that the architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Joseph Nash: Scott, I love the fact that you highlighted only one small piece of the town. As Nicole mentioned there are many other fascinating things to be seen and talked about in Bessie. I grew up here......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 6 by Scott Sargent

Jamie: I thought so. I took more photos but I had my new camera on full manual and i screwed up both the exposure and focus on all but two shots. Jack, that's a truly graphic......

in response to: A Walk Along The Embankment by Jamie

iman: that's not a suprising name for a gay bar, i mean, most gay guys seem to really focus on their looks....

in response to: Le Stud by EvilGentleman

CartLegger: If you need a good cameraphone with lots of space, try a Sony Ericcson W810i (cingular). With a 4 GB card, I use it for my MP3 player, recorder, and camera. And its like a real......

in response to: Is It Something I Said? by CartLegger

Laura : Thanks for the comments, everyone. Joe- I hear you. I have only been around in the world for 25 years, but the quality of life in this neighborhood in just that short amount of......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

upfromflames: Clarifications: I’ve found out a lot more about the Bushwick Initiative this week, after talking to Annie Marie Mirez, who helped to develop the program and currently helps to oversee it for HPD. The first thing......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

EvilGentleman: I would agree with the majority of what has been said, but I will state my opinions on each issue, so it becomes obvious where I stand. I think the best way to have notification on......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

Hunter : I am not under the impression that any of these murals were intentionally dictated to Leo Tanguma by some elite agency. Instead, I think he may have been picking up on some type of a......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

upfromflames: Well, the show is called Up From Flames: Mapping the Recovery of Bushwick 1977-2007 Its focussed on the redelevelopment of Bushwick, as a success of urban planning. Much of the work is being carried out by......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: The dentist is on the 2nd floor. As I was coming down the stairs, thankful to still have a bunch of teeth in my head, I noticed the sunlight was making this shadow on the......

in response to: Backwards Dentist by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

upfromflames: If its history does that mean it's over? we'll find out this summer, when a Bushwick exhbition hits the Brooklyn Historical Society. We are a group of teachers working with the Academy of Urban PLanning at......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

little ukraine: uke suits me fine - thanks very much for the kind words, jack! i graduated from nyu in may; i recall discussing the NYU library with your daguther on here a few months back.......

in response to: Around New York by little ukraine

anon (localhost): Yes...this is the Birmingham....where the tragic bombing "4 little girls" occured. In some ways, I think the focus of the world made most of us look at ourselves and re-evaluate our attitudes...thus dealing with the......

in response to: Birmingham Alabama by dfwtiger

Guy McLaren: Using burst I focussed on this spot directly in line with a known position of a drip. I took about 6 shots, this was the splash on impact, I have another with the start of......

in response to: Raindrops by Guy McLaren

dfwtiger: thanks.....I have always been a terrible color photographer....so over the years, I have just focused on black and white. The pictures are located in an urban area of Fort Worth that is usually not......

in response to: Urban Ecosystem by dfwtiger

once republican: we all know what happened in the past...where has it gotten us? everybody has an opinion on why different conflicts started, if we keep bringing up the past and blaming the other side, we will......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Susannah: What - no hate mail? Isn't the double standard operational in these parts? What about this - three to four times a week the wife contemplates suicide, only to realize each time, as if for......

in response to: Rainy Days and Mondays by a disturbed young man

EvilGentleman: Damn, now that I can compare our pics, I can clearly see there **is** something wrong with the focus on my new camera. I thought so. And yes, I can see you autocorrected your shots,......

in response to: Hot Air Balloons by EvilGentleman

zagg: [[img:15840]] [previously posted, Ohrid, Macedonia] [[img:15841]] Zagg the pirate getting ready to plunder, Skopje Macedonia] [[img:15842]] I know, I'm so artistic that it physically hurts, right? [[img:15843]] Reflection while focusing on a Kurt Halsey print. ...

in response to: Self Reflections by Cameo

aer suzuki: some shots look good unfocused, this would be one of them....

in response to: wheels v.1 by Selig

aer suzuki: shame about the house. i like the slight soft-focus blur of the unicycle shots, reminds me of b-movies from the late 60's/early 70's when they show the foxy lady, the focus is always softer. and......

in response to: Camera Phone - Aug. 06 by ksedge

EvilGentleman: Thanks, Barry. But don't judge me by how many posts I have produced, some of them were not the greatest. I am now in the process of slowly refining my posts so that I can......

in response to: The Answer. by barry

Jody: Chris, I'm curious to hear the reasoning behind your picks. Personally, I don't find anything below Montreal particularly impressive, and even Montreal is a bit disappointing since it lacks any distinctive focus. It's......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

EvilGentleman: I have never used a sunset filter. Do they usually change the colours that much? I have an auto-focus point-and-shoot, so the only filtering I can do is to experiment by pointing my camera at......

in response to: War As Usual by Sally

colavitos ghost: i really like that in-focus grass...

in response to: August 08 2006 Ontario by hool

EvilGentleman: [[img:14331]] Our old cameras, as taken with my current camera. Kodak DC280 2MP $810 in 2000 Used as primary for both me and my wife from August 2000 to July 2003. Sent for repairs. Came back for duty as......

in response to: The Cameras of Citynoise by ksedge

EvilGentleman: I love Tim Horton's, but then again, I hate coffee, so I focus on their **true** specialty - doughnuts!...

in response to: Beat the Current by zagg

dT: Blaming white people for gentrification is pointless; capitalism is the real problem. Exploitation will continue to exist as long as our corporatist economy exists. Also, if you are white, stop complaining about being......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: My favourite is the TV under the tree. I like the depth of focus....

in response to: July 17 2006 Toronto by hool

EvilGentleman: Chris, I agree it is cool to see us having an effect on the charts here, but after the initial excitement wore off, I realized it is better to just post because something is too......

in response to: Dilapidated by groovehouse

Jamie: I'm not from London, Ruairí. What gave you the impression that i did? I live in Lincolnshire. I wholeheartedly agree that the pictures i have shown on this website do not reflect a fair image......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

force: nah nah nah.. yall got it allllllllll wrong sweet hearts.... 1st of all.. ghettos n slums never change.. white civilizations will never change.... coney island is ghetto.... u aint realizin it... cuz u focusin on......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

dubside: he also does bigger pieces--for the original post, I just wanted to focus on his throwups... [[img:12115]] [[img:12116]] [[img:12117]] ...

in response to: Phyto! by dubside

EvilGentleman: Matt, if I have offended, in part it was intended, but I know I was overreacting. I felt that being mocked over my objection to products that cause harm to myself and even 72% of......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

MutantScum: In regard to Mr. Tom, I would urge you to stay focused on the issue I laid before you and not segway into mindless, unthinking bits of sycophantic "atta boys" directed at the forum owner.......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

MutantScum: One additional thought, if I may! Your post headline is probably the funniest bit of nonsense I have read in a while. Can you see the idiocy in the title? Anyone? Bueller? Focus on the word......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

EvilGentleman: First off, I am a visitor here, not an admin or a law expert, so do not consider anything I say in this comment to be binding on anyone. One part of my brain thinks......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

anon (adsl-69-208-115-203.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net): i love how people focus on the boots and weirdo people hanging around the ice... that's awesome, just shows how little people pay attention to the creatures of the earth. humans are so......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

joey: perhaps we should focus on the magical space of her detachment....

in response to: Ruralnoise: Film Noir Girl on Grass by GGP

Biff: Thank you! my allergies were killing me and I couldn't focus so I pushed the zoom button... ...

in response to: Mrs. Crabopple by Biff

Elicar: I don't think it's bizzare EvilG. Hool has this following like a cult (I meant that in a good way, Hool), so, when he disagreed, everyone was intrigued. When Jeeff agreed with him, now they......

in response to: Babelfishing by EvilGentleman

Ronan - North Belfast: Ardoyne is in NORTH Belfast!!! Reggie it's bigotted people like you that hinder progression in such segregated societies, calling them "lazy, car stealing, pensioner mugging ballbags" is a gross over generalisation, how many people have you......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Get out of your car, buddy: LOL! Those are the ones! Everybody was mocking them by doing that cheesy little wave. Watching from Neville Park was a good move. Not as packed, and you can get away before......

in response to: The 40th Beaches Lion’s Easter Parade by Elicar

Get out of your car, buddy: I'm not clear on how the wealthy people of bay street are responsible for homelessness, or are key to the solution. That is a function of social policy, which we all set, and should collectively be......

in response to: Only in Toronto... by Elicar

Editor: i've combined your three entries into one. it's true that pet photos have been posted on citynoise from time to time, but really this isn't the focus of the site unless the photos give......

in response to: Calm before the storm etc. by Carltan

Hobart: This is a classic "Elaine" post. I love it! Focusing on the details you'd normally walk right past without noticing....

in response to: Gutters by elaine

GGP: elaine's link lead me to the phrase "ensemble pathos": a term coined by Francis Ferguson to describe playwriting style that focuses not on the plight of a single individual but on a group of people;......

in response to: Drab by Peter

Jim: I love all the anti NY sentiment by philadelphians here(Stubborn!). Pride in where you grew up is great but to knock a place in philly because they reference or came from another town is......

in response to: NYPD Pizza by vz

Chuckles: Well Sean, believe me. I have a humungous number of photos that I've zapped off with direct - in your face flash - and always at a hootenany, masquarade or party. Strangely, some have even......

in response to: Arctic Landscapes II by EvilGentleman

elaine: thankyouverymuch ::bows:: vaguely thought about *just* posting the first one, and then again leaving out the white, but i think i made a good decision in the end. in fact i took photos the other day......

in response to: Dirty Red by elaine

jeeff: i bet if i unfocus my eyes just right i'll see a sailboat or something....

in response to: Escalator Magic by joey

EvilGentleman: Ow... I shall mourn the demise of AJ's in much the same way as I mourn the passing of the last A&W drive-in that I ever saw. (It was in Saint John, N.B. near the......

in response to: Arctic Landscapes II by EvilGentleman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Thanks for the clarification, Peter. My brother is in town and I've spent the last four days 'doing New York.' I'm very nearly dead. I'm going to have to tell you about the scene I......

in response to: There Be Dragons by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: i imagined it slowly and menacingly rolling through the {east village}, using its windows to condense/reflect/focus sunlight into death-ray beams that it will use to decimate any non post-post-{postmodern} {architecture} whilst zapping all the area......

in response to: Astor Place Silhouette by Peter

EvilGentleman: Jack, I believe a lot of the ladies who graduated from Bimbo U were able to distinguish themselves in ways above and beyond the norm. I heard one of the best profs there was Phil......

in response to: Bimbo Daycare by EvilGentleman

Debbie Bautista: Hello from the Philippines. I first saw Justo's cathedral on TV. I was very amazed not only of the very grand structure but even more so for his simple and single-minded heart. ......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff