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anon (82.132.136.215): All Images Copyright c2008 INSIGNIA PICTURES Most shots taken with Nikon F3 and Nikkor 70-210mm f4 zoom lens Kodak colorama film....

in response to: Panama City, a Little Darker by artisan

mackie.p: Nice images Peter! Im from the UK and currently working with rail workers producing images of the work that sits along the live tracks. mackie.p@hotmail.com ...

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Tick: This reminds me of the game Half Life 2. These are kick-ass images....

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

sie: i also just finished jennifer toth's book..thank you for posting such fantastic images!...

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Dave Moore: Stumbled on the site while attempting to get images of King Street in Stretford from the 60's and 70's. Excellent images. Brought back memories from when I worked near to Barton Bridge (Manchester Oil Refinery)......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Britrock: Thanks Peter - I've learned something new and gained a fresh creative inspiration to start my day. Beautiful images. ...

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

cyril bagshaw: Hi John I believe you have captured the feelings of most of the contributors to this page most eloquently.No matter how far away from the nest some of us have flown, those childhood images are still......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Richard: Here's a few more recent images of Brisbane City. By 2012 we'll have around 6 new supertalls reshaping our skyline. By 2020, an extra 10 fully constructed towers is expected, along with necessary infrastrucure upgrades.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Sue Hadingham:24th April 2008 -19:50 GMT: My Grandfather was the senior administrator at Netherne for many years and similarly my Grandmother worked on the wards as a nurse. My fondest memories were also visiting the pantomime and staying at my......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

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

Peter: great post! i added all these images to the [[wiki:Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant]] wiki page, and listed you as author. though it didnt seem to be able to find you as an author......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

JKMI England: Great images. Unfortunately, looking at the final few shots (before the aerial views) I just can't help feeling an imminent sense of loss. A trip along the route of the High Line just won't be......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

oevre: Remember Hutchinson in mainly four images....swimming pool in Summer near the grain elevator...high school with brilliant turquoise colored panels, architect was Californian, people said...the old old deep red brick junior high where my parents went......

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

Peter: elicar: [[http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com/gbgc/images/BrochureFront_comp.pdf]] [[http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com/gbgc/images/BrochureBack_comp.pdf]]...

in response to: What Happened to BEMS? by Elicar

wackojacko: i dunno if its already been posted, but heres a link to the brookyln bridge sane smith bomb.... http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.razorapple.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sane-text-hunter.jpg&imgrefurl=http://razorapple.com/2006/09/13/sanes-tagged-textbook/&h=313&w=500&sz=34&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=zKbK01a4OWForM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsane%2Bbrooklyn%2Bbridge%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff...

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Sally: they're great I live near this beautiful images I even saw when they were painting this images.They really rock with this images.They seem to be profesional. ...

in response to: Bushwick: History in the Making by upfromflames

joey: luna park was a popular amusement park name. there was a luna park in cleveland, ohio as well. go see -> [[http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/postcards&CISOPTR=3588&REC=11]]...

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

UpFromFlames: If you want to see the house as it once was, you can find the images on files at the municipal archives in the 1939 Tax Roll photos. for more info: [[http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/taxphotos/home.shtml]]...

in response to: Tacos La Hacienda by little ukraine

Blacksmith: one more thing i found and i hate to be a pest but i am a stickler for fact being really interested in history and detecated to OBVR. The images of the porch and the......

in response to: The Past Is Closer Than You Think by ghost of grandin

anon (pool-71-187-201-119.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net): nice images.have you seen dave frieder's images http://www.davefrieder.com/ which is your favorite?any problems since 9/11?...

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

wholegrain: These are good FREE sites for creating poster sized images. Just upload your image and let it crank. You'll be rewarded with a multi page PDF file. Trim and paste - or DON'T trim for a mosaic effect. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ http://www.blockposters.com/ For......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Lesley: I loved the article, it really conjurs up lots of images, I was born and bred in Liverpool, our house had the same sort of lino, but it was yellow and black. My Sister still......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

CartLegger: I am so happy to be a part of a site on which so many urban studies folks are able to snap their works. As a high school teacher of urban planning (Urban Soc/GIS), CityNoise......

in response to: Shinjuku by serlingrod

Bushwick Girl: My Bushwick...I love this neighborhood. I've been in the bush since 1988 I migrated here when I was 8 yrs old. Back then I was too young to understand what was really happening in this......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

joey: little ukraine: you must have been downtown, or on the east side if you were remembering my posts of cleveland. i'm thinking about a trip to cleveland in october. visit my mother for her birthday,......

in response to: City of Light, City of Magic by little ukraine

Belroc: A piece on a wall takes me about two hours. Freights, half hour. But I'll do five or six in a day. IOF ~ Images Of Fascination XP ~ Xylene Prophets Heres something for Peter and everyone here......

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

Luis Acevedo: Please send me your e-mail addresses and I will scan some images as well as send you the ones I have on my pc now. As for stories there are so many untold. Have you......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

upfromflames: Luis: Please do share. I am so glad that Up From Flames could mean so much to you. But in a way, aren't you happy that your kids don't have to know what you......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

CartLegger: Looks to me like a faulty traffic policy, like a city built for the benefit of cars, not people. [[img:22413]] This accident--which happened at the corner of Knickerbocker Ave. and grove St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn-- involved......

in response to: The Cars That Ate NYC by CartLegger

Alfred: Adam Thanks for your help painting earlier this week. Nice photos so far. Do you think you will be uploading some newer images? See you soon! ...

in response to: Bushwick: History in the Making by upfromflames

upfromflames: I love it jack. I work mighty hard at using my photos to transmit history and narrative, but you just concoct it out of these images freeform. Or did you grow up here? ...

in response to: From Norway, Mrs Yawron\'s Fireplace and Laundry Which Was Once Hidden in the Dense Forest from Long, Long Ago. by jack

joey: [[http://images.google.com/images?q=abbey+road&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title]] Results 1 - 18 of about 313,000 for abbey road. (0.05 seconds) « View all web results for abbey road...

in response to: New Turn Arrow by joey

oh dear...: iman: 4th Apr 2007 - 00:25 GMT i'm glad i live in a fun town where people know how to live good. i am never moving to the south. I just want to let iman know that......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

CE: I biked out to Loyola via Sherbrooke the other day and I could see a couple buildings that had been demolished behind the ones that front Sherbrooke. How new are the new satellite images? I......

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

karen: I was out to Belfast earlier this year to visit friends and I did the tour. Canadian born, raised in England with a catholic mother and a protestant Father. I remember growing up with images......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

EvilGentleman: Lemme see... these images were shot in the parking lot for the trail to the 60-foot waterfalls (they were dry in 1999)... so... the location should be... Dark Hollow Falls parking lot! [[http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&om=1&t=k&ll=38.516542,-78.433542&spn=0.032705,0.05785&z=14]] The official Shenandoah National......

in response to: Prancing Fawns and Other Deer by EvilGentleman

awaken: Any advice for printing large images without going to a printer?...

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Jamie: This whole issue of intellectual property rights in relation to images on the web is a sore point indeed. The sad truth of the matter is that if yo're going to make good photos available......

in response to: Sunset by Guy McLaren

Guy McLaren: Dunno just makes me feel better, most of the thieving basket cases wouldn't know how to crop if Photoshop slapped them upside the head. The nett result is that if they use something the point......

in response to: Sunset by Guy McLaren

Guy McLaren: Procyon, I fear that you are way too trusting, I can with a little photoshopping take many pics from here and make use of them. Fortunately I don't believe in doing so. I have found......

in response to: Sunset by Guy McLaren

joey: sometimes i open this post and see only two images. other times i see three. gg- what's your secret?...

in response to: Williamsburg Walls by GGP

dzyre one: only a graffiti artist finds the expression and pride in these images..gotta get to melbourne, sydney scene is dying off! ...

in response to: Street Art by ninety9lives

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: rendering images, not whales, I presume?...

in response to: Windowview by forecastmazy

EvilGentleman: The 2nd and 4th photos have incredible snowflake images in them. Love it!...

in response to: First Snow by CE

upfromflames: [[img:19022]] [[img:19023]] [[img:19024]] [[img:19025]] a few more images of buildings in the zone, that I wanted to get in before Peter! The locked buildings are part of the abandoned housing transfer system. The decayed house front is a reno......

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

.nanotech.: they all have occult & N.W.O meaning, Also, the are images that trigger Monarch mind control slaves.. the CIA has hi-jacked our country, the are heavy in to black operations, that use german (nazi) scientists.......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

fuzzytank: I come here because there are no profiles, and I dont think the addition of optional profiles would make the citynoise experience better. I like the feeling of any body can throw in anything they......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

JPK: I am in love with brutalism. I admire it in subway stations, and many buildings on campus. Have u seen wright's fallingwater? http://www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/bios/02/historical_images/1972RobartsLibrary.jpg http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/InternationalTo.jpg...

in response to: Brutalism by Tyfoid Kid

Beadle and Tatum: http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/images/congrat1a.jpg Its a hand written rambling note about the Sex Pistols calling the mueseum a "piss stain". There was some pettitioning and a USA today poll that helped locate the hall. I did some research, this is the......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Carrie Misak: These images move me. So many people have depended on this place. The heart of this city to many folks. ...

in response to: The Well-Known West Side Market by little ukraine

dilettante: Hello Diana, I got that picture from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Jersey-Images-America-Patrick-Shalhoub/dp/0738538159/sr=8-1/qid=1164423879/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3498218-1767242?ie=UTF8&s=books As for photos of 143 Newark, try the New Jersey Room at the Library on Jersey Avenue. What are you building there, if you don't mind me asking?...

in response to: 145 Newark Ave, Jersey City by dilettante

colavitos ghost: the utility wires crossing in front of all the buildings really add complexity to these images. these are nice. i like these. i like the feel. i like the vibe. diggin' it. ...

in response to: Detroit Ave., Ohio City by little ukraine

Lou: Real photos; inaccurate description. http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp Storm Clouds Claim: Photographs show Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast in August 2005. Status: Real photos; inaccurate description. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2005] Photos of Katrina over Mississippi (Sure......

in response to: the august 19th, 2005 tornado hoax by jeeff

Dane: I have been conducting research on the Horner Homes since I read Alex Kotlowitz' book "There Are No Children Here." It is a fantastic book, however the stories are filled with grotesque images of anti-hope,......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

tia: Thank you for your appreciation of mundane subtleties. Please, don't ever lose that. I really enjoyed your images. Thank you for putting yourself out there....

in response to: 5 Scenes From Downtown : Lines, Textures & Angles by aer suzuki

Lake Erie Graphics, Cleveland: We are a printing company next to the bridge depicted here, and we are wondering whether we might be able to use one or two of these images for some promotional materials. Do you have......

in response to: Lorain-Carnegie Bridge by procyon

emma b.hope: fab images take me from small town america to mysterious filmic reality phantasy david lynchish territory... to where i am not infrequently found-hospital, trying to be in touch despite feeling alienated and bewildered (often).but hey,int......

in response to: Transparency and Reflection by elaine

zagg: tranquility. beautiful images....

in response to: bay in fog by hep

zagg: images of autumn. I love the crunch of the leaves on the ground as we walk on them...

in response to: Autumnal by Peter

Torcaso: Thanks for the images. Good stuff. They confirm the reason I moved to East Tennessee from San Francisco. My affection for Chicago is put on hold between October and April....

in response to: And The Winter Moves About Illinois by procyon

zagg: From 'what is citynoise?': "What shouldn't I post? Personal arguments, gang shout-outs, spam/advertising, images harvested directly from Google Image Search, posed family photos, completely abstract images, or anything in ALL-CAPS. These will be mercilessly deleted! Also,......

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

jeeff: mmm... pickled eggs... [[http://images.google.com/images?q=pickled+eggs&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images]] (actually i've never had one)...

in response to: Pickled Eggs: Inside the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building by jeeff

aer suzuki: nice. i really like that someone took the trouble to make that first sticker, and those black and white mutant panda critters are especially cool. funny to see a few of these (distorted scary baby face,......

in response to: capitol hill stickers by fuzzytank

aer suzuki: the first is one of the most interesting images i've seen on citynoise to date...and by interesting i mean not only very good, but clever and different, well done....

in response to: Under the Bridge by Paul G

hool: it's not about fault. it's about being able to see the entire photo on a screen without scrolling. i think you'd get more comments if your vertical images, which you shoot a lot, were......

in response to: Sunday Walk by chiamattt

Brian: I too emigrated to Australia over 20 years ago and only revisited Irlam for the first time, at the end of last summer, (2005). Irlam and Cadishead are strange places. Isolated to some degree, they lie......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cosmo: The tiles seem to be disappearing due to cities fixing up their old roads...I'm so glad I got these images of the Detroit ones, so far as I know no one else has published images......

in response to: Toynbee Tiles by Cosmo

Cosmo: I am fascinated with these old abandoned houses, and even the entire neighborhoods that are empty. I get lost in wondering what they were like before the trouble started. I wonder where those......

in response to: Mexicantown by Cosmo

Cosmo: I'm late to this post and I'm not sure it's necessary, but that really is someone in the lotus position. In front of the city's government buildings there is a giant sculpture called "Spirit......

in response to: Detroit Police by Peter

groovehouse: I dig Mr. Adickes' work! Thanks for the images....

in response to: Presidential Heads by cybertoad

Cosmo: I just discovered this site a couple of days ago and so far all the images I've posted are from a cheap 3 MP cam that I got free in a computer system rebate deal.......

in response to: Heidelberg Doll House by Cosmo

Cosmo: Correct, zagg, I got this photo early in 2006. I haven't done much lately because my "good" camera died, but Peter from this site encouraged me to be more open to using my "bad"......

in response to: Heidelberg Doll House by Cosmo

aer suzuki: the spiral staircases are cool, really great style. also love the photo of the building with the bite taken out of it, can't see the rest, the images won't load for me....

in response to: Blvd Decarie, Ville Saint-Laurent by CE

zagg: no worries, my images of my city would appear to be rural to big city dwellers - but it's all good - everyone is friendly folk and enjoys seeing everyone elses view of their cities....

in response to: Park by aer suzuki

zagg: 3+ years later: when I see these images I can't help think it was my sad attempt to shoot like Hool. *hangs head in shame*...

in response to: Toronto by zagg

Chris Erb: This is quite a variety of images. I like....

in response to: Love Bomb by zagg

grant p: it's either a paste-up or a mock of a paste up... it's very similar in style to a peculiar campaign around town involving pictures of Burton Cummings of the Guess Who with the text "Stand Tall"......

in response to: Discount Everything by rgalston

aer suzuki: wow that's alotta hoopla...over simple pictures too. very well shot, well composed images. i have to wonder what type of camera you used to get that bright glowing center vs. the darker halo 'round the......

in response to: Beat-up Derelict Buildings in my Neighbourhood by Jamie

Tamara: to the Editor, It is best to put South Asia, as the first two pics are from India. Thank you for updating the location and I promise to keep it in mind the next time......

in response to: Sacred and Little Altars 2 by Tamara

EvilGentleman: Banks in NDG tend to get robbed a lot, so they prefer to keep their glass clean. Had you been running with a money bag when you hit the glass, you would have wound up......

in response to: NDG by CE

aer suzuki: well at least future archaeologists & anthropologists will know that we were a proud people, too proud to pick up after ourselves, apparently. or rather not proud enough...or maybe the trash will be perceived as......

in response to: Sidewalk Time Capsule by EvilGentleman

Peter: jamie: youre pretty much right. not all are as creepy as they appear in some of these sorts of photos, but theyre definitely desolate and full of tons of nothingness. when i drove from {nyc}......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 5 by Scott Sargent

Jamie: citynoise doesn't alter uploaded images in any way. it can't. i wish it could. what process are you using to get them off your camera and resize them to 600 pixels in width?...

in response to: No Sitting by Biff

tangent: cool, an **[[1837:anti-sit]]**. I'm curious to know why you add white borders to all your images and make them so small. i'd like to see them full sized, and better quality....

in response to: No Sitting by Biff

elaine: yes, hence the 'UK' shame there was no picture of calton hill to contextualise. lemme see... yep, have a look at the building from various angles [[http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=calton+hill+edinburgh&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images]] it was designed to be a big posh statement building,......

in response to: Edinburgh Graff and Street by Cheesy Member

aer suzuki: jamie wrote: "that theory might have more of a scientific basis than you might imagine" you might've offered a link or something, unless you just like being mysterious, which is ok too. anyway...these are very cool images, i......

in response to: Coney Memorial by Oneon

GGP: beautiful images--glad to come upon these....

in response to: Cape Cormorant by ian

EvilGentleman: The link here no longer works. Are the images still somewhere in inconduit.com, hool? Sounds like an interesting series......

in response to: still corner by hool

Chris Erb: Here are some more pictures of what happened. http://www.citizenspress.org/cp_images/main.php?g2_itemId=176...

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: The New York Methodist Church on Dogdyke road...it has a certain ring to it. I have all kinds of conflicting images in my head. Best if I leave them there....

in response to: New Use for Urban Ruins? by CE

Jamie: I'm certainly no lawyer, but as i understand it, there is no law in the uk about taking photos of peoples houses. Aerial photography companies for examples endlessly fly over our homes taking photos in......

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

EvilGentleman: This sounds very promising. I love Citynoise, I can hardly wait to see Citynoise Plus. Your devotion to your labour of love is very much appreciated by those of us who also benefit from it.......

in response to: New CITYNOISE Logo? by groovehouse

Bob: Just a comment on the 1976 photo - pay attention to the spacing of the telephone poles - the photo inaccurately compresses the distances - some other-than-normal type lens. Compressing the scene exaggerates the......

in response to: Two Views of Tallahassee by JonathanGarrett

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I think the benches would say, "I wish I was still a tree." Lovely collection of images. I particulary like the 8th one down. Really dramatic....

in response to: Of Park Benches and Picnic Tables by Elicar

Biff: Great images very Hitchcock......

in response to: sex, theater and citynoise in the city of light by vz

Paul G: There is something very pleasant about the palette employed by the artists who made the original images - on the walls. Australians, in contradistinction to Americans, use hues that are more "earthy" (?) in......

in response to: Street Art Fitzroy by ninety9lives

Elicar: ##"Personal arguments, gang shout-outs, spam/advertising, images harvested directly from Google Image Search, posed family photos, completely abstract images, or anything in ALL-CAPS."## Since it did not fall in the any of the above categories, I thought......

in response to: Street Art Fitzroy by ninety9lives

Editor: Other thing to note that images over 600 pixels tend to push the site layout off the visible screen for people running lower screen resolutions. Also a good way of linking a series of posts......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

EvilGentleman: Thanks. I will start posting immediately, once I am done resizing. As long as it is not a problem, I will try to put all the images from my last walk (in multiple threads) on......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

Editor:: I'd say, post a few photos in each entry (6-10 if you like) and spread the entries out over a few weeks, perhaps giving them similar titles, so as to form a series (see the......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

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