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Junior Apprentice: I particpated in camp @ OBVR for 5 days and that's all it took for me to fall in love with the whole place. Those are some really great shots of the Back blacksmithing shop...... Liz in Canada: I am Canadian and my ancestry is Irish/Scottish. Some of my ancestors were Catholic and some were Protestant, but I am non-religious by choice. My Irish ancestors were forced out of Ireland and...... Diane Dole: Hello John in refrence to your question yes we are related to Arthur Dole nee Alf He was my grandad, and indeed he was the pearly prince of st Pancras.
My dad whose name is also...... carol: to who cares for kensington..it is nice to move on with your life..but it is very different when it is by your own choice and not because you are being forced to move becausethe neighborhood...... little ukraine: there was an old boarded up movie theater near my house growing up whose marquee read "FOR N C LL" followed by some numbers. I don't know why, but for the...... Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot!
A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo.
[[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]]
by Adam Enright
I was thrilled to read about...... James cashan: hello Jim W. RE Margarine Works
I remember peter hamburger (gruff voice)"oh yis oh yis", but who was the phantom!
daily cries of "whose out now? am i out now?" waiting for...... John Dereszewski: I also don't understand this. Bushwick Houses is a large - and rather oppressive - complex situated at Flushing and Bushwick Aves. on the Williamsburg side of the border. As Adam notes, these are pictures...... Peter: hey "movin to wick", wake up! youre working with a conception of {new york} thats about 20+ years outdated... i mean, serously. youd think {brooklyn} was {beirut}. perhaps youve been watching too much ##law and...... Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila
The hairdresser you mention, actually was opened by Eleanor Cooke, wife of an old friend of mine Tom, whose parents had the grocers shop at the Nags Head end of Twenty Row, which they...... John Dereszewski: Puffy, Linden between Central and Evergreen is a block that has undergone a considerable transformation over the last decade or so, clearly for the good.
I knew this block very vividly during the bad days of...... 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...... anon (199.218.252.54): Hey, I'm a kid whose popped up in a lot of these as pictured in Citynoise places, and I'm thinking about moving from the states to Hackney, Dalston to be specific. I was just...... Former Hutchinsonite: I was wrong, I'm sorry, life in Kansas certainly isn't boring.
This was in the Hutch news last week:
"Hospital detached toilet seat from woman, sheriff says"
WICHITA - Law enforcement officials planned to present their report...... Keith : DO you have a son whos name is john? mr smith.... j.smith: Shiny unhappy people
All is not well in the world of pearly royalty. Beneath the peacock feathers and rhinestone finery is stirring a nasty battle for the soul of the kingdom. In Guildford county court this...... Alex Price: Hi Again, I Also Remembered The Fights Between Cadishead And Partington Over Whos The Cadishead Viaduct Bridge Was To Sit Under
And They Threw Stones, Rocks And Sticks To Fight With But Eventually The Council Blocked...... sage: Guy McLaren says in an earlier post:
"All wild animals are dangerous. Especially African ones."
My response:
All domesticated humans are dangerous. Especially american ones.
I've lived with raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and opossums my whole life--and...... Ed Swenson: I was born in Bushwick Hospital in 1937. My parents moved a few years later to Ozone Park and when I was 5 they moved us to New Hyde Park, but whenever we needed...... AERT NYC: yo for you L.A cats who sayin ja is rich and all that shit..ur nigga saber is a lil white boy whos mom is scared shit for him..dont belive find it on youtube its on...... steve kettle: bliney smithy, you have created something awesome.
just reading through some of these names takes me straight back to my childhood.
i remember living in the shop Joyces fabrics (mum jean kettle (nee dixon) never changed the...... riiiiiight: i was born and raised in bk. i just checked out a new "luxury condo" developement out there a whim (when i was told my rent was being jacked up another 300 bucks). ...... JOHNNY MOSS: I HAVE TRAVILED THE UNITED STATES QUITE A BIT AND HAVE LIVED IN SEVERAL DIFERANT CITIES AND STATES, AND CAN TESTIFY TO THE FACT THAT ANY TOWN THAT YOU GO TO HAS MORE THAN...... Peter: although im a {new york}er, i agree with mcarthur. ive watched this post for over a year and though its taught me a lot about a place ive never been (and about some of the...... Okie Pappy Daddy: I like living in Norman It is only boaring if you got to allways be going out and doing stuff all the time like if you have to go out to resterants every night or...... purdy, R: whos makin fun of my name? :^) & the art is bad- ass wicked... Tony T: Chris, thanks for posting the Freedom Square pict. I grew up a block away on Evergreen and Willoughby. I'm 42 now and live in Japan, but I still enjoy looking at old photos of where...... Peter: im 30. im not rich. i live in bushwick because i can afford it and because its, for the most part, a hard-working, family-rich neighborhood thats free of yuppie condos, starbucks and the like. it...... 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...... JimQV: Jaybar, below is a paste of a two sentence news story from todays New York Post (online edition), "Police Blotter" column. You can decide how safe it makes you feel about Bushwick:
Brooklyn A man in...... Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi D McCormick! This is Steve Waterworth who used to live on the Irlam estate, in Neville Drive. I'm now living in Melbourne, Australia (not in a council house - ha,ha)and I'm married to Natalie...... PEMA: my husband grw up in bushwick while i myself grew up in tx. so some times its like we are from diff planets. anyway its interesting to see how you all talk about...... CE: It is important to remember that every city has many different faces and this is just one of them. Montreal has the ability to change drastically from one block to another. Just a...... Cay: I started out hopeful and willing and embracing the challenge of fitting in and making it work. I'm just sharing with those who care to listen to go about their business, and deal with...... iman: damn jack, your 65 and you got a wife who's 38? she was born when you were about 27. your old enough to be her dad. if you were good enough to marry a woman...... blueeyes: Last year, I moved from Williamsburg "Prime" (Bedford stop), where I lived happily but cautiously for 7 years. During that time my next door neighbor was held up at gunpoint at our front door (2005),...... cone...dcr: yeh man i dont know what the fuck you cats is on, im ORIGINAL DCR cru, fuck man me and earl made the fuckin name up in the nineties. you best fix up man, i...... cone...dcr: yeh man i dont know what the fuck you cats is on, im ORIGINAL DCR cru, fuck man me and earl made the fuckin name up in the nineties. you best fix up man, i...... cone...dcr: old skool my ass, you guys dont know shit!!! ask someone like dine about the real oldskool, man like cone, jay, earl all ORIGINAL DCR cru, im talkin like eighties and nineties and shit. email...... joey: what about my idea of a magnifier tool? is this an idea whose time has come?... upfromflames: BD:
I truly appreciate your response. Maybe that is why I posted it. Thanks for taking the bait!
Your perspective is clearly rich in experience, and me, well, I am a non-NYer who has just...... upfromflames: I don't think the only difference is having a degree or not. Its about having been there or not been there.
And you gotta be of a certain age for that that I am not...... anon (localhost): a lot of it was highly socio~economic if you wanna get into the really deep meaning of it. If you wanna get to the nutz and bolts of it, Id suggest a call to the...... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off.
Homboldt Park...... GGP: when i was in second grade, my family relocated for a brief time from NYC to a suburb outside of Houston, Texas. behind our apartment was a big field. back behind that was an imposing...... Pete Cesarini: A few thoughts:
1. Reminds me of another famous Spanish Don - Don Quijote. Who is Don Justo's Sancho Panza?
2. Another Quixotic monument (sculpture) still stands tall in Los Angeles, The Watts Towers. Very similar...... The Chi-ster: We need to see the bigger picture here.
Its almost heartbreaking to see people of a common struggle wasting time and lives with petty arguments. I am boricua, I stayed on Kedzie and...... lerk,bskings: the la river is a joke i used to paint there in the day time ...mad easy..hey what i love is ja must have herd about this blog but dont even care ..thats whats...... Ringo: Susannah, christian bashing is not acceptable either, the object here is to point out that the actions of the few do not define the whole. I have a friend who is deeply christian and at...... Larry: I came to Chicago last year and one of the first places I wanted to see was Cabrini Green. I am from South East DC and I know what the projects are like. ...... JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the...... Tyfoid Kid: The third one with the mangled wheel, that's what happens to most abandoned bikes here at the U of Minnesota. Every year the Facilities guys cut hundreds of bikes loose from where they've been...... rev roger: i think alot of you people take yourselfs way to fucking seriously its like being in high school all over again,jealousy over who is making money and whos not in the art biz.fuck.. for once...... joey: anything urban, art on a stick. this sign has new screws. so,
what's the story. do you know whose work this is?
it's all very enjoyable. it reminds me of that picture from
japan. The Great Wave by...... procyon: I forgot to point out that some of these photos are Nick's. We were swapping cameras throughout, and we took a ton of very similar pictures, so we aren't sure exactly which of these are...... phill: To Amy
or anyone else whos walked through cabrini green
did you seen any gangs out?
Did you see the spray painted white boy killer?
Is Cabrini green curently safe for whites at night?
Could you go inside the project...... the one and only: i wonder whos gonna be throwin up JA once hese gone... Fa11en: What a bunch of bullshit. Especially that last entry by Tenda. Just because someone is white means they're not "allowed" to live or exist in a specific area? Ever heard of reverse...... EvilGentleman: If you took the time to read, you would have noticed that I am a smoker who wishes to be able to continue to indulge in my habit indoors in a location sequestered away with...... Mr Johnson: Yeah, a penis is the same thing as a gun. And exposing yourself is the same thing as murder. Great analogies all around ladies!
I agree with it being illegal, because no one should...... EvilGentleman: Actually, Stevo - up north, they have this really bad habit of piling all their shopping on the checkout belt, and they keep dashing back for another armload, dumping it, and going off for even...... !: ROFL man get a life seriously...if you think being a thug or a gangmember can get you anywhere in life...think again. And since you repping "bloodz" whos your set o.g. and why is hell red?... EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all...... Culture Club: Can I get a few examples of the HP culture that everyone is so keen on holding onto? I don't see it. If there was so much pride you wouldn't let people treat the neighborhood...... elaine: i like the actress whose dress caught fire best, but i am not surprised at the popularity of lunatic woman... ;-D
i don't think i was being particularly selective, heroic domestic things could only really be...... grange: wow,,, no jacked up pick up truck , no easy rider rifle rack , no confederate flag in sight ..?? but i bet thats his sister hes dating whos is the pic...... EvilGentleman: Sorry, hool. From what I have seen, I have been encouraged by a large group of the regulars here, including the other 4 of your fellow editors. I shall try to keep your wishes in...... Peter: eg: you said ##"I may have differing views on America's legitimacy (and Canada's too, for that matter)"##
that really caught my attention. id truly be fascinated to hear more about this... as someone whose heritage predates...... Big REd: Irish mike is definetly right, i think were forgetting that england is a graff writer but whatever, the point is everythings fucked up and instead of fighting eachother, we should be joining up to fight...... Jamie: heh peter, sounds much like irish chinese take-aways. or at least the ones where i used to live in {northern ireland} whos mainstay are chips, french fried onions and {curry fried rice} which is a...... arkon1: heres some info from tacoma news trib. about the trailer on 56Some of the most exquisite work around is by the late Plus, who painted for 10 years before he died at 25 about...... RonO: I worked at this plant from 1980-1984 when we were working 3 shifts and building 300,000 cars a year. At that time GM was manufacturing the X body car which was highly in demand because...... Elicar: I don't know whose piece is it, but here is where I took the picture from:
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A Japanese restaurant at the BCE Place. (Why am I always at the BCE?)
... Chuckles: G'day Sean:
Appreciate your response and interesting comments.
The great thing about photography is it truly allows the "shooter" to express themselves in ways that are really quite remarkable. There is no right way / wrong way...... EvilGentleman: Lyle, thank you very very much for the compliments/advice/vote of confidence. I do not know if I have it in me to achieve a professional level of photographic talent, but I am sure hoping to...... grange: RE:#18: How about the guy/girl that yammers at ya in forgien language like you understand , even after politly saying , sorry i dont speak your language .
OR is this # 45..
#46...... an impossible child: i was playing around, experimenting, as i wanted t see what would happen when some colour was taken/burnt out of the image (i didn't have a bw film on me at the time) - for...... grange: Arrrrrrr . dem dar newfs dawgs . der da best .Keep ya from drownin when ya get to much screech ovr at Doyles place , en ya falls off da dock ,and ya gets in...... monks: actually there is a Cat on EE now (well now was in the year old episodes we get in Canada), her name is Cat Slater, was once impregnated by her uncle as a teen and...... Peter: lerk: who are you kidding? theres no graf running on trains anymore in nyc. are you one of those pretentious scandanavian graf heads who think nyc is perpetually stuck in 1981 (and whos styles are...... ...: pardon my ignorance, but i am just starting out and havnt done that much research yet, but whos banksy?... The Jury is STILL out on Evil Gentleman: I have no idea what your moral values are, and whether yours clash with mine, or even whether, collectively, ours clash with the next community's. Long ago, the competing ideals of clashes of moral values,...... vest-girls: ok, i'm a little late here. did read many, didn't write - will now - hey, do you see the archetypes here? look carefully at the photos again - will now - what...... zeezee toularee: LEAH: social conscience takes guts. i'm glad you're part of my community.
HOOL:
with regards to the star sniping your pictures...
i am not totally clear about copyright infringements for newspapers, but i know that some artists whose...... pietro: im from europe and i been in canada for 2 yeras now.and it just shocks me how people are transforming this into a catastrophy.it is as if we were talking about chernobyl here people.personally from...... Logos: Hey All,
I think escalation of Violence is a preety good indicator of whos fault here, it went from throwing food at each other to throwing potentially scalding coffee,
As to Leah, you got a...... serves her right : i didnt say i agree with stomping a bike but no one is talking about her opening a car door that doesnt belong to her and whipp a beef patty at peoples heads.Iam saying if...... Marion: My grandparents whose name was Tarte lived in one of the houses on the beach all of their lives. My grandad was a fisherman and his uncle was the coxwain of the lifeboat.
I have returned...... p3rp: i dont know whos to blame as far as the drama goes, but i *do* know that this guy has some yellow-ass teeth.....
... jack: catherine, please pull over or find a parking spot to take photos. i know on the fdr you cant pull over so get off and circle around. take a few minutes more to...... Samantha: One of the things I sometimes stay up all night doing is collage - recently i have covered every book and container on my desk in collage - the reason I am saying this of...... jack: words, millions of words trapped in a tape. let me out, let me out they screem and all the while they wait but help never comes and then the street sweepers scoop them up...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: On beauty and decay: I was sent a poem from a book by Toyohiko Kagawa, called Songs From The Slums. He grew up and worked around the Kobe slums of Japan and was thrown in...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I have a friend whose dress sense is amazing. One day Kron be in an Austrian Durndal (like in the Sound of Music) and the next she'll be wearing vintage 70's polyester with grapes and...... Peter: myke: i appreciate what youre sharing here... remember, as a new yorker whos never been across the atlantic, ive no way to know anything about such cities save for what people like you show and...... Peter: Crayon: im afraid you might be making some overblown (and rather novice) assumptions about the average graffiti writer's motivation. for many- especially these "taggers" you speak of- it has nothing at all to do with...... Kato: Whose milk bottles were they, I didn't think you had milk as a child. Whose TV did you watch Blue Peter on when you lived in the cardboard box with no electricity or running...... Peter: hmm, i had almost that exact thought when i first saw it. thats why i was saying "...who shall be the ideal "american worker"? the black man or the white woman?..." its a fascinating question,...... hool: i would tend to agree with the old man. a clever juxtaposition for banksy to enjoy, a shitty reminder for those whose lives are contained by that wall....
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