Luncheonette DOHed

DOH is totally out of hand.

Bud

I don't know why I liked a green car in front of the florist. I think it's the O in the sign.

Filth

Canterbury's Law

It's a TV show.
www.fox.com/programming/new/cantlaw.htm
Keep an eye out for Julianna Margulies.
(This is McGuinness Blvd.)

Bolt

I don't know who paints these pink clouds with the lightning. I've only seen three and they're all on the same block, so it could be some random whim. I like the colors though.

Abstract in the shadows

I have a ton of shots of this person's work. I don't know the name but I think I once saw it tagged as J-Bird. The only text indication I've seen in a couple pieces with the word "ahead." Anyway, this is the best I've seen so far; right there next to real garbage cans like that.

Neighborhood report: Bedford & N6th

Northeast corner, Bedford Ave and N6th.

I guess it only makes sense that with the population of Williamsburg exploding and all of those people syphoning into the Bedford Ave L train that there'd be new shops opening to dump coffee on all those commuters as they pass.

When I asked the fellow sitting there in the doorway what was going in he told me, "A coffee shop." When will it open? September.

This used to be the deli on the southwest corner of Bedford and N6th.

My brief conversation with one of the workers whose first language is something Asian:

What's going in here, a restaurant?
Yes... No, a store.
Oh? A store? What sort of store? Do you know?
It's ah... De light.
Dee light?
Yes, de light. De light... [walks away]

So.... another tastee d lite? A lighting store? Groove is in the heart? I guess it's not really news if I don't know what I'm reporting. Probably a store anyway.

Formerly this
testofwill.blogspot.com/2006/09/bodega-nights.html

What's up with energy drinks and weird promotional vehicles?

Three wheels on this.
Is there some kind of oddball garage just for novelty ad vehicles?

Damn rain

'toasted corn'

Found in a Seattle supermarket, they're Doritos with no flavor powder on them, just salt.

Coming soon: Miranda

Latin American/Italian, opening in a month or so.

Dodge

This is a little blue because the sun was almost down. I may give this another try in black and white and see if I can keep the texture.

Felony Cycles

Seattle

Red boat

Seattle Ship Supply

Shipyard

Mother/Daughter

I don't see many grumpy teens (or any other kind) in the city so this was pretty funny to me. (Seattle)

The Wackness

Before I left they were setting up to shoot "The Wackness" on Dobbin St. IMDB doesn't have much but Google had some shots of one of the Olsen twins in it.

Now that I look at it, it has a July date so I wonder if I saw something else setting up.

Shipyard panoramas

This is out in Seattle. Be careful if you click through for the original size, these are huge.

Sonic Boom

Neon diver

El Sol-set

Ballard Diving & Salvage

If ever something needed to be on a t-shirt it's this logo.

Made in UK

Shipyard rectangles

Millions of peaches

inedible

Vacuum stands alone

Greenpoint night lights

Playground perspective

Tree view

On the bench

Close Encounters

Beastie Boys cheap seats

The Beastie Boys played McCarren Pool. It wasn't one of the free concerts though, so a lot of people gathered on the outskirts to listen and peek over the fence. I had my tripod and had some fun taking night shots. In my head they're all part of the same outing but I'll break them up thematically here.

Red Sky

I just like that the curtains are construction orange.

Bike light

This is one of those that probably wouldn't work well on paper. Lit up on a monitor you can see in the dark but without that built-in light, it'd probably end up looking like mud.

Community Juice

They were looking a little grumpy about me taking a photo. I don't know why, the juice truck rocks and I just wanted to see what that lit up window would look like to the camera.

Everybody on the bus

At night it's so easy to see into a bus, I never realized how difficult it was in the sun.
This was back when that flash rainstorm/tornado shut down NYC transit.

Favorite puddle

Is it possible to have a favorite puddle? I think I've taken this ten times over different rain storms from different angles.

Little lady

Security

I'm on the road yet again. I was in Seattle for only a few days. I have pictures from the trip but I'll have to catch up on those as the week goes on.

On the road again

Um... brellas

Surprisingly, those beer bottles underneath are unopened.

More plantfiti

Garden in the park

Yeah, this is in McCarren Park.

Division market

The scaffolding comes off!

7 Berry revealed

Report from Bedford's end

In case anyone is checking their RSS feed for blog reports on the commute situation, there are large crowds waiting for the B61 bus up on Bedford and Nassau. There's a bigger one across from Dunkin Donuts. Folks on line say there hasn't been a B61 for a half hour at least. With each stop having a bus-worth of people, I don't see how the MTA digs itself out until folks start to hear the subway rumble again.

Panorama practice

Got paid

After lots of near misses I've finally been paid for a photo.

Dressler

In line for the pool

Cheap tanning

So far I'm the only one who thinks this is hysterical. A sign for a tanning sale next to a woman sitting in the sun... which is free.

Where The Flight of the Conchords live

Red, white and blue

Contrast

Friday night lights

Some Grand Central shots

Mercantile library

This wall between us

New cheese shop in Greenpoint?

No, sadly, "Bleu Tooth" is not a cheese shop but another one of those signless temporary-looking did-this-stuff-fall-off-a-truck stores.

McCarren Park in the rain

That doesn't look anything like you

At the track

Bike angles

Crowded corner

Room with a view

Bedford Avenue L

East River pano

Testing new panorama software.

Grand fronts

Ascension

Sweet Farm open

Boy in a puddle

Tree wave

Umbrella audience

Maxim Bar

I like the light on the guy on the right.

The new Leisure Time Bowling

Just when you brace yourself for an evening of kinda divey, kinda grubby bowling you find out that Leisure Time Bowling is in the midst of renovations and they took out all the divey grubby.

Yankees game

Late Night Dogs

Radegast Hall in progress

With those bars on the windows and the light coming in through the roof you can get a real feel for how open this place is going to feel.

Manhattan Ave street fair

Union Square street living

I haven't gotten around to looking up what the deal is with this performance art. If I had to guess I'd say it has something to do with women's beauty rituals since basically this girl just keeps getting ready to go out, putting on make-up, changing her clothes, doing her hair.

I wonder what that mom told her son is going on.

Taxi guy reactions were the highlight.

There were some obvious designated photographers but then there was suddenly a swarm of female photobloggers (I think).

Yeah, she even gets kind of naked.

This and the adjacent shot look like they're part of a sequence but it's different tricks by the same kid. There were more kids and more tricks by the two that came out the most dynamic happened to be this kid.

New skate