another lifeform is among us! meet… BARTOL
he’s a cutie right?
You know it’s funny, because you have this image in your head of what the baby would look like, given the features and characteristics of the parents, and then, and then, there’s the baby, and you’re like, “That’s exactly what I thought he would look like!” It’s uncanny really, this kid looks exactly the way he should (see for yourself). Beautiful!
Bartol with mommy Olja, whom some of you may remember from Croatia, summer of 2007.
great little nifty new feature I just noticed in Google Maps: when you type in the location of the place you’re looking for, roll over the ‘More…’ link in the top-right of the map and you’ll get a tick box option for ‘Wikipedia’. click that and you’ll get a Wikipedia W-logo overlay for all entries in that area. Amazing!
Google you’re so smart!
more snappy snaps from bike touring my borough:
Queens has some terrificly wonderful architecture! It’s a shame this one isn’t all chrome like most!
another home. and these are in the greater Astoria area too!
hidden homes are abound in LIC/Astoria/western Queens!
Queens, still making cute homes.
this is the top of 43rd Street, the street I’ve lived on for over 3 years. It only dawned on me recently that I hadn’t ever travelled the entired length of my own street, and wondered what lay at the top. Empty industrial area (it was a holiday weekend). Will this all be condominiums one day, in 2086?
huge fans blowing essence into the atmosphere!
that huuuuuge ConEd plant at the northwest tip of Queens. lots of signs. one sign to instruct you you’re reading the wrong sign, “read that sign —>”
the Triboro Bridge passing through Astoria. lovely sense of scale! I’m sooooooo small!
this is what the Astoria Park pool looks like when it is all full-up! It looks delicious!
I don’t know why it was full-up. There were no signs about it being open. Lifegaurd stations are present but only one guard was seen on the other side of the pool, practicing retreiving floating objects with some pole-tool.
that’s the Hell Gate Bridge in the background. lovely bridge.
Oh yeah, forgot I was on a bike tour. After Astoria Park I ended up biking all the way down Vernon Blvd., past Queensbridge, into downtown LIC area. Still a lot of desolate looking places around here. Yet what real estate exists is pretty pricey. Speaking of, see that clock-tower building off in the distance, centered, I might be moving just near that, to the right (west) of the crane a bit. We’ll see.
and how to squeeze more data out of them:
give it a couple days time to take effect. it works, trust me.
from the NYT Online, Michael Phelps takes a photo of Michael Phelps next to Michael Phelps as Michael Phelps celebrates his 8th gold medal in this summer’s Beijing Games. LOL. still not as funny as the real womens’ steeplechase.
It seems all I have the time for lately is to collect for days on end loads of visual baggage and then offload it here for bots, feedreaders and humans alike to enjoy, I hope.
I don’t think the organization or juxtaposition of any of these images or tidbits of text make any sense, but then again life itself is a pretty uncohesive experience. why one day was I standing above a model of the city I live in thinking about a bike trip I took two months back, then finding myself documenting instances of green-n-yellow all over the city? who knows.
either way, have at it.
Socrates Sculpture Movie Park:
I really really recommend watching a movie in the park. Socrates Sculpture Park has a pretty fab summer schedule.
Watched the Korean film “The Host” with my matey Martina. Great movie. The park experience was the real delight though: we sat quite close to the front. The film progressed through dusk into nightfall, and after the credits we stood up and turned around to a park-at-capacity! Easily over 1,000 people! Which made the walk home (about 30 mins) a delight, surrounded by fellow Queens residents.
Matthew Barneyparty:
Matthew Barney threw some noise-core shindig in his Long Island City studio. Great space, and the evening included some spontaneous performances including this one of some tranny getting holed up in a portapotty while some guy in a suit siphoned the stall with such strength that it tipped over (I and everybody else in the crowd quickly ran away at that point!).
afterwards the DSNY workers uprighted the stall,
Alarms Loud:
alarm of storage building going off in background. a crane-truck passes by. some guy walking on the street. no other activity. big buildings in the background. desolate surroundings otherwise. this is Queens!
this is Queens (random photos):
warehouses, kids on bikes, stretch limo, man w/o shirt leaning on stretch.
south end of Flushing-Meadows Corona Park
in Flushing
Flushing Mall, asian-style marketplace
in Corona I think.
in Flushing, 7 train in middleground with Shea Stadium in far background (see below).
zoom in of picture above.
Green-N-Yellow around town:
Panoramic models:
A recent trip to the Queens Museum had me walking above their New York City Panorama. I’ve been to see the Panorama over a dozen times now, but this time I had a new familiarity with some areas of Queens that I hadn’t before, notably this area of Neponsit, Bell Harbor and Rockaway Park that I biked to the last week of May (over two months back). The thoughts of that bike trip were still fresh in my head (see houses below).
(the houses below are from the area above in the model)
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