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Eeewww, here is one.
And I almost missed my train taking the picture.
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Anyone wants to hazard a guess about what this is?
Whatcha gonna do when the come for you
The cool thing about digital cameras is that you can waste as much “film” as you want shooting blindly.
Police decals are made out of some reflecting plastic, so they show up weirdly in the light of a flash (which of course I did not mean to use, but forgot to turn off).
Hood ornaments in the hood
I went to buy myself something to eat, and lo a behold: Christie’s is having a collectors’ car exhibition at Rockefeller Center.
I wonder, in the time of those cars, would the pedestrians rather be disemboweled by this
or this
Thingy in Japanese store
Can you guess what this is?
Oh, here is a clue:
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A Kodak moment
The Kodak billboard’s screen that shows eye animations made a funny face. No wonder, that “Stitch” billboard is creeping me out too. I did not even notice that Fleet bank’s billboard was missing a crucial letter :)
New York can be pretty otherwordly at night.
You’ll tell me this is just a road crew laying asphalt. Riiiight. That’s what they want you to believe.
Rockefeller Center building reflected in a hood of a car.
Workin’ late
I go through Times Square almost every day on my way to work and back home. Yesterday I was working until midnight, so on my way back I took some pictures with my brand new digital camera. The train + train + bus ride that usually takes 1.5 hours took me 3 hours this time because of subway repairs. I should really move to Manhattan.
I know, I know, it’s a cliché. Still.. I pass this by every day.
Scientists are having a major breakthrough with death rays in a lab on top of Ernst & Young building.
I really hate the crudely photoshopped ad on top. They are reusing the “flashing” dude in subway ads by mirror flipping him. The ad is for Revlon, I think.
I could not figure how to crop this picture, but this seems to work.
I just purchased an awesome book called …
I just purchased an awesome book called “Invisible New York : The Hidden Infrastructure of the City”. As any hacker I am fascinated with all hidden technological things : tunnels, shafts, silos, generators, abandoned buildings. This book is a photographic essay about what the author calls “Serving Places” of New York City — things like abandoned subway stations, abandoned missile silos (turns out there are some in the Bronx), water system tunnels and valve rooms. Unfortunately the author did not include a “lost”subway station underground near Brooklyn College or bowels of Flatiron Building with its one of a kind pneumatic elevator system. The cover of the book features an absolutely amazing shot of a spiral staircase.
