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Photo credit: Zachary Z. Handler
Photo website: zzhandler.com/blog/?p=3527
Created by dance artist Sharon Mansur & architect and installation artist Ronit Eisenbach
Crap photo, but notable because most of this block was barricaded off by everything from milk crates meant to hold several car-lengths to old chairs and, most humorously, a kids' toy ride-in car that you drag along with your feet, Flinstones-style.
As excited as I was to get some good shots, these two guys pulled up (apparently this was their spot) and wondered what a random white guy was doing taking all these photos. They were going to outwait me (after all they were in a warm car and I was tired and cold) and were getting pretty upset that I was just standing there.
So I left, missing out on the rest of the pics.
A fairly nice stool left out with boards to mark the space. As described in Placeholders 2, this is a suboptimal solution as there's now way for other parkers to know how big a space you've reserved (and whoever saved this sapce didn't even go to the trouble of cleaning it out entirely). Common sense would tell you that if he comes back to his spot and there's not enough room for him to park his Suburban, he's out of luck, although whoever didn't have a comprehensive enough understanding of the rules of the game likewise wouldn't understand that he brought this on himself and the offending cars are therefore "safe."
It's people like that that give ridiculous customs a bad name.
I had gotten this weird photography assignment for my college photo class where we had to take photo's of someone in the career we wanted, and another shot of them pursuing their hobby. These would be the hobby photo's of my old photography teacher. I haven't had any really good shots coming out of this class but these are by far my favorite.I almost wasn't going to ask him to model for me, but I'm glad I did.
I wish I knew the names of the groups. I couldn't get a program and somehow I don't find it online either! I'll update as soon as I get more info
Placed in the gallery to get the photo count to match the actual number of minions (due to some early photos of multiple minions)
Two cardboard boxes and a plastic milk crate used to reserve a parking spot. This is generally considered unsporting as the boxes can be "expanded" to claim more than one space.
The old standard of placeholders is to use a pair of milk crates with a board running between them. If you don't have a board long enough, the milk crates can be places at the ends of the space and the boards run through the handle to the ground to save it that way. Much better than leaving them boardless for people to guess how big the car is and thus how much space to leave.