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Gansevoort Street has owned many nicknames and all have been changing for the better in recent years.
Back in 2001 Michael Cunningham of the New York Times wrote “a dark and melancholy beauty, runs its modest course from east to west in downtown Manhattan's desolate riverfront neighborhood and empties into the opaque waters of the Hudson. It was, for most of its life, merely remote and sinister.” He then went on “it is now remote, sinister and fashionable.”
Back then it was known to older New Yorkers for butchers and blood in the cobblestones by day and prostitutes and drugs by night. But there were things going on, artist in the lofts, fashion designers in some shops and the fashionable getting out of taxi cabs to view vintage furniture “These alterations have not so much transformed Gansevoort as rendered it slightly surreal. It is now at least theoretically possible to see someone in Manolo Blahnik pumps step over an overlooked pork chop, en route to dinner in a good restaurant. It is probably the only street in Manhattan, and maybe in the world, where you could procure, in one easy trip, a side of beef and a 1970's sectional sofa in pristine condition.”
Cunningham also wrote in that same piece “Years ago, before most of the shops and restaurants arrived, Gansevoort was settled by artists, who could get loft spaces above the warehouses for the modest rents appropriate to rooms permeated with the smell of recently deceased animals. An artist friend of mine, who rented a studio near Gansevoort, had a series of 20th-century wisdoms made into rubber stamps and went around the street stamping any bits of discarded meat she found. If you walked along Gansevoort then, you were likely to come upon a single yellow chicken wing, angled against a curb, that said, ''Life as we find it is too hard for us'' (Freud), or a curl of pale pink fat, caught among the cobblestones, that said, ''Even their virtues were being burned away'' (Flannery O'Connor).” I wish I knew the name of that artist and witnessed the rubber stamping of discarded meat.
It was a time of change. For many Gansevoort Street was upgraded on the Manhattan map when Samantha Jones moved into the neighborhood, not in real life but on “Sex in the City.” For some, including myself, it was when a newly elected Michael Bloomberg place the weight of the office of the mayor behind the dream of transforming an abandoned elevated railway into a public park. It doesn’t get any more Parisian than that and the phrase “Les Halles of New York” of New York was beginning to take hold.
I have to admit that I love that old story as a reminder of what I missed while I was waiting for the High Line. The Forent that still lives on in the movie “Men In Black” but died off just before the High Line became a park “It was, and remains, a haven for artists, performers, club habitues and assorted creatures of the night. The clientele, in its early days, was restricted to those who knew it existed, which was not knowledge easily obtained, since Florent barely advertised and was on a street likely to produce only blank looks from cabdrivers. You could go there for breakfast at 4 a.m., after you'd been, say, to the ''Night of a Thousand Stevies'' (an annual event attended by hundreds of men and women, all dressed as Stevie Nicks) at Jackie 60, a nightclub two blocks north of Gansevoort. If you went at that hour, as the first trucks were arriving with their cargoes of cold flesh, you might have found yourself seated at the counter with David Byrne on your right and, on your left, a man in a full beard, a merry widow and fishnet stockings.”
But then the High Line came and this recent photo was taken from a best new neighbor, the Whitney Museum of American Art.
1 Blythe a Day July 2022
It is my one wish that next July we will be traveling to Australia (Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne) for 6 weeks over the summer holidays - it's been so long since I've been home!
Packing Again (Only Backpacks) Used in today's blog post. dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.com/2023/02/mini-packing.html
Book - check!
Coin bag - check!
Sunglasses - check!
Teeny-tiny travel companion - check!
Phone - check!
Good to go!
Landpac Cat Challenger 95E tractor with impact roller that was being used to compact the ground ready for a new car dealership to be built in Aberdeen.
Interesting to finally see this machine after watching videos of it a few years ago.
Here is Ian and Johnny packing up. ian was using our Canon 5D Mark III with the Sigma 150-600mm lens. Earlier Ian was taken plane photos while I was using my Canon 600D with a canon 70-300mm lens
MP, Sonnar 50mm, Tri-X 400 pushed to 800, developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 90 minutes with gentle agitation for the first minute and 2 turns at 30 and 60.
Probably lucky to photograph the rusting remains of an old citrus packing house near Deleon Springs. Notice that they are cleaning the area, and hope they are not planning to demolish the buildings. This one has sat vacant since the early sixties, when citrus growing began fading out north of Orlando. This is an historic site, but it is really abandoned and heavily vandalized. Will be contacting the owners soon to find out more. Press "L" for large view and then "Esc" to come back.
(Spanish/ Español: Probablemente llegue a tiempo antes de que lo destruyan, ya que están preparando el área para ser demolida. Esta empacadora está abandonada desde los años 60.)
Data: Olympus EPL2, ISO: 400, f/8, 1/200, FL: 40mm=80mm on FF, Date: November 10, 2012.
Process: Olympus Viewer 2 raw effects, Gimp and Zoner Photo Studio 12.
Location: DeLeon Springs, Florida.
This photo is part of my new Set / Serie: Abandoned.
Vi åker utomlands snart och jag släpar ju helt klart med mig en hel del prylar. Detta är min "prylpark" för utlandssemestern 2016.
Iphonen är given (iPhone 6s). Fungerar mest som kamera utomlands. IPaden (iPad Air 2) läser jag på samt har fullproppad med filmer och serier, perfekt när man bara vill ta igen sig på hotellrummet. Till det har jag även den fina blå HDMI-kabeln samt en konverteringsladd för lightning till HDMI. På så sätt kan jag få ut bilden på hotellrummet TV.
Mina bluetooth-hörlurar (Sony MDR-XB950BT) och en bluetooth-högtalare får följa med.
Givetvis ska allt kunna laddas också. Då jag filmar och fotograferar jättemycket så laddar telefonen snabbt ur, därför har jag med mig ett batteripack som kan ladda iPhonen full tre gånger om (den ljusblå mojängen i vänstra kanten, fungerar även som ficklampa!). Två laddare är även med, till iPad och iPhone. Sen sladdar så klart. En lightningsladd för att ladda iPhone eller iPad. En mikro-USB-sladd för att ladda hörlurarna eller batteripacket (vilket kan göras med iPad- eller iPhone-laddaren) och en adapter för mikro-USB till lightning så att den sladden kan även ladda antingen iPhonen eller iPaden.
Det är kul med prylar!
I was packing away my camera after imaging all night when I noticed a couple of faint stripes of dawn noctilucent clouds over in the east. I took a few photos with my 300mm zoom lens and this is a stitch of 3 of them. I've tried several times to get rid of the shadow down the middle but I can't seem to get it any better than this. It's not an impressive enough display to spend any more time on but I'm glad I saw them one more time this season. It may well be my last NLCs until 2021.
When you are packing for a family gathering on your husbands side, and all you really want to bring is this....
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Teddy packing his suitcase for our Holiday on Saturday :) We are staying in Llwyndafydd, Wales again, such a beautiful and amazing place, i sure can't wait!
I also rented the 24mm 1.4 and 50mm 1.2 again,so i will come back with LOADS of pictures!
Hope you all have a great week too!
I'm so ready for home. Ok so I'm leaving tomorrow to Los Angeles then fly to Manila to visit my best friends (Aug 29th-31st) then I'll be in Singapore with my mom from the 31st till Sept 8th and I'll be in Jakarta for the rest of my holiday till the 19th so come say hi!
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The notes describe what's inside! :)
You would not believe how difficult it was to fit Everard in one bin! D:
Helsinki is a very active harbor, and while the massive transit ships that go back and forth to Tallinn have stations further down the harbor, there's limited space in the middle section for all the mid-sized ships.
The main ship here is an old Russian imperial boat that's been turned into dinner cruise ship. The one on the right was a sizable research vessel. The little bit of what you can see on the left is a military minelayer ship.
Monster fond in the bottom of a package munching down on the Styrofoam packing peanuts. For the Looking Close...On Friday group, topic: Orange.