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An inside view of the shattered window on the 14th floor of the Bluewin tower.
The main entrance to the building was closed due to danger of falling glass - everyone had to use the delivery entrances.
Hundreds of people took to the streets on March 28, 2018; to protest in New York City over the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in Sacramento, California; chanting and carrying signs as they marched from Columbus Circle to Times Square. Police say at least 11 people were detained. It was not immediately clear what charges they could face. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Did some scouting for a planned shoot with Charlotte. I'd hoped that this church might be an option, but it seems they're actively working on restoring it. Which is... Good... I guess.
Urban exploration gives me a weird relationship with people trying to preserve amazing historic buildings, you know? Like, objectively, it's a good thing, but it cramps my style.
Ahhh, the broken window blues. Some drunks managed to push each other through the windows of my shop the other night. A bit of a pain, but I had fun taking photos of the resulting glass...
I had the day off today and I mostly didn't take advantage of it. Well, except in as much as sitting around on my ass relaxing isn't taking advantage of a day off. I did spend a a lot of the day designing and reprinting a new lens board to fit my big telephoto lens onto my big new 4x5 camera, and that was fun.
Members of Justice League NYC, advocacy groups and the families of victims of police brutality celebrated the life of Ramarley Graham marching a total of 17 miles, from Ramarley's home in the Bronx to One Police Plaza in lower Manhattan. They demand Mayor de Blasio to fire all the NYPD officers responsible for the death of Ramarley Graham four years ago, the brutalization of his family at the scene, and the ensuing coverup. Justice delayed is Justice denied.
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Gunfire breaks out on Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis. Broken windows at Uptown Theater on the corner of Hennepin and Lagoon.
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This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
A Housing Activist leading chants at The 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit at Brooklyn Museum
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The piece that I did with COPE that says Coney Island baby… well, I basically got a call from COPE, and you know I can't overstate the fact of who COPE is in the community and what he represents in the community. COPE really is gonna be recognized as one of the greatest in whatever category you want to put him in. He's definitely one of the all-time greatest that we have. And COPE called me up one morning and said, "You know, I gotta spot. Come and paint this spot." There's never any notice. It's always, you know, be here now because other people have fronted and I want to put you on the wall. And I didn't front. I got like a few cans together and I ran up there. And of course, what was represented to me on the phone and what it actually was were two totally different things. I thought I was gonna gain some little piece of a wall and it ended up being a fairly big spot. And I was short on cans and I was trying to do something fast and simple and COPE wasn't having it. He said, "No, I want you to blaze this spot. You gotta do somethin' really fresh, blah, blah, blah." And he did his best to motivate me and I fronted and said, "Look, I don't have any cans and I've only got these cans right here." And he says, "Oh, a brand new hardware store opened up down the block. It's a rack,"…you know, one 30 year old telling another 30 year old man that there's a paint rack down the street is pretty ridiculous, but so it is. And I went down the street and got a few cans and came back. And that piece is what happened. You know, just like the perfect example of reluctance being overcome by enthusiasm and exuberance on COPE's behalf and something great happening out of that. I mean, I had a little sketch originally… but if you saw the sketch, it looked nothing like the finished product. And you know, spontaneity, spontaneous combustion always wins. Always you know, 999 times out of a thousand, beats the most rigorous specific planning. ESPO
BROKEN WINDOWS: Graffiti NYC 2009 Reprint. 70 more pages. Hardcover.
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It was a cold, cloudy day with winds straight out of the north at a steady 25 mph (40km/hr), with gusts higher than that. This cat was completely unconcerned about such things while surveying the empty streets of Keyes, Oklahoma. It was the only living thing I encountered while there.
and empty hallways... A demolished old factory.
(Lyric: Randy Newman)
Picture even made it to Explore!
Picher, OK, (and neighboring Cardin) was a mining town in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, and the area around it was a major producer of lead and zinc in the first half of the 20th Century. At its peak, more that 14,000 men worked the mines in the area, and 4,000 more in mining-related services. Eventually, the mines played out and the last one closed in the late 1960s, leading many people to move away from Picher.
The result of this activity was huge piles of mine waste (chat) in various places in and around Picher. Although not economically viable, the chat piles still had trace amounts of lead in them, and the wind would stir up fine dust particles which the townspeople would inhale. Contaminated water turned the local creek red, and sinkholes began to appear as the abandoned mines collapsed.
In 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency declared a 40-mile (104km) square area around Picher one of the most contaminated areas in the United States. A study in the mid 1990s showed about a third of the children in Picher had elevated levels of lead in their blood. The federal government began buyouts of the remaining residents in 2005, but not all took the offer. In 2008, an EF-4 tornado cut a path through the remainder of the town killing 7 people and destroying many houses; none were rebuilt. In 2009, Picher disincorporated and the school district dissolved, making it a modern-day ghost town. More wildlife than people now inhabit the area, but Picher’s legacy remains. Early in 2015, more than 1,000 migratory birds were found dead in Picher; the cause was thought to be zinc poisoning.
Hundreds of people took to the streets on March 28, 2018; to protest in New York City over the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in Sacramento, California; chanting and carrying signs as they marched from Columbus Circle to Times Square. Police say at least 11 people were detained. It was not immediately clear what charges they could face. (Photo by Erik McGregor)