View of the Empire State Building from around 14th St.

Union Square Park

New York NY

January 26, 2010

"New York City" NY "Union Square" Manhattan Urban

Paint is gooey and sticky. Every inch must be scraped and hit with a wire brush.

N.Y. USA

last thursday, i was driving downtown near navy pier and encountered some of the most jammed traffic of my life. i was the last car around the corner after a light and ended up halfway in the intersection because three cars in front of me were just standing there. there was maybe a hundred feet between the front car and the next light. so, i tried to get around them and i didn't quite make it. i bumped a guy in a jaguar and he flipped out. this is the damage to my car. it's the type of thing that someone who lives in the city brushes off, but the guy i scraped is from the suburbs, so he obviously made a big deal out of it.

Tyrone Mine reclamation project

There is a "campo" in Venice (S.Stefano) that I really like (and not only for the wonderful pastry shop).

Here you can relax, admire this red building and look for an hidden boat depot, in the corner.

Joe scraping the front of our house. It seems we never get done with this project..just move on to another side. I'm ready to hire someone eventually just to get it all done at one time.

Kevin scraping the ice pellets covering the driveway.

Todd left this impression in the parking lot when the vintage Vespa he was gunning slipped into first gear and took him by surprise. It also took him for a wheelie about fifteen feet across the parking lot. Oh where is the camera when you need it!

buildings in manhattan

Scraped acrylics, collage, and handmade stamps.

central square

Flying down a valley in the Yukon

The great city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada's largest city, is awash with some of the world's most impressive sky scrapers. They city has the 2nd highest number of "sky scrapers" in North America - after New York City. I love this multi-cultural metropolis and is vastly under-rated as one of the world's great cities, but to be honest, it is probably best kept that way. This image, taken on a gorgeous summer's afternoon in the big city, in the city's financial district, has proven to be one of my most popular and talked about images.

This deer liked this place

Scraped

Now I can see why my legs stung a little when the masseur threw water over my legs after scraping them!

He was more gentle with my face.

Around Frankfurt

baked chicken ziti

september 27, 2012

Journalist filming one of my queueing buddies flipping the pages of the Rough Guide to the iPhone. A Pullitzer is doubtlessly in the offing.

Trail of 100 Giants, Sequoia National Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California.

Its always best to do things youself if possible, that way you find stuff like this.

Constant and mindful

Dad really enjoyed the pull scraper. He preferred scraping to holding the Silent Paint Remover because he didn't want to be the one to burn down the house.

scraping

Rope techs David Corrin and Claire Wilson from Edge Access perched high above Melbourne's city skyline.

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