Volvo Party in front of me….
I was driving on 8th and University in Downtown New York City, and in front of me I saw 3 similar Volvo XC 70’s. I decided to snap some pics. I would guess that the chances of such a sighting away from volvo land is kind of rare….
Cool Bike I saw locked up in the city.
From what I can tell it has disk brakes, single sided axels, no chain drive (axel drive i suspect), and a bike lock cut out under the handle bars. Looks like it folds in half too.
Rooftop Garden Mercer Street Style
This van parked on the corner of West 3rd street and Mercer, puts a new meaning to the phrase rooftop garden. It has been there for a few days and it is out of reach of most people….
Cool picture of an almost full moon and the Empire State Building
Here are 2 pics that I took from 28th street and 7th avenue last night.
The New York Times does not get it!!!
Or at least the company that does there advertising is stuck in 2002. While riding home on the subway last night I took an in depth look at the subway car full of New York Times ads. They were promoting there “Digital Subscriber” model, where as a non-subscriber you only get access to 20 articles […]
Some cool old phones at the GDGT event
I was at the GDGT event at the Altman building yesterday, and one of the vendors had brought a bunch of vintage mobile phones. Check them out:
Tie the knots, untie the knots…
On a walk through the almost freshly completed Washington Square park I passed the end of a performance piece by artist Ujin Lee. I found it interesting how she used audience participation as a part of the performance. As good at paraphrasing as I am you can read about what performance/piece was about here. Here […]
Multi-level pictures into NYC underground
I was walking by the underground construction on Houston and Lafayette, near the entrance to the subway. I was able to snap some pictures down to the subway platform. Here they are….
The Train / Crane
I was at the F train stop near near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. It had train wheels retrofitted to the undercarriage that connected a pressure wheel to the actual rubber of the normal drive wheels. Is that a muffler from a retrofitted propane system? There was a generator, and a remote controlled jack hammer, (both […]