Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, dahill rd, grass, photography, playground on July 24, 2009| 1 Comment »
What is the truest expression of grass? A tufty, unruly rectangle or a perfectly mown front yard? The spring rain and city’s neglect caused this patch to go haywire. You could lose a soccer ball or a small child in there. It was to be an ephemeral pleasure, though; the city hacked the grass down to nothing just as it attained a resplendent shagginess.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, grass, heatwave, photography, prospect park, spring on April 26, 2009| 1 Comment »
It’s a heatwave weekend – temperature records are expected to be broken today. Spring is a pleasant season here in NYC, so it will be nice to return to seasonal weather in a few days.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, garden, grass, lawn ornament, photography, plastic robots, robots, spring on April 1, 2009| 2 Comments »
Cast cement would be the perfect medium for these lawn ornaments, but they are still a nice decoration until the grass and flowers come in. I like the juxtaposition of the inanimate, man-made objects with the naturalness of the yard and flower bed. In person, the little robot looks more dog-like, as if it’s the pet of the big one.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, grass, irony, moma, museum of modern art, nyc, photography, portraiture, shadow on December 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
that's me on the right; it was very windy
Like yesterday’s picture, today’s includes the photographer’s shadow (i.e., me). It’s a common device, using a shadow as a human stand-in. A couple months ago at MOMA I saw a piece comprised of individually framed snapshots from the 1920’s to 1970’s that caught the photographer’s shadow. Though the grouping of the photographs and their accidental subject matter was anything but casual, they were memorable as a record of a time before photographic irony, and the anonymous subjects, small scale, and shadows made the snapshots seem especially ephemeral. Last week I visited the museum and experienced impermanence firsthand; the photos were no longer up.
Pix and other images 