The 33 1/3 series of books are a collection of pocket-sized books that mostly provide a highly detailed analysis of one particular album by a group. Most of the books are short, around 150 pages or so. This book was quite a bit thicker than most, around 225 pages. I wish it was 500 pages, because I couldn’t get enough…
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a movie on Netflix that was “trending”. The film, Mank, was about Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of the movie Citizen Kane. The movie went into great detail about the writing of the screenplay, and it depicted the studio heads, actors and politics of the time. I enjoyed the film, but all I…
Two years ago, the New York Public Library put together this anthology of articles from their archives to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. The book is broken into three sections: before Stonewall, the Stonewall uprising, and post-Stonewall. The articles consist of all types of writing, from historical accounts to personal diaries to poems and short stories. I…
Day 8 Today was very cold out, and I had a million things to do in preparation for my upcoming trip to Tanzania, so I didn’t get to go out today. As my fallback, I employed Glitter, my muse, in the service of this project and got a lovely portrait of her as she sat on my printer. Day 9…
Day 6 A bit of a dull day, photowise. I went out in the morning and took a nice photo of the Empire State Building on my walk to the gym. That was the main pic of the day. I got a quick picture of a dog, shooting stealthily from my hip. It got cut off, but editing it in…
Day 4: Gloomy day today. I ended up not going out this afternoon, so I’m glad I took a few pictures this morning while on the way to the gym. While at the gym, I saw these two women who always come in together, with their little elderly chihuahua in tow. The dog is always in a little baby carriage,…
Gross, gloomy day outside, but I had to go out to Union Square, so I was able to grab a bunch of photos. Tough choice picking my favorite for today, but I went with this reflection photo. I like how it shows the Black Lives Matter street art and the NYPD car in the same frame. The runners up: This…
Location: Union Square Camera: Ricoh GR III Title: Crack Kills Other pics I took today that I considered: Glitter on the window sill. Taken with the iPhone. Converted to black and white. This is a Buddha Hand. It’s a weird (and expensive) citrus fruit. Saw it at the supermarket today, and took a photo with the iPhone, in portrait mode. …
This was a really interesting book about the history of gay Brooklyn, impeccably researched and filled with fascinating stories about the borough’s queer and trans denizens. It starts in 1855 with the publication of Brooklyn resident Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and ends just before Stonewall. Brooklyn was a prominent port, and the waterfront attracted quite the crowed, particularly sailors,…
BONUS IMAGE: I found this one from my Ghana collection that I had not posted.
After I purchased the Ricoh GR III it rained heavily for two days straight, preventing me from going out and taking my first photos. On the third day, it was beautiful and sunny, so I headed to Chinatown and the Lower East Side, two neighborhoods with a lot of character. My initial camera settings for that day were: Single frame…
