Month: January 2006

(Atlantic Av Station, Brooklyn)

The memory is hazy, but warm…(Dupont Circle Metro Station, Washington DC)Related post:Dupont Circle Station

Brooklyn Bridge is falling down…when you don’t Photomerge well!(Pearl St & Dover St, Manhattan)

(Pearl St & Dover St, Manhattan)

(Canal St & Broadway, Manhattan)

(Beard Papa, 2167 Broadway, Manhattan)

(Alfred E. Smith Houses, Madison St & St James Pl, Manhattan)

This is a subculture I know nothing about, but would like to someday.(OTB, Bowery, Manhattan)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpchan/88758108/

We’ll start with this…what do you want me to start with? The Golden Gate Bridge? Now watch. Watch this. Here we go. There. [He steps up.] There. Now. I look up, I look down. I look up. I look down. There’s nothin’ to it. YIKES!!!! What the HECK, Midge?

–Vertigo (mostly…)

(Vital Theatre, 76 St & Broadway, Manhattan)

If you know, please tell me.(Grand St Station, Manhattan)

Why is our city better than yours? Because we have places like the Restaurant Supply District, goshdarnit.(Bowery & Grand St, Manhattan)

(Flushing)

This one is dedicated to everyone that, like me, got a bad cold or flu this season. Get well soon, Jo!(Kam Man Foods, 200 Canal St, Manhattan)

(Canal St & Lafayette St, Manhattan)Related post:Canal & Lafayette

This couldn’t possibly be the same guy, but in my mind I like to think that it was — and that he wears a different color each day. And, as before, I was envious.(Q train, Brooklyn)Related posts:Into The WhiteMystery TrainIf You Need It, You Should Show ItIt’s Like Rain On Your Q TrainWhy Other NY Graffiti is Still Pretty LameRush Hour Reading Room

(HSBC Bank, Broadway, Manhattan)

And I thought my cubicle had no privacy…(520 Madison Av, Manhattan)

(Astoria Blvd Station, Queens)Related posts:360 Sunset in Red Hook360 Katz’sAstoria

(Water St, Manhattan)

Did we really have a transit strike a few weeks ago? It seems like ancient history now.(Parkside Av Station, Brooklyn)Related posts:Unlucky Strike: Under The BridgesUnlucky Strike: My New CommuteUnlucky Strike!Parkside

I was doing a video shoot on Roosevelt Island this Saturday and it was cold, hence the sleeping bag of a jacket I’m wearing. The fruit don’t seem to mind.(Roosevelt Island)Related post:Roosevelt Island 10044

(76 St & Broadway, Manhattan)

(Flatbush Av, Brooklyn)

I love airport people watching, especially the welcomes and farewells at the head of the pier. They’re the small moments that reveal so much.(LaGuardia Airport, Queens)Related Post:The Bear And The SnowmanOn The WayThe $80 Question

Question: why in the world does that bear look scared? Answer: he found out that the Snowman is the air marshal on his flight.(LaGuardia Airport, Queens)Related Post:On The WayThe $80 Question

Taking the subway to the M60 to LaGuardia is cheap, and mostly fast. The M60 part is always the most stressful, though, if you’re like me and you try to cut it as close as possible to flight time. Sometimes the bus moves too slowly, sometimes the bus goes so fast you think it’s going to go up on two wheels and tip over.(Astoria Blvd, Queens)Related Post:The $80 Question

The parts of northern New Jersey that you can see from the Northeast Corridor are mostly sad: dirty, ancient factories and warehouses, tired old working-class homes…all the stuff a town wants to tuck away and hide when the neighbors come over. I always wanna get out and take more photos, close up. (NJ Transit NEC, Newark, NJ)Related post:On The Northeast Corridor

About half-way (and thirty screws) into upgrading my sister’s iBook from a 30GB/4200 rpm hard drive to a 60GB/5400 rpm model, I regretted starting the project. There were just too many screws to remove and too many delicate parts to break. I didn’t think I’d be able to put the thing back together correctly and I started cursing myself for not paying Tekserve a hundred bucks to do it. But two hours later, the machine booted up perfectly. My sister now had a lot more room for her music and pictures. Best of all, the iBook seemed faster. It was around then that I started imagining upgrading my PowerBook’s 80GB drive to a 120GB, and giving the 80GB to my sister and…I read somewhere that the joy of seeing their newborn baby makes mothers forget their declarations of “never again!” during labor. I think I just experienced something similar.(Apple Macintosh iBook G4 [late 2004], 1.2ghz, 1.2GB RAM, 60GB Hitachi Deskstar hard drive)

Happy new year!(Mirror of Light [1974] by Waltercio Caldas, Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan)Related posts:iFetishTransportViewerFamily RomanceAtrium