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- Chinese New Year 2010
- February 21, 2010
- Lions and dragons and dogs in baby-carriages, oh my! It's Chinese New Year in New York again.
- Ice on the Hudson
- February 7, 2010
- Photographs of ice on the Hudson River, New York.
- First snowstorm of the winter
- December 22, 2009
- The first snowstorm of the winter hit New York on Saturday, and left behind a few inches of snow.
- Mimes
- October 29, 2009
- The mimes have moved into the neighborhood ... and they're playing kickball.
- Fish time
- August 13, 2009
- Snorkeling in the Perhentian Islands, with fish, sea turtles, squid and more.
- Runny
- July 20, 2009
- Photographs of New York local band 'Runny' playing at Pianos on the Lower East Side.
- Big Sur
- June 19, 2009
- Photographs of Big Sur landscapes taken along Route 1 in California
- Mission to MARS
- June 19, 2009
- Riding along on MBARI's research vessel 'Point Lobos', on a mission to recover an experimental module from the bottom of the undersea Monterey Canyon.
- "In C"
- April 24, 2009
- The forty-fifth anniversary performance of Terry Riley's "In C" at Carnegie Hall was like no other piece of orchestral music that I've ever heard.
- Pillowfight
- April 4, 2009
- The NYPD shut down the Manhattan pillowfight early ... but smaller pillowfights broke out anyway.
- Barking Beauty
- March 22, 2009
- The Barking Beauty Pageant - thirty dogs, three changes of costume, and more than a hint of insanity.
- Free Tibet Protest
- March 10, 2009
- Some photographs from the Tibetan protest march commemorating the March 1959 uprising against Chinese occupation.
- Vigil
- December 17, 2008
- Photographs from the 2008 Vigil to End Violence against Sex Workers held in Washington Square Park, New York.
- Inflation - Thanksgiving 2008
- November 26, 2008
- Eavesdropping at the balloon inflation the night before Thanksgiving confirms what most children know: parents don't listen.
- Democracy 2K8
- November 4, 2008
- Democracy is coming to the USA; in bite-sized pieces, once every four years.
- Halloween Parade 2008
- October 31, 2008
- A small selection of photographs taken at the Halloween Parade in New York's West Village, 2008
- What's in a name?
- October 25, 2008
- Your neighborhood bar is the place where people know your name; if we could just get them to remember the bar's name as well, we'd be onto something.
- 2008 Vendy Awards
- October 18, 2008
- Pictures from the 2008 Vendy Awards, a street food event organized by the Streetvendor Project of the Urban Justice Center.
- Lost in translation
- October 17, 2008
- It turns out that my neighbors don't do irony.
- Incident on the LES
- October 4, 2008
- A shooting on the Lower East Side brings the police out in force.
- Betelnut Girls
- October 3, 2008
- Annamarie Ho's installation 'Betelnut Girls' has come to Manhattan.
- One Fish Two Fish
- September 27, 2008
- The bluefish are running.
- Photowalk
- August 23, 2008
- Some pictures from the NYC Chinatown photowalk, part of Scott Kelby's worldwide photowalk.
- Precision
- July 26, 2008
- What exactly is precision brow planing, and why would you want it?
- Fourth of July
- July 4, 2008
- What I did on my Fourth of July holiday.
- Olafur
- June 28, 2008
- Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four giant waterfalls in New York
- Mermaid Parade 2008
- June 21, 2008
- Photographs from Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade.
- Midget
- June 17, 2008
- You see some strange things in New York
- Toy Tower
- May 12, 2008
- The Toy Tower, a ramshackle wooden structure towering over Avenue B on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is due to be taken down.
- Roller Derby
- May 10, 2008
- Pictures from a roller derby bout between the Manhattan Mayhem and the Queens of Pain.
- Study war no more
- April 25, 2008
- Internet startups blip.tv and Pando face off on the paintball field, and everyone gets covered in yellow paint
- Band Rampage
- March 28, 2008
- Photographs from various bands that played New York in the first part of 2008.
- Pomelo
- January 27, 2008
- The softest kitty in the world is no more.
- Mahalaxmi
- January 10, 2008
- A small set of photographs from Mumbai's open-air laundry at Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat.
- Fire on the Bowery
- November 29, 2007
- Pictures from a fire at a lighting store on the Bowery.
- Halloween
- November 1, 2007
- Some pictures from New York's Halloween Parade.
- Strange days indeed
- October 11, 2007
- Only in Tajikistan can a ride in a shared taxi turn into an industrial spelunking expedition.
- A tale of two trucks
- October 11, 2007
- A short truck ride in the Fan Mountains.
- Valve
- September 29, 2007
- Engine valves: can't live with them, can't cross the Atlantic without them.
- Photo Exhibition
- September 20, 2007
- Some photographs taken during a recent photography course.
- San Gennaro
- September 16, 2007
- The Feast of San Gennaro comes to Little Italy.
- Fireworks
- July 4, 2007
- Photographs of the 4th of July firework display seen from the Lower East Side.
- Reverend Billy
- July 1, 2007
- Reverend Billy has reportedly been arrested.
- Sarasota
- June 26, 2007
- A handful of pictures from a trip to Sarasota, FL.
- Birds and the Bees (and Crabs)
- May 31, 2007
- Love is in the air (for wild turkeys and mind-blowingly ancient arthropods).
- (It's a) Burning Car
- May 24, 2007
- A car spontaneously combusts in the street outside.
- Dance Parade 2007
- May 19, 2007
- Dancers vote with their feet (hips, hands and other body parts) to protest New York's archaic cabaret laws.
- Great Saunter 2007
- May 5, 2007
- Here we go round the island of Manhattan with the Shorewalkers again.
- Fire and Police
- April 4, 2007
- High drama - and a touch of farce - on the streets of New York.
- Eclipse
- March 3, 2007
- Some photographs of the March 3rd lunar eclipse.
- Dissenting opinion
- March 1, 2007
- Vandals have taken to defacing anti-authoritarian wall art in my neighborhood.
- Gung hei faat choi
- February 25, 2007
- Photographs from the Chinese New Year parade in Manhattan.
- Snow
- February 15, 2007
- Some photographs from recent snowstorms in Manhattan.
- Confession
- February 8, 2007
- I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
- Power Washer
- January 6, 2007
- Photographs of the power-washing of 188 Suffolk Street, Manhattan
- Erin
- October 30, 2006
- Erin Siegal, Reuters and Indymedia photographer, has been arrested by the NYPD while covering a demonstration.
- Roller Derby
- October 14, 2006
- The Bronx Gridlock and the Queens of Pain meet in Manhattan, and I get to take pictures from the ringside.
- Blip
- September 20, 2006
- Today I start my new job at Blip.tv.
- To Rio
- July 15, 2006
- Photographs and musings on the way to Rio de Janeiro.
- From the Air
- June 23, 2006
- A selection of cloudscapes and aerial photographs taken from a commercial flight.
- UNGASS
- May 31, 2006
- Photographs from the UNGASS protests outside the UN Building.
- Feast of St Joey
- May 19, 2006
- The Hungry March Band leads a procession in honor of Joey Ramone.
- Gardens on the march
- May 13, 2006
- A march for community gardens visits the Lower East Side.
- Great Saunter 2006
- May 7, 2006
- The Great Saunter 2006: another thirty-two miles round Manhattan's rim.
- Lost in America
- April 20, 2006
- One thing I like about New York is the chance to see live music.
- Snow
- February 12, 2006
- It's snowing in New York. A lot.
- Sic transit
- December 20, 2005
- The first day of the New York transit strike wasn't so bad - for me at least.
- Sony on the street
- December 5, 2005
- More questionable publicity for Sony.
- Election Fever
- November 5, 2005
- Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer visits the Lower East Side.
- Is it November already?
- November 1, 2005
- Thirty days; fifty thousand words. You have to be joking, right?
- Potemkin East
- October 30, 2005
- Drug-crazed Hollywood film-makers build Berkeley on the Lower East Side, call it Greenwich Village.
- Art around the Park
- August 28, 2005
- Photographs from Manhattan's annual Art around the Park/Howl! festival
- San Francisco
- August 8, 2005
- Photographs from San Francisco.
- Monterey
- August 7, 2005
- Photographs from Monterey, California
- Cuauhtemoc
- August 6, 2005
- Photos: the tall ship 'Cuauhtemoc' at Monterey
- MBARI
- August 5, 2005
- Photographs of undersea exploration vehicles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
- The Giglio
- July 10, 2005
- Photographs taken at Williamsburg's Feast of the Giglio.
- 24-hr party people
- May 15, 2005
- The first warm (Saturday) night in 2005, and the bands are on the march.
- The Great Saunter
- May 10, 2005
- Walking the outer rim of Manhattan on the Shorewalkers' Great Saunter.
- Good Friday
- May 1, 2005
- Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
- Leaving the scene
- April 25, 2005
- A taxi driver involved in a hit-and-run injured eleven people outside my office today.
- Statements
- April 17, 2005
- In Broad Channel, everyone's home makes a statement of some kind.
- Murals
- April 12, 2005
- Chico has a new mural on Houston St.
- The Gates
- February 13, 2005
- Some photographs of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 'Gates' project in New York's Central Park.
- Crazy white people
- January 29, 2005
- Photographs from New York's Idiotarod 2005 shopping cart race.
- Halloween
- November 2, 2004
- Some photographs from Manhattan's Halloween parade.
- Neither snow nor rain
- September 1, 2004
- Even though I work just a few blocks away, I can almost ignore the RNC. Others are not so lucky.
- RNC NYC
- August 29, 2004
- Some pictures and comments from Sunday's protest against the Republican National Convention in New York.
- Disoriented
- July 28, 2004
- There's no place like home - wherever that might be.
- Hi-So
- May 13, 2004
- In which we go to a fashionable party and have a surprising encounter on the way home.
- Cheung Chau Island
- May 6, 2004
- A small collection of photographs from Cheung Chau island, Hong Kong.