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Rain Again! (Upper East Side)

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Bike on Vanderbilt (Prospect Heights)

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Hydrangea (Prospect Heights)

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Playground (Prospect Heights)

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Our favorite playground for Max is a few blocks away. They’ve got swings, sculptures, free Fisher Price toys, and a few fountains to cool off in. Summer in the city!
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Vanderbilt Ave. Block Party (Prospect Heights)

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From burgers to kid sing alongs to live music and jump-roping, a four-block stretch of Vanderbilt had it all every Sunday in June.
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RIP: Michael Jackson 1958-2009

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A few hours after I wrote of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson’s death stole the limelight. While his last years were just so sad, I will always remember him for Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough and ABC. A half-decade older than I, his music was always there in the background as I came of age. So his passing also brings back waves of nostalgia. I can understand why Madonna and Quincy Jones wept when they heard the tragic news. Such an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime talent!
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RIP: Farah Fawcett 1947-2009

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I think this was the first babe poster I ever bought. What a smile! The nipples didn’t hurt either. This and the Avedon Natasha Kinski poster are forever etched in my adolescent memory. More about Farrah’s up and down career here.
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Boy on Fulton (Crown Heights)

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Norteño on the Q (Manhattan Bridge)

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Storm Clouds (Prospect Heights)

Lots of rain this summer and great thunderstorms, followed by great god light.
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Dead Chick (Prospect Heights)

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Dogs (Prospect Heights)

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Atlantic Yards Site (Prospect Heights)

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Ratner’s giant project to Manhattanize my ‘hood has been partially derailed by the economy and lawsuits. Gehry even pulled out. For more info on developments read here and here and the Times’ latest here.
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7th Avenue Fair (Park Slope)

Besides the usual generic staples of the NYC street fair circuit (sausage and peppers truck, sheets, banks, cotton candy, fries, shish kabob, politicians), there were soap bubble uzis and a pizza eating contest at the annual 7th Ave. Street Fair.
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Knox's Day in Court

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Not having a TV and not living in Seattle have made me miss a quite sensational trial going on in the picturesque town of Perrugia, Italy. Two college women, one British, one American, lived together for a couple of months while studying in Umbria. The British one, Meredith Kercher, 21, is found dead in the apartment they shared, stabbed and strangled, and the roommate, Amanda Knox, a U. of Washington Seattle native, 20 at the time, has some trouble getting her story straight about what she was doing with her Italian boyfriend during the night in question. In Italy and England, since the murder in November 2007, the press has had a field day, pushing the murder investigation and trial into the O.J. stratosphere. The case has all the ingredients of a tabloid smorgasbord: drugs, an African man who admits being at the crime scene, a zealous prosecutor, questionable DNA, and international youth and beauty. Knox, pictured above, has been subjected to a relentless onslaught of accusations, as well as detention in an Italian prison. Tomorrow she will have her day in court. Here’s a NYT blog on the subject, as well as a Seattle P.I. blog, a Newsweek article, and a website from the victim’s family’s POV.
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Soapbox Gallery (Prospect Heights)

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I’ve been passing in front of a small window-front gallery on Dean Street on the way to my new studio. The photo above is a detail from Sandra Osip’s Eco-Effective installation at Soapbox Gallery.
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Traffic Cone (Prospect Heights)

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Dennis Oppenheim Opening (LES)

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At Janos Gat Gallery, Dennis showed a handful of maquettes used in proposals for some of his large-scale public art projects.
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Grafitti (LES)

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Flowers and Peanut Shells (Chinatown)

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Recent Published Work

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Clockwise from top left: Photos from Tokyo Crossing series in Redivider, a photo from my Visual Haiku series in Shots, a short story, Second Act, in Cutthroat, a short-short, South of the Border, in Sonora Review’s David Foster Wallace tribute double issue, which is a great read, highly recommended.

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Some of my artwork photography has been featured in recent exposition catalogs for Alex Katz and a benefit show of a collaboration of 70s rock photographer Mick Rock and the artist Russell Young.
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Gull and Clouds

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New Studio

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I just signed a lease on a 900-square-foot space on Pacific Street in Prospect Heights. Lots of work to do to get it functional. More updates later.
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