Rain Again! (Upper East
Side)
06.30.2009 | 09:05 PM • Filed in:
Weather
Bike on Vanderbilt
(Prospect Heights)
06.30.2009 | 06:09 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn
Hydrangea (Prospect
Heights)
06.30.2009 | 06:08 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:Nature:Pic
of the Day
Playground (Prospect
Heights)
06.29.2009 | 11:06 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:Pic
of the Day
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!
Vanderbilt Ave. Block
Party (Prospect Heights)
06.28.2009 | 11:04 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn
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.
RIP: Michael Jackson
1958-2009
06.26.2009 | 11:07 AM • Filed in:
News:Music

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!
RIP: Farah Fawcett
1947-2009
06.25.2009 | 03:06 PM • Filed in:
News
Photo: Bruce
McBroom
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.
Boy on Fulton (Crown
Heights)
06.24.2009 | 11:03 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:Pic
of the Day
Norteño on the Q
(Manhattan Bridge)
06.23.2009 | 11:58 PM • Filed in:
Music:Pic of the
Day
Storm Clouds (Prospect
Heights)
06.23.2009 | 11:02 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:Landscape:Light
Dead Chick (Prospect
Heights)
06.23.2009 | 11:01 PM • Filed in:
Animals
Dogs (Prospect
Heights)
06.22.2009 | 11:55 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:Humor
Atlantic Yards Site
(Prospect Heights)
06.22.2009 | 11:39 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:News
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.
7th Avenue Fair (Park
Slope)
06.21.2009 | 11:29 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn
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.

Knox's Day in Court
06.11.2009 | 11:08 PM • Filed in:
News
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.
Soapbox Gallery (Prospect
Heights)
06.07.2009 | 12:14 AM • Filed in:
Art:Brooklyn
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.
Traffic Cone (Prospect
Heights)
06.04.2009 | 11:30 PM • Filed in:
Pic of the
Day:Brooklyn
Dennis Oppenheim Opening
(LES)
06.04.2009 | 11:26 PM • Filed in:
Art


At
Janos Gat Gallery,
Dennis showed a handful of
maquettes used in proposals for some of his
large-scale public art projects.
Grafitti (LES)
06.04.2009 | 11:25 PM • Filed in:
Graffiti:Art
Flowers and Peanut Shells
(Chinatown)
06.04.2009 | 11:24 PM • Filed in:
Nature
Recent Published Work
06.03.2009 | 11:44 PM • Filed in:
Art:Writing:Photography
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.
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.
New Studio
06.01.2009 | 11:21 PM • Filed in:
Brooklyn:Art

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.