i think i had heard of frisbee golf but i was definitely not familiar with it's level of establishment. dale took me to an 18 hole frisbee golf course and produced "driver" and "putter" frisbees from his trunk. when i was impressed, he was quick to tell me that he was on the low end of the enthusiast totem pole and that people regularly show up with a custom bag of 16 frisbees of varying calibers...whoa.
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I'm down here visiting my friend Dale. He has a one bedroom apt with an enormous living room, a walk-in closet (a closet half the size would still be "walk-in") a parking space and (private 2nd floor) back deck for $650/month. We finished the night with some pink lemonade, crickets and conversation on his back deck...with a dramatically cloudy sky to heighten the drama.
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Went swimming last night at Virginia Beach and the ocean seriously felt like a heated pool. I've never felt ocean water that warm. There was a full or near full moon and no seaweed, jellyfish or unidentified things brushing up against my body. It was in my top 10 water experiences and I love water experiences so that's saying a lot. [more photos here]
posted by jon at 2:52 PM
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one of the women who worked in this store came out to ask if she could help me when she saw me taking pictures of the store. when i said no, she asked if i worked for "the complex." i actually went in when i was done shooting and chatted them up. they wanted to know what was so interesting and in somewhat diplomatic terms i told them that while i was sure that they didn't have that many options to customize the outside of their "hip hop store," its manicured strip mall location couldn't look more suburban and thought some people i knew might find it a little funny.
posted by jon at 1:59 PM
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I actually intro'ed taking this guy's photo by saying: "hey, i'm visiting from new york and taking pictures of stuff that could never happen there and...you're it."
posted by jon at 6:39 PM
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i posted a set of pictures i took with my fancy new camera of leela james' free show in harlem on 8-11 on flickr.
posted by jon at 4:09 AM
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this one is looking south from southern-most part of the park, which is built out into the river on top of some sanitation facility or something like that...makes for nice views though.
posted by jon at 3:59 PM
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this is my favorite photo from my 4 1/2 hour bike ride all around upper manhattan. this is taken in riverbank state park.
posted by jon at 3:57 PM
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"come on in or smile as you pass"
i think that this is hilarious for some reason. this church is somewhere near 175th and broadway.
posted by jon at 3:55 PM
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i ventured out on my bike saturday with my brother's fancy camera in search of who know's what...and i only had to go one block before coming up a block party which featured a highly choreographed dance routine to george kranz's "din da da." this was the joyous aftermath.
posted by jon at 3:48 PM
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following up on this post below, here is another nyc building i would love to live in. i don't know if the architecture style is french or english or what but i love it.
it's on riverside drive around 117th street (there are no cross streets between 116th & 119th) which also gives that area a particular uniqueness.
posted by jon at 4:40 PM
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the day i moved into my apt last year, i met a woman who lives in the house two doors down from this one. these three houses are the only houses on the block (the rest are big buildings). she told me how her mom had bought the house for next to nothing through the city on the condition that she fix it up. it looked pristine so i asked how had it looked before she started and she pointed to the house in the middle (which looked pretty much like this house). about 6 months into living here, the house in the middle transformed in a what seemed like a few short weeks. this is the last hold out, but someone just set up a wood construction wall in front so my favorite weeds won't be around much longer.
posted by jon at 4:29 PM
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one of the great joys of my first summer without a day job is lasker pool across the street in central park. i let all of last summer pass without swimming in it but i've gone 2-3 times each week that i've been in town so far this summer. i just discovered that they have adult-only lap swim from 7-8:30 at night. this photo is right after they opened at 11:00 a.m., the pool fills up with kids as the day goes on and they usually spill into/run across the one lap lane that's available during normal hours.
posted by jon at 2:06 PM
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i guess this is the most inexpensive way to let your customers know that you no longer offer half-hour photo processing...you now offer 12 1/6 hour photo processing. 630 would have been 10 1/2 which is a little neater but who's counting i guess...besides me.
posted by jon at 2:00 PM
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so...now that there are no more tokens for the clerks to sell, i guess they have a little more time on their hands...
posted by jon at 1:54 PM
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con ed drilling outside my window last night at 2:00 a.m.
posted by jon at 6:33 PM
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this is the "soul summit" house music party that happens in fort greene park some sundays in the summer. it's starts at three and goes until 9:00, this was near the very end.
posted by jon at 6:32 PM
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this block was pretty clean except for these excessive "rubbish removal" signs...
posted by jon at 6:31 PM
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i think i might do a series on all the buildings in nyc that i want to live in...here's #1.
(Baltic between Hicks and Henry, Brooklyn)
posted by jon at 6:30 PM
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i've biked to/through riverside park twice in the last week and i hope i can motivate to keep going every week until it's too cold.
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