Project 365, Second Try

[brigdh]

Hey, remember that Project 365 thing? Where you took one photo a day for a year? Well, I sort of gave up on it back in February, when my camera was stolen, but I bought a new one before going to Cyprus, and I want to get back into it. I enjoy the way trying to find photos causes me to perceive the landscape in a different sort of way than I do otherwise.

Anyway, thumbnails beneath the cut! Click them if you'd like a larger image.


I see sneakers thrown over phone lines all the time, but this is the only time I've seen ballet slippers. I'm also currently using this image as my desktop.


The Coney Island Rollercoaster. Now, I've been on a lot of rollercoasters. I've been on a lot of wooden rollercoasters. I've been on the tallest rollercoaster in the world. But this is the only rollercoaster which has ever given me bloody whiplash.


Central Park.


THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T FEED THE PIGEONS, PEOPLE.


In a subway station.


I did not put the onion on the bike-seat. I do not know why the onion is on the bike-seat. Perhaps it is guarding the bike.


Buildings under construction are creepy at night.

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Yay pictures!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'm glad people like this kind of post!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Those are great. I love the onion. What.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And I know. I was so confused!

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the picture with the ballet shoes--there's got to be a wonderful story in that one.

I am completely mystified by the onion! Maybe it's actually a tiny guardian creature with sharp teeth, and if you try to touch the bike it comes to life and snaps at your fingers.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Me too! It's such a strange and wonderful thing to see.

Hee! I like that theory.

The onion

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

No, no, the onion is perfectly plausible. There are all sorts of explanations for it!

1. The owner of this bicycle bought an onion, declining a bag for it. Then she saw a picture she needed to take. This required the use of both hands, so she left her onion on her seat, confident that no one would steal an unattended onion in New York. What if it were bait?

2. The owner of this bicycle bought a whole bag of onions, and other produce too, and is now running her other errands. She knows, however, that (a) her girlfriend will kill her if she arrives home without the new issue of The Onion, and (b) that she is likely to forget to pick it up. So she has left an onion on her seat as a last-ditch reminder.

3. The owner of this onion didn't want it. Didn't want it in an urgent kind of way: she'd foolishly allowed it to be put in the same bag as her dozen fresh figs, and if she had left it there, she realized on her way home, the figs would have been inedibly flavored with onion by the time she arrived there. So she discarded it in the first place she could find, not waiting to reach a trash bin.

4 -- Oops, no, I think my resist is dry now. Back to work. Despite the fact that I could keep going.

Oh, and I love the photos too.

Re: The onion

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I think this may be my favorite comment ever. I don't even have anything to add!

[kohakutenshi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it was a gang-ballerina that had been killed in that spot? I know that sounds very bad, but I heard\read that shoes being thrown over power lines like that means that a person died in a gang related killing.

Of course, maybe people were making things up again.

The onion, however...

Perhaps like those fruit juicy candies, they have veggie ones, too. And the bike rider ate one and turned into an onion like the heads turn into fruit on the commercials? O.O Or perhaps he's a Pokemon, and the bike riding trainer ran off to find another one and like Pikachu, Onion-butt did not want to go into the pokeball? O.O Or! He may be a very ambitious Onion who wants to get a job at a deli making sandwhiches, and he got on the bike and then realized he had no hands. But if he jumps down he will be squished, and so he is stuck comtemplating club sandwhiches.

O.o This is what happens to people who watch too much HGTV.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

There's a million stories for why people through sneakers over powerlines, and even the people who actually do so have different reasons. I like the image of a gangster-ballerina, though! Hee.

[drmoonpants.livejournal.com]

I think everyone is missing the obvious explanation for the onion, which is that the onion is clearly riding the bike. Very slowly.

These are gorgeous, I love the ballet slippers.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes! Best explanation for the onion yet.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! I should have known.

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

I love random, cryptic graffiti.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'm not sure if this example was supposed to be a comment on commercialization of music, or poetry, or what, but I adore the sound of it.

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the ballet shoes are awesome; it's a really good shot, as well. I've never seen sneakers thrown over a phone line, myself; possibly it is a city/American thing?

How do you make it do thumbnails? I can never seem to get photos to resize at all.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It's definetely a city thing, and probably an American thing. As for why people do it, there's about a thousand explanations: to mark gang territory borders, to mark the site where someone died, done as celebration for a birthday or losing virginity, or moving away. Snopes.com even has a page on it.

[IMG HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100 SRC="wherever your photo is.jpg"] Except with the pointy kind of brackets instead, and of course you can change the size of the thumbnail.

[iilii.livejournal.com]

Awesome pics. I might steal the "In a subway station" pic for my desktop at work. :)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And feel free.