16 posts tagged “nyc”

Apparently the big wigs and head honchos who secretly run Coney Island have extended there "demolition" of the entire place untill NEXT summer.  while i am not happy, because they shouldnt tear down the place at all, i was a little relieved. So i took a stroll down memory lane again, but this time i dont plan on going back at all this summer. When i went to Coney, the thing that really bothered me the most is the fact that the grandmother fortune teller machine is gone.  I have an old shot from some random day or whatever,

grandmother

But what really pisses me off is the fact that it was replaced with a PEPSI
machine! i guess all those old fortune stubs that i have laying around are
now collectible. I remember last summer it stopped working, kinda weird since at that time major companies were buying up land to tear shit down.
To the left is a link, of my adventure of the disappearing Grandma's Fortune Teller, also i have bad camera holding skillz wordl.

But anyway! walking has been fun. It was really cold for some reason yesterday and so since i did not bring a hoodie or anything i was forced to buy one at a souvenier shop that says Coney Island on it, so it made me look like a tourist, and since i was carrying a camera around mad vendors were calling to me to play there games.

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I think the most interesting part itself is visiting the abandoned parts of Coney. Or atleast the industrial part, i usually get this sense of nostalgia, a feeling that a long history or events took place right where i stood.

coney island steel art

Then you can also find some really interesting things istelf just walking around. For example to my right is a really nice steel art piece, its to bad i dont know who did it but who ever did it, did a very nice job. Especially near the Coney Island Arts center, which to me seems shu

freakshow

t down, along with a few vendors.

shooting the freak

The freakshow, i give this place 5 stars for its originality, i dont know what the freak folks plan on doing after this summer though. ANd on the right is shoot the freak which isnt really a freak but some guy in a mask and holds a shield, he does this little dance when people shoot at him. I kinda feel bad for him in a way as people make a living off this i guess.

Shoot the Freak Overture

                                           And this is the overview of Shoot the freak on the boardwalk.

WEST ONE COPE2 AND EWOK

I attended the BURNING NEW YORK vs The Chelsea Art Museum Q&A yesterday took alot of pictures. This was my first Q&A with a graf artist. They were very nice and talked alot about respect, tags, and the legality of the art.

Before the Q&A i was just randomly taking my walk around NYC and i noticed these kids sitting in front of Starbucks near St Marks PL. they were begging for beer money. To me this is very 1992, i really didnt think with all the coporations around kids still resort to this measure but i guess they do, i always have this fear i will end up like this.

Todays Youth

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central park row boat

This i think should be my last of the Central park day, i cant stand making multiple posts of the same subject even though it gives me something to do. Which in my case i am bored of out my skull. Here pictured the row boat renting place somewhere in Central Park, I think you can dine there aswell. I never attempted such "rich" adventures, so i merely took this simple shot. I have alot more Central Park photos, some upped and some not, some are over at my flickr.
I really need something to photograph, but what? i am running out of ideas! this makes me a sad panda so i gotta get out more, but the weather to me(and frankly, i dont think im the only one) total crumb cakes. I awoke from the hibernation for a few days of nice weather then it gets back to cold and miserable. But hey there are decent 50 degree weather days to walk around in, for example Central Park is one of them.

new york central park

Taken during sunsetting in central park at the ice skating park.