Pro Pants!
I have never participated in the No Pants Subway Ride. That might seem a bit strange to you since one of the main themes of this blog is doing some weird and stupid stuff within the city. I can’t...
View ArticleAnthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy
Last night I attended a class at the Morbid Anatomy Library / Proteus Gowanuson anthropomorphic taxidermy, which is the practice of mounting and displaying taxidermied animals as if they were humans or...
View ArticleIdiotarod 2012: Cartmcgeddon
You may have seen a few references on this site to my participation in the 2009 Idiotarod, and though I haven’t written about the years in between, this was actually my fifth year in a row running this...
View ArticleLove Castle
Like many people out there, I’m not that big of a fan of Valentine’s day. It’s nice to have a day of love, but it’s pushed more towards romantic love, rather than platonic, familial or even just...
View ArticleHap Birt To Me! Starring: The Hives
Yesterday, April 26th, was my half birthday. I don’t actually celebrate it, but I like to make myself aware that I’m half a year older, and that it’s only six more months until my birthday (time to...
View ArticleThunderdome
I get a lot of event listing emails so I can keep up with what’s going on around the city. People always ask me how I find out about events, like it’s some big mystery, but it’s basically email lists....
View ArticleKaleidoscope Rainbow Parade
On Saturday I partook in the annual Kaleidoscope colors/rainbow parade. My friend and I met up at the starting point in the early evening donning neon colored shirts, though there were those who easily...
View ArticleBike Kill Bike Kill
BIKE KILLL!!!!! What an awesome name. I’ve seen photos from this event for years, and while I often ride a bike to get around in this city, I’m not really part of the bike scene. I thought this event...
View ArticleSurplus Candy
The street artist Hanksy put together an art show in an abandoned lower east side building with a bunch of other street artists decorating whole or walls or rooms within different apartments spanning 3...
View ArticleCompetitive Winter Picnicking
Today I participated in my first ever winter picnic. However, it was a bit more interesting than your average summer picnic since this one happened to be competitive, and also costumed. From the...
View ArticleRocket From the Crypt
Last night I saw Rocket From the Crypt for the first time, and it was awesome. I bought Live From Camp X-Ray at Virgin Records in Times Square on a chorus field trip in high school to some musical I...
View ArticleAir Guitar Qualifier 2014
After photographing the US Air Guitar east coast qualifier a few years ago, and having been to a few other qualifiers in the years since, I wanted to shoot the extreme airsicians again as whenever I...
View ArticleAbandoned Brooklyn Warehouse
Recently I obtained entry into an abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn that was almost as long as the block it resides on. Once inside, 90% of all of the walls in each of its four stories were covered in...
View ArticleKings Park Psychiatric Center
Over the past year or so, I have become more interested in exploring abandoned buildings whenever I can. I’ve slowly been visiting places in the immediate NYC area, and I’m hoping to have a road trip...
View ArticleKings Park Psychiatric Center – Part Deux
In my last post, I mentioned how I visited Kings Park Psychiatric Center twice last summer. Well I’ve gone back again recently, and I got into two non-patient buildings which I thought were much more...
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