Puerto Rico

I'm typically not the beach vacation kinda girl. But a little blue sky, sun and good friends and suddenly I can hang out all day. Too bad my sun-burned blistered back doesn't agree.

The view from the apartment in Guanica.


San Jacinto Restaurant. Home of empanadas, tasty mystery meat, rice and beans and the ferry to Guilligan's Island.


Warning sign on the way to the ferry. I love how the guy looks drunk.


More San Jacinto Restaurant.


Virgin Mary fountain. Who knew that the BVM and crucifixion imagery has been combined?


Next to where we bought green coconuts to drink.


Ponce, PR is a wonderful and decrepit city with so many abandoned old beautiful buildings. It's too bad we only went there at night, I would have loved to wander the streets during the day.


The phosphorescent bay! One of the most amazing things I've ever seen. At one point, they brought a bucket of the water on the boat and it was like holding stars in your hand.


Night fishing. View from apartment in the evening.


Beautiful black birds. I wonder if these are the equivallent of a NYC pigeon...they were everywhere.


Crashing the Copamarina Resort.


House in Guanica, PR.


Guanica, PR bay with sinking boat.

5th Ave Street Fair

Tricked out bikes, dancing kids...what more could you want in a street fair?

NY Botanical Garden

Floor of library/gallery building.


Spiky what's-it-called plants.


More spiky what's-it-called plants. Gotta say, I really love plants that are spiky and ugly. I hate the boring rose but give me one of these and I'll be happy.


Or perhaps a deep purple iris that looks almost black. When I have a garden, one day, I'll fill it with spiky or black plants with perhaps a few peonies thrown in.


Deep purple parrot tulip.


I'm so pleased with how these images came out...almost like a painting.

Brains and frog eggs

mmm....frog eggs...crunchy brains...

Chinatown drinks.

Lotus and white fonke on the left (tasted like sugary water with chunks of crunchy tasteless things in it. Nasty. Still have no idea what fonke is.) On the right are basil seeds with mango, much more tastier. I even liked the slimy texture of the basil seeds. Slurp slurp.


Piano keys. East Village.

Shadow reminder

A lot has been going on the past couple of days/weeks. Still taking pictures, just no time to post.

3rd Ave and 3rd St, Gowanus Canal. Shadows of what used to exist.


Close up of building (taken on another day).


3rd St, near Gowanus Canal.


Tribeca, corner of Varick St and Laight St. I guess this was for the Tribeca Film Festival. Very cool idea of changing the look of a walk/don't walk sign (check out the black silhouettes on the right too).

Atlantic Yards

The destruction on the Underberg building. Making way for Ratner's stadium...

Push Button for Luck

religious holiday! To celebrate the bloody crucifixion of our lord and savior, I spent the day going to the Whitney Biennial and kicking around town looking for evenweave linen. That's right, yet another one of my epic quests around nyc looking for odd items that no one else in their right mind would care about.

5th Ave, Park Slope.


Garfield St (between 5th and 6th Ave)

Keep that chin up

5th Ave in Park Slope, pasted on the bottom of a light pole. I walked by this one many times before I saw it and then many more times before I remembered to bring my camera with me.


Wooster between Grand and Canal.


Sign on the side of a truck. I'm a big fan of watertanks.


In a doorway on Walker Street near Church.


Mercer St, above Houston. I love how this guy looks like he's oozing out of the steps.


Revisiting a previous post, now with new additions next to it.


Why why why?! would anyone want to put the effort toward making Sean Hannity's image? I do agree with the "Fox Sucks" comment though...

Back in the real world

For the past couple of weeks, I've been heads down studying and really have not had time to do anything fun. No dinner out with friends, no parties, no drawing classes, no picture snapping, nada. As a result, I've become a little withdrawn and unhappy. Thank goodness that horrifyingly boring test is over.

I'm only just beginning to feel back to normal.


Went to Prospect Park today and even though it was a little chilly, the signs of spring are all around. Daffodils poking out of dead winter leaves makes me feel quite optimistic about the world.


Trees are still bare but I love the interplay between the pattern of the bark, the shadows and the blue blue sky.

Snow Day!

So glad it's warm and toasty in here.

I heart Paris

On my first day, I saw a cat hanging out in front of a great bookstore. To me, a great sign of what's coming.



Ahhh...smells like the feet of angels (with apologies to Rick Steves).


The weirdest and creepiest church prize goes to...La Magdeline. Inside an organ was playing doom and gloom music, the sculptures were all lit from below giving an eerie glow and to top it all off they had this glittery creche.


Close up of creche. See how death (skull head, rocking a white outfit) and the devil (the guy from one of the new Star Wars movies) flank Mussolini on the throne? Makes perfect sense to me...the birth of baby Jesus above, Mussolini below.


The BVM lit from below.


Saint Chapelle, interior. We started doing this thing with the camera where you set the shutter speed to 1-2 seconds and then throw the camera around with the shutter open. Fun. Just don't drop the camera.


Saint Chapelle, exterior. Bondage angel.


Musee du Moyen Age.


Notre Dame, interior


The dog shit was everywhere. Though my friends told me that it was much better than in previous years...


Fantastic umbrella shop in the 6th. Some umbrellas had carved handles, were fur-trimmed or frosted with stuffed hearts. Completely impractical. Completely wonderful.

Winter in America

4th Ave and Union in Park Slope, Brooklyn



Greene Street, Soho



Wooster Street, Soho



Wooster Street, Soho



Wooster Street, Soho. Facing the parking lot on Grand Street.

Down South

Went down south to visit the family...I can still hear the dualing banjos.

Commerce, GA. Old glass electrical insulators.


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On the way back down from Atlanta, we discovered a poor little bird got it's leg somehow stuck in the truck. We didn't notice it until it was too late.

Even though, I guess I'm supposed to be horrified...I thought it was quite beautiful.