Tag Archives: Queensboro Bridge

Intentionally Wasted

This is the giant, empty gravel lot of the Gotham building on Queens Plaza which now holds NYC’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.  I do not know why they decided to not use any of the property outside of the building to help beautify a very unbeautiful part of New York, but I think it would be good for everyone’s mental state to throw some trees and shrubs and maybe a fountain or two or dare I say, a park bench to sit on while you wait thirty minutes for a B62 bus to show up during rush hour.  Perhaps one day.

Smoke Stacks, Free Tracks And Full Effects

I can watch a smoke (or steam) stack for a long time. Their enormous size and output make them simultaneously intimidating, beautiful, iconic, timeless and omnipresent.

Using YouTube’s new editing system, I was able to add free audio and use the “Cartoon” video filter.

This is a cropped view from my office, which overlooks the East River into Queens.

Here, I added some free new age ocean music with the “1960′s” video filter.

Here I used creepy sound effects mixed with original audio and the “Thermal” video filter for this nifty shot.

Here I used free electronic music and the “Lomo” video filter

A smoke stack seen from an opening in the Queensboro Bridge near East 60th Street, New York City.

25 Of My Favorite Urban Abstractions of 2011

I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.

Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The Laboratory.

Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.

McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.

Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Building exterior close-up in London, England.

Rooftop gardening junk.

A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.

From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.

South Williamsburg street pattern.

Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.

An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.

A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.

A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.

Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.

Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.

Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.

From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.

A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.

Queensapalaza VIII: Orb Transit

From the Ed Koch Bridge, between Manhattan & Queens, NYC

Using the magnetic fisheye lens for the iPhone.

Sketchy Figure

This was just some normal, bad graffiti, but who ever decided to cover it up turned it into something strange, like a person with a monster head eating a flower or something.  Is this supposed to make the wall of the off-ramp from the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan more attractive? Hmmmmm…

The Light Under The Bridge

Underneath the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge

Queensapalaza IV

Using the Instagram image sharing app on my iPhone, I took these very industrial shots of the Queensboro / 59th Street / Ed Koch boogaloo.