2008-09-03 // 09:56:00
joster
*sweep*
11 months later it's my turn to sit in a new apartment with a view that doesn't feel like mine. I hope that I will not get accustomed to it for a quite a while - I'd much rather preserve the old attic view and leave the town with that.
r&s left a match near the top, next to the school bus. I think it's still burning. Very irresponsible to leave burning objects near the bearers of Our future, don't you think?
*sweep*
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^ oh, please leave the sweeping, and come up for some tea now, won't you? if the children are anything like me at that age, they are harmless pyromaniacs anyway! ah--almost exactly one year later for me in this "new" apartment, and i just bought curtains for this window. strange, now, to remember how strange the view was to me, then. this place does not feel like the home i left, with the cherry tree under the window, so i understand how you feel.... but, i do have a white teapot with a bird roosting on the lid and crisp linen curtains and warm tea to share. :) |
2008-04-15 // 17:03:31
mattjudas
hironic
funny
great pic
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^ thank you for all your comments! |
2008-03-25 // 16:30:08
polagem
I love that the cab has flowers painted all over, bringing the rural to the urban in an urban fashion!
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^ i love that comment! i had been out of town, so it was a shock to see the cabs in bloom, but then i really liked seeing groups of them clogged in traffic! the flowers are gone now, just in time for spring.... |
2007-12-11 // 07:41:29
frugorfoto
really unusual kinda"retro" photograph
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^ just after i moved here, and the light surprised me so much! |
2007-11-28 // 10:35:58
polabotix
fantastic graphic picture!!
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^ thank you! the light seemed to make everything flat and graphic and small, like a poster for a toy-sized city! |
2007-10-22 // 15:55:26
Stefano
I've been here and I'm still not exactly sure why the cabs are in bloom, as you so nicely put it. I think it has something to do with charity. I originally thought it was one cab driver making his own personal aesthetic statement, until I realized I couldn't possibly be seeing him over and over all around Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Kind of nice. I was trapped in this ghastly midtown office building last Friday. But looking down at the avenue from the 21st floor (an out/the/window view similar to this) I saw a happy procession of hippie cabs with gypsy skirts dancing through grim midtown traffic.
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^ oh--nice image! i thought the same thing--and then i got worried--how are they going to get the flowers off the taxis??! then a nice article on the gothamist website explained it all to me, and, also, i realized i wasn't in charge of that anyway, so i was free to worry about other things. :) |
2007-10-22 // 15:35:50
Stefano
The suddenly strangely ubiquitous flower taxi!
A very strong out/the/window set you have up here. Brrravo.
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^ so strange to be out of the city for a few weeks, and not know why the taxis are in bloom, or why robert de niro is on a banner saying "welcome, and thanks for visiting our city" instead of: "are you talkin' to ME? are YOU talkin' to me? " thank you, pear, for the nice comment! |
2007-10-21 // 22:00:52
poki
Excellent photo! Looks like a toy-world :-)
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^ thank you poki!! it does--but those "toy" taxis have very loud horns!!! |