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picturepages
Here
now a glorious collection of pictures from past and present. But
none of the future because my timetravelling camera hasn't arrived
in the mail. Yet. The Coney Island galleries are undergoing a slight
renovation so I'll have them up as soon as slightly possible. Your
cooperation and understanding have been acknowledged and a gesture
of gratitude has been extended as well.
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gallery
03
Pictures taken in varying states of sobriety (photographer
and subject both) by my friend Lynn
who I think is one of the few people I'll trust to do portraiture.
Sorry, Glamour Shots. Note that the picture on the left,
which happens to be my favorite, looks nothing like the
other ones.
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coney
island 2003
The
second Disposable Camera Experiment goes to Coney Island
for a day of amusements. This time there's no snow but everything
is still off-kilter and that's what I love most about the
place.
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abbie
2001
Four
newer pictures of the cats when I lived in Marlboro. With
text and captions written by Abbie himself. Oh, don't roll
your eyes. He's been writing for
years.
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los
gatos locos 2000
The
original (for me, at least) page of cats looking cute and
cats looking adorable and cats looking bored and cats looking
peeved and looking hairy and cats looking like cats. Taken
when I lived in Reading and 26 Linden was known as (among
other things) "Casa De Los Gatos Locos." I'm sure
you've seen far worse and far cuter in your online perusals,
so just humor me in my moment of common eccentricity. I
think Abbie's lost some weight though. My favorites still
include Martha in mid-air and Abbie in a blurry "I
am going to eat the camera" state.
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coney
island 2000
The
first Disposable Camera Experiment took place in April, 2000,
when I went down to Coney Island for its opening day. It snowed
that morning (April Fool!) which kept Astroland and the Cyclone
from running. Armed with two disposable cameras since the
telephoto lens on my trusty Pentax needed fixing, I figured
I deserved whatever pictures I got. To my surprise, things
came out pretty well. The snow pictures turned out bleak and
wonderful and later that afternoon, when things cleared up
and the sky turned bright blue, I got some beautiful twilight
shots of the old place. Included are pictures of the abandoned
Thunderbolt roller coaster, which by that point had less than
9 months to live before being unfairly bulldozed under. Progress,
and Rudy Guiliani's minor-league ballpark, march on.
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