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[lapsedmodernist]

1. While I was riding the T the other day, a little girl--four, maybe, or five, looked up at me and said "do you know a crow?" "A crow?" I asked. "A crow, a bird," she said. "No," I told her. "The crow told me to tell you something" she continued. But she wouldn't say what.

2. While taking Fionn for a walk in Davis Square the other night we met an old guy who had built a radio-controlled toy helicopter, and affixed a little digital camera to it. He took aerial photos of is.

3. rezendi told me that they built some sort of subterranean telescope built in a Victorian tunnel under the ocean between london and new york so that people can wave at their counterparts across Atlantic when they walk by. At first I got super-excited to see it, then I started thinking that cameras had to be involved, and I assume my steampunk imagining of it is way cooler than the real thing...still, I am curious--has anyone seen this contraption? Is it really a cool telescope or is it like those cameras they had in Times Square some years back? If I manage to get to NYC the next weekend, SHOULD I GO SEE THE STEAMPUNK TELESCOPE? Where is it, anyway? I refuse to google it in case it ruins my fantasy of it. So don't tell me anything that might ruin my fantasy of it, but definitely tell me if it is as awesome as it sounds.

4. mashuta and her Young Man stopped by today, and Fionn has demonstrated that he has become a fully Marxist baby, as he spent their entire visit engaged in redistribution of property amongst the four of us. I guess being born on Lenin's birthday confers certain proclivities and predispositions.

and just a few shots from walking around some rust belty-ish parts of Boston the other day

Comments

[smschrader.livejournal.com]

Not knowing what the cameras in Times Square looked like I can't say if this is cool or not, but they used the original drawings. I did read though on one blog that they were only on display until June 15th, but I don't know how credible that is. The New York one is on the Fulton Ferry landing in Brooklyn.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I see, I thought it was a permanent installation. Oh well, I guess it is going to stay in the realm of fantasy forever for me now, and it's probably for the best.

[isquiesque.livejournal.com]

That bit about the crow... interesting...

Also, GOD BUT I LOVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY. The last two in particular are wonderful. I do hope we get another day to play with cameras at some point, and I promise to not rip my pants on a fence next time.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

the crow bit reminded me a bit of another, far more weird encounter in the subway some years ago that I'll post about at some point in a friends-locked entry...and thank you! I hope so too...are you likely to find yourself in europe any time soon?

[isquiesque.livejournal.com]

Possibly twice next year. Once to Germany/Austria (possibly), once to England (definitely)... hadn't thought about any grandiose detours yet...

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

It does appear to have been on display only through 15 June.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

why would they build a subterranean victorian telescope and then not leave it up permanently

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

It makes no sense! Did the tunnel flood or something? That's the explanation I'm going with.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I see clear signs of the handiworktentaclework of colossal squid.

[theophile.livejournal.com]

1. I think you may have tripped and fallen into the Sandman

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

perhaps I have been living there all along...that would certainly explain a lot, including a story I may or may not have told you about phantoms and a vanishing young boy with insanely blue eyes at 4.30 in the morning in the New York subway.

This is good. I haven't had enough magical realism in my daily life since I left New York.

[mashuta.livejournal.com]

how did the old man make the camera go? was it on a timer, and he had to bring the copter down after each shot?

also, that crow story is Really Freaky.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I think he put it on a timer, but he took a few in one flight. so maybe he could set it up to do multiple pics on a timer--or maybe he had a remote control, and I didn't notice.

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

Great portrait of rezendi! I always love the drama of b/w.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I love BW but get totally obsessive when editing BW images, way more so than with color.

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting to take b/w so I haven't edited many. That is interesting that it makes such a difference for you though - why is that?