June 30th: Sunset

Across the Hudson River at 132nd Street

June 30th: Weird chairs

Hospitals always have the weirdest chairs.

June 30th: Hot time, Summer in the City

No one likes taking the subway when it's really hot, so they take the bus, and then it gets crowded and hot.

June 28th: Sunsets

I have a particular fondness for sunsets.

June 27th: Down on Skid Row

Vanity plates for the vain and stupid.

June 25th: Guaranteed Freshness?

Maybe the freshness is guaranteed, but the contents of this weird yellowed paste is not.

June 25th: Mighty Yawn

When you take pictures of cats yawning, they look so fierce.

June 24th: Decepticons Need Coffee, too

Seen at the 49th/50th Street Starbucks by my gym, a woman who makes Grace Jones look conservative.  And everything matched! I can only hope she doesn't change the colors of her tattoos when she changes her clothes in the morning too.



Not visible in this picture: her crazy 80s Weird-Science-esque sunglasses, ALSO black and white and red, and asymmetrical and wild. Earrings, strange plastic chili-pepperish, one black and one red.  I cannot imagine she bought them in a store.  Maybe she makes jewelry at home when she's not busy sacrificing babies to make red dye.

 Hair shaved on one side of her head.  And all before 8:30 in the morning.

What's black and white and red all over?

June 23rd: Peeper Cat

Peeping Radagast

Is nothing sacred?  During bathtime, my cat likes to hang out in the bathroom, but he peeks into the tub to spy on me.

Thinking about getting in?

Belly rub instead, please

June 23rd: Lots of Construction

Their job doesn't look like very much fun.  Especially when the train goes by.  But in efforts to gentrify our neighbourhood, they are fixing the subway.

Look at all these men. Look at all of their orange vests. It's a CULT!

ASSIMILATE!

June 23rd: Get a JOB!

Fat Gandalf

The most difficult part of each day is finding the will to put on clothes and leave the house.

Why is it that cats are not subject to these rules?  Can't they put out some clothes for me?  Or take out the trash? Or wash the dishes?

What a bunch of useless layabouts.

Lazy Radgast

June 23rd: Please don't trick the blind

I love taking the bus in the summer.  Not only does it provide me with air conditioning, but it also provides me with Photo Fodder.

This blind man got on the bus today, and clearly he has a mean friend who buys his shirts.  He's blind.  How is he supposed to know?

There was once a blind woman in Old Navy downtown who yelled at my fiance for offering to help her.  Maybe this man was mean too, and deserved to wear a ridiculous shirt, but I think maybe not.

You know you want me

A need to feel irreverent

I'm 30.  It's not a bad thing, but it means that a lot of my day is consumed by serious, adult-y tasks.

This seriousness needs to change.  I realized that, in my iPhone, I carry around a camera with me every day.  I've been a part of a Photo-A-Day project before, but I realized that I see too many funny, weird things to limit myself to just one photo a day.

It will help me find the humor in things again, too.  That's my goal.  Because nearly everything in life is somehow funny.

I should also give props to Brian, who, in his insistence for proof that I was getting ready to leave the house, inspired me to take silly pictures as evidence.  That was the catalyst. The rest is history.

Tuesday, June 22nd: Crazy Pants

Sometimes you get a second chance.  Sometimes, that second chance is blue and brown zebra-printed.  This woman walked by me, wearing completely insane harem pants in a blue and brown zebra print. 

I whipped out my iPhone, but she was already too far past me to get a good shot.  If there is anything worse than crazy harem pants, it's running after a woman wearing crazy harem pants.

BUT MY LUCK! She walked back the other way! She must have been lost, proving to all of you that she wasn't just wearing those crazy pants because they had an implanted GPS.

Second chances are rare, so I grabbed this one, like a bananagrabber.

June 21st: Horror shoes

Literal shoes for sale at Daffy's. Muppet not included.

June 21st: Streetpiping

New York, I love your random street bagpipers.