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14th Street Station
Selfies with Statuettes If you look closely, you’ll notice this is a different moneybags figure from the one pictured above (that one smiles, this one frowns). There are sometimes similar or duplicate statuettes on both uptown and downtown platforms.
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 14th Street, 8th avenue, Alligator, art, Bronze, coins, Life Underground, moneybag, photography, platform, policeman, selfie, station, statue, statuette, subway, Tom Otterness
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Hanami Nights at the Cherry Esplanade
Last Thursday the Brooklyn Botanic Garden sponsored Hanami Nights in celebration of cherry blossom season. Hanami translates to “flower viewing”. I have posted pictures of the cherry blossoms before, but this is the first year the BBG organized their special … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Live! On Stage, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged BBG, botanic, brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, cherry, dance, dusk, Esplanade, fan, flower, folk, folk dancing, Garden, Hanami, Japan, Japanese, lights, photography, picnic, pink, Spotlight, Umbrella, viewing
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Brooklyn Vantage
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Boerum Hill, brooklyn, brownstone, perspective, photography, sidewalk, town house, trees, vanishing point, vertical
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“LOVED” Performed on Dozens of Xylophones in the Botanic Garden
Video of the complete performance in the Cherry Esplanade section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden March 22.
CROCUS & CARCASS
CSI: Brooklyn That feeling when you go out to take photos of the first buds of Spring but then stumble upon the scene of a murder. The Remains of the Bird. Pigeon most likely. Most likely devoured by a hawk … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Bird, brooklyn, carcass, Cooper's Hawk, Crocus, crocuses, CSI, Falcon, flowers, hawk, murder, photography, prey, purple, raptor, Spring
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Return to NOSFERATU with the NOSFERATU Gang
The other day I was happy to “succumb to the darkness” yet again for a revisit to Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu”, this time with members of the “Nosferatu” gang, fellow actors in a stage production of “Nosferatu” in which I played … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, Live! On Stage, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Eggers, Emily Hartford, Grand Army Plaza, Herzog, horror, Jarin Blashke, Matt Cody, movie, movies, Murnau, Ned Massey, Nosferatu, Paul Daily, Renfield, robert-eggers, Robin Carolan, Stanton Wood, Tatiana Grey, theater, vampire, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
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Excursion to the Corpse Flower
Last weekend we heard on the radio that an amorphophallus gigas, a “corpse flower”, was blooming in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG acquired the plant in 2018 and this was the first time it was blooming, a flowering that … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged amorphophallus gigas, BBG, botanic, brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, carrion, Corpse Flower, flowers, Garden, Japanese Garden, landscape, nature, odor, photography, Snow, titan arum, winter
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Peek-A-Boo!
When we moved to Brooklyn in 1997, the Williamsburg Bank Tower (now officially One Hanson Place, but no one calls it that) was the one tall building, the skyscraper of Brooklyn, a landmark to orient oneself by. It had been … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Live! On Stage, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged architecture, Atlantic Avenue, brooklyn, Downtown, George Seurat, musical, Nevins, One Hanson Place, skyscrapers, Sunday in the Park with George, Views, Williamsburg Bank Building, Williamsburg Bank Tower, Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower
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Wintry Wisconsin Flyover
Flying over a Wisconsin landscape covered in light patches of snow December 21
Madison Holiday Lights in Olin Park
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Bucky Badger, Capitol, gingerbread man, golf, Holiday, light show, lights, Madison, Olin, Packers, parachute, park, peacock, Reindeer, Santa, seasons greetings, Wisconsin
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View from Central Park West
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged backlit, Central Park, Central Park West, Essex House, light, photography, silhouette, skyscraper, South Central Park, tree, winter
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The Times They’re Looking Hazy
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, clock, fog, future, photography, Time, Tower, Williamsburg Bank Building
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LIGHTSCAPE #4
Another Year of the BBG’s Fabulous Light Show The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is in its fourth year of what appears to be an ongoing annual holiday tradition: Lightscape. Every year multiple artists create extravagant lightfilled sculptures and lightshows within and … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged art, BBG, brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Butterfly Effect, Cathedral, Fountain, Garden, Halo, Lantern, light, Lightscape, Love, Moulin Rouge, music, Neon, Network, Rainbow, reflections, sculpture, Singularity, videos, winter
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Brooklyn from the Sky
An annotated bird’s eye view of NYC’s best borough. After we took off from New York City’s La Guardia airport on our Thanksgiving trip, the plane flew over the city and I got this great view of Brooklyn, my home … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Boerum Heights, Breezy Point, brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Coney Island, Downtown, DUMBO, East Flatbush, East River, Far Rockaway, Fort Greene, gowanus, JFK Airport, La Guardia, Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge, New York, New York City, NYC, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Prospect Park, Queens, Seagate, travel
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Paw Paw Harvest
Above is a bowl of paw paws, the only North American tropical fruit. You won’t find it the grocery store, because it so easily bruises it is considered unmarketable. It also only ripens on the tree, and then must be … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Easter, Easter egg hunt, fruit, gardening, harvest, ice cream, juice, nature, nectar, North America, pate de fruit, paw paw, seeds, smoothie, tropical
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