Jordan: Petra

Shelter Island: work

the Met: shadow art

WI: Sunday poses

airplane: fog-filled crevasses

apartment: sunrise

bike: Manhattan from LIC

bike: Manhattan from Williamsburg

look who opened a bodega in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. How hip!

I especially like the two Hasids shopping at a Jesus Mini Market. Perhaps it's a witnessing tool?

does this mean that the recession has hurt church offerings? did God decide to open up a side business to compensate for your meager tithes?

please forgive this borderline sacrilege. haha.

Happy Independence Day!

this first attempt at a fruit pizza celebrates this great day. fruit cookie would be more appropriate. consider this a birthday cake for America. tonight's fireworks will be like candles in the sky.

thank you Jesus for this great country where we have the freedom to worship and praise You. and eat tasty treats because you've blessed us in abundance.

here is a panorama of central park that i took from the 8th floor of the Dakota at 1 W 72nd Street & Central Park West on June 25, 2009. this is actually 3 pictures put together in photoshop. i really need some photo stitching software, but this will have to suffice for now.

i wish this was what i saw every morning during breakfast. and while i'm dreaming, how about looking west instead? it's an even nicer view than the upper east side.

i started another blog.

my parents want to build a house on the family farm. and since i'm an architect, well.... i'm their guy. so he blog is a place to write about design issues, products and materials we are picking for the house, and then hopefully follow construction progress when it comes to that.

Homer Dody House Blog

hoon sighting!

take a look at this beautiful... creation i saw on my way home
yesterday. did you notice the pipes on the side too? and you should
have seen the wing on the rear end. the car must have gained an extra
2 to 3 feet in length from these abominations...i mean, additions, to
the front + back.

haha!

New blogger feature

I just tweaked my blogger settings to allow me to post entries just by
sending an email to a specific address.

This is my test of this service from my phone. Tech is cool.

j o s h

sent from my iPhone

the weather was so nice on saturday that i got out the bike and made myself remember how to ride it. My neighborhood, Sunnyside, isn't very exciting to bike around, so I pedalled south. (But it will be pretty there once the trees start budding; here's a picture a few blocks from my place.)

I stopped by the waterfront in Long Island City to see if there were any new developments in the Hunter's Point area. there weren't. okay, the sports park had some new landscaping + hardscaping going in, and the building parcels to the north of the giant Pepsi-Cola sign have been smoothed out into a vast gravel waste land. But nothing major like a new building going up.

i continued south to visit my old hood, Williamsburg. let me tell you, I miss being close to the water, even if the water i refer to is the East River, which isn't really a river. (it's an estuary.) But East River Park is really nice to have close by. it's not a manicured park at all; only half of the 'grass' is even mowed, and half the park is a leftover concrete building slab from the days of the large waterfront warehouses. but i'll miss it this summer. i guess it's only a short bike ride away.

I forgot how crowded Williamsburg gets. Biking along Bedford Avenue made me kind of happy to be gone. I never really fit in with all those hipsters. and while i loved all the shops and restaurants, i didn't really frequent them. well, sometimes. and it's nice knowing they're right there when you want them. Perhaps i'm just trying to convince myself that i don't miss the neighborhood that much.

I did see that my old corner finally got a stoplight. i can't tell you how many accidents i've seen there. Roomies and I would often hear screeching tires followed by the inevitable bang or crunch. we'd run to the window and usually catch the aftermath. lots of cars ended up on the sidewalk. thankfully they were mostly minor fender benders.

okay, Billyburg, i miss you. happy now?