photographed around Wall Street, Manhattan, New York on July 3, 2010

“What do my eyeballs see? Ah—the blue sky. Long-fellow!” He swayed and blinked. He rubbed his eyes. “Together with windows—have you ever dug windows? Now let’s talk about windows. I have seen some really crazy windows that made faces at me, and some of them [...]

photographed in Chicago, Illinois on June 18, 2010

Another surprise to Chicago was a flood. That the Chicago River, or either of its branches, should get up a current sufficient to cause any alarm to the citizens was a surprise to the people then as it would be to-day. It was never expected, but it came [...]

photographed in Brooklyn, New York on June 5, 2010

New York is threaded with waterways. Most are dirty, but they are still full of crab, lobster and sturgeon, goldfish and striped bass, bluefish and white perch and even pompano. Ignoring the unprepossessing look (and smell) of the city’s rivers and ponds, New Yorkers are fishing all [...]

photographed in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire on May 30, 2010

After nearly 20 years and millions of quarters, someone has attained the unthinkable: a perfect score on Pac-Man.
The world record was set by 33-year-old Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, during a US-Canada clash over the Fourth of July weekend. Mitchell took more than six hours to [...]

photographed in Ault Park, Cincinnati, Ohio on May 15, 2010

In the eighteenth century weddings were accompanied by much revelry and extravagance. Gloves, rings, and scarves, as at funerals, were given away in such profusion as to call for legislation to check the abuse. Unstinted feasting and drinking were the order of the day. “Sack-posset” appears [...]

Glen T. Nygreen: 1919 – 2010
photographed in Scarsdale, New York on October 16, 2009

We learned again that this America, which Abraham Lincoln called the last best hope of man on Earth, was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by … voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty, who gave more than [...]

photographed in Brooklyn, New York, on January 29, 2010

It was a calm, still evening. The broad bosom of the Thames was scarcely ruffled by the little breeze that stirred the drooping sails of some of the river craft. Over the city and over the forest of masts, the round full moon was rising. Touching on [...]

photographed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 19, 2009

Ammon (or Hammon; Egyptian Amun, the hidden or veiled one). A god native to Libya and Upper Egypt. He was represented sometimes in the shape of a ram with enormous curving horns, sometimes in that of a ram-headed man, sometimes as a perfect man standing up or sitting [...]

Western Pennsylvania. October 20, 2007.
As a summer resident the Red-winged Blackbird is a familiar sight in low meadows and along roadsides. At a little distance he appears only to be a plain, black bird, but as he extends his wings his brilliant epaulets come into prominence. The plumage of the female, though inconspicuous, is singularly [...]

New Orleans, Louisiana. July 31, 2009.
In short, the knowledge of “citizens” is symptomatic and therefore different from that of the police, at least when this knowledge functions strategically and doesn’t complete more superficial operations for appearances sake or to reassure people (such as patrolling or checking IDs in area considered high-risk). Thus, the typical citizens’ [...]

Paris, France. September 19, 2009.
The allegories of the map discussed so far – positionality, movement and practices – set out the modalities through which subjects come to place themselves in the power-ridden, discursively-constituted, practically-limited, materially-bounded identities. The subject assumes, in both senses of the word, an identity on the basis of commonality with others [...]

Afloat in the Caribbean Sea. July 25, 2009.
Team A listed their goal in communication as the simultaneous fulfillment of three objectives: (1) to provide a gestalt message (the whole message is greater than the sum of the parts/components), (2) to use a systems approach, and (3) to incorporate redundancy in the markers.
For the gestalt message, [...]

St. Paul, Minnesota. October 10, 2009.
We are not born knowing how to communicate; it is something we learn just as we learn to tie our shoes (or wear them). Clearly, if we do not come with the knowledge “built in,” is knowledge we must “pick up” elsewhere. We can speak of children being “inducted” into [...]

July 31, 2009. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Like any other tourist, he made his way east on Marlbourough Street and down Frederic Street and then walked along Shirley Street until he reached the Public Library. He had already heard about this curious place, but it was nothing like what he imagined. Like everything else in Nassau, it [...]