Giving up Smoking Story NumerO unO Eat some Carrots!
September 26, 2010
Giving up Smokiing!
September 26, 2010
So Ive decided to try at giving up the killer sticks once again. I began my efforts with buying the alan carr book on giving up smoking which is really my first stab I also found this interesting story online about someones first day giving up which is pretty positive. My next step is to write mine. I would like to gather a collection of stories from people about their first day experiences without ciggarettes in hope to inspire or humor others!
investigation
April 13, 2010
Odradek
How did you get in there? they said.
Some people are natural explorers, they see cities in a different ways than the average person. Although one must introduce limits, abstract things like space is easily traversed, concrete realities like walls and fences are negotiated and risk is weighed up and accounted for. There is something powerful about transgressing abandoned spaces, they have and enigmatic nature. I visited a house named Coke Ovens the house beckoned at me to enter. The place was idiosyncratic; it was a very intentional chaotic state close to looking inside someone’s mind and fishing out fragments of past experiences. From the facade of the cottage things looked content but also had a sinister nothingness about it. Then my eyes glanced to the old worn out boots that house a fistful of geraniums that I later found that were purposefully put on empty houses. It seems like it was a sign that growth can even come from dead old crap. As I slinked in under the old garage door dragging through the dirt with my body a minefield of delight awaited me. I feasted upon the sight of log books, power tools, sub aqua cameras, useless broken toys, old issues of the slate magazine cautiously peeped up as I stared at the peculiar looking decorative mirror that hung on an old outhouse. What the mirror reflected I am still trying to find out. What happened next was something I could not have anticipated. To my disbelief I met a middle aged man, a quite cheerful man who was surrounded by lots of other people, people who told stories about him, revealed his goals and ambitions, the more they talked about him the more he started to disappear. They told me his name was Ken Covos He was 45 years old, and have worked for the last 20 years as a private investigator in Dublin City and county. They said he spent 12 of those years working for a segregated unit that controversially was the only investigatory service available to work with derelict remnants. He hid behind the giant freight carriage Monstrous and rusty. He advised me to be careful of the hobos that inhabit these places and gave me a harpoon for protection, he told me that no one knows he is here anymore, some people say he went mad others say he moved away and got a girlfriend, he told me they tried to get rid of him and knock down the house but it took too long and they grew tired and disinterested. I asked him about his life but he would only reveal that he taught SCUBA, kept bees and played underwater hockey badly but with enthusiasm. Really he was a quite cheerful man I concluded. He knows that all people can see are the possessions that he left behind, he’s getting more lost somewhere inside them so its becoming harder for him to stop them. I go back every day over the fence under the garage door with the harpoon trying to search for him I desperately try to open the freight carriage in hope that he mite be in there to tell me more stories of his plight.
How did he get in there they said?
everybody needs inspiration
March 30, 2010
The Art of Asbestos by Charlie Inman
March 22, 2010
keep it u asbestos, I really like the thoughts on layering the city , and the personality that exudes from found objects and the nice shots of dublin too
North Fredrick st.
March 19, 2010
Bruuse StreetLove project Barcelona
March 19, 2010
http://www.ilovebrusse.com/art/streetlove
Street Photography NYC style, “If you can smell the street by lookin at a photo its a street photo”- Bruce Gilden
March 16, 2010
