Show Me the Monet
Posted on October 27, 2007 - Filed Under New York, Photography | Leave a Comment
Photos: (c) 2007 Russell Johnson I spent four days in balmy New York City last week, making ritual pilgrimages to the museums and galleries: the Met, MOMA, the International Center of Photography and gadgeteers heaven, B&H Photo. There I bought a new camera, a little pocket-sized Panasonic with a Leica lens that shoots astounding photographs. [...]
Read More..>>The Chelsea Hotel: Topsy Turvy in New York City
Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under Video, New York | Leave a Comment
Sometimes I just like to go sit on a stump. Sometimes in a wild place, watching lines of ants queued up, like Pharaohs’ slaves, delivering boulder-sized breadcrumbs to some fat-bustled queen. Often it is in some city square, like old Jerusalem, where I once sat a spell observing the haggling of a marketplace only to [...]
For the Boids
Posted on December 12, 2006 - Filed Under Misc., New York, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
A big Bronx cheer for my favorite pet store, 33rd and Bird. This marvelous aviary has flown the coop on East 33rd in Manhattan in favor of a 5 thousand-foot showroom in the Bronx. I don’t live in New York and I don’t often get to the Bronx so I’ll miss mumbling toity toid and [...]
Read More..>>Game Hen: In Search of Manhattan’s Tic Tac Toe Playing Chicken
Posted on November 4, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., New York | Leave a Comment
So, why am I in New York looking for a chicken. I first learned about a certain curious cluck in my local newspaper. At a trial in Marin County, California, where I live, a psychologist testified that the fact that a defendant in a murder trial was able to compete in a game of tic [...]
Looking for Santa in New York City
Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under Audio, Holiday, New York | Leave a Comment
Looking for Santa in NYC This is the night of the annual Christmas tree lighting ritual at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. This year the subject of our attraction is a colossal 74 foot connifer harvested in New Jersey, but nowhere near Tony Soprano’s neighborhood. My wife and I literally cried in our beer [...]
