There is something satisfying about walking in the middle of the road. You own it. It’s fun. It’s doing something your really aren’t supposed to do.
Before cars dominated our lives, we could walk anywhere without much fear of being creamed by a speeding hunk of metal. Horses and mules that pulled our carts and carriages did not particularly want to crash into us. They had eyes and could make decisions about when to stop or veer. The original self-driving vehicles.
When land cars are replaced by drones we’ll be able to walk on roads again. …
You can tell where you are, even if your eyes are closed. It’s the smell of chemicals.
It is amazing how many products are produced and sold whose sole purpose is to kill. Many of the labels boast about the product’s killing power.
And they come in such nice, brightly colored packages.…
It’s a sign behind a sign. Somebody is telling someone something.
I wondered if it was written by a long distance hitchhiker hitting a patch of bad weather, but that is probably not likely. I don’t think hitchhikers carry spray paint.
Who is this message for? It is strategically located at a stop light where people will pause and have time to read it (if they are not checking their cell phones). So maybe it’s for us, the traveling public.
Who is it from and why are they telling this? Have they dried out?
Apparently other people. have asked the same questions. A quick Google search finds that this has found it’s way onto the Urban Dictionary.…
Drones aren’t a novelty anymore. Nearly 900,000 drones are registered with the FFA, about 400.00 for commercial use and about 500,000 for recreational use. They are eyes in the sky. (And we thought satellite photos were intrusive). The trajectory from model airplanes to computer-guided quadracopters is astounding.
I’m looking forward to the day that they are big enough to carry me and I can use it to commute.
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It’s become a traditional way to celebrate various events, movements and causes in Frenchtown. Get out the giant sticks of chalk and invite everyone to show up and lay down some sidewalk art. The chalkings may may last a couple weeks if the weather is dry or only a day if the rains come wash them away.
It’s a way to be heard. No permits required.…
Camden NJ has a reputation. It isn’t too good. Like most cities there are areas that you may want to avoid.
But it also has a lot of mural art. Many buildings are beautiful canvases. This little building takes it to a new level. It is a mosaic started in 2009 and it is still going, still being created.
Google Street View has a function to show photos it has produced over the years. The earliest Street View of this building is from 2009, when it was a plain white block building.
Between 2009 and 2012 the mosaic began and continued through 2019.
I photographed it in December 2020 and can see that a little more work has been done since 2019. I did not fully appreciate what I was seeing when I snapped my photos and plan to return for some detail photos and learn more about this piece of art. It’s pretty cool.
Or is it matching sneakers?
Nice coordination, either way. Some people have style.
What kind of dog would you get to match your footwear? I would need different dogs for different occasions. When wearing my Red Wing work boots, a mastiff would look good. When I’m at home in my cushy slippers a golden retriever would be perfect.…
It was an art happening and a tourist attraction.
GoCollaborative , a community organization in Stroudsburg, PA purchased a bunch of big styrofoam balls and gave them to artists to create snowmen. It calls the project Snowmen of Stroudsburg . When completed, the snowmen, snowwomen and other snow oddities were displayed around town. It was a community project, for the town itself and to attract visitors.
It worked. It attracted us. I had never visited Stroudsburg before and this was a great reason to go check it out. I like exploring small towns. It was worth the trip. It is always interesting to see creative output.
Where do you go to get a head?
School. That’s where the learning is. If you want to study heads you need to go to a head school (to get a headucation?).
Heads are complicated things, very complicated. It is definitely better to learn about them before messing around with them.…
There’s a face there. A happy face. It reminds me of a 1930’s cartoon. I almost expect it to start whistling.
It’s fun to see faces. We are human, we’re face-oriented. Faces are probably the first things we actually focus on. Check out a baby looking at a face she knows (mom!). It makes her happy. We often see faces in patterns like bark, clouds, potato chips and sometimes buildings. Some people see the Madonna.
I used to do a lot of 360 virtual tours for Google and they have a policy of blurring out people’s face in their 360 photos (check out people on Street View). It has an automated process. Anything that looks like a face gets flagged until corrected. Thousands of other Google photographers, like me, would spend time correcting or confirming their face recognition on our photos before publication.
I think Google was using us to train their AI system. (It was!)…