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Category Archives: City Aesthetic

Echo and the Ocean Rain

01-Oct-08

Echo & The Bunnymen have resurrected their seminal 1984 album Ocean Rain with three concerts featuring a string section. Ocean Rain wasn’t nearly as popular as other albums released around that time by The Cure, U2, Depeche Mode, or The Psychedelic Furs, but twenty-four years later, to this listener who had never heard the album [...]

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Chinatown Again

07-Sep-08

Late afternoon, sun turning golden. I met Amanda on Elizabeth and Canal Street for a walk through Chinatown. She brought an all-metal Pentax slr with a manual 50mm lens. The viewfinder was good and bright. Chinatown was lively as usual with foot traffic from tourists and the locals gathering in Columbus Park. From there we [...]

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I’m Just The Beard

06-Sep-08

Nothing in this day of urban adventure was particularly tied together thematically or with images, except for the rain. At three separate times of the day, insistent to only use a thin hooded jacket but no umbrella, the torrential rains, heaviest I’d seen in years, drenched me from head to toe. The first episode [...]

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