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Tag: Photos

  • Hidden Skatepark in Nahunta, Georgia

    skatepark with small ramps and curbs for grinding, trees in the background

    Behind the Gold House Restaurant at 135 N Main St. in Nahunta, Georgia, there’s a small skatepark with mini ramps, curbs, and other surfaces to skate. It’s right on the edge of a thick wooded area.

  • How I Shot the LEGO Pride Flag Photo

    lego bricks resembling the pride flag are connected to a mix of other hidden lego bricks in front of a white cardboard box and illuminated by a book reading light

    On Monday, I posted happy wishes for Pride Month with a photo that I made of a LEGO Pride Flag.

    To create the photo, I first dug through my boxes of LEGO to find 8 stud wide bricks that matched as close as possible to the Rainbow Flag’s approximation of ROYGBIV: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

    My first shots had the flag resting on the table some distance in front of a white cardboard box, which served as a neutral background. For lighting, I held a USB rechargable book reading light belonging to Y just above my smartphone to avoid casting a shadow from the camera.

    I didn’t like how these turned out, because the flag was kind of boring just sitting there. So, I thought about levitating it like in Monday’s post.

    To levitate the flag, I built a counter-weighted assembling of 6-stud wide bricks with an armature that connected behind the yellow bricks in the Pride Flag. I built this armature one brick higher than the flat to give it the illusion of floating in midair.

  • Happy Pride Month!

    red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple pride flag made out of lego bricks in front of a white background

    I want to wish my LGBTQIA+ friends, coworkers, students, and people of the world a Happy Pride Month! It’s a celebration of those folks’ accomplishments and contributions, and remembrance of the hard work, struggle, and loss for liberation that unfortunately still isn’t over. I stand with LGBTQIA+ folks in the fight for liberty and equality for all.

  • An Underground Passage in Park Slope, Brooklyn

    a metal cover is held open at about 45 degrees allowing access to a passageway built into the sidewalk going underground

    At the corner of Prospect Avenue and Terrace Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn last December, Y and I saw this passageway opened to an underground passage way. I didn’t look closely at the raised metal cover, so I’m not sure if it was ConEdison, MTA, or another utility. No workers were around, so they didn’t offer a clue either. Looking below inside, the walls of the passageway were covered with spray painted graffiti.

    closeup of a metal cover is held open at about 45 degrees allowing access to a passageway built into the sidewalk going underground
    peering into the passageway under the sidewalk and the steep metal steps going down about 10 feet
    peering into the passageway under the sidewalk and the steep metal steps going down about 10 feet
    peering into the passageway under the sidwalk and the steep metal steps going down about 10 feet

  • National Poetry Month 2025 Display at City Tech

    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade

    My colleagues Rob Ostrom and Jennifer Sears put together an impressive display for this past April’s National Poetry Month at the entrance of City Tech’s Ursula C. Schwerin Library. Here are some photos of the display and titles that they curated for the installation.

    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade
    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade
    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade
    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade
    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade
    display of books and banner for national poetry month behind a large glass facade