Caslon Projects

This is a time-lapse photography project from the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, New York. This video was edited from over 8,000 still images, photographed on a Canon 5D and a TS-24mm f/3.5 L lens. The music came from Friendlymusic.com. Thanks to Paddy Johnson and Lena Ganssmann for their help on the production side that day.

On Sunday July 27th, tens of thousands of New Yorkers took part in this year’s annual Pride March. From 5th Avenue in midtown to Christopher street in the West Village, throngs of people packed sidewalks and streets to get a view of the spectacle. As per usual with my interest in most public events, my eye was caught more frequently by the audience, who were every bit as festive and part of the parade as the groups in the march itself. See a selection of photos below.

School’s out and yesterday, the thermometer rose to a humid 98 degrees. Two blocks from where I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, I saw these kids taking part in the urban summer ritual of playing in water from a fire hydrant.

New Jersey’s Real Estate played at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last night as part of the Northside Festival. The festival continues through Sunday 6/27.

Singer-songwriters Mirah and Thao Nguyen (both based in San Fransisco) are on tour together this summer, calling themselves Thao and Mirah With The Most of All. Last night they played at the Music Hall of Williamsburg as part of the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Below are photos I took of the show.

Angel Franco, photographer: “I saw a beaten folk. I saw a people desperate. I saw myself — where I came from and where I am still at, in many ways. I wasn’t experiencing it as an outsider.”

Mr. Franco documented the 46th Precinct of New York City from 1979 to 1984 in a series of photos that show abject desperation, the unforgiving culture of crime, poverty, and the fierce survival instincts at battle in the Bronx. “I do it because I love what I do”, says Franco, “and here I was documenting my community in terms of myself. It was my experience of being a Latin man in America: What do I see? How do I live?”

See more images and commentary from this series at the NY Times Lens Blog.

There has been some press about professional soccer players feigning injuries in order to leverage the odds of a game. The New York Times wrote about it HERE, and there’s another well known YouTube video HERE. This animated gif tells the story in 92 frames:

Kurt Vile at Union Pool in Williamsburg on Friday, June 18, 2010:

The Dan Deacon Ensemble played yesterday in Red Hook Park as part of the city wide Summer Stage Series. The band cajoled the audience into a weird hula-hoop and interpretive dance ‘competition’, and unsuccessfully tried to get a couple of NYPD patrol cops to join in. If the cops weren’t having it, nearly everyone else was. Photos from the event below:

A few of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Polaroids, via Animal New York:

Don Tucker is a street musician in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I took this photo on March 17, 2010, on Water Street, in front of Velma’s Restaurant, where he preforms all year long, and nearly daily. The video includes a brief chat and his rendition the traditional Newfoundland folk song Mussels in the Corner.

Diego Goldberg, an Argentinian, has photographed his family every June 17th since 1976. He calls it a private ritual, “to stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.” Click on the image below to see all 33 years, and the new extension begun by his son, in 2009.

If

By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

On Monday, May 31, Israeli Defense Forces raided a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats carrying 10,000 tons of aid for Gaza. The operation ended with at least 10 people dead, as reported by the New York Times. Protests soon erupted around the world, and below are photos I took Monday afternoon in New York City, starting in Times Square, and ending on 42nd street and 2nd Avenue, near the offices of the Israeli Consulate.

The escalators at Broadway Junction in Brooklyn today: