Caslon Projects

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. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, [...]

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. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

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. var [...]

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.

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: var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, [...]

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 [...]

A few of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Polaroids, via Animal New York: var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

Don Tucker is a street musician in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I took this photo 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. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var [...]

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 [...]