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Now that summer is here and perhaps Andrej and Leonore have fewer teaching responsibilities (also, it is more pleasant to be outdoors in general), shall we try to schedule a 2016 NYC photowalk? I am currently unemployed, so technically I'm free 24/7 (except when I have gigs), so let me know when everyone else is free. Hookstrapped? Terry? LANolan? I also just found out that an old friend of mine whom I only knew as a great bass player, also shoots film, so I will invite him as well.
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I'm available except next week when I'm on call for jury duty. Any interest in schlepping out this way?
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We can probably make something work. My schedule is fairly flexible (though right now I'm mired in car repair hell), but I know Leonore will be away across the last full week of June (she'll post the exact dates, I'm sure). As to location, I've been thinking I need to do some street shooting in the city, but I can always do that another time. I'm open to suggestions, within reason, or I can provide some ideas if need be.
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What about Hoboken? Thinking about the view across the water to Manhattan, the street opportunities in Hoboken and the good bars that exist there.
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What day of the week will this be? If it's a Sunday, (or any day except a Friday or Saturday), I could host something at B&H for you guys.
You could start out here and maybe I could put something together for you. Just let me know and feel free to PM me.
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Like I said, I'm pretty much infinitely flexible at this point, though if it's a day that I have a gig, I'd probably need to be back in Queens by 5pm, so I'll try to steer it to a day that I don't have an evening gig scheduled ;) Sundays are usually good for that.
Hoboken sounds a bit boring to me, but I'm game to give it a try. Down by Terry might be a nice change of scenery for us city folks. Is there any light hiking in your area Terry?
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I know nothing of Hoboken, so I can't really comment either way except to say it's a possibility.
Hiking is plausible, but on a summer Sunday the two biggest enemies are crowds and heat, especially if we start relatively late in the morning. The places up by me have gotten ridiculously overrun with daytrippers on the weekends.
Doing something at B&H might work if we end up in Manhattan, though we'd have to see how it ties into whatever else is planned.
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There is some good nature to be had around here and light hiking is a definite possibility. Light because mostly it's flat countryside. There is the old D&R canal towpath (now a state park) that has some scenic bits. Might be worth a schlep westward to the Lambertville/Stockton area on the Delaware River. Worth noting that Lambertville has one of the best Thai restaurants in the state and is home to a big flea market. Trenton is just down the road a way and is good for derelict city shots but probably less interesting than Hoboken. Not a lot directly accessible by public transport but I'd be willing to provide transportation for up to four passengers if needed.
Personally, I'd be up for a trip to the river--Lambertville or (preferably) Frenchtown. There's some good geography up there. Like upriver on the Hudson, weekends are likely to be filled with day-trippers, but they can be avoided.
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Terry, your area is sounding REALLY tempting to me. I'd love to see the towpath, and Trenton's urban decay would be pleasing to nobody but me, I'd guess :D Thai food and flea markets are a huge draw for me as well...
BUT, here's a wrench to throw into the plans ... I was just in Central Park and remembered that the Hallett nature preserve is now open to the public! (It's been closed since 1934 I believe.) I am DEFINITELY going to go there someday with cameras in hand, so if others want to go as well, then we have a photowalk. In June they're only open on Mon, Weds, and Fri from 2-5pm (in July & August they're open on Sundays too), and the maximum number of people at a time is 20, so we could make ourselves about 1/4 of the people there if we tried hard :D Anyways, that's just a thought.
But my main vote is still for Terry's area :)
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This summer the Whitney is hosting a Danny Lyon exhibit and The Met is hosting a Dianne Arbus exhibit. I must try to make it there at some point. So save some walking for me!
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Finally getting around to seeing this thread!
Well, as 02 mentioned, I'm going to be out of town from June 10-18th. After that, my time is limited because though I am not teaching this summer, I'm about to join the ranks of the 9-5/M-F zombies. It'll be nice to have health insurance for the first time...well, damn, for the first time in 20 years, but it also means that I can only join filmwastering walks on weekends. For that reason, my vote would be Hoboken or the city, and a Sunday.
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Of course we don't need to choose between Hoboken and the city--it's a short PATH ride between them.
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Hi all,
My availability is unpredictable for the foreseeable future but I'll keep and eye on this thread and if the day works will head your way from Philly. It would be great to put faces with names!
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Of course we don't need to choose between Hoboken and the city--it's a short PATH ride between them.
Oh I know they're right across the river, but I just figured trying to activities in both places makes for a very long day, so it would be simpler to stay on one side of the river or the other. And I'm a fan of simple plans :)
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Of course we don't need to choose between Hoboken and the city--it's a short PATH ride between them.
Oh I know they're right across the river, but I just figured trying to activities in both places makes for a very long day, so it would be simpler to stay on one side of the river or the other. And I'm a fan of simple plans :)
I agree that we should stay on one side of a river. Think of it this way: subway time takes away from drinking time! :o
So I take it we're deciding between the city and Hoboken? I suppose I'd lean towards Hoboken because I don't go there as often, but as I said the times I've been there it seemed a bit boring, so if anyone knows of any cool places to go there I will follow your lead :)
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I've been wanting to go up to the recently re-opened High Bridge for a year now. And it makes it easy to go on both sides of the river (Harlem River, that is).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/nyregion/a-stunning-link-to-new-yorks-past-makes-a-long-awaited-return.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/nyregion/a-stunning-link-to-new-yorks-past-makes-a-long-awaited-return.html)
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I've been wanting to go up to the recently re-opened High Bridge for a year now. And it makes it easy to go on both sides of the river (Harlem River, that is).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/nyregion/a-stunning-link-to-new-yorks-past-makes-a-long-awaited-return.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/nyregion/a-stunning-link-to-new-yorks-past-makes-a-long-awaited-return.html)
Oh wow!! I've been driving past there quite a bit to gigs in North Jersey/upstate. I'd love to go on that! But I don't look forward to the throngs of people that will be there for the first few weeks. I'm imagining Highline type crowds :P :P :P
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There was a thread on the High Bridge over on RFF a while back. The gist of it was basically that the bridge and the park around the pool on the west end were fine, but the park areas beneath it were, and I'm quoting here, "feral". Conceptually it's an interesting location, but giant crowds in a confined space are less than ideal. We have the Walkway Over the Hudson up this way, which is a much larger bridge in a less densely populated area, and it gets very stupid on summer weekends.
Related to this, there was someone in that thread (I think) who mentioned a pedestrian walkway on the Hell's Gate rail bridge - any of you city people heard of such a thing?
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Related to this, there was someone in that thread (I think) who mentioned a pedestrian walkway on the Hell's Gate rail bridge - any of you city people heard of such a thing?
That's not far from my place (on the Queens side). If there's a pedestrian walkway on that bridge and I *haven't* heard of it, then I feel like I've wasted the last 15 years of my life (time I've been in Astoria).
Once this rain lets up I'm going up there and investigating. Will report back.
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Related to this, there was someone in that thread (I think) who mentioned a pedestrian walkway on the Hell's Gate rail bridge - any of you city people heard of such a thing?
That's not far from my place (on the Queens side). If there's a pedestrian walkway on that bridge and I *haven't* heard of it, then I feel like I've wasted the last 15 years of my life (time I've been in Astoria).
Once this rain lets up I'm going up there and investigating. Will report back.
Found it. It's only from Randall's Island to the Bronx, though: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/nyregion/connector-between-randalls-island-and-the-bronx-to-open-this-summer.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/nyregion/connector-between-randalls-island-and-the-bronx-to-open-this-summer.html?_r=0)
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Related to this, there was someone in that thread (I think) who mentioned a pedestrian walkway on the Hell's Gate rail bridge - any of you city people heard of such a thing?
That's not far from my place (on the Queens side). If there's a pedestrian walkway on that bridge and I *haven't* heard of it, then I feel like I've wasted the last 15 years of my life (time I've been in Astoria).
Once this rain lets up I'm going up there and investigating. Will report back.
Found it. It's only from Randall's Island to the Bronx, though: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/nyregion/connector-between-randalls-island-and-the-bronx-to-open-this-summer.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/nyregion/connector-between-randalls-island-and-the-bronx-to-open-this-summer.html?_r=0)
Aha. Also, technically not using the Amtrak bridge itself, but rather a pre-existing ped bridge under and also apart from the train line. Maybe that's the same thing.
If we want to do this, let's choose a day that there are NO festivals going on on Randall's Island and we can walk that bridge and spend some time on the island.
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I wasn't really thinking of it as a destination for this get-together - it seems a little out of the way. Might be better for the late fall when the festival scene has died down some.
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I like the idea of targetting an island--what about City Island or Governor's island?
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Rikers? Hart?
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Rikers? Hart?
I would love to do Hart. Rikers, not so much.
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I've spent my life trying to avoid going to Rikers ;D
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Hart Island would be brilliant. I used to love City Island too--and no doubt they have venues for a post-photowalk libation or two, too.
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Huh. Turns out you actually can visit Hart Island, though in a very limited way. I'm not sure how they'd feel about a gaggle of photographers.
http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doc/about/hart-island.page (http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doc/about/hart-island.page)
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City Island takes me about 12 days to get to :D What's that other island that had all the cool urban ruins? Pretty sure that's verboten to the public, but all this talk about islands reminded me of it.
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Roosevelt Island used to have some cool ruins when I lived there, but I expect they've all been demolished.
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I live a couple of blocks from Roosevelt Island, and yes their ruins have been demolished and turned into a whitewashed concrete park. It's disgusting, really. The ruins on which Spiderman (II? III? LXVI?) was shot are cordoned off for "renovation", i.e., to be whitewashed as well >:( Can't NYC just let urban decay ... decay? I guess that's not good for investors or landlords.
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Since there's been a lull, let me throw out another suggestion. I've had an intermittent urge to shoot the old 1964 World's Fair site. Anyone done this? Anything worthwhile nearby? Any interest?
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Whoa; nice idea! Dereliction....my favorite subject!
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Since there's been a lull, let me throw out another suggestion. I've had an intermittent urge to shoot the old 1964 World's Fair site. Anyone done this? Anything worthwhile nearby? Any interest?
There's the park associated with it. The rail yard. Shea Stadium (I refuse to call it whatever corporation took it over). Then of course it's in Flushing, so there's every cuisine known to man.
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How many people usually come to this?
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How many people usually come to this?
In the past it's been about half a dozen, give or take.
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Since there's been a lull, let me throw out another suggestion. I've had an intermittent urge to shoot the old 1964 World's Fair site. Anyone done this? Anything worthwhile nearby? Any interest?
I've done that at night. I like that idea. Spaceships and globe. Cool stuff.
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Good idea; an evening outing
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Ok, so can we put it to a vote (for the location at least)? Hoboken during the day or Flushing Meadows in the evening? I guess I'll go with Flushing Meadows as my vote.
As far as when, I believe we're looking at a Sunday, due to limr's workaday schedule and my need to keep Saturdays open for gigs.
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I'm in for the World's Fair Grounds. I won't speak for limr's preference in locale, but I feel confident in saying that a Sunday evening will have to wrap up pretty early to work for her, as she has to be in to work Monday morning. If we're doing an evening shoot, Saturday (or theoretically Friday) works better for us, but obviously that's not the case for everyone.
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Understood. We can either change the time to afternoon, if we're not hung up on an evening shoot there, or go with Hoboken during the day. Or just do it without me, because Friday and Saturday nights are my working nights :)
Actually, come to think of it, if Flushing Meadows in the evening is the clear winner, then let's go ahead and schedule it on a Friday or Saturday. There's a decent chance I can make it, though I won't know till the week of.
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I'm fine with day or evening. I haven't been there at all, so I'm sure I can keep myself entertained regardless of ambient lighting conditions.
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I'm pretty generally free. Did jury duty this week--pretty much completely flexible until July
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Ok, now that my hell week of gigs is over and I'm really open for, pretty much eternity, let's try to schedule this thing.
Flushing Meadows, unless someone has a serious objection to that.
A weekend, to accommodate the most people.
So let's vote on dates!
If this weekend is possible (being July 4th weekend), then we have 7/2, 7/3, 7/4.
If not, then next weekend 7/9, 7/10.
Of those 5 dates, let me know when you are available, and for daytime or night time. For the record, I'm available all of those dates, daytime or nighttime, except 7/3 afternoon (because King Sunny Ade is playing Central Park Summerstage! Anyone who wants to come with me please join!! Maybe we can make a day out of it and shoot Flushing Meadows that evening, though we'd probably only get to Flushing at about 7 or 8pm)
(side note: I'm just realizing that scheduling a photowalk is very similar to trying to schedule a rehearsal with my 10-piece band ;D )
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This weekend doesn't work at all for me. Next weekend is theoretically possible, with Saturday being the preferred option. After that we're travelling, so next availability is August.
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Next weekend Saturday works for me
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Ok, we're now aiming for Saturday 7/9, with the possibility of Sunday 7/10. Anyone whose name is not Peter or Andrej please vote on these two dates.
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Ok, we're now aiming for Saturday 7/9, with the possibility of Sunday 7/10. Anyone whose name is not Peter or Andrej please vote on these two dates.
I am neither Andrej nor Peter, and I vote for Saturday the 9th :D
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Saturday the 9th looks like the winner ... who are we waiting on? Terry and Adam? Anyone else interested?
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Eminently do-able.
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Alright. Just like booking my band, I've heard back from enough of us to go ahead and book the date :P So Saturday July 9th it is, at Flushing Meadows. Now the only item that remains is what time to meet. Do we want to do day shooting or evening shooting or night shooting? I'm up for anything. So the present vote is: day, evening, or night? If you were to force me to vote, I guess I'd go for evening because I'm all into pushing film these days :P
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My initial inclination is to start shooting in the evening, maybe around 7:00 or so. Should give good low-angle light for a while, then light dropping off after sunset ~8:30. I'm thinking we just meet at the Unisphere - seems the obvious location.
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My initial inclination is to start shooting in the evening, maybe around 7:00 or so. Should give good low-angle light for a while, then light dropping off after sunset ~8:30. I'm thinking we just meet at the Unisphere - seems the obvious location.
Sounds right
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Saturday the 9th looks like the winner ... who are we waiting on? Terry and Adam? Anyone else interested?
I'd love to, but won't be in the vicinity until later in the year. Have fun!
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My initial inclination is to start shooting in the evening, maybe around 7:00 or so. Should give good low-angle light for a while, then light dropping off after sunset ~8:30. I'm thinking we just meet at the Unisphere - seems the obvious location.
Ok, so if there are no objections, then we meet on Saturday July 9th at 7pm at the Unisphere? Speak now or forever hold your film! :D
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My initial inclination is to start shooting in the evening, maybe around 7:00 or so. Should give good low-angle light for a while, then light dropping off after sunset ~8:30. I'm thinking we just meet at the Unisphere - seems the obvious location.
Ok, so if there are no objections, then we meet on Saturday July 9th at 7pm at the Unisphere? Speak now or forever hold your film! :D
Works for me. We'll hop the 7 train from GCT around 6:30.
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Is this really happening tomorrow?? Yes it is! :D Time to obsess over gear to bring :o Luckily, one of my gear decisions has been made for me, as I just received a new camera in the mail today ;) Also want to bring a camera for Andrej to hopefully look at (by which I mean, "repair" ;) ). So that really only leaves room for one more camera that I know works. What will it be, and what film will be in it? Your guess is as good as mine! :P
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While you're sorting out your gear, do I recall correctly that you have a case for that Yashica you gave me? If so, any chance you can throw it in the bag? The Yashica is 99% done - I had to hand-cut new coverings for the body, and they need a final trim, but other than that it's ready to go.
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While you're sorting out your gear, do I recall correctly that you have a case for that Yashica you gave me? If so, any chance you can throw it in the bag? The Yashica is 99% done - I had to hand-cut new coverings for the body, and they need a final trim, but other than that it's ready to go.
Yes! Thank you for reminding me :)
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Just FYI, there's a pretty good chance of thunderstorms from about 3pm tomorrow. In the event that one comes through Queens, I'd rather not be standing next to several large metal objects in the middle of a large open field. Do we have any idea of the shelter options (read: bars) in the vicinity?
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If it's just ducking in out of the rain/lightning, the queens musem is closest. For libation purposes, it looks like a hike up to Roosevelt Ave on far side of 112th street.
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Should we meet at a bar for the heck of it?
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Didn't find a bar nearby other than the mega Mets sports bar but this restaurant looks good
http://tortillerianixtamal.com/taqueria/ (http://tortillerianixtamal.com/taqueria/)
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Hello moderators. Thank you for pinning this thread while we were hashing out plans. Now that it's over you can de-pin it, thanks :)
Official photothread here (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=8713.0). :D