Photography: The Black and White Project: Days 42-49 May 14, 2016 – May 22, 2016

Photography: The Black and White Project: Days 42-49: May 14, 2016-May 22, 2016

Over the last couple of weeks I experienced major computer issues as the TYUI and O buttons on my MacBook Pro (which I bought back in 2012) stopped working, and as a result   I cobbled together a rather weird working set up in which I borrow my mother’s Windows 10 PC for the bulk of my correspondence and writing and my MacBook to edit photos. Then add the fact that over the past 6 weeks or so I’ve been managing this site while working full-time and that i’ve been sick with a cold that I just haven’t been able to kick, and as you an imagine things have been stressful, hectic and frustrating. Considering that my MacBook was 4 years old, and I had put a couple of hundred bucks into it for various repairs over the years, it seemed like the perfect time to just buy a new computer. So although my pocket is tremendously lighter, I have to admit that I’m thrilled to be up and working in the way that I’d prefer. During this particular period, I managed to take a photo on May 13 that I now can’t seem to find anywhere. Granted, for the Black and White Project that’s a first — but it sucks. So I actually owe y’all a day.

(Photo Caption: C hanging out with me at Clem’s a few weeks ago.)

(Photo Caption: Jimmy is one of several of my favorite regulars. And although it’s difficult to tell in these two photos, he was playing with a hackey sack while smoking a cigarette. At several points, Jimmy began explaining his particular technique, which was a pretty hilarious sight to behold.)

(Photo Caption: C took this picture of me and Jimmy hanging outside. Of course, Jimmy managed to close his eyes as the flash went off, which makes the picture much more hilarious to me.)

(Photo Caption: A Q59 bus turning on the corner of Grand Street and Roebling Street. I take this bus most of the time when I’m in Williamsburg — and frequently I wind up having to run out of the bar to catch a bus out of the fear of being stuck another hour or more for a late night bus.)

(Photo Caption: C took this picture of me hanging outside of Clem’s.)

(Photo Caption: A familiar beacon in the night, the Clem’s sign!)

(Photo Caption: Pints of Guinness in candlelight.)

(Photo Caption: The homey, Abdul Fattah Ismail read poetry from his new book of poetry Extended Syllables at Bluestockings. He was a part of a trio of locally-based poets that included Bonafide Rojas and Collete Brown, pictured above.)

(Photo Caption: I Love East Village, as seen on Allen Street between East Houston Street and Stanton Street.)

(Photo Caption: Contemplate Everything as seen on Allen Street between East Houston Street and Stanton Street.)

(Photo Caption: This photo is inspired by a photo a fellow photographer, Ed Marshall posted on Facebook that he titled something along the lines of “Synchronicity” or something like that. When I was at the Second Avenue F station I saw what inspired him and took a similar picture.)

(Photo Caption: Protect Yo Heart, folks.)

(Photo Caption: A selfie of me goofing off on a chilly but gloriously sunny day at Washington Square Park.)

(Photo Caption: Shadows at Washington Square Park.)

(Photo Caption: A saxophonist playing in Washington Square Park.)

(Photo Caption: A fervent Christian holding a sign in the Times Square A,C,E,N,Q,R, 1,2,3 and 7 train station.)

(Photo Caption: Local busker drumming in Times Square.)

(Photo Caption: I was incredibly sick on the 18th and needed to take a picture — and this time it was a very meta picture of me in the middle of working on a blog post on my mom’s HP.)

(Photo Caption: I had promised a couple of coworkers at my new job that I’d have a few post work drinks, and that was followed up by an errand I had to take care of in Midtown. Of course, I had forgotten something at the office and as I was heading back to the office, I came across this psychedelic limo.)

(Photo Caption: I had to run an errand in Midtown and every time I do it, I pass by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, which has this powerful, Art Deco-like mural.)

(Photo Caption: Last Friday, I was at The Paper Box in Bushwick, Brooklyn for the Outlook Festival Launch Party, curated by the folks at Dub Stuy Records, and the party featured sets from E3, the founder of acclaimed label ZamZam Sounds, Glasgow, Scotland-based Mungo’s Hi-Fi, French-Swiss act O.B.F., Ranking Joe — and the 15,000 watt Tower of Sound speaker system.)

(Photo Caption: Brooklyn Pickle Packers, Bushwick, Brooklyn.)

(Photo Caption: My friend and colleague Amanda Mester is moving to New Orleans and she had a going away party at Brooklyn Stoops in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. One of her friends had this awesome Mean Girls-inspired tank top that I needed to take a picture of.)

(Photo Caption: I’ve spent countless nights at Clem’s looking at this saying scrawled on the mirror. If management somehow erased it, it would feel as though I was in the wrong bar.)

For these photos and more, check out the Flickr set here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskwAcYJj