Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Picture Postcard: Hurricane Sandy

30 Oct

October 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy roared into New York. While New Jersey and the Jersey Shore suffered the worst damages, New York had huge sections under water, power losses, fires, floods, and explosions. The damage to property was enormous. The 40 pictures in the slide show below represent a small area of south Brooklyn, mostly along Bay Parkway up to Gravesend Bay, which you may know better as The Narrows, the body of water spanned by the Verrazano Bridge. Many of the pictures were taken in Seth Low Park. I was there Monday night while the winds howled and branches fell and it was not a good idea. Literally, branches fell around me, large branches as you’ll see in the pictures. However, the worst for me came the next day. The winds had died and I went to the water. It was covered in mud. Sections of seawall were broken and tossed around, fence and all. Rubble and wreckage covered streets and parking lots. Sections of building facades were pulled off their walls. Many people arrived, just like me, to take pictures. We all had the same shell-shocked expressions on our faces. These pictures below were all taken by me but they represent only a fraction of the hundreds of photos I took during and after the storm.

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Imponderable #65: Clayton Cubitt

19 Oct

October 19, 2012

Going against the tradition of The Imponderable, Clayton Cubitt is not a place, he is a man. Read on.

And now, purely in the interest of science and research, are his videos.

WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
And please, be over 18. While there is NO nudity or profanity here, this is not for kids.

I decided that it was in the best traditions of journalism that I present all four videos. And how about that Alicia? If those girls don’t make you a fan of literature I don’t what will. And if you are a true cosmopolitan bibliophile, follow the links at the end of the videos for foreign versions.

And as far as mocking a Victorian theory of hysteria in women, give me a break. Some guys will say anything to get a woman to do some things. The man, btw, lives in my neck of the woods, Brooklyn NY. I would love to run into him some day.

I did some research into this (in the name of journalistic integrity) and the women are either burlesque performers or adult movie stars, and what is going on below the table is probably just what you think is going on below the table. This is real.

But what is it? Art? Well, I guess it is, if only in the sense that everything today is art. Is it a statement? The artist seems to think so but I don’t believe him.

Is this simply the extreme that a man will go to just to get a sexual thrill?

The question is Imponderable. But the answer is probably yes.

You watched all four of those videos, didn’t you? 😉