It's an even more amazing state we live in, when you stop to look. Photographs by New Jersey Monthly Senior Editor Eric Levin.
Entries for July 2008
Tale of the Tarp
Somewhere around the turn of the millenium the blue polyethylene tarp became the universal symbol of suburban exterior home improvement. Now every house painter is a pocket Christo.
It's fine by me. I like my McMansions wrapped.
...continue reading.Tags: Montclair | photography
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Doo-Wop Doggy and Jean Harlow
Yesterday's Plain Sight left off with a question:
What does the dancing frankfurter Doo-Wop Doggy have in common with the original "Blonde Bombshell," Jean Harlow?
...continue reading.Tags: Morristown | photography | hot dogs
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You Ain't Nuthin But a Hot Dog
No sequins on his buns, but this dude was definitely rockin' , even if it was one of the wurst Elvis impersonations ever.
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"Can I help you?" 3
At last it can be told--or, rather, it has to be, because I promised no more digressions.
Back on Thursday, I was taking pictures of an interesting truck in a parking lot in Morristown when I heard a stern voice say, "Can I Help You?"
Here, finally, is what happened next...
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"Can I help you?" 2
Yesterday's post was about taking pictures of an interesting truck in Morristown and being halted by the words, "Can I help you?"
That led to a digression about a similar but darker tale--from Jersey City in the early 1980's--of photographing what I realized too late was a Mob hangout. The post grew too long to return to the Morristown incident.
So now, to borrow a phrase from Paul Harvey, a broadcaster whose voice could dramatize the peeling of a banana, here is "The rest of the story..."
WARNING: This post includes a photograph that almost got me arrested.
...continue reading.Tags: Morristown | photography
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"Can I help you?"
As a guy who takes pictures wherever he goes--which is to say not on assignment and not by invitation, though also not by trespassing--I hear these words from time to time.
"Can I help you?" is, of course, a polite way of saying, "Who the hell do you think you are taking pictures of my [fill in the blank]?"
I heard them again this morning.
...continue reading.Tags: Morristown | photography
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Ploch's Pelted Petals
A hard rain is gonna fall, said the weather forecast. And it did. At Ploch's Garden Center in Clifton, the flowers took it on the chin.
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