Via things magazine, a visit to the ruins of the Sutro Baths at the San Francisco oceanfront.
Category: Photography
Digital Holga
My mother bought me one of these toy digital cameras for Christmas. The packaging disingenuously suggests a retail price of $39.95, but I hope she didn’t pay more than the $10 that seems to be the going rate at Walgreen’s. I’m reluctant to install software drivers from such a flimsy-looking product on my already delicate Windows laptop, so the thing will probably remain in its blister pack until I can do a junk purge.
To Mom’s credit, she found one nice gift: a reprint-house collection of Superman comics from the WWII era.
(Link via robot wisdom.)
Roundabout
Christopher Joyce hangs out in Thomas Circle with Brian Hayes, student of street furniture. Not in the Thomas Circle neighborhood, but in Thomas Circle. Follow the link for a nice slideshow of manhole covers.
Related: Drainspotting, including snaps of manhole covers in Rome marked SPQR. (Say thank you, Leta.)
A little touch of Atget in New York
Via wood s lot, Irwin Klein’s Manhattan street photography from 1964-69. My favorite, of course, is the shot of a passage in the subway with a prominent West Side Downtown IRT sign.