I have complicated feelings about TikTok but one thing that’s been a mainstay on my feed is Colorball Champions. From somewhere in Indonesia, a rotating cast of women (and a few men) are playing this game all day, every day, with usually at least a thousand people watching. I don’t understand what they are saying but I watch a game nearly every day.

winter sports 

I’m not sure why but I’m excited about this

Saw this amazing looking stray cat in the big park. I wanted to be friends but it was not interested. I’m going to go back with food.

Was driving down Coney Island Avenue recently and noticed that these are now gone. They may not have been great (or even good) art and their historicity is dubious, but I liked that they were there and I'm sad that they're gone. the long defunct bell telephone logo is still there.

winter habitat 

As the weather turns colder, picnic tables tend to huddle together for warmth, usually around their favorite tree.

sunset strip 

My new year’s resolution is whatever resolution this pic is.

When I was a kid, at least once a week in summer my mom would stuff a bunch of sandwiches in a cooler, stuff a bunch of kids in a station wagon along with a blanket and a ratty umbrella and drive over the bridges to “Robert Moses” which was short for Robert Moses State Park, where we’d spend the whole day playing in the waves and digging in the sand.

Bridget Riley at the Morgan Library. The older lady walking past me said “I don’t consider this art”

building 

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.