Billboard Shells

Pitching the Demographic: A Message of Nothing (Coney Island Creek)

Every billboard husk is like a fingerprint—unique—the setting, the details, the way sunlight plays off it at certain times.

Multicolored hues of sunset trapped between empty billboard

Double Duty: Cell Phone Tower/Beacon of Emptiness


Clouds seen through a billboard shell





Billboard seen through hollow in trestle bridge

Billboard shell’s gridwork silhouette



Sunset over billboard shell beside viaduct

A-to-Z Mannequins (Park Slope)

A-to-Z Mannequins

Signage (Mobile)

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Signage

In the Industrial Zone

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

—Oscar Wilde


In the industrial zone, certain truths—not necessarily related to the surroundings—reveal themselves.





Some of the companies I passed: pipes, plumbing supplies, paper, recycling, waste disposal, Chinese food distribution, lumber, marble, floor coverings/linoleum, machine tools, valves, oil refining, oil recovery, plastics, garbage/shopping bags, windows and doors, building supplies, live poultry, roof tiles, steel doors, lamp importer, produce, store gates and iron work.





Chinese Economic Miracle (The Price of Globalization)



A trip down to the engine room, for a glimpse at the gears.






Concrete: the most prevalent manmade substance
Brooklyn IS concrete













Crossing the rails
Walking the streets
Spanning the city
Ped Xing

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