Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary project that aims to document the more than 10,000 Main Streets in the entire USA. It’s very interesting to see the differences between all of the Main Streets — some look pretty normal and average while others look completely abandoned. Maybe Main Street is an appropriate metaphor for politicians to use when describing the US.
The project is just getting underway and currently they seem to only have photos of Main Streets in the Midwest, so if you’d like to help them out, submit your own Main Street photos (I know some readers here have photos of Main Street in Flushing, NY) and see if it makes it into the project map.
I had a wonderful time tonight at Central Park’s Rumsey Field listening to Passion Pit and Phoenix. Both bands are incredibly solid live and very, very entertaining to watch. Phoenix was the highlight of course as they went through songs both new and old in their entire set. Their drummer is pretty insane as well and watching him go at it really made me want to bang my drums just as hard.
From here on in, if I ever get the chance to see Phoenix live in concert, I’m not even going to hesitate to purchase tickets. They are so awesome live and I’m going to go ahead and put them up there with Mute Math as the bands I would see hands-down no matter what the occasion.
In the gallery below, you’ll see a couple of photographs of Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars up close because at the end of the set he jumped down and hung out with the crowd up front where I was. I sorta hugged him (but I don’t think he knows who it was). Anyway, I tried desperately to get a photo of me behind him by sticking the camera in front of him, but it didn’t quite work out. I just kept getting his swooshy hair — oh well, just as good I suppose.
The New York Times Lens blog has a nice gallery of photos looking back on the summer blackout of 2003. I remember the 2003 blackout very fondly and it was definitely one of the most special memories I have of living in New York City. Lens really brings it all back with this post. Heh.
