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Cannonball: skating the empty pools in Fresno, California

Cannonball from California is a place. on Vimeo. What a great video about a group of guys who go into foreclosed homes to clean up the abandoned pools just so they can skate in them. Apparently, Fresno, California is ground … Continue reading

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New York City Summer Streets starts this Saturday!

If you haven’t heard already, every Saturday in August, New York City is closing down Park Avenue/Park Avenue South, 4th Avenue, and Lafayette Street for its annual Summer Streets program. This leaves a huge portion of Manhattan car-free for cyclists … Continue reading

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New York City to get dumpster pools

This Saturday, 3 Dumpster Pools made by MACRO SEA will be open to the public on Park Avenue and 40th and 41st Streets. The dumpster pools aren’t as nasty as you think they are. They are re-purposed from new dumpsters … Continue reading

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Celine Dion's new house is also a water park

Man, look at this place! This is Celine Dion’s new $20 million house on Jupiter Island, Florida. It’s basically a house built in the center of a miniature water park. It uses about 500,000 gallons of water to fill those … Continue reading

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Swimming in isolation (photographs by Carlo Van De Roer)

Carlo Van De Roer has a great series of images of individuals in isolation in or near bodies of water. Carlo resides in NY now, but I wish he provided details on where these photos were taken. They seem like … Continue reading

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Abandoned pools by Gigi Cifali

I can’t link directly to it because it’s a stupid flash website, but if you’ve got some time, you should stop by Gigi Cifali’s website and check out the photos of abandoned pools in the United Kingdom under the set … Continue reading

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