The third element is water, existing in a symbiotic relationship with fire. In Chinese, this is 水 (pronounced shui). Water is represented by fire sprinklers, water bodies big and small,…
The second element for the Ancient Greeks, and the first for the Ancient Chinese, was Fire / 火 (pronounced huo). Fire is represented on Wythe Ave as emergency fire towers,…
I thought I would kick off the month of March with a week-long theme on the Elements, both from the Classical (Greek) tradition and from ancient Chinese Philosophy. To recap:…
Next up: these are all the stoops and stairwells that lead down and directly onto Wythe Ave. There were many others but they led down to a cross-street instead.
Another street-level fixture, albeit temporary – Trash, or as they call it here in America, Garbage. Plenty of it just ends of in translucent trash bags on the street, though…
Another street-level feature that occurs twice in every block along Wythe Ave. I don’t think most of these actually work, though. They seem more like relics and ruins, than functioning…
Alright, today’s the first of a series of Street-level Feature themed posts. First up, US Mail boxes, in deep olive green, dark ultramarine and psychedelic.
Next on the list, all of the cross-street signs on Wythe Ave, alongside a few other signs typically seen on the street.
For today’s post, I scoured Wythe Avenue for QR codes, expecting to find a proliferation of them. But there weren’t actually that many, and most of them appeared to me…
Since I started on the theme of Street Art yesterday, I thought I’d continue with it for the rest of the week. Today, I present a menagerie of birds and…
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