Tag Archive for 'apartment'
19
Dec
09
day 304: first snow
Tonight was the first snow in NYC for this winter. This is a shot outside my apartment. It was a pretty massive snow storm.
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04
Jun
09
day 109: evicted!
I was evicted out of my apartment today because the tenant I was subletting off hadn’t paid the rent for 4 months! I was woken up with loud knocking and shouting outside my door, by the US Marshal . He told me to get dressed, grab what I can and get out as it was illegal for me to stay there. They changed the locks and literally I was kicked out on the street. The whole process and situation was absolutely inhumane. The Marshal was a complete jerk that didn’t want to listen or bother to care outside of his duties. You would be glad to know that eventually it was sorted out between the tenant and landlord. I was allowed back in after 6hrs but a shocking experience nonetheless.
Every weekend there would be excessive noise coming from the courtyard at back of our apartment. This weekend I decided to capture what was going on.
30
Apr
09
day 75: tenement on orchard st
This is a tenement building on Orchard st, Lower East Side, which is one of the many that sprouted up in the 19th Century. There’s an interesting tenement history in NYC. These apartments targeted immigrants who literally ‘got off the boat’ and were created by opportunists (who were immigrants themselves) to combat overcrowding during the migration influx.
Far from luxurious, each apartment had a ‘front room’ (only room with natural light), kitchen and bedroom at the back and on average 7 people lived in one apartment. They had, no shower, no bath and no toilet (it was only in 1867 when the first of the tenement law was enacted that 1 toilet was required for every 20 people). Garbage was disposed of in boxes set in front of the house. A description printed in the New York Tribune in 1863 summed it up:
“composed of potato-peelings, oyster-shells, night-soil, rancid butter, dead dogs and cats, and ordinary black street mud, (the garbage boxes formed) one festering, rotting, loathsome, hellish mass of air poisoning, death- breeding filth, reeking in the fierce sunshine, which gloats yellowly over it like the glare of a devil whom Satan has kicked from his councils in virtuous disgust.”
Tenement Building. Orchard St, Lower East Side.
29
Apr
09
day 74: waking up to a shoot
This morning I woke up to Amanda doing a test shoot in our lounge room. So I did what every normal person would do – I shot the shoot.
08
Apr
09
day 53: cindy gallop
Today I met with advertising veteran Cindy Gallop to talk about a ‘world changing project’ she is working on. Cindy was an executive at the highly respected agency BBH where she headed up Asia Pacific and NYC offices.
That aside, the real story I want to portray here is her exuberant loft apartment. Across from the infamous Chelsea Hotel, Cindy’s apartment was converted from a seniors locker room in an old YMCA building.
Her loft is home to 250-plus pairs of designer stilettos, a framed AK-47 stamped with the Chanel logo and a gold-painted Gucci chain saw (both by artist Peter Gronquist), a black leather Gucci spanking paddle, a pink-and-yellow YSL light installation among many other artifacts. I felt like I was walking around in a pop culture museum. Italian Vogue was using her apartment for a shoot when I was there. They are not the only ones – Nelly, Diddy, and Usher also used her apartment to shoot their video for “Nasty Girl”.
02
Mar
09
day 16: it snowed last night….
28
Feb
09
day 14: apartment party
My flatmates had a party at our apartment. lots of people in a not very large space. this is new york.
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