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Zipcar is a car rental company that allows you to rent a car by the hour. Pick it up in one spot and leave it in another part of the city.Perhaps the comic decor stimulates business.
2010 Behemoth aged in Woodford Reserve barrels. I had to get back to the city, and didn't have much time, but I followed this up with a Dreadnaught. Unforutnately for my schedule, they tapped Behemoth from the hand-pull just as I was wrapping up. Needless to say, I made it back to the zipcar lot with only 3 minutes to spare, and three beers in my belly. SCORE.
On Friday night, I took a Zipcar out of the city to try and photo the last of the Perseids in this summer's meteor shower. Nearly all of my shots came up empty in the two hours of photographing, but this meteor made the night by making an appearance above beside the Milky Way. The glow in the photo is from the moon that began to rise in the East.
Wright New Routemaster 11.3m
Transport UK/Abellio LT622 (LTZ 1622)
Route 211, Hammersmith Bus Station
Zipcar Summer all-over advert wrap
Thanks to the magic f Zipcars and a BFF with a driving licence, I made it to the Blick today! And Home Despot for white gloss paint for the windows and trim. I also am playing with placement of the posters, and made a "case" for the record player. Not sure how I feel about it yet, tho... Also, found the Gloria set the telly and one speaker came from, and ordered a MIB one, so soon there will be 2 more speakers annnnnnnd RABBIT EARS for the telly! I am stupidly excited about the rabbit ears.
October 23, 2011 - Another trip to Staten Island… and I get to drive. Yay! We got a Zipcar for the day trip to see Vinny's sister, brother-in-law, & nieces
FN15 FWY. Mobile Services, Coalville with an interesting cargo of zipcar vans, each one different livery. M1 Kislingbury...Apr 19 2021.
... to have her photo taken.
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It appears the male coyote regular at Mt. Diablo has gotten a new mate! I'm not sure of the circumstances that lead to him ditching his old girl of almost 2 years for this new young chick, but I think he has good taste and I look forward to seeing her around more! I am also about 99% confident that I photographed her once back in January.
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On another note, I took my car into the shop. Cracked head gasket - around $1200. Fortunately, there was no damage caused to the engine as a result of the overheating and the coolant mixing with the oil.
Oh well... that stuff happens when you drive a car with over 200,000 miles!
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About 2" of rain and wind is expected today and tomorrow. It sounds like the rainy season is finally among us. Since I am so tired of the dry earth, I think I am looking forward to it! :-)
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I apologize for posting and leaving. German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California, of which I've been a member since July, is holding an adoption day in San Jose and I committed to being there. Thank God for Zipcar and I'll hopefully be catching up on your streams this evening!
I moved into my new place on Saturday without a hitch (amen). I recruited a couple of friends to help me tackle all those stairs, and for whatever reason, Zipcar saw it fit to rent a New York City SUV to a midwestern driver, so we loaded my belongings into the back of a Ford Escape (it only took one trip!) and I drove it across the bridge to Queens. Save for a few tricky one-way streets, and the fact that I may or may not have parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant at one point with the blinkers on while loading the car (hey, street parking in Manhattan ain't easy to find), my first driving experience in the big city went smoothly (I would even dare to say it was a bit...fun), and I am happy to say that I am settling in nicely to my new digs. There's some fugly wall paper in my room that will need to be axed, and I question the previous occupant's choice of paint color, but for now, I am just happy to have made it here in one piece.
Now that I've successfully packed up my shiz and relocated it to another borough, I can return to my normal life activities, which will hopefully include catching up on your streams. :)
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Thanks to the magic of Zipcars and a BFF with a driving licence, I made it to the Blick today! And Home Despot for white gloss paint for the windows and trim. I also am playing with placement of the posters, and made a "case" for the record player. Not sure how I feel about it yet, tho... Also, found the Gloria set the telly and one speaker came from, and ordered a MIB one, so soon there will be 2 more speakers annnnnnnd RABBIT EARS for the telly! I am stupidly excited about the rabbit ears.
Thanks to the magic of Zipcars and a BFF with a driving licence, I made it to the Blick today! And Home Despot for white gloss paint for the windows and trim. I also am playing with placement of the posters, and made a "case" for the record player. Not sure how I feel about it yet, tho... Also, found the Gloria set the telly and one speaker came from, and ordered a MIB one, so soon there will be 2 more speakers annnnnnnd RABBIT EARS for the telly! I am stupidly excited about the rabbit ears.
Abellio London Wrights New Bus for London LT964 (LTZ 2164), is seen on Park Lane, London, wearing an advertising wrap for Zipcar
07/08/2024
Avis Budget EVM Cityline bodied Mercedes-Benz Sprinter RX73TYF is seen here heading out of Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 working a car park shuttle.
That sucks.
Sell your car and share one with ZipCar or I-Go.
Or share one with your neighbors via the new websites that facilitate this that are popping up for different regions in America.
This photo was taken on 20th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenue.
I'm tempted to get a license plate like this, too. One problem, though: I don't have a car any more. (Long live ZipCar!)
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
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I got a ZipCar to head up to Larch Mountain to watch the sunset color show and with an idea of taking pictures of the stars over Mt. Hood.
When I got to the parking lot at the top of Larch, I had to pee real, REAL bad, so hopped out of the car and ran to the bathroom. When I returned to the car, I found it locked. There are two ways to access a ZipCar; with your ZipCar membership card or with the ZipCar app on your phone. My wallet was in the car and the app was telling me that it could not connect to the car. As I was standing there, my phone was going from "No Service" to like half a bar.
I was able to call ZipCar and was immediately on the line with an operator. I've had issues in the past, and the ZipCar people have always been super helpful. This woman was super cheerful, but refused to help since I could not provide her with things like my ZipCar card number ("that's in the car. If I had it, I wouldn't be having this problem") or my driver's license number ("that would be in the car, next to my ZipCar card"). She told me that my ZipCar membership information is on the app and I could refer to that. When I told her that the app is showing [NULL] for everything, she cheerfully suggested I get somewhere with a better cell connection before calling her back. A 14 mile walk - at a minimum.
After the call, I thought that perhaps my phone was being weird and I should reboot it. The battery said 33% so I figured I'd be good. As I shut it down, I remembered that it's been doing weird stuff recently when the battery gets down to about a third. Sure enough, it refused to start up, and gave me the "I need juice" graphic.
I considered just going and taking pictures, but my gear was in the car. I considered drinking the beer that I brought, but it too was in the car. Then I considered breaking a window and telling ZipCar to bite me.
Before taking drastic measures, I noticed that there was a guy in one of the other cars in the lot. I started to walk over to talk to him when a tow truck pulled into the lot. The guy's car had broken down and he was waiting for the truck! Seriously. Out of nowhere - in my time of most need - a tow truck just materializes.
I walked over to the driver, with, what I'm now realizing was probably a crazy grin on my face. I stood looking at him for a moment, and finally asked, "are you real?" He said that, indeed, he was.
The tow truck driver took out his breaking-into-cars tools and peeled open that ZipCar like a lemon. Bite me, ZipCar.
So then I continued onto my mission. The sunset color show was pretty spectacular, but much of it happened as I was hiking up to the outlook, and I realized that in order to get a good shot of Mt. Hood and the stars, the best time would be more like 3am.
But I did get this one of these lovebirds watching the sun go down and the sky turn to night.
I recognized that I had a lot of letters on my phone and thought that it would be cool to create a little alphabet chart based on the iPhone application icons.
Heidi Cody's 'American Alphabet' was a huge inspiration.
Thanks to the magic of Zipcars and a BFF with a driving licence, I made it to the Blick today! And Home Despot for white gloss paint for the windows and trim. I also am playing with placement of the posters, and made a "case" for the record player. Not sure how I feel about it yet, tho... Also, found the Gloria set the telly and one speaker came from, and ordered a MIB one, so soon there will be 2 more speakers annnnnnnd RABBIT EARS for the telly! I am stupidly excited about the rabbit ears.
ETA: Also, in this shot you can see where I screwed up by not having the back of an album printed on the photo of all the stacked sleeves! I'll be fixing that before it's finished.
Zipcar Sign as Art, 14th street NW Washington, DC
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Taken with the iPhone 4 camera with Art done on the iPad
Two Volkswagen Golf of Zipcar Carsharing Service are getting charged in Kensington, London. Please link to getmobility.de/20160919-zipcar-1-millionen-nutzern/ if you are using this picture.
Sadly the one in the background...
Hyundai i30 was a last minute change to the booking, the Fiesta Turbo that I usually rent (which is an absolute hoot) got cancelled. It was dull by comparison, I felt like the policeman that got to the station late for my shift and all the good cars had already been taken.... It was easy enough to drive with a slightly odd spec:. CD player but no DAB, electric lumber control and three cigarette lighter ports but no auto-lights or wipers. Nice simple to use cruise control/speed limiter compared to Tucson I had a few weeks ago.
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Thanks to the magic of Zipcars and a BFF with a driving licence, I made it to the Blick today! And Home Despot for white gloss paint for the windows and trim. I also am playing with placement of the posters, and made a "case" for the record player. Not sure how I feel about it yet, tho... Also, found the Gloria set the telly and one speaker came from, and ordered a MIB one, so soon there will be 2 more speakers annnnnnnd RABBIT EARS for the telly! I am stupidly excited about the rabbit ears.
Avis Budget EVM Cityline bodied Mercedes-Benz Sprinter RX73TYZ is seen here heading out of Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 working a car park shuttle.