Citynoise.org
Citynoise.org is a public photoblog where people with a love for the urban form, modern world, or a general appreciation of their environment gather to post stories, narratives and often upload photos of their favourite cities, hometowns, travels, or current locations.
I became involved with citynoise.org in 2002 when i provided Peter with the source code of my blog for use in his cool new project. The site quickly grew and was completely overhauled in 2005. Traffic sky-rocketed overnight.
Citynoise, three years on from it’s last major overhaul is in need of some hardcore TLC from yours truly. Things move fast on the Interweb. I’ve been promising big things for at least a year and now at last some actual progress is being made. Some of the major performance bottlenecks have already been ironed out, hopefully making the current site much less painful to use. Comment spam prevention has also been tightened.
All feedback from the user survey is being considered and many more features (along with a facelift) will be arriving in due course. I’ll be posting updates here as I make upgrades and improvements to the site.
Getting My Gourmand on
Posted in: Toronto, ON by Patrick. This is how summer ends around these parts -- with screaming children and bloated adults, courtesy of the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition). Here's the bloating part...
Deep-fried butter (coated with batter first, of course).
www.torontocitylife.com
Green Day
Posted in: Toronto, ON by Michelle. Riverdale Park East.
Broadview south of Dundas.
Behind the Carrot Common.
Around the Neighborhood
Posted in: Ottawa, Canada by Nicole. On a stroll through the neighborhood on a quiet saturday. This is Vanier, just east of centretown, a mostly francophone neighborhood, with communities of new Canadians from places like Haiti.
Are you getting hungry? I am. Let's stop for some poutine...
City Church
Posted in: Ottawa, Canada by Nicole.
Hoboken Terminal
Posted in: Hoboken, NJ by Peter.
The Erie Lackawanna Railway and Ferry Terminal clocktower
The Empire State Building and a view of midtown Manhattan
A vent near the New Jersey entrance to the Holland Tunnel
Hoboken Terminal
Tower Block in Neuperlach (Munich, Germany)
Posted in: Munich, Germany by Simon.
The high-rise apartment building area origins in Munich’s housing shortage in the 1950s. See more shots from all around Munich on www.munichphotoblog.com/
Get a New Camera, Find an Old...
Posted in: Monroeville, USA by Franny Wentzel. Had to replace my 3 yr old digicam after it died - my Apple Quicktakes still work after 15. Along the way I found this old Kodak Instamatic out in the wild...
More interesting was a bundle of old photographs and other papers belonging to Miss Alba Nidia Ortiz of 700 Westchester Ave in the Bronx ...
Her ID card - I've blotted out her Telephone and Social Security numbers
High School General Organisation card #47
Typwritten religeous ID in a disintegrated casing
"I am a Catholic. In case of accident call a priest."
Pay stubs from B Altman & Co - that $37.26 takehome would be worth $188.96 today
A thank you note addressed to her
"We thank you for your cooperation and service of alumna luncheon"
The photographs - taken at some sort of camp in the early 1970s - everyone here would be in their late 40s or early 50s now
and a bit of found whimsy to close this post
Free Carwash
Posted in: Brooklyn, NY by Peter.
carwash, van
hydrant, fireplug
Bushwick, Brooklyn
New York City, NYC
