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A few shots from the first Harlem4 Garden Party in a series of weekly community garden meet n’ greets. Be sure to check the Harlem Harvest Festival website for future parties, and a diverse series of events leading up to October’s Fresh Food Summit!

More photos from the Carrie McCracken Truce Community Garden here.

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A belated recap of my 2009 in photos. Here’s to a healthy 2010!

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Hate baseball, indifferent to parades…love the view from above.
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OUTLAW - Shot in the Dark
A DROME magazine and Lomography Photo Competition

Have you ever walked down a dark ally with your beloved LC-A in hand? Have you ever seen a vandalized building and couldn’t help but to admire that urban art covering the walls? Share this rawness from the streets with us! In this collaboration with Lomography, we are looking for your best images of stencils, posters, stickers, graffiti or any other form or “illegal expression” that you can find on the streets…

The winners will receive a Staple Colorsplash camera and a feature spot in DROME magazine. One important rule: Lomography will only accept photos taken with analogue cameras. None of the following would qualify, but it was a nice excuse to take a look back.

Banksy. London, 2004

Orgasmo Roma. Rome, 2004

CCTV. Milan, 2007

Milan, 2007

 Brooklyn, 2008

Godless America. San Francisco, 2009

NYC, 2008

Freak What You Feel! Brooklyn, 2008

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Trigger: Shot in the Dark details and entry form here

Golden Gate Park. Maybe the de Young Museum houses the finest modern art, and the revamped Academy of Sciences was made possible by contributions from the greatest scientific minds, but the true gentleman of San Francisco spends his time on the concourse in between. He makes wire sculptures of bathing Chinese women. And if you stop to take a picture of his work he will, quietly, take a picture of you taking a picture of his work.

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Some favorites from 2008, top to bottom: just north of Mexico; main stairwell at the Metropolitan Museum; still from I’m going to Cairo; self-portrait inspired by Youssef Nabil; cooler at La Esquina; awaiting the Wall Street meltdown; still from Zouk Love; still from Video the Vote

A 3a.m. forage through photo manipulation websites, and suddenly my boring shots from Thursday afternoon are very Waking Life (Richard Linklater’s 2001 film on philosophy matched well with the dream-like quality of rotoscope animation. Back then it was innovative; today the technique may be more associated with those stupid Charles Schwab commercials).

What I like best about the BeFunky Cartoonizer is that changes are applied using a sliding scale. So how far out you want to take your photos is up to you…

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New work by Juan Olalde combines metal art with loteria cards to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.

Graffiti in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Venezuelan artist El Hase imagines what would happen if religious icons went punk. His “La Santa Lucha” exhibition opens this Sunday in Brooklyn.

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