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      • Photo of the Day #13
        06/30/08
        Brooklyn

        I hope that everyone had a great weekend! Here in New York it was hot and wet but I didn’t mind too much, after all it is summer. Another week, another article about Europe’s declining birth rate. The New York Times Magazine did a cover story about the issue and its potential ram

      • HCB Quote of the Week #42
        06/28/08
        Brooklyn

        So this week’s New Yorker’s got to experience another massive public art opening with the unveiling of Olafur Eliasson’s piece “Waterfalls.” The Danish artist created four large artificial waterfalls around New York harbor at a cost of more than $15 million. I went out the other

      • Photo of the Day #12
        06/27/08
        Brooklyn

        As we say in Brooklyn, if it’s not one thing, it’s another. It’s not the hordes of illegal immigrants; it must be the microscopic black holes that threaten to devour the earth! It is at least according to an article today in the New York Times discussing a lawsuit brought agains

      • Photo of the Day #11
        06/26/08
        Brooklyn


        Well the Germany-Turkey game was a nail biter but sadly Germany’s 3-2 win didn’t magically heal the cultural rifts within Germany or the E.U. In another great article in the I.H.T. we learn about how Italy is dealing with, or not dealing with, its immigrant population.
      • Photo of the Day #10 (EuroCup Edition)
        06/25/08
        Brooklyn


        In many ways sports, just like art, reflects a society’s values and mores. Who we cheer for makes us think about why we root for whom we do. In America, the integration of baseball preceded the integration of the schools. Sport is another way we fight our social battles.
      • Photo of the Day #9
        06/24/08
        Brooklyn

        This weekend I came across an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine. The topic of immigration in Europe is not just hot across the pond but Americans are also increasingly taking interest in this subject as well. While we Americans have a long tradition of external i

      • Photo of the Day #8
        06/23/08
        Brooklyn

        Well I hope everyone had a great and relaxing weekend! I had a chance to catch up with some old friends as well as see some great art. One of the great things about being in New York is you never know who you will run into or what you’ll see. But the weekend is over and now

      • HCB Quote of the Week #41
        06/21/08
        Brooklyn

        Today is one of my favorite days! It’s the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Every winter on those short, cold days I think about this day in particular and hope that it will come soon. In a few days I will have been back in New York for three months, exactly the amo

      • Photo of the Day #7 (PJG Edition)
        06/19/08
        Brooklyn

        Last night I went to an amazing and moving tribute to the late Philips Jones Griffiths, perhaps the greatest anti-war photographer of his generation. His images, and they are too many to even try to pick a favorite, changed the way we look at war. His seminal book Vietnam, Inc. s

      • Photo of the Day #6
        06/18/08
        Brooklyn

        Looking through my images of Germany I sure do have a lot of graphically inspired images. I don’t know if it has something to do with the country’s Bauhaus tradition or my own roving eye but I wanted to keep going with yesterday’s theme and post another interesting image, this ti

      • Photo of the Day #5
        06/17/08
        Brooklyn

        So when I was younger, much younger, I wanted to be an illustrator. More specifically I just wanted to be able to draw accurately. Sadly this was a skill that I never developed but fortunately I discovered photography which we all know is drawing with light. While I left behind m

      • Photo of the Day #4 Kosovo Edition
        06/16/08
        Brooklyn

        I came across an interesting article in the IHT this weekend about Kosovo. As you know the former province of Serbia (Serbia along with many other nations most notably Russia has not recognized it) declared independence some months ago after years of being administered by the Uni

      • HCB Quote of the Week #40
        06/14/08
        Brooklyn



        Well Ireland said NO!!!! to the E.U. Constitution in a referendum this week. What’s interesting is that upper income urban voters supported the referendum and most others did not, a result that was mirrored in The Netherlands’ and France’s no votes in 2005.

      • Photo of the Day #3
        06/13/08
        Brooklyn

        Who knew posting a picture a day could be so much fun, or so topical? I took this image in Paris last fall back when you could smoke indoors. Well no more! France, like Ireland, Germany, Italy and numerous other nations have mostly banned smoking in cafes, bars and restaurants. I

      • Photo of the Day #2 (Free Speech vs. Hate Speech)
        06/12/08
        Brooklyn

        It’s good when I can use a photograph to talk about a larger issue, something I hope to do more of with this blog and the future website. There was an interesting article in the International Herald Tribune about free speech vs. hate speech and the different approaches that Amer

      • Photo of the Day #1
        06/11/08
        Brooklyn

        If you don't already know I have started a Facebook group for The Europeans. So even if you don't want to be my friend (I know it is hard to even imagine) you can still join the group and engage in the conversation!


        One more monument. Berlin, 2007 © Dam

      • Govenor's Island and Poll Results so far...
        06/10/08
        Brooklyn

        It was a hot but relaxing weekend. As you who are in NYC right now know it is hot, hot and more hot up in here but hey, it’s New York in June. If you thought spring would last forever well guess again.


        The view from the ferry. © Damaso Reyes

        But the i

      • Internet Poll
        06/08/08
        Brooklyn

        So the question is: Beard or no beard?

        I am thinking about shaving but when I do I look like a teenage girl. Seriously, people call me miss and ma’am. But as you can see, I don’t really grow a ZZ Top type beard. What other people grow in a day takes me a month. So summ

      • HCB Quote of the Week #39
        06/07/08
        Brooklyn

        Well summer has officially arrived here in New York. Officially in the sense that it will be uncomfortably hot over the next three days and everyone will try to wear as little as possible. So it’s the perfect day to work on my tan, think about the future and have a picnic on Gove

      • Which Way Forward?
        06/05/08
        Brooklyn

        “Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”- Barack Obama


        Hope. © Damaso Reyes

        There was a time wh

      • Signed, Sealed, Delivered!!!!
        06/04/08
        I've been waiting for this moment for all my life...



        Can you believe it?

        Yes, I can...

      • Where I Stand...
        06/03/08
        Brooklyn

        Shaft:
        Sorry, I can't make it

        Ellie:
        You got problems, baby?

        Shaft:
        (Laughs) Yeah, I got a couple of 'em. I
        was born black and I was born poor.

        From Shaft (1971)


        © Damaso Reyes

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