Repurpose | The Talking Drums

 

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Repurpose

Show us something that you’ve recycled or repurposed, or an object for which you’ve discovered a clever new use.

 

Listen as these talented and gifted subway musicians use containers repurposed as Talking Drums and hear the audience commuters Whoops of Joy and Exaltation!! Adults and children were left smiling in awe of their outstanding performance!!

 

 

Oddball Mini Ferris Wheel 

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: March 12, 2017

Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge (COB) is all about those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category.  We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them.

There is never a theme to this challenge, so what is an odd ball is all up for you to discover and photograph.


Mini Ferris Wheel

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Mild Winter Day

 

Sunday Trees – 278

Sunday Trees – 278

 

Today I went to see the Georgia O’Keefe special exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum then I went next door to another one of my favorite Happy Places the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is one of those rare mild winter days as we edge towards spring and along with some other hardy Brooklynites I took in the bare stark beauty of this beautiful day.  I will talk about the Georgia O’Keefe exhibit in a future post.

Here are some Trail Talks narrated by yours truly The Roaming Urban Gypsy.  Enjoy. Please excuse my voice and quality of the videos I’m still Learning.  My pronunciation of the Latin names for these plants is awful and once I began editing the videos I realized that I kept using the word Botanical as opposed to Botanic. Actually the Queens gardens is name the Queens Botanical Gardens. Eventually perhaps in the Merry Merry Month of May which is my next vacation time.

Thank you!!

 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Part 1 One

 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Part 2

 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Part 3

 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Part 4

 

 

The Wall at 14th Street Union Square

 

I don’t expect this blog post to get many Likes or even views but as a Black Woman Living in a racist sexist ageist country about to be taken over by the devil and his cohorts I cannot ignore what goes on around me and make believe Life is all sugar coated candy canes.

On 9/11 2001 we pulled together as one country, one people. We had a sense of nation and unity. On 11/9 2016 that was all shattered. Hopes for the future died. The rift, divide, chasm caused by the hateful words of one man, one male is who now preparing to be the “leader of the not so free world” has shattered all illusions of unity. He has dug from the filth swampy wastelands to stir up hatreds and vendettas that should have remained buried. Our county has now been thrown into an uncertain chaos which will affect everyone whether they care to admit it or not.

But then as my Dad Edward G. Palmer used to say when I was a girl, “I’m Free, Black and 21!”  So I express my opinion beholden to No One and never needing validation.

Let’s face it, when many white people look at me it’s like they just tasted something nasty and kept trying to spit it out of their mouths. Bring out your spittoons!!

Brutally Honest! No Apologies!!

The Wall @ 14th Street Union Square

The Wall at 14th Street Union Square Subway Station. I did not add my sentiments I only recorded the feelings and emotions of my fellow New Yorkers. As a photographer I’m also in the position of being a social activist. I do not live in an isolated bubble. I must record what goes on around me as did many other photographers who preceded me during the Harlem Renaissance, during the 1940s, 50s & 60s Civil Rights Movements, Disability Rights Movement, Women’s Rights plus the protests, marches and demonstrations of our Native American Sisters and brothers.

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Given what is going on in this country no traveling for Thanksgiving this year. We are just target practice for gun wielding racists.

 

Gentrification = Colonization ~~ Take Back the Hood

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Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 46

 

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Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 46

Metronome Boogie Dance Tuxedo Kitty Cat

 

 

 

 

Now for something completely Off-beat!!  Hey folks I live in a poor/working class neighborhood and you gotta get your hustle on any way you know how!

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Word Photo Challenge: Curtain

 

 

https://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/10/11/one-word-photo-challenge-curtain/

One Word Photo Challenge: Curtain

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Part III: People, Places & Things

If you want to share a literal image of the actual word, do that. But if you’d rather play with word association, post something that reminds you of the specific word, or something you use the word for, do so. It only has to make sense to you. Have fun and keep on photographing!

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This week’s word is Curtain!

Mystical Majical Curtains reveal Moi!! The Poetry Goddess!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 41

 

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/10/14/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-41/

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 41

 

Photo Link

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Dioramas in 86th Street Best Buy

 

The Lost Band

 

From Soup to Nutz Things that Make You Go Hmmmmm…. Link

https://goo.gl/photos/dnWNiUg2dV6svrDU8

 

Keith Sweat / Something Just Ain’t Right

 

Jamming with Subway Musicians

Jamming at the 14th Street Union Square Subway Station

 

 

 

Now you get to hear my rather nasally New York accented voice narrating this lovely walk through Central Park!!

 

Here are some Central Park Photos from Last Year September/October 2015