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I went to the Museum of Modern Art during my last trip to NY and tried to catch some decent shots of people. People doing ordinary things without noticing me taking a picture of them. Last week I showed you the guy with at the hot dog stand. This week we have the MOMA guard in the outdoor sculpture garden.

I call this piece “Focused Tai Chi by Bored Guard Outdoors”

As near as I could tell, his biggest responsibility was keeping people from eating on this side of the sculpture garden. You see, you could buy ice cream and candy and drinks on the other side of that big orange sculpture, but you couldn’t bring them to this side. An elderly couple learned that the hard way. I just noticed he has some sort of bandage on his left index finger. Maybe he pointed it too hard at someone eating a snowpop. BTW, I put some fancy “effects” on here using Google’s Picassa software. Yeah, I know it’s not photoshop but it can still do some neat stuff quickly.

“Minds are like parachutes-they only function when open.“

-Thomas Dewar

An oldie but a goodie this week. And yes, that is the same Dewar who makes the whiskey. I try to have an open mind and see both sides of an issue. And if I ever challenge you, it’s because I want to see where you stand. If your argument is strong enough there is a good chance you could sway me based on my knowledge (or lack of) in that particular subject. On a completely different note, how much fun would it be to skydive! I’m thinking I could handle a tandem dive but not a solo one.

Up and away in my beautiful balloon.

Hey come on out tonight to the plano balloon festival
and whip me and chip with your traffic questions.
i should be out there around 6pm.

Wow, the site is slow today. Must be all the Russian hackers trying to infiltrate me. Listen up comrade, do not make me unleash ze hounds on you, da?

Anyway, it’s around 11pm in Times Square and I am killing time on what I think is going to be my last night (ended up staying an additional day because of airport delays) and I come across a row of sketch artists doing caricatures and portraits. I tried to line up the shot so you could see the artist’s rendering as well as the subject and I think I did a decent job but the lack of light didn’t help out with the focus.

If you notice, the artist puts a slight smile on his face, even though he looks like he’s deep in thought. Deep, deep thoughts…like why is this strange young man taking my picture?