Stacy Horn

My idea of a great afternoon, spending it going through old records. Yesterday I spent a wonderful few hours at the archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Thank you Wayne Kempton! The archives are HUGE and meticulously stored and maintained, and when one thing I needed wasn’t there, Wayne emailed me later with it.

I don’t want to say what I was looking for because hopefully I’ll have a happy announcement to make soon-ish. I’ll get to spend tons of time here and at the Municipal Archives and the New York Public Library and many other archives. Places of enchantment for me, basically.

I’m not going to be able to watch the news for a while. I’m even afraid to look at the Times. The only way to do it will be to immediately scroll down past the headlines to the science section, and the arts, books, movies and tv, my people. And read Hobsbawm, following a suggestion of someone whose suggestions and reasoning has always been sound. This was in response to my question about people voting for people who do not act in their best interests.

When I was working the polls on Tuesday I wasn’t hungry when I had to take my assigned “dinner break” so I just walked around, taking pictures. This is the African Burial Ground.

I will be back tomorrow with my story of what it was like working the polls yesterday. But I’m exhausted now. First, I had to get up at 4am to get there by 5am. By the way, it’s so lovely to be out during those pre-dawn hours. I was a little scared though so I wore a whistle, in case I ran into trouble. But all was well. I had an enchanting walk through my wonderful city while most everyone else slept.

I didn’t get home until 11, though. A very long day. So now that I’ve gotten all the work I needed to get done today done, I’m going to watch a little tv and SLEEP.

I love hot dogs stands. I want to to a photo series of hot dogs stands and carts. I really should go back and make a list of all the photo series I’ve mentioned wanting to do and then didn’t end up doing. This is downtown, by City Hall and the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, and near the poll site where I was working. Just try and tell me that isn’t a work of art.

I can’t remember if I posted or tweeted about it, but I watched this amazing video of a subway skater, Tengu, and in addition to being blown away by the skater I loved the sound track. The composer, Jacob Ireland, sent me a link to the complete piece, Subway Track, and I’ve been meaning to post it. It’s made entirely from sounds on the subway, and I just love it. Very inventive. Turns out Ireland is a graphic designer, among other things. Many other things, including being a skater!

The crowds on 11th Street on Halloween. Costumes and candy are serious business around here.

After all my worrying, the Tardis did appear! And once again I failed to get a decent shot of it. It’s partly my camera’s fault, I swear. I met someone last night who knows the Canon G series of cameras (he has each of them including the latest) and he agreed mine just doesn’t take good night shots. “You can get the new one for $400!” he said. I tried not to sob.

The Dalek also returned, ready to exterminate, thank God. I mean, OH NO!

Giving out candy at a gallery on West 4th Street. Most of the activity was centered around stoops, but a few businesses were also giving out treats.

Tree head man. Crazy tree head man (I just saw an old Adam Sandler SNL Halloween bit).

This was in front of the building on 11th and 4th Streets that had the great decorations in the post just before this one.

Now this is commitment to Halloween and your costume. (It was also cold last night!) This picture is disturbing, but she was actually totally awesome. But too much for the children. While I was taking her picture every child who passed by refused to go up and take candy from her. I couldn’t blame them.