bike racks August 9th, 2010

Welcome to Monday morning, everyone. Here’s a somewhat abstract photo from NoMa of a row of circular bike racks and of course their shadows.

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going up March 18th, 2010

   

…shot while exiting the metro at New York Avenue/Florida Avenue/Gallaudet University. This red line stop, which opened in 2004, happened to be the first in-fill station in the metro system, filling the gap between Rhode Island Avenue/Brentwood and Union Station.

   

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Progress December 1st, 2009

   

Welcome, December! A photo of progress. And it looks like one building reaching out to the other.

   

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a long climb October 23rd, 2009

a long climb, originally uploaded by m hoek.

   
Tomorrow Clark is scheduled to take down the last remaining tower crane from Constitution Square. We had five swinging around for most of the project. I had always intended to climb up to the top (150 feet above terra firma) but had not gotten around to pulling the trigger. As the window of opportunity closed I jumped at the chance to give it a go this morning. The picture above is my view from the bottom level of the garage looking up on my 180′ vertical climb.
   
Very happy I got around to doing it. The views of the city are phenomenal and it was a good “check of the life list”.
Spent a while up top talking Paul, the crane operator. He is from the Caymans by way of Columbia Heights and has been working as an operator for about 12 years now. Paul is a fan of the city, loves living here, but is troubled by the crime that continues to plague the city despite apparent physical improvements. He has seen huge changes in the Columbia Heights neighborhood but still has high hopes for continued improvement. A very nice guy and I’m happy to have been able to chat with him way way up high.
   
Some pics of the view are available here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91138915@N00&q=constitution+square+tower+crane&m=text
   
Info about the project here: http://www.constitutionsquaredc.com/

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NoMA Station Water Tower October 22nd, 2009

   

Early this morning, Matt took me up onto the roof of his current work project, Constitution Square, so that I could shoot some video footage of the DC skyline for my final compositing project this semester. We just missed the beautiful sunrise by about 20 minutes, but I still got some great footage and views of the Capitol, Washington monument, and the NoMA Station Water Tower, pictured above.

   

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hello fall September 22nd, 2009

   

Happy Autumnal Equinox! At least, that’s what my calendar marks as today, September 22nd. The foggy, dreary weather outside today somewhat supports that, although I much prefer to think of fall as bright earthy colors and crisp breezes, Oktoberfest brews, tailgating, and, of course, candy corn. Either way, summer is technically over, and the sun will cross the equator today, from north to south, leaving us with exactly 12 hours of lightness and 12 hours of darkness. That means that by tomorrow, the nights will start becoming longer than the days. I’ve certainly noticed it happening already as I’ve been getting up around 6am, when Bowser first starts “barking” to go outside, and it’s still pitch black.

   

So today’s photo, we’ve posted about before , although I thought this version definitely says “goodbye summer” with the sun, and “hello fall” with the leaf. Time to start brainstorming Halloween costumes!

   

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storms like woah June 12th, 2009

 

   
As I look out my window now the sky’s above the ATF building are a lovely shade of blue with a few wispy clouds.  A far cry from the view earlier this week when it appeared that the wrath of God was about to be unleashed upon us.  I’ve never seen clouds like that before; we all just kept waiting for the twister to appear.  Thankfully it did not because I can not imagine a construction trailer or site is a very good place to be during a tornado.  I heard they are actually considering naming a new type of cloud after these recent formations cause that most certainly is not a cumulus cloud!
   
The above picture was taken with an Olympus XA on 35mm film.

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eat me April 16th, 2009

   

What a crazy little mushroom, just hanging out in Rock Creek Park. It definitely looks poisonous, but I am not much of a fungus expert, so I’ll probably never know. An orange mushroom Flickr search lands some really cool pictures though.

   

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so…anyone know how to start a farmer’s market?? December 5th, 2008

 

   
In an effort to become more involved in the world around me I have volunteered to help the NoMa BID with their effort to start a small farmer’s market by summer 2009.  They are currently envisioning a small market (5-6 vendors) that will be located somewhere near Union Station which will have the ability to expand with time and eventually move further to the north towards the New York Avenue metro station once that part of town (where Constitution Square is located) develops the critical mass of residents and workers.
   
The photo above is taken at Eastern Market in Capital Hill DC which is by all accounts the creme dela creme of farmer’s markets in Washington (don’t those apples look delicious?).  I have discovered more than 20 smaller markets that are active through out the District at various times of the year which was more than I expected.  The currently theoretical NoMa Farmers Market would operate one day per week and would either run through the lunch hour or at the end of the day.  What time/date do you think would be best for this?  If any one of our loyal readers happens to know anyone with ties to running farmers markets please send me their way.  Right now I’m just learning as much as I can about how these markets are typically set up and funded, and any insight would be helpful!
   
Yay produce!

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Construction! October 10th, 2008

   

Matt has been working on the construction site at Constitution Square (next to the New York Avenue metro in NoMA) for awhile now, and he takes all these realllllly cool pictures of the construction materials that make me go “whoa what *is* that!?!” There is so much color and texture and rhythm to be found in these not-yet-assembled pieces — eventually when put together it will go something like this. Or here is some time lapse photography. Since there are way too many pictures to post them individually, I threw them all together into a composition I would call blue, green, red: 3 circles, 3 squares, 3 lines

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