Tag Archives: Slim Pickens

25 Of My Favorite Urban Abstractions of 2011

I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.

Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The Laboratory.

Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.

McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.

Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Building exterior close-up in London, England.

Rooftop gardening junk.

A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.

From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.

South Williamsburg street pattern.

Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.

An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.

A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.

A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.

Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.

Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.

Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.

From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.

A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.

The Return Of Slim Pickens

Kind readers, I have a weekend full of work and activities that’s going to keep me away from the computer, so until Monday, it’s going to be Slim Pickens on this here site.

Interestingly enough, the most common completely unintentional amount of traffic that Brooklyn Imbecile gets is from people searching for “Slim Pickens” which I used in a post many moons ago.

Call me an attention whore…

Call me a media rassler…

Or just call me the Brooklyn Imbecile.

Junk Street

Where one man’s trash is another man’s blog post.

Shit collects at sewage drains in a way that it reminds me of undergraduate art school design and composition exercises that you learn later in life meant absolutely nothing.

From Russell Street, Brooklyn.

Gourmet Imbecile: Grilled Potato Chip Fries

I wanted to grill something new and had little red & white potatoes reproducing in a bowl, so I cut them up into thinish slices, coated them with olive oil.  I mixed in a good dose of sweet paprika and some salt.

Then I put them on bamboo skewers and grilled the fuck out of them for a while.

Yummy alone or with ketchup.

Obama on Che Guevara on Obama

(Via Certified Bullshit Technician via Dangerous Minds)

Happy Cinco de Mayo From Google Image Search

Thank you random image maker.

Seeing Pink

Greenpoint, Brooklyn is television studioville.  Fringe lived on my old block for over a year. And The Good Wife is always nearby. Today it’s Boardwalk Empire. Is this show any good? If you live in Greenpoint, especially if you have a car, these flyers all over your streets means there’s slim pickens for parking spots.  Today I saw at least six complete blocks with these pink sheets posted everywhere.  Seeing Julianna Margulies in McGolrick Park last summer was kind of nice, though.

The Return of Brooklyn Imbecile

Power has been restored!

And I’m ready to stimulate you while you use me as temporary shelter from finding meaning in this all-bets-are-off life thingamajig.

Slim Pickens

I’m off to Vancouver, British Columbia until the end of the week to take care of some family stuff, so from here on out, it’s Slim Pickens.