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If you’re new to this site and you haven’t seen my flipwalks before, here’s what you need to know: while I was living in New York City, near the site of the former World Trade Center, I would take walks, leaving the route up to the flip(s) of a coin at every intersection. After an […]
posted 19 September 2008 in Photos. no comments yet
I got a cool email from Debbie Falb:
This afternoon I was reading a stack of old family correspondence and stories and found something written by my great aunt called “Penny Walk.”
Turns out that in the early ’20s on Staten Island my great grandfather would get all his kids and a lot of the neighborhood kids […]
posted 15 August 2008 in Photos. no comments yet
With this flipwalk, I’m two-thirds of the way to completion of this project. (There’s other pleasing aspects to the number, including it being the fifth power of two–or given my binary decision-making process, the number of possible paths for about three minutes or so of walking.)
That’s a teaser image, as usual: click here for flipwalk […]
posted 8 August 2008 in Photos. no comments yet
I’ve added flipwalk #31 to the 48 Hours from Ground Zero section. A teaser image:
A tip of the hat to artist Julian Opie, who’s done some of my favorite public artworks of the past few years.
I’m also pleased (and a little surprised) to say that I’ve found my missing notes, and have accordingly updated flipwalk […]
posted 11 July 2008 in Photos. no comments yet
This is a little embarrassing. When I moved across the country last year, I misplaced some of the notes and supporting materials relating to my flipwalks. Specifically, I don’t seem to have any information on flipwalks #28, 29, and 30. (I do have a notebook that seems to have all my notes on flipwalks 31 […]
posted 27 June 2008 in Photos. no comments yet
Returning once again to February 2005:
The photo and report for my twenty-seventh flipwalk can be found here.
David Adam Edelstein was generous enough (and obsessive enough) to make a map of my first twenty-five flipwalks. Check it out and see all the places I ended up, and how they cluster. And then go visit his cool […]
posted 13 June 2008 in Photos. no comments yet
I’m delighted to say that after a hiatus of several years, I’ve returned to my flipwalks.
If you’re not familiar with my flipwalk project, you can click here for the whole “48 Hours From Ground Zero” gallery. The short version is that while living in New York City, I would leave my house and determine a […]
posted 6 June 2008 in Photos, Self-reflexive. 2 comments
