Rule Forty Two: The Self-Aggrandizing Website of Gavin Edwards

Concluding our two-photograph sequence of manhole covers. I often think manhole covers are beautiful; I should photograph them more often.

posted 6 August 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

It shines for all. A picture from a few years ago of the clock promoting The Sun, the defunct New York newspaper. (At the time, the name had been revived by The New York Sun, which kicked off in 2002 with an issue that included the solution to the crossword puzzle in the last issue [...]

posted 19 March 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

On a New York City street. The left boot was nowhere in sight.

posted 12 March 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

Two photos from lower Manhattan:

posted 26 February 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

Never let it be said I don’t finish what I start: this is the last photo in the flipwalk project. I’ve been working on this for almost six years–admittedly, with some long gaps along the way. As usual, the above is just a teaser image; for the full picture and the story of how I [...]

posted 19 February 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

Taken on Peck Slip, in downtown NYC.

posted 14 August 2009 in Photos. no comments yet

Taken in lower Manhattan in 2005. Sign of the times (other than the haircut): he’s holding a Discman and a CD.

posted 24 July 2009 in Photos. 1 comment

In lower Manhattan, on the corner of Broadway and John Street, there was for many years a large public clock. I thought of it as the city’s worst timekeeping device. It wasn’t merely broken: that would be far too mundane. Twice a year, when most clocks changed to reflect the shift from daylight savings time, [...]

posted 9 January 2009 in Photos. no comments yet

U2 did a free “surprise” show at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in November 2004. I took some photos of the concert, but I prefer the picture I took of the bridge:

posted 10 October 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

Kevin Seal explains that they’re shoehorning in another video that didn’t make the cutoff date, one that will in all likelihood appear in the 1989 countdown. (Basically, this means that MTV blocked out time based on ten videos an hour, but some hours (two out of the first two), they have time to play eleven.) [...]

posted 7 August 2008 in 1988. 2 comments