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Project Firebox 62
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– photo by Mitch Waxman
This graffito clad sentinel is found on Conselyea Street.
A tough guy, this box has stood its ground like any native son of infinite Brooklyn. When trouble pops up, it’s the first one to let the bosses know what threatens the neighborhood. They keep him out here on the corner to remind everyone back home that someone is always looking out.
Project Firebox 61
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– photo by Mitch Waxman
Out of order is what the sign says, with instructions to instead call 911 or some other specialized number for the Queens Fire dispatchers. There are several fire boxes bearing similar screeds which have been seen around Sunnyside in recent weeks, so my guess is that some central switch or relay is out somewhere. Imagine the horror of this scarlet watcher, unable to reach out to its distant firehouse to summon aid. This box also carries an option for summoning the gendarme, by the way, a feature I remember as originating sometime during the second or first Koch administration.
Project Firebox 60
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– photo by Mitch Waxman
Perennial shadow is what it has dwelt in, surrounded on three sides by mammoth Astorian apartment blocks on 34th avenue at 45th street, for more than a half century. Regardless of the darkness, it stands eternal vigil, connecting a vulnerable corner to the grid via a tenuous sarabande of copper wire. Shine on, noble firebox, shine on.
Project Firebox 59
– photo by Mitch Waxman
At 34th Avenue’s junction with Northern Blvd. waits this long serving alarm box. Its seen fire and its seen rain…
Project Firebox 58
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– photo by Mitch Waxman
The intention, as it were, behind this shot was to force myself into working with a shallow depth of field.
Shocking tastes and shooting habits of mine highlight a certain passion for hyperfocal infinity, with a nearly fatal level of sharpness rendered in even the smallest of background details. If you ever click through to the larger incarnations of the photos presented here, you’ll witness this predilection of mine in abundant attendance. Committed for the moment to “doing a Costanza“ and enacting exactly the opposite of what normal instinct would offer am I.
It doesn’t live on the quietest corner in Astoria, at 31st Street and 23rd Avenue but stands tall nevertheless, a scarlet sentry recorded at a yawning aperture with obsequiously and quite squamous bokeh.
Also:
Remember that event in the fall which got cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy?
The “Up the Creek” Magic Lantern Show- presented by the Obscura Society NYC- is back on at Observatory, on February the 15th- Next Friday.
Click here or the image below for more information and tickets.
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