2002.10.24

17:50:17
Park Slope, Brooklyn. The

Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The artist Daniel Reynolds and his friends built 15 of these Drinking Birds, which are much like this one only 3,000 times heavier. The one pictured above was, appropriately enough, in the window of a wine store. When I saw him he was having a drinking problem, i.e. he wasn't drinking.

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Nipernaadi.kolhoos.ee is a photolog by a bunch of radio reporters in Estonia. They used new Ericsson phones with cameras attached and e-mailed their photos straight to the Web -- no computer necessary. There's an explanation in English. It was a summer project so it's now defunct.