A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Gothamist Picks Up the Brooklyn Bridge Cyclist-Tourist Story
June 30, 2011
Three days ago, I quietly published a story about the daily clashes between cyclists and tourists on the Brooklyn Bridge. I had been planning on doing a month-long study of the issue but got decent pictures on my first shoot and, impatient, I posted them.
Brooklyn Bridge Hot Line
Marie liked the pictures, put them up on Flickr and soon, Gothamist, one of New York's most popular local blogs, part of the world-wide group Gothamist LLC, found them and wrote in to get usag...
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The Routine of Tourist-Cyclist Clashes on the Brooklyn Bridge
June 27, 2011
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a tourist as "One that makes a tour for pleasure or culture." As per the Wikipedia, the World Tourism Organization describes tourists as people who "Travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited." Well that's way t...
Hope and Anchor, Brooklyn Diner
June 26, 2011
On Van Brunt Street, ideal break on a return walk from the Red Hook waterfront. Very nice burgers, no-fuss place.
The back-alley
80 Days and 80 Nights at YVR
Some people couldn't care less about airports. They consider them mere utilities, no better than the dirty cab they took to get there or the ugly meeting room they are going to spend hours in when they get off their flight.
Personally, I love them. Always have. My dad used to work at the Nice Côte d'Azur airport and every chance I had to visit was a treat. Airports were, and remain, the boarding point for one of the things I love most in the world, flying.
But we mus...
Bait!
June 22, 2011
A Red Hook street. Graffiti. At my demand, Marie stuck a hesitant hand in the shark's mouth.
Red Hook graffiti
Fireboat John J. Harvey, Retired but Perky
June 16, 2011
A few nights ago, Marie and I were established in yet another glorious picnic in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, further south this time, away from the big lawns - which were closed - and onto some rocks by the tidal pools.
The John J. Harvey
The juneberry trees behind us were loaded with very ripe fruits, water birds played at our feet, an empty Coke can rang a tidal symphony, afloat against the rocks, many boats danced the bigger part of an aquatic ballet over in the chann...
BEA Publishes Inconclusive Note on AF447 Crash
June 15, 2011
On May 27, the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) decided to publish what they called "... a note with information on the first facts established, based on analysis of the data from the flight recorders" about the crash of Rio-Paris Air France flight AF447 on June 9, 2009. The note followed the end of underwater debris recovery operations and the successful retrieval of the flight's black boxes from the ocean bed.
After initial analysis, it had been announced ...
Zipcar? Zero.
June 13, 2011
I recently looked up Zipcar as a solution for the all-too-common New Yorker lack of wheels. I had seen the cars on Vancouver streets and heard good things about them. The rates for our New York area were on a par with most other major Zipcar hubs: around $70 daily for week days and $80 daily for week-ends, all other company advantages included.
Two days ago, Marie and I decided to sign up. Before talking the plunge and paying my yearly membership and a sign-up fee, I lo...
Nebula
June 12, 2011
Unknown to his near-sighted mind, isolated on a low daily orbit, a careless DUMBO painter is leaving nebulae on the sidewalks. If only he or she could look up through a telescope and realize that nature always imitates itself.
Sidewalk nebula, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Manhattan, Island of Steel
June 10, 2011
As temperatures soar in a premature summer blast, evening remains a soothing balm on the day's chafing. These views of steely Manhattan were taken from the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Most prominent in the spiky skyline is the recently completed New York by Gehry residential tower and its convoluted design. The 8 Spruce Street building's units are said to be exclusively for rent, a new trend in the high-end real estate world. With more and more people hesitating to buy, it se...
More Info at your Fingertips
June 8, 2011
I've implemented (through Cloudflare, but it can be done the good old way) a nifty experimental feature on this blog that allows you to highlight any word or expression in a post and by clicking on the little bubble that appears, get all kinds of useful information about it, starting with the Wikipedia definition if one exists - all in a neat popup window without leaving the blog!
In addition, my normal in-posts links to Wikipedia, Google Maps and many more will now fea...