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This might be my favorite photograph of all time (I linked a good writeup on the backstory.) @LARRYDAVID's recent post about baseball reminded me of it, but I think about it often. It's such a striking encapsulation of a particular place and time and provides an entire social commentary in one image. I don't watch baseball anymore, but it tugs at my heartstrings just remembering how much I loved watching it as a kid in the 90s. It makes me emotional every time I see it. I have been trying to find a way to get a print of it for years, but the links for the photographer's site don't exist anymore, and the article insinuates the original newspaper it appeared in owned the rights anyway. Here it is in low res digital form anyhow - it's still pretty magical to me!
May 28, 2025
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Larry David mentioned 🔥🔥 this is an amazing image. The kind that makes me love America.America may not always be beautiful but God Bless Her….
May 28, 2025
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always made sports look so elegant. his most famous photos are of Ali but this is prob my favorite. my roommate is from philly and has a huge canvas print of it in our dorm
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Went to an antique market and picked up a random assortment of old photos. Something about it is just so beautiful to me. Someone years ago really wanted a photo of this moment or they were messing around with a camera and caught it and maybe they are gone now or these photos got lost or given away but I can hold this moment for them. It just gives me that, wow humanity, feeling.
Anyway this scuba diver, I’m obsessed with them, and this photo, and the composition, and the fishies. I’m using it as a bookmark.
Anyway this scuba diver, I’m obsessed with them, and this photo, and the composition, and the fishies. I’m using it as a bookmark.
Apr 10, 2025
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i spent 2 months in Istanbul, Turkey at the end of 2020. Since covid was still about I spent the 2 months just wandering the old and new cities with a camera in hand. I took this one at a time when I was greatly obsessed with Jeff Walls’ photo “The Destroyed Room” and how I would love to recreate something of that sort. One night I was on Istiklal (one of the busiest promenades in the city with shops and restaurants and a trolley that rolled thru the middle of it) and it was time to pray the evening prayer, yet I was too far from a mosque (surprisingly) that I needed to pray out in the street. My cousin and I put our jackets down in preparation of making our prayer, when right as we were about to start, two men outside of their restaurant told us there was no need and invited us inside their establishment to pray in there. They led us down to their basement, which funny enough, was slightly flooded, and the spot in which they set for us to pray, was an old wooden table top floating above the leaking water. Looking around the basement, at the far wall, were these stacked chairs, tables, and junk, possibly leftovers from a recent renovation. And there was this obscure painting sitting perfectly in the middle of it all. Two Arabic letters painted on the canvas which I‘d noticed in many other places in Istanbul, yet never really understood the meaning behind. And as my cousin went to pray first, on the floating piece of wood, I couldn’t help but think of Jeff Walls‘ photo and how reminiscent the composition, colors, and overall optics were to this junk in the basement. I took one single photo and was happy with it. And as much as I love the work itself, the story behind it is my favorite. It’s always the first that comes to mind when someone asks what my favorite photo I took is.
Thanks for this ask! Always love sharing this. 😁
Thanks for this ask! Always love sharing this. 😁
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Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones ☺️
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
