http://dragonballyee.com/blog a new city. a new life. here's my two sense. Fri, 15 May 2009 05:22:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I attended my second First Person Arts Salon on Wednesday night. My friend Andrew, who is one of the good people at FPS and, has been trying to get me to submit something for the salons for 2 years now (the horror). Instead, I've gone to 2 of the 3 ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/05/15/first-person-arts-salon-52009/ http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/05/04/grid-may-2009/ Above is a photo from one of my first reservations as a member of PhillyCarShare 3 years ago in the summer of 2006. Wow has a lot changed since I took that photo. Two months after that photo was taken, I was working at 50th St & Baltimore Ave on ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/04/27/phillycarshares-downward-spiral/ After seeing Zoe post about Alec Soth [rhymes with 'both'] being in town and giving a talk , I cleared my already unobstructed schedule and made my way across the way to UPenn's Meyerson Hall. Soth is one badass photog and is a member of the Magnum elite [no, not ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/04/17/alec-soth-at-upenn/ I'm not a baseball fan (anymore), let alone a Phillies phan, but I am a sports fan and I know the relationship a city has with their longtime announcer. Harry Kalas was an institution here in Philly. I'm happy he got to see his Phils win one more time last ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/04/13/rip-harry-kalas/ I'm going to share a bit of information with you because I wasn't able to find it on the PPA website and it's some very useful information to have regarding temporary parking permits in Philly. First off, why aren't temporary parking permits on the website? I looked. I did a ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/04/07/temporary-parking-in-philly/ I mentioned before that I'd have some photos in an upcoming issue of grid, a 4 issue old magazine, based out of Philly, about urban sustainability. Well, it's out on shelves (find a location here by entering your zip) and on pages 22 - 23. Looks great. The photos accompany ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/04/06/grid-philly-orchard-project/ I headed over to Studio 34 Yoga with Andi and Kevin [and Audrey for a few minutes] to check out a talk and book signing by Philly's own Zoe Strauss. Zoe was talking about the images, the process and all things Zoe related to her book: America, published by ammo ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/03/27/a-zoe-strauss-talk/ As if I didn't have enough stuff going on in my life, I've decided, with the help of a comment from P.Frankie, to start SEPTAfail blog. It'll document the good, the bad and the fugly that is SEPTA and its riders. But it won't be a success without the input of ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/03/21/septafail-blog/ Just let me take a second to shout out a very cool newish magazine to hit Philly: grid: Towards a Sustainable Philadelphia. It's a 3 issue old magazine written, edited, layed out and I'm assuming printed locally. It's got articles about urban sustainability ranging from n00b to way over my ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2009/03/21/grid-philly/