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Coughpark Book 3d Flipbook

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Atari Time Machine

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This is a short video I meant to produce for the longest time. It records attempting to retrieve a time dilation program written in ATARI BASIC via an Atari 410 Cassette Recorder. The Atari didn’t have any built in disk drive. When you turned it off the data was gone like a fleeting dream so

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The Sloane House YMCA – Infernal Machine

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The 1600 rooms of the Sloane House YMCA were located at 256 West 34th street just below Hellâ€™s Kitchen near 9th ave in New York.

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Hidden Alignments Documentary – NYC Masonic Obelisks

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This is a short documentary about the curious alignments of a few Masonic Obelisks in New York City. A transcript of the work in progress is below. Google Earth has since updated the geometry for Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park without the scaffolding. -XFP Here is the .kml file for the plumb line and the

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Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Paulinus

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This rough assembly of the Feast and the "La Festa dei Gigli" (the Feast of the Lilies) is from the early 1990s. The yearly ritual is performed in Willamsburg Brooklyn and has been observed by devotees in the area since 1903. The tower featured in the Dance of the Giglio is about 4 tons and

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As an 19 year old from little provincial town in England i decided to sign up for a student exchange…

such good memories. Parsons and sloane 85/86 ithink 9th floor but maybe 10 th. We did have one room plus…

I lived there 1985-1987 as a Parsons student. What an experience. The 80's in NYC were amazing. I was lucky…

I'm going to try to do some new, higher-resolution digital captures of these. Got to get a working Tascam 424…

I stayed at Sloane house on a couple of occasions for a few days at a time in the late…