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Friday I spent the day taking photos at Coney Island. Here are a couple photos I thought were interesting. The top one is of a building that closed on the boardwalk thirty years ago. You can see an old man sunbathing in a chair under the building (lower-right). Doesn't it look surreal? Anyhow, the second photo was taken from under the boardwalk. I found a hole in a fence and climbed through it to see what the underside of Coney Island was like. Pretty much as expected.
I wanted to share something I saw in a documentary recently. I was watching a PBS documentary from 1992 concerning Coney Island. Now, as I've written a few times before, I'm obsessed with Coney Island. It is such a bizarre place to me and often as a wander around the boardwalk there I feel like Alice in Wonderland...only with a penis. A segment of the documentary talked about a time in the early 1900's when one of the most popular amusement parks in Coney Island burnt down. The next day the owner of the now non-existent park addresses the public and said this, "I have problems today that I didn't have yesterday. And the problems I had yesterday I no longer have today." I love that quote. I think it shows a man that understood the proper perspective of life. What is really important in life? Day to day issues are often less important than we make them out to be. Maybe the only thing truly important in life is having the opportunity to continue living.
This is a photograph I pulled off Flickr - posted by mate12. It's the Shoot The Freak game at Coney Island. I absolutely love Coney Island. To me it's the saddest happiest place on earth. It has such a distinct feel to it. I've never been anywhere like it.
