Tagster 9
It’s been over a year since I posted “tagster 8” and this is just a small sample of murals I’ve seen and photographed since then. Appropriately, the first two were taken in one of my all-time favorite places . . . . Hannibal MO. I want to go back to that town that was really […]
Tagster 8
How about murals from Buffalo to Cape Charles . . . and from December to April. And many places in between, physical locales and head spaces. Venus of the Chesapeake? All photos along the road hither and yon by WVD. A big birthday post is coming tomorrow . […]
Tagster 7
Tagster 5 was posted exactly a year ago, so I’m taking that as license to revisit the series… today, when people put on masks. Murals on buildings add color and design. Whenever I have time to kill in a new or even familiar city, I wander around, getting exercise while at the same time looking […]
Road Fotos 2021 E
Still not back along the sixth boro . . . and so here are more photos from along the road . . . Some murals are faded and others recently applied. The one below must require some local knowledge to explain the juxtaposition of agriculture and defense. Others make sense as reminders of a journey […]
Tagster 6
Today I pass a personal milestone . . . er, year stone, so the editors in Tugster Tower allow me to veer off topic . . . first, to muse about the effect of picking up a camera and navigating life with it. While I mostly photograph “sixth boro … and beyond” things that float, […]
Tagster 5
I blamed Christina Sun aka bowsprite for starting permutations of “tugster,” but I’m not revealing any great secret to say I’m glad for her influence. Unrelated to that and her, I went to a new part of the “terre-est boros” the other day, of course a boat was involved . . . but more on […]
Brigitte Bardot
Is this the latest tagster post? A fan club for an octogenarian who quickened the pulse of boys I knew back in the 1950s and 1960s? And this? MV Brigitte Bardot is one of the “Neptune’s navy.” Almost 10 years ago, I toured another one of their vessels, Steve Irwin, while it was in NYC. Irwin […]
Random Tugs 249
The blog is called tugster, and not tatter, taster, tagster or truckster, as much fun as those digressions may be, being able to be a bit obsessively focused, this is the 249th installment! If you add in the non-random tug posts, it’s even more than 249. W. O. Decker, the only wooden-hulled tug in […]
Tagster 4
Happy September 3, and August 2 and . . . well, someone’s vision of the moment or a zeitgeist, heritage, zeitgeist, heritage, zeitgeist, heritage… All photos by Will Van Dorp, who thinks that’s where a tension exists.
Tagster 3
Here were previous installments of this. These images are intriguing. They challenge the brain. Have I seen these before somewhere? In a dream maybe? These are on a building near the midtown cruise terminal. But here . . . recognize these on a building along the major avenue? They conjure up historical Assyrians passing laws? […]
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