The Art of Finding

Brains!!! Brains!!!

2009-06-08T16:30:00.000-07:00

Here it comes: 4+ months worth of backlogged findings!

There is no better way to reintroduce myself back into the blogosphere than with a picture of animal brains found in the gutter on 74th St. in Jackson Heights, Queens. I am pretty sure it is of the lamb variety. Usually, they unload flayed carcasses wrapped in newspaper from the back of a dirty U-Haul to the local restaurants, but today...well they dropped something. Found at 5:15 pm on April 1st (HA HA! But seriously, it was real. I poked it.)

I have been busy! I was in Paris visiting an old friend when I found this scarf. I had an amazing time and it was super chilly, so this lovely found object, which was tied to a railing much like the scarf found in my neighborhood featured below that I did NOT take for fear of a NYC parasitic infestation, came in pretty handy.

Yay! (Found in the Metro at the Jardin des Tuileries
near the Louvre on May 14th, Paris, France.)

Nay! (Found on Montrose Ave. between Bushwick and Humboldt on March 26th.)

Random tiny finds:

Buttons found in the subway along the L line! Time of finding forgotten.

Another button and a penny found at the bathhouse in Queens on April 8th.

A lovely chain found at Union Square. Time of finding forgotten.

A button (Food not Bombs!) found in the Bedford Ave subway (time of finding forgotten), and
a beer token found at the bottom of a box at Jaime's on June 4th.

I just thought this was strange because there was no other garbage with it.
Therefore, someone was swabbing on-the-go and just littered like a litter bug.
Found in Jackson Heights on April 1st.

Finds accentuating a neighborhood's uniqueness:

Beautiful house on Java St. in Greenpoint. Found on April 3rd.

Found in front of above house on Java on April 3rd.

Found on Java and McGuinness on April 3rd.

Found on Lorimer and, I think, Frost, in Brooklyn on June 7th.
(not to be confused with his more popular cousin, 711)

Found on Java and Manhattan on April 3rd. It looks like a rose, but it isn't!
I don't know what it is. Do you?

Beautiful Cherry Blossom alert found on Driggs and Grand (pretty sure) in Brooklyn.
Found on April 8th.

Crazy Graffiti on lamp post found on 74th St.
almost at 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights.
Found in February, photo taken on April 6th.

It's all in Spanish and it looks angry! Yikes!

Yard of Flags. Found near West Haven, CT on April 11th.

Signs...Oh the signs:

Yes. WTF sugar. My favorite brand. Found in the window of the deli
on the corner of Greenpoint and Manhattan on the Northwest corner of the street.
Found on April 3rd.

But if you go there now you will find this:

CENSORED (on May 6th)!

I "will".
Found at a rest stop on 95 N on April 11th.

Hot divided by cold equals a good buffet. Found on 40th at Lex on May 8th,
my brother's birthday.

Bono and the Edge are writing the music for a musical. About Spiderman.
Directed by Julie Taymor. WHAT A FIND! I CAN'T WAIT.
Found near Times Square on May 6th.

Stuff Jaime found (guest star alert!):

Once was lost (and forgotten), but now: FOUND!
Time and date of finding: unknown.
Photo taken on April 3rd.

Book on hip-hop. Found in the garbage!
Time and date of finding: unknown.
Photo taken on April 3rd.

Touching photo album. Found. In. The. Garbage.
Check out the cover pic:

It's like throwing away love!
Time and date of finding: unknown.
Photo taken on April 3rd.

Found things that sucked:

The bumper underneath my car fell off. Noticed on June 2nd.

My landlords are continuously doing illegal construction in my building!
Found on my front door on March 21st.
(The other day I found a notice that my landlords hadn't paid the gas
in a few months and we were going to lose all gas by June,
but I forgot to take a picture. Luckily, we still have gas. Gas...heehee!)

Creepy dolls found in the garbage SUCK
(because they make me too scared to throw out my trash at night)!
Found in the trash next to my building on the evening of March 21st.

Found Classics (as in taken with my phone with in the last 2 years, but before I started this project):

This was underground at Broadway Junction waiting for the A train.
Found April 4th, 2008.

Found at the Met in the pool in front of the Temple of Dendur.
Some people just have to be greedy.
Found April 4th, 2008.

Random craft fair in upstate NY. Found June 14th, 2008.
It must mean it's one fast espresso!

Vintage subway train! Found November 30th, 2008.

Inside the train.

Ceiling fans were in the train! Cool!

Well, that is all she found for now! Hopefully, doing the master cleanse has built enough will-power within myself to post regularly, among other things. By the way, if anyone who reads this finds anything cool, please email it to me at autumnjclark@gmail.com. I will totally post it and enjoy your discoveries!

Bonus:

Me as a witch for something Jeremy, Tom and Chris filmed.

Humboldt St., Bushwick Ave., Grand Street Campus High School., Roosevelt Ave. Stop, my kitchen

2009-03-19T15:08:00.000-07:00

3/19: 3 found items plus 1 bonus item plus 1 lost then found item plus 1 thing I was wrong about

Today I found something that was lost(with help), discovered 3 new things (with out help), and found out about (with help) a very idiotic mistake I made that is even worse than the fact that one of my high school students forgot what continents were. Here's the stuff:

Detached bird's wing outside my apartment on Humboldt St. (I also found 2 more dead birds that were mooshed together on Scholes St., but since the dead bird was featured yesterday and I also don't want it to seem like a fetish of mine I decided to forgo another full-on dead bird shock shot.)

First evidence of spring on Bushwick Ave. Educated guess: tulips!

Evidence of cheating on a math test outside the GSC High School.

If you really want to know what this says leave me a comment and I will type it up. It is all about the Pythagorean Theorem and stuff. In other words: CHEATING! I just know it is cheating. I feel it in my teacher gland.

BONUS ITEM!

Most unusual name for a station superintendent at the Roosevelt Ave. F stop in Queens.

I tried to find the meaning of this name, but I couldn't find anything! This name isn't listed in any name database that I could find. I have no idea of the origin or anything. If you google "Crythen" you get a bunch of articles featuring "cry, then". If you google "Crythen Langhorne" you get a dude on a website called "Pipl" from Pennsauken, NJ, but that doesn't answer my question! What a mystery! Ha! I did find a kindred spirit on the web who was also befuddled by this name here, but alas not the info I was looking for.

LOST THEN FOUND ITEM:

I lost my coffee mug. It was the best coffee mug ever. I bought one of those "design-a-mug" things from Barnes and Noble and I decorated in with old movie ticket stubs like Titanic from '97 and the Matrix from '99! It even had my stub from Gladiator (good ol' 2000) the best movie ever! But then I lost it...but then Jeremy (my 6'4'' boyfriend) found it! It was above my eye-level hidden on the top shelf of the cupboard. I never look above my eye-level! Who put it there?! Anyway, now I can continue to happily reduce my carbon footprint. Hooray for tall people!

THE THING I WAS WRONG ABOUT:

I also called birds mammals in my last post! What a silly girl I am! When I said mammal I OBVIOUSLY meant "warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate" or to put it even simpler I could have just said "animal"..."flying animal thing"..."eggy flying animal thingamajig". I collect bugs...who cares about stupid old cute feathered or furry warm-blooded thingies anyway?

The Metropolitan Stop, on Montrose Ave., a bathroom in a theater

2009-03-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

3/18: 2 found items plus 1 bonus item plus one non-pictured item

I have been finding and noticing things lately and I decided to make it a habit. Here is the catalog of today's findings:

Here is a pin I found today at the Metropolitan Stop off the G. I think it will be sorely missed and it also makes me crave pasta! As soon as I read it I just imagined trying to explain what it means to my ESL students since in the past couple weeks we have covered "pussy", "snatch", "faggot", "erection" and "kinky". DISCLAIMER: All of these words were innocently brought to the table or accidentally stumbled upon by my students in the classroom. I do not bring these words up as a part of my vocabulary curriculum! My students are also all adults.

I also found this dead bird today.

It reminded me of the first time I saw a dead bird. It was the first dead mammal I had ever seen. I feel like dead birds have a place in most people's education about death, and it seems especially familiar as winter switches to spring.

BONUS ITEM:
The last thing I found was about 2 months ago. It is kinda cheating because it was so long ago but...

...the titanic of maxi pads floating in the tank of a toilet is not a common or forgettable sight. You're welcome. As you can see it was preventing the toilet from working. I don't often take peeks inside toilet tanks.

NOT PICTURED:

I found a lost MetroCard on my way to work this morning on Montrose Avenue, but I didn't want to pick it up in case the owner came running back frantically looking for it. I know that whenever I lose my unlimited I FREAK OUT.