Humans of New York

[Ego Noir]

"If you have a beard, it takes longer for people to notice that you don’t have any teeth."

"My philosophy is: ‘If you like yourself, everything around you will fall into place.’"

"Where are you from?"
“Russia. If you see a doctor smoking, he’s from Russia.”

"Everyone loves me. I go everywhere, and I don’t fight with nobody. If somebody’s yelling at me, I just keep walking. I’ve only been in one fight. I used to be a taxi driver. One time I dropped somebody off at the airport, and I really had to pee. I saw a bathroom but three policeman said I could not use that bathroom. So I pushed them out of the way. But that’s only because I really had to pee."

If you’re gonna break your neck, do it with class.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

He's jelly

Look at this pretentious muhfukka hea

its boring to me and the pictures suck for the most part, just people standing in front of the camera.


if you want to experience a visual pleasure watch this

 

[Ego Noir]

its boring to me and the pictures suck for the most part, just people standing in front of the camera.


if you want to experience a visual pleasure watch this

But it's not about artful photography.

He's giving you a peer inside their mind and takes a portrait so you see their image.

Different style different purpose

Yours is art though, I like the perspective it has a dark element to it

 

[SonofaGod]

Best thread in TLR in a while I'm addicted

 

[Auger]

Good stuff

 

[www.THUG.com]

So this is how 28 years old looks in white years? Damn man, they need to find the fountain of youth for that entire race ASAP.

 

[Phoenix_Knightly23]

So this is how 28 years old looks in white years? Damn man, they need to find the fountain of youth for that entire race ASAP.

I refuse to believe that he's 28 lmfao holy shyt.

 

[69 others]

this is crack.

 

[Trajan]

Great thread.

Everyone has a story to tell. So many fellow passengers on the train with some real shyt going on.

"My daughter lives in Pennsylvania. She’s working at a nursing home and studying to be an accountant. She’s my pride and joy."
"Does she know you’re homeless?"
"No, she’s got enough to worry about. I just tell her that I’m retired."

 

[Ego Noir]

Today in microfashion…

Yesterday at lunch, I noticed something inside the hat of a policeman sitting next to me. So I asked if I could photograph it.

"Don’t try to be someone else’s beautiful."

"I write in my journal everyday."
“Why’s that?”
“So much happens in life, I think it’s good to live it again and get some distance from it. Or else everything is in a muddle, like on a merry-go-round.”

"What’s the most your life has ever been changed by an unexpected event?"
“Probably when I lost my job, which led to a divorce.”
“How did a job loss lead to a divorce?”
“A lot can be covered over by routine. So when there’s a shock to the system, underlying fault lines and fissures can really open up.”

 

[Ego Noir]

Great thread.

Everyone has a story to tell. So many fellow passengers on the train with some real shyt going on.

This is sad

I wonder with how popular this blog is if she found out

 

[Ego Noir]

"Are you an artist?"
“Divorce lawyer.”

"I’m a Vietnam-era veteran! Staff sergeant E-6! United States army! Field artillery operations and intelligence! Battalion, chemical, biological, radiological warfare! Non-commissioned officer!"

He was quite a personality. Hard to do him justice with a written caption. Luckily it was captured on video:http://on.mash.to/H1nCyw

Seen on the subway.

"My dad died when I was eight, so I went to live with my aunt."
"How did he die?"
"AIDS."
"Where was your mom?"
"She died when I was two."
"AIDS?"
"Yep."
"What’s your best memory of your father?"
"He was always really weak. But I remember one weekend he went to the hospital and got a blood transfusion, and when he got back from the hospital he was feeling really strong and energetic for a few days, so he played with us and ran around."

"When I’m doing good, everyone wants to be around me. When I’m doing bad, I’m by myself."

 

[Ego Noir]

So this is how 28 years old looks in white years? Damn man, they need to find the fountain of youth for that entire race ASAP.

He looks bout 43, done gone through 2 divorces, and reminisces on the prime of his life in the 70s

 

[-DMP-]

good thread.

-DMP-

 

[Ego Noir]

Today in microfashion…

He started out explaining that his mom was not ordinary, because she “listens to hip hop.” Then I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up.
“A graffiti artist,” he said.
“What’s the toughest part about being a graffiti artist?” I asked.
“Running from the cops,” said Mom.

"This store pays a lot of money to have these windows washed. And my boss just gives me a little of it."

“I came from a big family and I want a big family. Five kids. Maybe seven.”

"A photo of me once hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sixteen inches high."

"People should do what they want, even if other people say it’s crazy."
"What’s something you’ve done that other people said was crazy?"
"…. date him."

blogger:
I made my first website with a friend when I was in 7th grade. It was called Gaming Galaxy Online. It was extremely cheesy— with a giant animated GIF as the title graphic, and pretty much all content harvested straight from other sources. The page never got any traffic, but I remember how exciting it was to build the site. The internet seemed like a place where a 7th grader could participate in the adult world on a level playing field. My friend and I tried one website idea after another. None of them really worked, but we felt very empowered. On the internet, it felt like we were one good idea away from a very adultlike level of success. And like pretty much everyone else in 1996, our free websites were hosted on Geocities.com.

Fast forward almost 20 years—- in my late twenties, after countless attempts, I’ve finally managed to create a popular website. And last night I was out gathering content. I was walking past the Apple Store on 59th and 5th when I spotted a man sitting alone in the plaza. The man pictured. I asked for his photo, he agreed. “What was the happiest moment of your life?” I asked him.

"Probably when my company had its IPO," he answered. "I founded a company called Geocities.com."