Weaving through peripheries.

Neighborhoods in Brooklyn. 

They seep-into and absorb-from each other. 

Border lines may exist on a map somewhere, but I don't sense them.

 

Bicycle weaving, 

for many hours on a perfect sunny day, 

through Prospect Park/South, Ditmas Park, Midwood, 

and the edges of a few others. 

Exploring. 

Observing.

 

Ditmas Park

Ocean Avenue near Prospect Park

Taking time to look around at the

architecture. Sometimes it hints at the neighborhood transitions, often it doesn't.

(Should make notes; forget where some of these places are.)

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The film industry established itself in Midwood. The Shulamith School is in the old 1907 Vitagraph building. 

Read about the long life of television in Midwood, including "Hullabaloo" - filmed at NBC Color Studio2in the 1960's - featuring among many others The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, Marianne Faithfull, The Moody Blues, and Donovan.

Woody Allen went to Midwood High School, and scenes from his film The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) were filmed inside the Kent Theater on Coney Island Avenue.

No people here.  Yet I observe them and interact with them all the time.  I have to find a way to photograph them, or better grasp and observe in words.  It is their activities, their ways of moving through this landscape, that makes this tempest-tossed journey so amazing.