by Ian Cochrane | Jan 6, 2013 | Americas
It’s New Year’s Day, and Joe Strummer – poet of the streets – looks down from a giant mural facing Tompkins Park. From here I walk west with my girlfriend towards St Marks church-in-the-Bowery, past webs of winding fire escapes; hands deep in our pockets,...
by Ian Cochrane | Jan 2, 2013 | Americas
A guy has fallen on hard times, huddled under gentrified tenement stairs; on one side his clapped-out shopping trolley bound by trash bins and black cast iron pickets. The stairs span from streetside pavement up to an ornate doorway, moulded guardian face glowering...
by Ian Cochrane | Dec 28, 2012 | Americas
We fly from Melbourne to New York, continuing on to Pittsburgh. We’re in this part of the country to see the `best example of American architecture’, the iconic creation of Frank Lloyd Wright. The hire car attendant is astounded anyone would travel this...
by Ian Cochrane | Nov 30, 2012 | Americas, Oceania, Utopia
“I have sent for you and I am glad to see you. I am going to talk to you after awhile about your relatives who are dead and gone.’” – Wovoka, Paiute American Indian prophet From Pierre I catch the first available...
