#publichome

[redgateresidency]

Red Gate Resident Gaby Steiner talking with Ben Hughes and Charles Townley about her recently published book PUBLIC HOME. The subject of Public Home is Jerzy Sulek, an immigrant from Warsaw who was evicted from his home in Brooklyn. Steiner followed him for five years, photographing his life in the open air. His property in Greenpoint is defined as "vacant land” by the Department of Buildings in Brooklyn. His situation is symbolic of the precarious position of the human condition in contemporary urban life and the vulnerability to constantly shifting relationships between public and private realms. #publichome #beijingbookworm #redgateresidency #gentrification #documentaryphotography #gabysteinerphotographer #booktalk #greenpointbrooklyn #jerzysulek (at Beijing Bookworm)

[ineptlibrarian]

Guvment's shutting down.

Publichome walks by desk with a handful of stuff, "Government is shutting down" -slight smile, keeps walking to elevator area-  Me: "..." -blinks, returns to drawing thinking she heard wrong.- Publichome walks back towards computers, "Government is shutting down at midnight!" -sits down at computer, gathers more things.  Me to coworker, "... What?" Co-worker, mentions something about it happening before. (I didn't quite hear her before Pubichome comes back) Publichome "Makes you wonder what's really going on. Look it up! -mumbles as she leaves" Me "...W-huh?" Co-worker finally explains that it's not so much as the government shutting down as a rather stupid sort of strike. (Paraphrased for brevity.)

[ineptlibrarian]

My home office, in the library.

We've got a new person at the library. Every day so far she's come to sit down, set up this one computer up like her home office. She'll bring in an house phone, some food, tissues, umbrella, and other assortment of items. Apparently the other day she had a box of pizza. And she'll just be there most of the day, being on the computer. Doing, whatever. 

I call her PublicHome