One of the things I’m looking forward to as a freelancer is having a snidge more time for things like New York City blogs. I’m probably not going to ever be able to keep up with the posting insanity that is, say, Gothamist, but there are a bunch of others that keep it to a very reasonable one or two posts a day. My latest favorite of these is New York Daily Photo, which is pretty much exactly as it sounds, plus just enough commentary with each photo to send you running to Google.

They recently featured Colossal Media in one of their posts. These folks are keeping the art of ginormous wall murals alive — how cool is that? With so much of New York crumbling or being actively stalked and killed by developers and places like Pottery Barn, it’s nice to see a move in the other direction.

I was in San Francisco this weekend and got to marvel a bit at how that which is old is left alone, at least where I was. Got to stop by City Lights bookstore and the Beat Museum. There was a reading going on at the latter, though I couldn’t see who it was because the reading was in the museum proper and I didn’t have time to make the entrance fee worthwhile. So I bought a book from the sleeping cashier instead. (Or maybe she was just tranced out to the sound of the poet’s voice.)

Speaking of books, I am plotting my Endicott return and have picked up some books for review. Sweet!

I have just a few San Francisco shots in my photostream.