I wanted to buy a flash for my camera for quite some time, with the dollar so low I checked online and found B&H. Knowing that I'll be in New York soon I did not order. But my alacartemap also had B&H on it and since we were on our way from 42th to 4 th Street we thought we pass here.
B&H is not a normal camera shop in fact it's one of the craziest things I have seen in new York so far.
You enter through a rather small door but behind opens up a huge space there's signs everywhere telling you where the telescopes are, the cameras the video stuff the .... On the selling is a railway system with green boxes driving around.
Totally lost I asked one of the jewish men working here where I would find ricoh stuff and he directed me to the second floor where I had to cue at the line for one of the 60 desks. Didn't take long and the light above desk 10 started to flash and a nice lady asked me what I was looking for.
She search her computer found my flash told me the they have a great deal for rechargeable batteries and of course the also have a very good european adaptor... I was asking for the mount and she said I could pre-order it and they would send it to me ... Which I did not do.
Ok then I had to be entered into the system she asked if I was sure that I am a new customer because she has 8 sarah huber in her system.
After she finishe my registration she bend down to pick up a green box with all my stuff in it! Now I was really confused but she told me to check the bottom of the counter - there it was again the conveyor. So while we are talking some one somewhere packed my stuff and sent it here. She checked everything then I got a big paper and said now I could continue shopping and when I'm done I could go down to the cashier with all the papers and pay and collect my stuff. Off went my little green box again.
By the way The flash was 200.- less than in switzerland.

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City of Sound and Russel Davies are gathering photos for their Best Urban Spaces and Places project:

... We're using a Flickr group, so you join that and then send appropriate photos of great urban spaces or places to the group. (Once you've joined our group, use the 'Send to group' function above your photo. If you don't have a Flickr account, you can sign up for free.) Once we've a suitably rich set, we'll filter it down, and publish the best in a free downloadable pamphlet form, with a more stylish printed offering for sale (though free to successful contributors).

For the purposes of this project, I'm not overly worried about the knotty definitions of 'place' or 'space' - or even how you choose to interpret 'best' (the academic within will worry over that, but really, you shouldn't). It'll just be interesting to see what emerges. And I'm also aware that a photo-centric project will not allow much in the way of sound or other sensory information, or memory, but it'll do. Yahoo's maps integration is so clunky that it's not going to be worth fully exploiting that layer, at least initially, but we do ask that you use photo's caption area to describe the place a bit. That would be both useful and informative.

The places and spaces don't all have to have the perceived gravitas of a Piazza San Marco or a Greenwich Village, either. It could simply be a bench, a garden, a market, a tram stop, a library ... it's your call.

Read City of Sound for more information.