The Flickr Adamsmorgan Image Generatr

DC's own Mannequin Fight playing Smash! Records in DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood.

I'd love to know what this plant is... a type of azalea?

Found in the alleys of Adams Morgan

Another longtime project: 26 publications (a full run) from the Washington Community Video Center, a c. 1973-1981 Adams Morgan-based collective that focused on using the then-new videotape and cable television to democratize media access are now online.

WCVC was an outgrowth of classes taught by the Italian radical filmmaker Roberto Faenza at Federal City College, and deeply intertwined with the unstable but fascinating mash-up of hard left and libertarian efforts at hyper-local self-sufficiency that took root in the neighborhood in the early 1970s. The second title here, "TeleVISIONS' is effectively an early video/cable/satellite TV trade magazine, but with a heavy counterculture influence, and offers some detailed documentation of the beginnings of video art, and also better, alternate futures for these technologies still unrealized.

In the alleyway behind the 1700 block Columbia Road NW (sometimes called "Cincinnati Alley" though I have yet to learn why)

Sagt der eine Kegel zum anderen: "Ist doch alles im Rahmen." // Says one cone to the other: "However, it is well-framed ..."