OBSERVATION 1
as observed from my living room window, 249 melrose st, third floor, bushwick, brooklyn, new york, approximately five minutes in duration, 4pm, 4th of july
)windows: 102
)open windows: 27
)windows with a/c units: 22
)windows with people hanging out of them: 6
)windows with people looking out of them (not including myself): 2
)bags flying through the air: 1
)rats crossing street: 1
)people crossing street: 1
)cars driving down street: 2
) buildings: 10
)colors: brick red, brown brown brown, grey grey grey, some blue, some green, black, silver
)trees: 1, held up with sticks and string
)sounds: latin music with guitars and vocals, man's voice singing to music, children playing, water, traffic
)smells: a barbecue grill with burning charcoal
)cars parked: 25
)open parking spots: 0
)happenings: 1 woman on beach chair (as always) with bright red hair watches the neighborhood, 1 man sorting garbage and hosing down sidewalk; 1 bird chases 1 rat under a car; 2 men leave apartments separately; 1 woman brings trash out and before returning inside, lifts her shirt and adjusts the elastic waistband of her pants, and then goes back inside and leaves door to apartment open; one child with baseball glove; one mother and daughter leave laundromat, daughter crying but no tears, mother shakes daughter off of her; 4 hipster kids enter laundromat, a man with cigarette and glasses strolls down sidewalk, one man waits, sitting on doorstep holding plastic bag
)windows: 102
)open windows: 27
)windows with a/c units: 22
)windows with people hanging out of them: 6
)windows with people looking out of them (not including myself): 2
)bags flying through the air: 1
)rats crossing street: 1
)people crossing street: 1
)cars driving down street: 2
) buildings: 10
)colors: brick red, brown brown brown, grey grey grey, some blue, some green, black, silver
)trees: 1, held up with sticks and string
)sounds: latin music with guitars and vocals, man's voice singing to music, children playing, water, traffic
)smells: a barbecue grill with burning charcoal
)cars parked: 25
)open parking spots: 0
)happenings: 1 woman on beach chair (as always) with bright red hair watches the neighborhood, 1 man sorting garbage and hosing down sidewalk; 1 bird chases 1 rat under a car; 2 men leave apartments separately; 1 woman brings trash out and before returning inside, lifts her shirt and adjusts the elastic waistband of her pants, and then goes back inside and leaves door to apartment open; one child with baseball glove; one mother and daughter leave laundromat, daughter crying but no tears, mother shakes daughter off of her; 4 hipster kids enter laundromat, a man with cigarette and glasses strolls down sidewalk, one man waits, sitting on doorstep holding plastic bag