By Vladimir Brezina
Some works of art were surely put there for the sole appreciation of passing kayakers…
More marine art, specifically of New York Harbor, is here.
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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Wind Against Current 
Oh, did Nessie emigrate? ;-)
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I think it’s more likely to be our own home-grown monster, mutated by all the chemicals in Newtown Creek, a Superfund site… ;-)
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Ha ha! Our seas are gradually becoming less and less polluted by chemicals thankfully. It always saddens me how much litter, especially plastics, I see in our waterways, lakes and seas.
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Pollution is decreasing here too, but it’s still bad in certain corners of New York Harbor…
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Main harbours are hard to keep clean with such a large amount of traffic!
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Very true! But here ships are (mostly) not to blame. The pollution consists mostly of (1) chemicals dumped into some of the waterways decades ago by industrial plants, (2) sewage overflow when it rains, and (3) floating plastic trash that accumulates in corners into which it is driven by wind and tide. (1) is by far the worst in the long run.
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It’s the floating plastics/rubbish and sewage overflows that are the greatest problem here and the biggest threat to our wildlife!
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Love the painted rocks!
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The people living there had a sense of humor! :-)
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I loved the water art in the NYC waterway. It is interesting that the cute figures by Tom Otterness are very similar to those in my recent post describing “short.” : http://rasklein.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/travel-theme-short/
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Very similar! That’s because Tom Otterness did those too—his style is pretty unmistakable! :-)
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Cool pic :) Thanks for stopping by our post and we are glad you like it.
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You are most welcome, and thanks for stopping by here! :-)
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I especially like the octopus! How often do you get to write octopus : )) The last is really interesting too.
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You can write octopus as often as you like! ;-)
I did like the last one—in fact, that one gave me the idea for this post…
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Great minds !
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Pretty funny I just compared my mind to yours Vlad : ) no offense intended ..hehe!
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:-) :-)
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Love the turquoise rock art. Some would consider that defacing. But I think it adds so much fun to nature.
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Certainly you don’t want to overdo it. But these rocks were in these people’s back yard—or what became their back yard at low tide ;-)
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the rock paintings are cool!
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Somebody had a sense of humor… :-)
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Love Dragons!!!
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As do we—especially water dragons!!
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Amazing things one can see from a kayak, Vlad. I should get one too. :)
I’ve started a new blog. Here is the link.
http://anotherday2paradise.wordpress.com/
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Yes, the kayak is like magic glasses…
Good luck with your new blog! I’ve signed up :-)
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Thanks so much, Vlad. :)
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You are most welcome, Sylvia! :-)
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That last shot is really fun!
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That’s the one that made me think of doing this post…
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Love it! That’s Street art taken to the next level :)
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For an exclusive waterborne audience ;-)
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Have you seen this article yet? You two were the first people I thought of when I read this. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/kayaker-saves-owl-finland-lake-tuusula_n_4236001.html
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Thanks!! It’s cute. Yes, I’ve seen various versions of it—it was all over at least the kayaking corners of the Internet a few days ago… :-) Stories of rescued animals pop up fairly often, although this is the first owl that I’ve heard of…
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I love the photo with the bird.
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I thought the bird was a nice addition… :-)
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