Original Link: http://jeffpfeffer.com/gallery/
One of my friends takes amazing pictures and so I posted the link on facebook and then my old friend from Middle school blogged about it. Posting both of them!
www.livejournal.com/~youresoabsurd
Below is her blog!!!
I Love You, Ann Arbor.
These are all taken by: Jeff Pfeffer.
( From: http://jeffpfeffer.com/gallery/ )
I think that he is a friend of Lily Pan – who I’ve known from grade school.
I found his website through her.
I used to live in an apartment at 321 E. Liberty Street.
It was a nice place, owned by a retired teacher who would occasionally bake himself in the apartment with his eldest son when they had to fix the place up, and when we wern’t around.
We housed one of our housemates in the furnished basement to make the rent cheaper.
This apartment was next to the Bead Gallery, which is the best bead store in the world, and I would go buy beads to make jewelry for people.
It was also only a few blocks from campus, and was located in the most beautiful area of town.
Every morning on my way to class, I passed by this alley:
This is the best painted alleyway in Ann Arbor.
It is beautiful, and Ann Arbor’s regular street performers and beggars come here as their usual joint to do their thing.
Show their stuff.
Poke their struts.
(Remember when Shakey Jake died?)
This guy plays Michael Jackson on his stereo and dances in the shadows.
He comes here to practice once a week.
He is really really good at it.
After passing the alley on Liberty Street, I walk up to the Michigan theater, (also on Liberty Street) which is known for the selection in independent films and international films.
They also host the Ann Arbor Film Festival, which I went to my last year in Ann Arbor.
It is a magnificent theater that is very old-opera theater-like in style, with an organ-player hitting the keys before each film is played:
After passing this theater, Liberty street ends and there is a T-intersection between Liberty and State street.
At the feet of Liberty street is the State theater:
It is sort of run down and shows only a handful of the movies that have been discontinued at the larger theaters weeks before.
They also have really stale popcorn.
I usually dip into an alleyway behind this theater (located to the left of the couple in this picture: http://jeffpfeffer.com/uncategorized/midnight-stroll/ ) in order to get to my classes, a few of those classes being located in the Dow Laboratories of the Chemistry building.
The indoor atrium inside the Chemistry building.
There usually arn’t any street performers located in this atrium.
Maybe this is a crazy graduate student:
Each biochemistry, organic chemistry, and biology course I took had a laboratory requirement.
Each laboratory class ate a fuckload of additional fees in “glassware insurance,” and it was something I had to pay before taking the course.
A careful and mousey person like me never breaks glassware.
I never got to see that money again.
And so I used to steal a ton of glassware from here.
The campus also had a diag, and on the east of it stood these archways, which is always beautiful to walk through:
It also has a sign to the left of it, but authorities don’t enforce it and bikers don’t abide by it (in the most disrespectful way they can, with marker).
I don’t actually know where he took this next picture.
It was taken from either:
1. North University Street in the Hill area.
If you keep heading west towards Nichols Arboretum, you come by a graveyard.
This could be a tree in the graveyard.
2. Washtenaw Avenue, towards Yipsilanti past Truth house Co-op (where I lived).
This could be a tree in one of the (frat?) estates on Washtenaw.
Probably the graveyard.
There are various bohemian-esque boutiques scattered around Ann Arbor, and this is one of them.
This one happens to be located on the opposite area of town from the picture above.
(Or rather, located more centrally, because it is downtown Ann Arbor.)
Main Street.
When I look at these pictures, I am hit with a wave of sadness and endearment all at the same time.
It’s as if he looks into my memories to conjure up these images.
I try to memorize the minute details I am not sure I will see again.
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