http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ The corner where I used to work offers an unobstructed view of the Chrysler Building that tourists are helpless to resist. So, from May 2004 through August 2005, I took lots of pictures of people taking pictures of the Chrysler Building. You can contact me or visit my regular blog, Encyclopedia Hanasiana.You can also visit SP&T Classic, where it all started, at moblogUK. en-us jimhanas@yahoo.com 2008-03-02T16:47:09-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/001285.html UPDATE 6/26/2008: Thanks to Church Tucker for preparing this nicely edited and embeddable version of my February "lecture" on metatourism. Last month -- several years after circumstances forced me to abandon this project -- I presented my research in the... 1285@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2008-03-02T16:47:09-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000464.html 464@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-08-08T15:32:07-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000456.html EnlargeI wasn't able to get so close this time.... 456@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-07-28T15:01:35-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000449.html EnlargeTrue, I missed the crucial moment when she snapped the picture, but I was so close I had to post it.... 449@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-07-20T10:38:40-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000447.html EnlargeI have no recollection of taking this picture.... 447@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-07-19T17:01:23-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000443.html EnlargeThis man was smoking a very tiny cigar. Like, a Clint Eastwood-sized cigar.... 443@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-07-13T15:33:02-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000433.html EnlargeEither this tourist didn't want to take any chances when it came to immortalizing himself in front of the Chrysler Building or this was a magazine shoot of some kind.... 433@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-07-01T11:48:27-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000429.html EnlargeOccasional contributor JB caught this photog in action this afternoon.... 429@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-06-30T16:35:53-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000416.html EnlargeThis photographer was smoking a pipe. Who smokes a pipe?... 416@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-06-13T10:47:12-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000395.html EnlargeThis couple -- she's behind him -- took turns using the same camera so they could both have the experience of capturing identical images of the Chrysler Building.... 395@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-05-18T13:26:47-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000376.html EnlargeI flubbed two or three photo ops today before finally catching this couple in the act.... 376@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-05-03T16:49:11-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000358.html EnlargeGuest contributor JB comes through again with a picture of a man taking a picture of his friend in front of the Chrysler Building. As you can (sort of) see, this requires the friend to stand in the middle of... 358@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-04-19T14:27:09-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000355.html EnlargeChrysler Building, still not moving.... 355@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-04-15T15:35:30-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000354.html EnlargeAnother photog. No commentary.... 354@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-04-15T15:35:12-05:00 http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/archives/000353.html EnlargeI guess I could've framed this one a little better.... 353@http://www.hanasiana.com/spt/ 2005-04-15T15:34:23-05:00