Podejdz no do Plota » passion http://podejdznodoplota.com Podejdz no do Plota (PndP) - Polish Inspired News & Events Sat, 26 May 2012 23:45:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 The Pulaski Day Parade this year and the Nexthttp://podejdznodoplota.com/2009/10/the-pulaski-day-parade-this-year-and-the-next http://podejdznodoplota.com/2009/10/the-pulaski-day-parade-this-year-and-the-next#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:16:15 +0000 Randolph Hernandez http://podejdznodoplota.com/?p=210&iphone=true Yesterday afternoon I attended the Pulaski Day Parade for the first time. I’m not a big fan of parades but this one had a lot of pride, passion, expression and very LOUD noises. It was pretty cool. I did t find any of the floats particularly interesting or special. The best part was actually just being around the different demographics that make up the Acive NYC Metro area population.

I saw a lot of families where the parents were middle aged and the kids in their teen and below. You had packs of Polish teens with sprinklings of non-poles yet I didn’t see poles who were in the 21-30 year old range. Maybe they were all out last night and couldn’t get up in time? I’m waiting for the G train and debating if I should eat at the polish national hall or perhaps Lomzynanka on Nassau and Manhattan is the spot for lunch. We’ll see. (I ended up at Lomzynanka, can’t beat the value)

Next year, Podejdz No Do Plota will have to have a float in the Parade! It would be awesome to have a ‘Sami Swoi’ themed float. Maybe some cool give-aways with the web site address on them.

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My occasional series Pole poll is back with a bang. Well, with a flash – as today’s ’subject’ is a Pole, but also a very fine photographer. He’s also very private, so I’ve abandoned the usual format of five questions and five answers to concentrate more on his superb project called ‘From The Upper Deck‘.

Przemek Wajerowicz came to London some four years ago and turned his passion for street photography into a very London hobby – he started going around the city on double-decker buses, taking pictures of people and situations from a slightly different perspective.

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He told me that the view from the upper deck of a double-decker bus had always fascinated him and he started taking pictures from the moment he arrived in London. However he lost the initial batch of photographs after his hard drive crashed.

But he picked himself up and carried on. Soon the hobby became a project. And an ambitious one too – Przemek wants to travel every single bus line in London – from the very first to the very last stop.

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In 2008 he started publishing his daily bus pictures on his blog and once he’s tackled everything Transport for London has to offer, he wants to publish a book with the best pictures taken from the upper deck. And I’m looking forward to getting a copy. As a photographer myself I think this is a great project and Przemek executes it with passion.

I’m planning to write a bit on his project soon elsewhere, for now here’s more From The Upper Deck.

You can also follow Przemek on Twitter.

All images © Przemek Wajerowicz used with author’s permission

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