From 2005 – 2015, I was a movie location scout in New York City.
My job was to explore. This is what I found.
I’m now based in LA, where I’ve been scouting for over a decade.
Read my latest at nickcarr.com.

Hint: Somewhere in Manhattan.

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Bonus points if you know what it’s a picture of!

-SCOUT

  1. John Evans Avatar

    Hmmmm…looks like a really weird mineral sample. The Museum of Natural History? It might even be malachite! (One of my favorite minerals. 😀 )

  2. Christa Avatar

    I have no clue, but it looks like hair on a statue. Can’t wait to learn where/what it is.

  3. Bertrand Avatar
    Bertrand

    Chinatown??? some weird vegetables?? 😉

  4. dante greene Avatar
    dante greene

    alien sexual organs? should be around the East Village then.

  5. lazenby Avatar

    looks like malachite to me.

  6. clazy8 Avatar
    clazy8

    How did you get a photo of my refrigerator?

  7. Patrick Avatar

    Hmmm…Looks like the MNH to me. Yes? no?

  8. kenju Avatar

    A form of coral? or anemone?

  9. robert calabro Avatar
    robert calabro

    taken at the bowery…picture of a fungus on a homeless persons toe…

  10. jeff Avatar

    some zombie graveyard at midnight

  11. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Looks like an anemone… New York Aquarium?

  12. Lifesart Avatar
    Lifesart

    Mayor Bloomberg’s wallet?

  13. Noel Avatar
    Noel

    Looks organic but dead; American Natural History Museum?

  14. dennis Avatar
    dennis

    I’d have to say the mineral collection at the American Museum of Natural History.

  15. dayes Avatar

    sea asparagus ( http://www.mistymt.com/specialty/salicornia.shtml )? So maybe a grocery store like Whole Foods or something?

  16. Juri Avatar

    I think is a florist sponge. So in a flower shop.

  17. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Looks like the end of a steel cable from a suspension bridge or elevator that has been melted. Could it be from World Trade Center?

  18. Adam Avatar

    Rubin Art Museum – Statue of buddha

  19. saya Avatar
    saya

    my first thought was a statue, but I went to the Met. But I can’t figure out of what because the photo creeps me out! Eeps.

  20. saya Avatar
    saya

    sorry meant to say “…but I went to the Met (not the Rubin)”

  21. Noah Avatar
    Noah

    I’ll guess Takashimaya.

  22. Garrett K Avatar
    Garrett K

    Definitely a type of copper or malachite. Probably in a museum because a piece like that would highly valuable. I have a small sample of the similar mineral

  23. Ann Onimous Avatar
    Ann Onimous

    The Statue of Liberty’s underarm hair? (she IS French)

  24. Sambone Avatar
    Sambone

    I live in the south, but it is copper wire. Looks like a cable that has weathered outside for sometime.

  25. Peter Avatar

    The Statue of Liberty’s underarm hair? (she IS French)

    If she were American she wouldn’t have underarms hair. Or, tragically, another sort of body hair 🙁