"Michael Jackson stencil on a jersey barrier next to the Artkraft Strauss building." (Photo by Joe Schumacher)
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"Michael Jackson stencil on a jersey barrier next to the Artkraft Strauss building." (Photo by Joe Schumacher)
A wonderful collection of kids in Halloween costumes in Harlem by the great Amy Stein.
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(Via We Heart It.)
New York Magazine turned 40 this year and has an issue filled with interesting articles about NYC's past. One chart I found most compelling was the price of things then and now. If I could take the money I have now to 1968, I could have stayed at the Waldorf every night!
via NYMag.com
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And Now, the Coolest Thing Ever: "
OMFG, balloon graffiti!
· D.Billy: Street Interventions [And I Am Not Lying via Gawker]
(Via Curbed.)
Here's a series of photographs I just found in storage. These were given to me by Mr. Miyazaki, a kind man who I used to volunteer for every other week through a Japanese American Social Services group. I would cook Sukiyaki and he would share his stories of his youth. I remember those days fondly but its now more than 10 years since we lost touch. I wish I remembered the circumstances of each of these shots but I'd be making wild guesses to where they are, what year they were taken and who he's with. I especially love the first shot of him under the elevated tracks. It's full of energy and so evocative of that moment. I'm curious if the ball game was before or after the war. It's great to see a slice of Japanese American life rarely seen from this time .
Really like this photo by Peter Funch, so much energy and chaos yet so well composed, perfect for the article it accompanied, the feuds of pedestrians, bikers, dog walkers and other groups at Central Park. (link: New York Magazine, Who Owns Central Park? How Frederick Law Olmsted’s 843 acres of civilizing wilderness became a type-A battleground. By Gabriel Sherman )
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from PS1.org
by floorvan via flickr
Saw the James Turrell installation for the first time at PS1. It's definitely an awe inspiring piece. As you enter this square room, you feel the crisp air right away and as you look up you realize there's no ceiling. The beautiful blue sky framed by white walls. That's it. It's an ethereal experience. Hard to articulate the delight. Here's the description from PS1's site:
"One of the highlights of P.S.1, this site-specific installation has been at P.S.1 since the fall of 1986. It was initially part of a series commissioned by Alanna Heiss focusing on light and perception. Meeting is composed of a square room with a rectangular opening cut directly into the ceiling. Carefully calculated artificial lights produce an orange glow on the white walls of the room, permitting the viewer to appreciate the intensity of the sky’s color. As Turrell described it: “There’s this four-square seating that’s inside, seating toward each other, having a space that created some silence, allowing something to develop slowly over time, particularly at sunset. Also, this Meeting has to do with the meeting of space that you’re in with the meeting of the space of the sky.” Meeting is one of Turrell’s series of “skyspaces,” all involving enclosed spaces with rectangular or rounded holes cut into the ceiling exposing the open sky."
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Saw a few interesting redesign proposals for The New York Aquarium at Coney Island. If built to plan, they will become buildings with a quality that New York architecture rarely seem to have: Whimsy. While there are plenty of inspirational buildings, as far as I know, this great city lacks building that makes it a point to makes you smile. Tokyo's Asahi Beer Building is one, Barcelona has a few buildings designed by Antonio Gaudi. I hope we'll get to see a big whale or jellyfish swimming in our skyline soon. [from New York Times article link]
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Weisz & Yoes Architecture
Check out these delightful shots by grade school kids in Chelsea, all done with disposable cameras. Goes to show you how ridiculous it is for me to learn how to shoot like the "masters" and obsess over the latest and greatest cameras. Note to self: turn off that "inhibition" switch on my next shoot. (Link for the whole set of photos)
[Kamron, age 6]
[Taffy, age 10]
[Shamar, age 5]
[Briana, age 8]
[Corinne, age 7]
-- The Friends of the High Line gave cameras to kids and sent them out to photograph Chelsea-- the shots are surprisingly good. (Via Gothamist.)
[Summer Sky above PS1, Long Island City - shot by myself]
A few years ago, I found myself feeling wonderfully inspired by the big skies in Montana. Even with the majestic mountains towering in the distance, these skies seemed to stretch farther than any of the skies I've seen above New York. I miss looking up to the big and swift moving clouds as I negotiate the canyons of the city... but on rare summer days, these puffy creatures are seen vacationing here. Come back more often, big sky country clouds.
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