Louise Nevelson Plaza on Maiden Lane is the first public place to be named after an artist in New York. Nevelson was an eccentric, exotic soul whose work can be found all over the city. Most of her sculpture is “found” art: bits of wood and metal painted black and bound together. This park is all hers: Shadows and Flags, (1977) 40 feet high, is made up of 7 sculptures of Cor-ten steel painted black. (description from wallyg’s flickr)
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..a museum’s facade up in harlem..
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..had to take a snap as fast as i could to get this to avoid being jostled by the masses.. 🙂
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..a train heading for the cemetery at night.. and we were headed for the casino that time, talk about “signs”, eh? good thing we didn’t lose.. 🙂
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..Sleep, usher dreams
Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether..
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..after dinner, en route to cafe du monde, we passed by the st. louis cathedral and since most of the people were celebrating Southern Decadence on bourbon street, there wasn’t that much people around.. so we stopped by and tried taking a shot of this at night.. i propped the cam at an angle on my slippers and bracketed the shot, thinking that the last and longest exposure was done, i took the camera and boom, i spoiled the shot.. or maybe not.. 😀
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..notice the light blur on the left side of the tallest spire..
..while looking for something to post, i found this one.. subliminally because i had corn soup just a while ago?
..took this while strolling around the garden district, this framing was my wife’s idea.. good, eh? 😀
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..creepy trees and a mansion, i think i see someone peeping out of the window (or maybe not).. 😀
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..while aboard the natchez, as the tour guide was explaining about stuff going by the banks of the mississippi river, i just kept snapping away.. i can’t seem to remember what this is.. i like the message written on it though..
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..the view from our room.. this is lower canal street on the lower left frame, the big flat building on the left is the audobon insectarium, next is the westin(?) at the end of the street is what i believe is the world trade center building.. all in all a great view.. 🙂
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..i’m a big anne rice fan, that’s why when i read somewhere that she started out in new orleans and had a house here, i just had to take a snap of it.. so here it is 1239 first street, there was a remax sign in the gate though..
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..a lazy ride across the river..
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..off to the big apple for some running, have a killer weekend.. 🙂
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..took this way back when the NYPL wasn’t draped in all those stuff for restoration (or was it?).. there was some event going on that’s why it was bathed in red light..
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..still from atlantic city..
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..some casino’s fake facade in atlantic city.. intentionally oversaturated to make your eyes bleed (that’s what i felt while looking at this)..
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..the port of st. george, taken from barrack hill..
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..what exactly are you looking at right here? it’s midtown, and that long road going upward from the bottom right frame is fifth avenue..
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..just like food critics, there are also architecture critics.. catty, feisty critics.. here’s an excerpt from James Russell’s piece about the BoA tower..
Ungainly Matron
The 54-story result is among the most ungainly forms on the skyline, like a matron who swathes herself in thick layers of fabric in a vain attempt to slim her burgeoning silhouette. The tower climaxes with a spire as impressive as an auto antenna..(more)
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..you’re probably bored from all those parade shots i posted the past few days, well, your prayers have been answered.. i’ve finally finished loading them up to my flickr account.. and it’s time to move on to something else.. up until i decide what to do next, here’s something to ogle at..
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..at the bus stop..
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..a nice place to take in the view of the city and hear all the crazy drivers honking..
..flares were probably caused by dust bunnies on the filter, i just left it there.. it looked cool.. (and too much trouble to clean up too..)
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..a great place for lunch breaks..
The park on East 47th Street between Second and First Avenues, just north of the United Nations, was acquired by the City of New York in 1948 and named Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in 1961. For many years it has served as a popular gathering place for public demonstrations. The Friends of Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza was formed to raise funds, to organize special events, and to keep the park green and clean. (more)
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..the city from the other side of the river..
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..this one looks similar to yesterday, but it’s an older bus on a different background.. taken along the yale campus.. and as if i didn’t have too much on my plate already, i went ahead and made a place to house b&w renderings of the images i post here daily..
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..the B25 going about it’s usual route..
..a sleek and sharp brownstone building in DUMBO..
..i guess you have to be pretty good to play here.. when’s the next air guitar audition going to be?
..pointers to the sky..
..who says shopping ain’t fun?
..taken a few blocks away from here..
..that church over there is the St. Peter’s Church, which is believed to be the oldest Anglican church that is still in use in the Western hemisphere..
..several people looked up to see what i was shooting at, little did they know that i was shooting “it all”.. 🙂
..five image stitch panorama of downtown manhattan taken from the staten island ferry.. i could’ve had the bridges on the right too if not for the crowd of tourists on the right side..
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..captured at the same time and place where i got this.. trying to visualize some ideas that have been simmering in my head for quite some time.. there’ll be more to come from this place.. 🙂
..on a different note, the lakers lost game 3.. argh..
..in a city as big as nyc (or any big city for that matter), how often do you experience this kind of isolation? what do you do when you find yourself immersed in it? well, for starters, you could whip out that camera of yours and start shooting of course.. ;D
..i remember waiting for some trains to pass by for me to catch some light trails from this perspective, but my patience was running thin, so here’s the dark underbelly of the manhattan bridge..
..some pillars from the ny state pavilion in flushing, queens..
..what do you do when you wanna capture manhattan a-la vincent laforet but can’t justify the moolah to get a ‘copter? get up the tallest building you can find and dangle your camera out the ledge, and voila.. (just make sure to wrap the strap around your wrist..)
..this here’s looking up the north face of the empire state building..