..beats lounging around on a sofa, eh? 🙂
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..that’s a pretty angsty nickname..
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post no bills
Madison Equities, headed by Robert Gladstone, emerged in the 1970’s as one of Manhattan’s more adventurous developers, and this is its flagship, a Post-Modem building of considerable originality.
It is also the one of the best New York buildings by Kohn Pedersen Fox, a New York-based architectural firm that since the beginning of the 1980’s has been The best high-rise architectural firm in the nation, although it is far from that firm’s best work, which reflects only the terrible restrictive and inane building and zoning regulations of New York. (more)
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B
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..a snap of where i took a break while exploring bermuda’s coast..
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queensboro
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..i want a house like that with a moat and cannons..
..just some weed growing on the sidewalk.. looks like a tree, eh?
..wifey took a shot of these fruit flies trapped in our homemade fruit fly trap.. it reminds me of those prehistoric insects trapped in amber.. i also cloned out a few of them and, voila, it looks like a sequence of shots of a fruit fly doing some gymnastic move.. a flip and a somersault perhaps?
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tram
..well, what can i say, i’m still sleepy.. 🙂
..this looks like a crossbow, right? 🙂
..well, the halloween parade series is now over, but i think i still have about a hundred more to dump in my flickr site..
..i was thinking of posting this somewhat nsfw photo yesterday but it was a work day and some might be at work, so here’s to saturday! 🙂 i can’t say if this was some kind of spandex costume, i’ll leave it to your imagination..
..i’ve been somewhat inactive in the commenting section because i was busy lamebooking.. lol! –> lamebook.com
..this one’s a great costume to keep your identity anonymous.. 🙂
..that’s one great dracula smile.. 🙂
..on a sidenote, argh, the yankees lost.. 🙁
..or that’s what i think they are..
*i left the grain there so no complaining about it.. 😛
..cruella’s doin’ the howlin’..
..they don’t call this the Village Halloween Parade for nothing.. 🙂
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spire
..as close a shot as i can of the empire’s spire..
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shadows and flags
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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..i think they even choreographed their walk to be “thriller-esque” 🙂
..a part of me felt guilty not leveling (straightening) this image, but, oh well..
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da vinci wings
..with regards to yesterday’s post, i have no idea what that was, i just named it ‘butterfly’ because i just ran out of ideas.. lol.. here’s another one from the parade..
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butterfly
..let’s say you’re peeking out your window one dark night then all of a sudden, something like this flies by.. 🙂
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bones
..starting off a series from shots i took from the 2007 village halloween parade..
..uber late sunday post..
..stuff to keep me preoccupied this weekend.. 🙂
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hispanic
..a museum’s facade up in harlem..
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whomping willow
..this one just reminded me of the whomping willow tree in harry potter..
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..there, that’s your scientific name, now get out..
..if you were lost and starving in a jungle, would you eat this? 😀
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empire lobby
..had to take a snap as fast as i could to get this to avoid being jostled by the masses.. 🙂
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..sunday..
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..arriving early has it’s benefits, you get to roam around and shoot more..
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..best viewed supersized..
..this might be the last of the MoMA series, most of the images i have are just some random snaps just worth a flickr photodump perhaps.. as elaine mentioned, i don’t want to post a picture of a picture, that’s kinda boring IMO.. and some of you were wondering how i was able to get snaps of these works of art, well, i guess if you don’t use your flash then all’s good.. now, on to the image.. that’s van gogh’s starry night..
The Starry Night is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Reproduced often, the painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus. (more)
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mmm.. soup..
..that’s 32 campbell soup cans for you..
Campbell’s Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (510 mm) in height × 16 inches (410 mm) in width and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell’s Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. The individual paintings were produced with a semi-mechanized silkscreen process, using a non-painterly style. Campbell’s Soup Cans’ reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement in the USA. (more)
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..slowly turning out into a series, eh? well, here’s more from the MoMA.. i didn’t quite get the name of this wire sculpture though..
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..dumpster diving ..taken on my first(?) visit to the MoMA..
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) which portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. All of the figures depicted are physically jarring, none conventionally feminine, all slightly menacing, and each is rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two of the women are rendered with African mask-like faces, giving them a savage and mysterious aura. In his adaption of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The work is one of Picasso’s most famous, and is widely considered to be a seminal work in the early development of both Cubism and modern art. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, having been acquired by the museum in 1939. (more)
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gwb
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..if you had a macro, what would be the first thing you’ll shoot at 1:1? for me, i guess it’s bugs.. 🙂
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cemetery bound
..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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..this is where i parked my horse.. 😀
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..in shooting street, you may sometimes encounter someone who really doesn’t want to have his/her photo taken.. what do you do when you encounter someone like that? i personally don’t know what to do.. take this one, for instance.. she was just trying to take a snap of the guy’s dog but he went ballistic on her.. tsk3..
..on to the shot, this was taken by wifey on a picnic in the park, there was a mayoral candidate beside us campaigning while lounging under a tree, talking to locals and giving away stuff..
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..an empty 7 train platform..
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..Sleep, usher dreams
Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether..
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st. charles line
Streetcars in New Orleans have been an integral part of the city’s public transportation network since the first half of the 19th century. The longest of New Orleans’ streetcar lines, the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar, is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world, according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Today, the streetcars are operated by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA). (wiki)
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st. louis cathedral
..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..
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big easy nights
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anne rice cemetery
..too bad this was closed when we went there, but it was still a good photo op.. 🙂
Lafayette No. One is known as the “Anne Rice Cemetery†to many, because the author has set a number of scenes from both her “Mayfair Witches†and “Vampire†novels there. When the movie “Interview With The Vampire†was filmed, the production company constructed a plywood “tomb†in an empty corner of the cemetery because a normal tomb was obviously too small to shoot Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise sitting inside it! (from cities of the dead (dot) net)
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