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On one of the first fine days of early spring - March has just gone out like a mean lamb with a grudge - I go walking in the sun. It seems luxurious, but from this vantage in mid-May we see that it was really kind of pale and unaccustomed. As were we.
Today I take as my text the grand reflections of our glassy New York.
No identifying tags until the Guess Where NYC group has had a look. What's the building, and where am I? Currently revealed: the reflected building is the CitySpire Center, which is located on 56th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
(The heavily-blended texture in this photo is by Flickreen Angelique (Liek) - if you peer closely, you might spot some musical staves in there.)
This photo has been spotted as high as #107 on the Flickr daily Interestingness charts.
See more by viewing the album: My 911 Photos
Compare this with Post 911 collage images taken in the following years from the same vantage point.
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I am the Copyright holder of this photo. I saw everything from the street and rooftop of my building in the West Village
6th Ave / West 12th Street. The rest of my photos may be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/themachinestops/albums/1654163
I am the copyright holder of these September 11 pictures. I took them from the Village with my 35mm SLR.This was taken seconds after the south tower was struck. See the rest of these pictures here: www.flickr.com/photos/themachinestops/albums/1654163
I am the Copyright holder of this photo. I saw everything from the street and rooftop of my building in the West Village
6th Ave / West 12th Street The rest of these photos may be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/themachinestops/albums/1654163
“Picture the world of tomorrow – if all the scientific creations of three centuries were rendered useless at one stroke! A gripping thought-provoking novel about a world of the future suddenly at bay against – the Stone Age!” [Prologue]
“The Machine Stops” by Wayland Smith (aka Robert Hale) was originally published in London in 1936. Neil Barron describes the story in his critical guide to science fiction, “Anatomy of Wonder,” as follows:
“A notable tale emphasizing the vulnerability of modern civilization by following the imagined consequences of a ‘plague’ that destroys all metals. As the new barbarians gather to sack the last enclaves of rural harmony, a young genius tries to save the world by making an alloy that can resist the corrosion.”
[Note: What about a “plague” that destroys all electronics? That isn’t science fiction. It’s an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) and it can have devastating real-world consequences for modern civilization. The immediate effects include the failure of electronic devices, power grid outages, and disruption of communication systems. In the long term, the lack of essential services could lead to societal collapse, economic devastation, and possible loss of life.]
[Note 2: Look on the bright side. We don't need a "young genius" to save the world. We already know how to shield vital infrastructure from an EMP. It's simply a matter of motivating the people in charge to do so.]
Good thing to be a packrat, at times. Wish I could remember which newspaper this was from
I'd clipped this out years ago.....Lived in Howard Beach, NY (near JFK airport) and saw the Concorde many times.
Flew on it in 2003
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1. In the Men's room at Brit's Pub, 2. Blue Pipilette, 3. Urinals, 4. Tour de France London Urinals, 5. Urinal - Vienna Substation, 6. Thai girls watching the urinals, Bangkok Airport, 7. Large Communal Urinal, 8. SPB Photo Walk #16, 9. Funny Urinal Sign, 10. Loo en orange, 11. Vigilius Mountain Resort, 12. Urinals at the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne, 13. Men's Loo at Chillies14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
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windmills in NYC?? until Sept 14.
NY400 week New Amsterdam Village
Bowling Green Park, Broadway and Beaver Street
New York, NY
The New Amsterdam Village consists of traditional Dutch canal houses, a windmill and a stage set up on an open, outside area. In the village some of the best known Dutch agricultural products and foods can be sampled and bought, including some our famous cheeses, herring, dollar pancakes also known as poffertjes, sirup wafels (stroopwafels), cut flowers, flower bulbs and green roofs.
Image # 11 from the Scott Kelby NYC photowalk. This seemed to be a tile mural that looked like it was covering an old sealed up doorway. I loved the green man above the door and all the detail in the tiles.
Not sure if this one has made it into the pool before, but I did a search of the map and all the HOF threads and it wasn't there.
Thanks to Frank Lynch for bringing to my attention this website with a little bit of history on the sign.
NYC from A to Zed: A is for A. S. Beck
Exhibition Review - Adam Hogarth, Clare Mitten, Gabriela Schutz, Martin Ward: 'The Machine Stops' at Danielle Arnaud, London till 24 March 2018.
“At Danielle Arnaud, we tilt into the incoming tide of slow electricity."- Drenched Co.
Notes: " At Danielle Arnaud, I am awash with the thaw in the impatience of light. Meanings and uncanny predictions fall into sequence and overlap. Here forests are gorgeous windmills of mechanical silence. There is sound like thunder, the sound of electricity, tripping into a melodious stand still. Walls of electricity turn into rendered communal drawings and flowers bloom in the seams of a slow current. Four artists, like clots in the simultaneous, have tweaked the knobs and aligned with a 100 year old prediction to insist on a quiet contemplation with things that make meaning. Clare Mitten is awesome!" - JayZee
See www.daniellearnaud.com/exhibitions/exhibition-the-machine...
See also www.soaked.space/2018/03/exhibition-review-adam-hogarth-c...
See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2018/03/exhibition-review-adam-hog...
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'The Machine Stops' Danielle Arnaud, London 2018.
Courtesy of the artists and Danielle Arnaud, London. Photograph by Oskar Proctor.
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My junior year thesis. We were asked to adapt a text that fit the theme "Man Made Monster", I chose E.M. Forester's "The Machine Stops".
It was a struggle, there's a lot of choices I'm not satisfied with, but I learned a lot in the end.