2012-03-02
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Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow, seen through a rainy window (in New York?)
2012-01-20
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New York at Night by Berenice Abbott. As seen at the Night Visions exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, which ran from April to September 2011.
2012-01-07
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I’m a sucker for the “looking up” genre, and this one’s particularly nice because of the nested shadows and reflections. Photograph by Jeffrey Meyers.
2011-08-02
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Mmm Skyscraper, I love you • 24gotham:
Another shot of the Lever House I featured yesterday. This shot standing in the courtyard looking up with a 12mm.
Photograph: Devyn Caldwell.
2011-02-25
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Reading New York Empire State of Mind: The Colonization of ‘Up’ (by Ryan Sayre at 3quarksdaily), this part - on the possibility of national borders in the sky, as a consequence of using skyscrapers as docks for airships - struck me.
Nowadays the idea that a building could contain a border seems quaint, or odd, and I wonder if the idea that the internet is its own place with its own rules is slowly going the same way. The utopian hippie/hackers of 1990s declaring the independence of cyberspace are increasingly running into the twin demons of commercial borders - Spotify over there, Rdio/Mog over here, and nothing for most - and political interference - with Egypt and Libya (temporarily) dropping off the net, and the US throwing its weight around to attempt to close down Wikileaks.
I don’t know. Perhaps it’s too early to tell, but there’s something there, I think.
2011-02-02
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Sohei Nishino’s “Details of Diorama Map London (The Gherkin)”, 2010, as seen illustrating London Underground - Map It Your Way in the New York Times Style Magazine.
There’s an exhibition of his maps at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London from late February to April of this year.
