Living in NYC

Relationship

A thing about new york is the diversity. I was overwhelmed by people pouring out of the subway stations, jogging, running, walking, calling, eating, singing, dancing, kissing, laughing, frowning, yelling, chatting, doing everything one can possibly do on the street. And everyone is so drastically different from one another, in their clothings, attitudes, ways they walk, languages, hairs, faces. It is such splendid individuality in new york which makes it more fascinating to find what is beyond the overwhelming individuality. Things like similarities, languidness behind such fanatic flux of movements, cycles, repetitions, emptiness, and lack of communications.

A Night Falls on the Union Square

Racing

I took the following two shots on the second floor of the Wholefoods. Night is the time when the boundaries between things get fuzzy, two different things merge into one, things are shed different light.

The Sun Never Sets on the Empire

Merging



Architecture of Waiting

I would like to discuss further about the Architecture of Authority, the exhibition at Chelsea we went today, later in a separate posting, so I will simply say here that when I look back the pictures I took only a few days ago, I feel something completely different. There are many times in our lives when we simply have to wait. When we arrive early for a date, we have to wait. We wait in supermarket lines, boarding lines, movie theater lines, and so on. We wait for package deliveries. We wait for people, things, results, awards, money, love, etc etc. Sometimes, we can do something to make things come faster. We pay for next-day-guaranteed mail deliveries. We can call someone to come faster (though this may not change the consequence anyway). But there are times that there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. Waiting in a supermarket line is one of them. You wait until a machine voice assigns you a number. People wait because they know they have to wait. I don't like those moments when I have to wait without having anything I can do in the meantime--when I didn't bring my cellphone, when I am alone, when I don't have a book to read, etc. I hate it even more when I do have things to do while I wait, but realize that that doesn't make much of a difference.

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Chrysler Tower

I did not modified any of the photos here on Photoshop even though since I did not take it raw, and I used the standard picture mode in my camera, it is already modified in some sense. I believe that I can certainly make the images better by editing, but I wanted to write about them first before I forget what I was thinking.