Tattered Flag
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
At the Earth School on Avenue B.
Red Square – Red Sky
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Minimal view of the fireworks from the Lower East Side. We did get the smell and the gunpowder smoke, though. That’s a statue of Lenin to the right on top of the apartment building called Red Square.
Dark Background
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009I’m experimenting with a dark background for the blog. I think the photos look better against the dark. I’ll be tweaking the look over the next couple of days. Feedback is welcome. I’ve screwed with the CSS, let me know if you notice any glitches.
Update: new darker, even more mysterious tile for the background, now with connecting tunnels! I’m still tweaking the CSS, font colors are readable against the background, but they are not quite what I want. I made new icons for the header to mesh with the background. I think the video icon reads well, that is it states visually what it is about at only 36 pixels square.
For some reason, I am no longer able to search within categories using the search boxes in the header. I have no idea why. I’m working on that, it is a useful feature.
Word wrapping is now set to 1000 pixels, which seems reasonable as that is the usual maximum width of the photos I put here.
Baruch College – Tree of Life
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Is that a tastefully draped Adam schooling a half-naked Eve on the right?
wiki Baruch_College
Printed Veil
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
141 Fifth Avenue which has been covered in a trompe l’oeil print of the exterior of the building for the past two years is slowly being unveiled.
curbed.com/archives/2007/01/03/the_evolution_of_advertect…
Ageloff Bones
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
They appear to be doing serious structural work on the Ageloff Towers on Avenue A.
It is interesting to see the steel girders beneath the brick.
What must it be like living in those corner rooms while this is going on.
Billboard Painters
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Sign painters plying their estimable skills in service of dreck, that creepy symmetrical girl movie. I imagine they are working from a lightly drawn grid. But what is their reference, just a photo of the ad or something more elaborate. I would want a printout with paint-by-numbers contours, to be of course skillfully blended away. This is an old time skill that I am glad still employs artisans. What must this cost, and how does it compare to printing techniques? A billboard this size is probably only done in NYC and LA, it may be cheaper to have it painted than gear up for a printing run of 2. Also the attention the billboard gets just from the spectacle of humans painting overhead, is bound to add some value to the ad. Here I am blogging about it for free. Arggh!
