Photo Friday: Blur
The Magic of the Cities.
Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
The Corner
Greenwich St. at Horatio St. Manhattan, New York's West
Village
“Music
expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain
silent”
― Victor Hugo
― Victor Hugo
Friday, October 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Manhattan
Monday, July 25, 2011
Pier 83
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Light of New York
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Battery Park II
From Battery Park |
Ferry Deck The Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry service operated by the New York City Department of Transportation that runs between the boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island. |
Monday, April 11, 2011
Central Park
Monday, January 24, 2011
Time
Man on Ice (take at The Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center. NYC) |
Cro-Magnon (take at American Museum of Natural History. NYC) The Cro-Magnon were the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic in Europe. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiometrically dated to 35,000 years before present. Etymology The name derives from the Abri de Crô-Magnon (French: rock shelter of Crô-Magnon) near the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in southwest France, where the first specimen was found. Being the oldest known modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe, the Cro-Magnon were from the outset linked to the well-known Lascaux cave paintings and the Aurignacian culture that flourished in southern France and Germany. As additional remains of early modern humans were discovered in archaeological sites from Western Europe and elsewhere, and dating techniques improved in the early 20th century, new finds were added to the taxonomic classification. Absolute Astronomy The Future of Human Evolution Our Future As we look toward the future, experts debate whether we might alter the course of human evolution. What does the future hold for humanity? It is beyond the reach of science to peer ahead hundreds, thousands or millions of years with any certainty. But it is clear that our survival, like that of any species, depends on the potential of our species to adapt to a changing environment. While humans have adapted to such changes many times in the past, the future presents new challenges. Humans are no longer passive agents in the evolutionary process. The environment will always shape us, but we in turn are now shaping the environment. Today our world is changing rapidly, largely because of human activity. The atmosphere is getting hotter, wild habitats are disappearing and countless species are going extinct. These changes pose threats to the natural resources we depend on—and could ultimately threaten our quality of life and even survival. At the same time, humans have an extraordinary capacity to improve the future. Given the wondrous achievements in human history, from the wheel to computers and spacecraft, our potential for advances in art, science and technology is incalculable. By taking an active role in transforming our world and ourselves, we will affect our destiny, for better or worse. How might we use—or abuse—our capacity? Will we really change the course of human evolution? ARE HUMANS STILL EVOLVING? In this era of global travel and interconnected societies, we no longer have small, isolated populations evolving in different directions, as was the case earlier in human evolution, helping to drive the emergence of new species. The human genome continues to change in minor ways, but under present conditions a new human species more than likely will not emerge. COULD A NEW HUMAN SPECIES EVOLVE? Human populations might once again become small and isolated and a new species might then emerge if humans experienced environmental collapse, war, pandemic disease or geological catastrophe on a massive, global scale. Certain experts think another scenario is also possible. By directly manipulating the human genome, some humans could be altered so significantly that, if reproductively isolated from other humans, they might become a separate species. Critics disagree, claiming that there will be enormous technical, political or moral barriers to making significant changes to the human genome. More about: Dance of The Tiger by Björn Kurtén The Inheritor by William Golding |
Friendship (Photomanipulation) |
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Impressions of Chelsea
Dawn at Chelsea! |
Down the river (Hudson) |
The Boat |
Jersey City from Chelsea Piers |
KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND GALLERY Current Exhibition Jonah Koppel Towards a New Impending Idiot Utopia |
The IAC Building by Frank Gehry Frank Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age". “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” ~Frank Gehry |
The IAC Building from The High Line |
The High Line |
The Viewers (The High Line) |
30th Street at 9th Avenue |
Norwegian Gem! |
Sightless (Ceguera) Chelsea, a fashionable residential section of southern Manhattan in New York City, on the west side of the city. |
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
~ Henry Miller
”Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."
~Jean-Paul Sartre
~Jean-Paul Sartre
There Is another world and it is in this one.
~Paul Éluard
Labels:
Architecture,
boats,
Chelsea,
Chelsea Piers,
Frank Gehry,
Hudson River,
IAC NYC,
Jersey City,
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery,
Manhattan,
New York,
NYC,
People,
Streets,
The High Line,
West Side
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
On the move
La Cibeles Turnabout. Mexico City |
Riverside. NYC |
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