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

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Flautist




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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Crash


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Monday, September 5, 2011

Sunday Wheels










Eternity is in love with the productions of time”.
William Blake

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Transition


Fort Tryon Park Gardens. Manhattan. NYC
-Homage to
Vasarely-
From Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan

People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such
and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to see the world
the way people have been telling us it is.
Seeing happens only when one sneaks between the worlds;
the world of ordinary people and the world of sorcerers.
The real thing is when the body realizes that it can see.
Only then is one capable of knowing that the world we look at every day
is only a description.
My intent has been to show you that.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge,
because the art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man
with the wonder of being a man.


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Friday, September 2, 2011

Sweet Light


The future is always beginning now”


~Mark Strand


"El futuro siempre esta empezando ahora"



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Thursday, September 1, 2011

September 2011 Theme Day : Perspective



The Cloisters—described by Germain Bazin, former director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology"—is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters—quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade—and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from the ninth to the sixteenth century, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context.



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Cymbaline

The path you tread is narrow
And the drop is shear and very high
The ravens all are watching
From a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping
Like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end
Will the final couplet rhyme

And it's high time
Cymbaline
It's high time
Cymbaline
Please wake me

A butterfly with broken wings
Is falling by your side
The ravens all are closing in
And there's nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent
Are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs
To magazines back home

And it's high time
Cymbaline
It's high time
Cymbaline
Please wake me

The lines converging where you stand
They must have moved the picture plane
The leaves are heavy around your feet
You feel the thunder of the train
And suddenly it strikes you
That they're moving into range
Doctor Strange is always changing size

And it's high time
Cymbaline
It's high time
Cymbaline
Please wake me

And it's high time
Cymbaline
It's high time
Cymbaline
Please wake me

Pink Floyd

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Manhattan





"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur."
Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

The Flatiron Building
























The 22-story Flatiron Building, at the intersection of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and 23rd Street, is instantly recognizable for its triangular shape. At the time of completion in 1902, it was among the first and tallest of New York City’s signature skyscrapers. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1989. During the US financial crisis, a top Italian real-estate investment firm, Sorgente Holdings, acquired majority stock in the iconic Flatiron Building. Their long-range plan is to turn the building into a luxury hotel. Since many of the current leases will not expire for ten years, this is a long term project. To Americans, weary of the strains of national debt, it is just another signal of the “melting pot” melting. This purchase of yet another American icon did not shock the country as badly as when Rockefeller Center fell into foreign hands in 1989, a purchase of Japan’s Mitsubishi Group. Still, it carries symbolic weight, as international investors take advantage of the upheaval in the real estate market and the weakness of the US dollar. Overseas investors are jumping into Manhattan’s office market as prices fall and landlords struggle to refinance debt, in numbers that stagger the mind. 
(by Rap361)


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Friday, August 26, 2011

Recreation


Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris June 2010.


Fri Aug 26, 2011
This week's challenge:
'Recreation'.



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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Sudden Moments






















but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Friday, August 19, 2011

Thunders


Raindrops on 14th Street. NYC
Tomorrow back to Mexico City
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

New York Walks 2


Chinatown
11th Street
South Ferry Station
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New York Walks



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