Casting a long shadow

The view from the High Line always give me a thrilling sense of omniscience; I was reminded of this again Sunday, seeing both the water towers and the shadows they cast on a nearby building.

To reach the top

A sloping, tiered wall, with grass peeking from behind, near Dia:Beacon. 

Main Street, Beacon, snow

I'm always a sucker for old storefronts and signs; this shot is from January 21 on Main Street in Beacon, New York.

Library love

In Beacon last weekend, the town was pretty quiet because it had just snowed. Without many people on the streets, we got to admire the book-related art on the main drag. Looks like there's lots of great stuff going on at the Howland Public Library!

Trees in transit

On the train out of the city and up to Dia:Beacon, I couldn't resist taking a few snapshots as we flashed northward. The first snow of the new year hung frail on the bare trees.

Come to my window

From a side street in Singapore's Chinatown.

Flickr and fade

Oh, if only I lived in Amsterdam! At The Future of the Photography Museum, Foam offers an exhibition that includes the above: Erik Kessels made prints of every photograph uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. In the Creative Review, Kessels said, "[The content of] image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines ... mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and un-selfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples' experiences."

I can't help but wonder: What 24 hours? Did I upload something then? Could there be a picture of my cat at the bottom of that very pile?

Halloween on the horizon

It's a beautiful, beautiful day today; a great day to walk around Astoria. These balloons were floating above the fray of Steinway.

Upon reflection

Sumeet's eye is excellent; these are just two snaps (with an Instagram filter applied, I think) near his office.

Tens of tiny dogs

Peter Funch, Following Followers

I'm blown away by Peter Funch's series Babel Tales. Basically, Funch parks himself on a street corner and takes picture after picture (after picture after picture). Then, later, he appraises the pictures, finds a common thread, and makes something new: a horde of dogs being walked in front of a restaurant, an army of tourists posing underneath a digital billboard in Times Square, mouths gaping in yawns as far as the eye can see.

Jasper Elg, of V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, writes:

His uncanny work raises questions of reality contra fiction and challenges our notion of photography as being a depiction of a certain moment in time. Peter Funch's works are documents of moments that never existed as they are composed of several hundred moments taken over the duration of several weeks for each piece.