The Rim Fire is pretty well contained, but the area around Yosemite still has air-quality issues. Below, two views of the blanket of smoke that settled over Confidence each morning this weekend -- strangely beautiful, and yet unnerving.
Winging my way to CA
Traveling again, and reading Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost, which is fitting:
Airplane flights are usually from city to city, but in between are the untrodden realms to which you can only give approximate labels -- somewhere in Newfoundland, somewhere in Nebraska or the Dakotas. From miles up in the sky, the land looks like a map of itself, but without any of the points of reference that make maps make sense. The oxbows and mesas out the window are anonymous, unfathomable, a map without words.
Street style
Fashion Week is upon us again, but Manhattan isn't all tents and spring previews: sometimes fashion is letters cut from colored paper or black canvas shoes abandoned outside the art-supply shop.
Oh, Chinatown
In back streets, an oasis.
Changing Queens
A view of construction near Queens Plaza, as viewed from the Queensboro Bridge; to quote a Luc Sante essay (in turn quoting Rem Koolhaas), "New York is a city that will be replaced by another city."
Cartoonish scrawl
Pacmen dance along a railing outside a store on Steinway.
Inside the yellow megaphone
A new sculpture, a giant red-and-yellow wooden megaphone, is up at Socrates Sculpture Park. New pieces are still being installed, and I couldn't find a sign indicating the artist behind the work, but it's great fun: you can stick your head in the sculpture and sing out to the East River, as I saw several people do today.
Good morning
A cup of tea to start your day?
Recently ...
... I've been under the weather, but there are still sights to see -- to wit, flags on Northern Boulevard, and graffiti under the Pulaski Bridge.
Another kind of street art
I've come to think of NYC streets as galleries in and of themselves, but this takes the idea to another level: just another afternoon in Astoria.
Fount
A lovely silhouette of a fountain near Central Park.
Recent street art roundup
From Astoria to Greenpoint to Midtown Manhattan, a few snapshots of street art -- I thought the "You're too needy" stickers slapped over earlier "Love me" ones were rather clever.
