Tag: graffiti
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 63/365
Hi from another one of a series of gray rainy days in Germany. So many things keep drawing me back to the streets with my camera and we are now going on over 25 years! One of those things is a memorable moment, where everything comes together to encapsulate a memory. A smile, a story,…
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Anonymity~ the great gift of urbanism
The most difficult thing about change is to not be allowed to do so. In a big city change is a way of life and conformity can be easily pushed aside to make room for a journey of personal development. But then there are some rare villages and tribes where personal development is championed above…
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Day 17~ November 17th~ New York
There was a time in the late 80’s and early 90’s when Soho and its converted lofts and warehouses, was home to art and artists that were seeking a place far enough from the mundane to be able to create. It was a time when this area felt so unique, so inspiring and so special.…
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Day 10~ November 10th~ New York
In a dense city like New York, having a rooftop or access to one is as precious as gold. It the place where you can ‘breathe’, where you can see a part of the sky that is larger than a matchbox and it is in many ways like going on vacation. So many things take…
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Day 7~ November 7th~ New York
Everyone has something to say, a message to relay, an opinion to voice, a word to put in, that’s how a city gets its unique urban color. photo~ Dumbo~ Brooklyn
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Day Three Hundred Forty Nine, January 6, 2011
You can see it every day in this city, a new demolitions site, another traditional neighborhood condemned to destruction and giving way to the race for a future city of sky scrapers. Imagine having to pack up all your belongings on a whim and move to a new world with no history, no character and…
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Day Three Hundred Forty One, December 29, 2011
The morning after a snowstorm, when all is still… Is it the color white? The purity of the snow? The softness of the crystal blanket? What is it that forces us into a humble silence and a deep state of contemplation? Is it the fact that a new canvas is set and all the past…
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Day Two Hundred Thirty Three, September 12, 2011
Smoke screens, we all have them, don’t we? We present a face to the world, an identity, an image, a made up representation of who we want others to think we are. It is often rougher than we are, sharper, tougher, with an edge and with a certain amount of vagueness. We protect our inner…
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Day Two Hundred Thirty Two, September 11, 2011
re·bel·lionNoun/riˈbelyən/ 1. An act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler. 2. The action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention: “an act of teenage rebellion“. A fascinating phenomenon, most certainly on the rise in our world today, rebellion is a symptom of the young rejecting the control of the…
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Day Two Hundred Twenty, August 30, 2011
Please meet this sweet couple. They live in a small room at the entrance of a construction site on a Shanghai street. The bikes behind them belong to some of the workers on the site. They were in their little home doing housework when I passed by with my camera, we exchanged smiles and I…