Late, late last night I was flipping through the pages of my latest copy of the New Yorker magazine. Several unusual photographs drew my eye to the article Up And Then Down by Nick Paumgarten. The elevator, underrated and overlooked, is to the city what paper is to reading and gunpowder is to war. Without the elevator there would be no verticality, no density. Eleven billion elevator trips are made each year in New York City. Otis elevator estimates that it transports the equivalent of the world's population every five days. Elevator professionals claim that elevators are ten times as safe as escalators. While there are roughly twenty times as many elevators as escalators, there are only a third more elevator accidents.
I have always been fascinated by the night lights of New York City, especially around Times Square. I've struggled to find the best method to process my images. The final results often fail to capture the energy of the scene as viewed from my mind's eye. Batik holds promise.
Some new additions to the Christmas card portfolio, with a New York setting.
If you are planning a visit to New York City, or not, you may enjoy reading: Bryant Park, one of the most sensual, graceful open spaces in New York City.
The creature, called Swamp Thing, was originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating into a vegetable-like creature, a "muck-encrusted mockery of a man". However, under writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was reinvented as an elemental entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, with Holland's memory and personality intact. He is described as "a plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant that was trying its level best to be Alec Holland."
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950's, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.
Waldo County, situated in mid-coast Maine along scenic Penobscot Bay, has genuine New England character evidenced by working port towns and quaint rural villages. Visitors are awed by the area's unspoiled beauty. From striking coastal views to sweeping mountain vistas, dramatic natural settings abound. In addition great care has been taken to preserve and refurbish numerous historic landmarks, homes and buildings. Consequently, the Maine of yesteryear is still found here.
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