This weeks census stats show New Yorkers have the 2nd worse daily commute. Read it here.
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This weeks census stats show New Yorkers have the 2nd worse daily commute. Read it here.
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Photography © Travis Ruse • photoblogs.org • listed
but such a visually interesting one (commute)...
Somehow the floating styrofoam in the still water seems to make the image. Thumbs up.
uhmmm interesting comment John, I was thinking the only thing that "bothers" me of this picture is the floating styrofoam...
There are pictures where the subtext is so loud, it overwhelms the image. If Anabelle is hearing "environmental waste, a subset of a monstrous disaster" she probably can't see the stark contrasts of color planes that moved John.
The artist is not complicit in the disaster, so I am with John, but I understand Anabelle's point of view. I would submit that loving this picture (as I do) for its aesthetic qualities is not endorsing the use nor the waste of styrofoam. It is my fondest hope that my grandchildren have to ask me what is that stuff - when we go see the Travis retrospective at MOMA on some future date.
I vote for the styrofoam (in the photo only!), but I wish the blue had been grayed down. Love it anyway.
The styrofoam does jump out at you but now I am not sure if it's due to the color contrasts or you folks focusing me on it.
I like the lighting around the business signage across the street in contrast of the dark at the subway exit. Going from the unclean to the cleaners....and pizza....
he he he David, I totally agree with your comment!
I like the container in the picture, both visually and simbolically, and, personally, I think it is actually the main "point of interest" in the image. It makes th story behind the photo. You can ask yourself if the man threw it there himself? or why did he not pick it up? Are we so used to this that we do not care anymore about the issue?
BUT OH MY GOD !!! --> you're out ! :-)
It's so odd to pull up TravisRuse.com and find myself above ground!
I love Korean letter characters even they don't mean anything to me. And twilight pictures too.
Ask now not where the foam will fall
But what
Has it held?
just found ur site and i think this pictures is one of my favorite ones..though of course i just got here so my mind will probably change freely as the time passes...