March 27, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Hudson River Park is one of my favorite places in New York City. But there’s one part of the park that I really love and that’s the remnants of Pier 54 just below 14th Street.
At the moment, Pier 54 is a gigantic slab of concrete and gravel that extends quite far into the Hudson River. It’s very wide and very long and every time I go, there are only a few people making use of one of the larger flat surfaces in and around New York City. I love going in there to just ride circles on my bike or walk around and look across to New Jersey.
I don’t know why more people don’t make use of the space as it is free to enter. But hey, for now, I’m really liking that it’s so quiet and desolate there.
Today, I was there just killing some time and I decided to take a 180-degree panorama of the view towards the East. Click on the image above for a larger version.
January 18, 2008 @ 11:23 am
The perception of each other – how Germans see Chinese
Yang Liu was born in China but moved to Germany to be educated. Having grown up in two very different places with very different traditions, Yang Liu was able to experience first-hand what the underlying differences were between the two cultures.
With a people’s perspective on it it all, Yang Liu has created these posters and images using simple symbols and shapes to convey just how different the two cultures are. The blue side is Germany and the red side is China.
When I first saw this project, I was immediately amazed at how true it all was. Of course, these are still large generalizations of a culture as a whole, but the fact that I recognize just about every single one of these is just a bit funny to me. Even funnier is that I can not only relate to the Chinese portion of the image, but I can relate somewhat to the German side too since this semester was basically German-town for me here in Australia (the bulk of my friends were from Germany).
Click inside to see some of my favorites from this project.
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