Tag Archives: Manhattan

Accidental Gehry

I know that photographing the reflections in office buildings is nothing new, but I still enjoy it quite a bit.

I love the way things get abstracted on its mirrored surface.  I couldn’t help to notice that the ordinarily right-angled building reflected on the left kind of resembles Frank Gehry‘s 8 Spruce Street‘s residential tower.

I wonder if his appreciation of all things abstract are also taken directly from the mundane architectural reality of building clusters like in these midtown Manhattan pictures.

Does anyone else stop to look at these psychedelic distortions? Well, it’s about fucking time, right?

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Remember my not exactly original Accidental Rothko posts? 1  2  3 

 

If These Walls Had Eyes..

From First Avenue, Manhattan.

Sunny Facade

From the Upper East Side, Manhattan.

No No No

From the Post Office on East 70th Street, Manhattan.

25 Of My Favorite Urban Abstractions of 2011

I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.

Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The Laboratory.

Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.

McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.

Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Building exterior close-up in London, England.

Rooftop gardening junk.

A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.

From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.

South Williamsburg street pattern.

Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.

An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.

A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.

A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.

Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.

Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.

Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.

From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.

A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.

Giant City Lego

From Houston Street, Manhattan.

 

Crackle-licious

From E. 61st Street, Manhattan

From North Henry Street, Brooklyn

Urban Canvas

Urban Canvas was a NYC design contest to pick four designs to use for temporary protective structures for construction sites, obviously in Manhattan and not Brooklyn.  Or maybe just places where they know they will actually complete the project.

From E. 70th Street, Manhattan

Super Exhaust

From the Second Avenue subway line  construction at E. 69th Street, Manhattan.

Sole Door

This is literally the only graffiti on Waverly Street near 6th Avenue in the West Village, Manhattan, all confined to a single door.