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Aug. 25th, 2009 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThis is my favorite piece of public art I've ever seen. Hands down. I just loved it from the moment I laid eyes on it.
This is Forms In Transit, created by Theodore Roszak for the 1964-65 World's Fair in Queens, New York.
To me, this is the golden age of sci-fi, the exuberant optimism of the height of the space age, and timeless retro-futurism all rolled into one. I adore it.
I'd love nothing more than to come back here and use my 50mm prime wide-open to shoot this piece, and turn the background into a smooth, creamy blur; just the sculpture and it's pedestal and the bush in sharp focus. Ah well; I was in a hurry trying to see everything, and that's ok. (Oh, that's Arthur Ashe stadium in the background where the US Open is held.)
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Despite feeling icky yesterday, I washed my laundry, cleaned the cat-boxes, caught up on the budget (as well as recalculating all the sums to take into account the changed income![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moiracoon has due to being unemployed) and went out to buy dinner for the 'coonie, since she wasn't feeling so good either. Go-go workin' dog!
Tonight, once I get home, I'm going to try and catch up on paying all the bills and writing my cursed check for my student loan that I keep managing to forget to send on time because they won't let me manage my account with them online (which would let me keep up with it better) because if I haven't been on time with it five months in a row, I can't have internet access. Yes, it's my own fault for not getting it on time, but really; why make it harder for people to use tools that would make it easier to give them money?
I'm soooo tired today. But I was still up to walking over to meetrileybear67 for lunch near her place of employment. We walked to a Subway for food and I enjoyed seeing the architecture of the Wrigley Building and the Tribune Tower again (not to mention some very pleasant company!). I love this city!
This is Forms In Transit, created by Theodore Roszak for the 1964-65 World's Fair in Queens, New York.
To me, this is the golden age of sci-fi, the exuberant optimism of the height of the space age, and timeless retro-futurism all rolled into one. I adore it.
I'd love nothing more than to come back here and use my 50mm prime wide-open to shoot this piece, and turn the background into a smooth, creamy blur; just the sculpture and it's pedestal and the bush in sharp focus. Ah well; I was in a hurry trying to see everything, and that's ok. (Oh, that's Arthur Ashe stadium in the background where the US Open is held.)
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Despite feeling icky yesterday, I washed my laundry, cleaned the cat-boxes, caught up on the budget (as well as recalculating all the sums to take into account the changed income
moiracoon has due to being unemployed) and went out to buy dinner for the 'coonie, since she wasn't feeling so good either. Go-go workin' dog!Tonight, once I get home, I'm going to try and catch up on paying all the bills and writing my cursed check for my student loan that I keep managing to forget to send on time because they won't let me manage my account with them online (which would let me keep up with it better) because if I haven't been on time with it five months in a row, I can't have internet access. Yes, it's my own fault for not getting it on time, but really; why make it harder for people to use tools that would make it easier to give them money?
I'm soooo tired today. But I was still up to walking over to meet
rileybear67 for lunch near her place of employment. We walked to a Subway for food and I enjoyed seeing the architecture of the Wrigley Building and the Tribune Tower again (not to mention some very pleasant company!). I love this city!
