A story in the paper today about “The Splasher,” a mysterious figure who runs around flinging splashes of paint at street art. It’s all a little bit ridiculous.
First, “the crime”: if you’re painting something illegally on the street, how angry can you get when someone puts paint on top of it? What’s the […]
An interesting paragraph in the New York Times today, buried in a story about development projects for Governors Island. Here’s the snippet that caught 291’s eye:
As all the design teams recognized, the magic comes from the island’s setting. It is surrounded by the Manhattan skyline to the north, the Brooklyn waterfront to the east […]
It looks like Nikon has sunk a lot of money into their latest marketing campaign, “Picture Town.” If you haven’t seen the ads, here’s the basic idea: Nikon hands out 200 of its new D40 digital SLR cameras to the people of a small, “All American” town a few miles outside of Myrtle Beach, […]
Tonight, after dinner, I stopped by the opening for Alex Webb’s “Istanbul” at the Sepia Gallery on 24th street. It was packed. Webb is a great photographer–he’s a member of Magnum, after all–but as I looked around, my longstanding doubts about street photography resurfaced. In particular, it seems that many of the […]
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