Thursday Links
As seen this week:
- Found a new addition to my RSS reader this week: Web Urbanist. It may end up being too trendy and hip for me, but for now I'm thoroughly enjoying both the subject matter and the writing style.
- Incidentally, Web Urbanist recently put up some classic, texture rich color photos of abandoned hotels, churches, and hospitals. Who isn't a sucker for photographs like these? They reminded me of a photo book I absolutely fell in love with sometime in spring 2007: Stephen Wilkes' Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom. I just wish I had the extra cash to buy this book instead of just looking at the whole thing over the course of an hour in the Barnes & Noble.
- 1000 Words Photography just featured some interesting work by Pawel Jaszczuk. I thought it was some sort of commentary on the the quasi-homeless drunks that inhabit our subways. Then I thought to myself, "that guy is wearing a pretty nice suit," and read the description. Salaryman is actually about white-collar Japanese workers, among whom heavy drinking is "naturally accepted" as a "compulsory catharsis" to escape from their high-stress jobs. Apparently these scenes are more the rule than the exception.
- Maxim photo editor Kelly Stuart was riding the NYC subway at around 12:30 a.m. on election night when a group of people unfurled a giant American flag in the subway car and everyone started singing the national anthem. How often do you see that kind of patriotism while using public transportation? I don't care who you voted for, that's really nice.
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