Gallery IX. New York 2002.
Click all images to enlarge. They're pretty big tho'. 'Round 50-100k.
New York: The Great Global Experiment. There's nothing like it anywhere. Everything is free. Everything moves. Money, people, information, media. The city is a living organism. Times Square is liquid. Every surface is alive with light and motion. The subway is a soup of people where you can overhear conversations in languages you've never heard before. And New Yorkers are the friendliest people I've ever had the pleasure to meet. I was a little apprehensive on this trip; I haven't been back to New York since September 11. When I got into the city a sense of relief came over me. The city was still jumping, buildings were going up left and right, trucks, cabs, buses, everyone was hustling. New Yorkers are the toughest people on earth and they won't stop for anyone. New York is alive and well and is giving a big fuck you to the terrorists.
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| On the way to New York we stopped in Cooperstown; home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is Starsmars with the bat that Babe Ruth hit the called homerun with. | Apparently Cooperstown is also home of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Poor soccer. It tried so hard and failed so miserably. I think Sideshow Mel said it best at the Continental Soccer Association's Portugal/Mexico match: "I can't bear this anymore. I'm leaving." |
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| The Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum is just a few doors down from the Hall of Fame. Apparently, George W. is one of the heroes of baseball. I wanted to get a picture from closer up and with Starsmars' arm around him but the figure was clearly marked "Don't touch!" | On the first night in the States, before we headed into the city. Starsmars made me stay in the Blair Witch house. It was in the middle of nowhere and contained only some abandoned furniture. There were no carpets and no bathroom. I was only able to get 4 hours sleep because I was so scared. It belonged to her aunt who died in February unfortunately. I begged her to let us go to a motel but her dad would have none of it saying he was too tired. I wondered how tired someone would have to be before deciding that it wasn't worth his while to go to a heated motel with running water. Meh. |
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| Here's the sign attached to the front of the house. When we got to the house it was too dark to see it. | Crossroads of the world. |
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| More Times Square. | Here's a picture I took trying to capture what walking down the street in NYC is like. You're literally being swept along by an ocean of people. If you don't keep up you get the dreaded "Get out of my way tourist." |
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| The Ed Sullivan Theater. | A crowd waits outside the Hello Deli while the Late Show is taping. The Deli is around the corner from the Ed Sullivan theater and is often featured on the show. |
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| 42nd street. | More 42nd street. |
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| Starsmars' Mecca: The Sanrio store. 42nd street. | Times Square at night. The American flag made up of fluorescent lights is the side of the Armed Forces recruiting center right in the center of Times Square. It's directly opposite the NYPD Times Square Precinct. |
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| More Times Square at night with the MTV store in the foreground. | 45th St. |
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| A river of red light on 42nd. | We went on a tour of Yankee Stadium. I took this from the press box. |
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| HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! I'M IN THE YANKEES DUGOUT!!!! | 86th floor of the once-again tallest building in New York: The Empire State Building. Those metal fingers are the suicide barriers. |
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| West 63rd St. YMCA. This Y was featured in a couple of Seinfelds. Remember when Kramer wanted to take notes on showering? This is where he went. | Leaving the city. I have to say that Starsmars is a great NYC driver. She's so crazy taxi! |
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| I love this town. | This is how cars are parked in NYC. |
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| Starsmars made it to Carnegie Hall after all. | Stuck in traffic in Times Square. |
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