Life and Times

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Hope for the future. #heroes #withpowercomesresponsibility

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Baltimore from the27th floor of the WTC. (Taken with instagram)

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LKT showdown musical chair (Taken with instagram)

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Test cramming time (Taken with instagram)

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Late night coffee #decaf (Taken with instagram)

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Yup (Taken with instagram)

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"The Beach" (Taken with instagram)

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59th Street/Lexington Avenue-59th Street Station // 4, 5, 6, N, R, W subway trains Elizabeth Murray: Blooming, 1996 Glass mosaic

Riders at this station are treated to the joyous burst of color and shapes that is Blooming. The mosaics defy the corners of the space as the imagery wraps around corners, down steps, and through doorways.

Elizabeth Murray’s Blooming takes its title from Bloomingdale’s, located above the station upstairs. The artist views the subway as a “dreamy underworld” and also a place to wake up, and her pink trees, red shoes and yellow mugs with steaming coffee succeed in gaining the viewers’ attention. Murray says, “I added the stepping shoes and steaming coffee cups, part of the ritual of every morning or evening subway trip.” The images are intended to “stimulate thoughts about passage, as does the poetry” that is incorporated into the mural, lines from William Butler Yeats’s, “In dreams begin responsibility,” and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.”

The bottom two photos are of the space before the mosaic was installed. What a difference!

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Cool ad in wired magazine (Taken with instagram)

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Basketball @ Burdick (Taken with Instagram at Burdick Hall (BU))

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Happy Birthday François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 - 21 October 1984)

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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

Søren Kierkegaard (via forbiddenalleys)