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Remedios Varo, nacer de nuevo (born again), 1960

“The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three ignores the famous verticality of New York to extoll its horizontal underbelly. Cinematographer Owen Roizman builds the movie around horizontal compositions: tunnels, train cars, gun barrels, rows of desks in low-ceilinged rooms. It’s a horizontal movie to represent a city lying flat on its back. When the city’s famous skyline appears, after 40 minutes of thrilling claustrophobia, it almost feels sarcastic.”

— A great review of a great movie

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Aside from my friends and family, and maybe Cook Out combo meals, the thing I miss most about North Carolina is having a porch. Some of the best times of my life have been spent on porches and patios, and it’s so nice to start or end a day with a coffee or a beer on the porch, and augh it has always bummed me out that it’s next to impossible to afford your own private outdoor space in New York.

So this past weekend I made my own!

And something about this feels symbolic - like, I’ve decided I can try working WITH New York instead of beating my head against the parts I don’t like.

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Surreal Book and Lamp Installations by Rune Guneriussen Illuminate Norway’s Forests

Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen moves elements of domestic life into the outdoors, producing large installations built from books, lamps, and other displaced objects. His works are placed in remote areas of Norway’s forest, and either balance precariously in a selected location or illuminate a particular patch of the surrounding wooded environment. “It is not as much photography as it is about sculpture and installation,” says Guneriussen in an artist statement. “…This process involves the object, story, space and most important the time it is made within. It is an approach to the balance between nature and human culture, and all the sublevels of our own existence.”