Posts Tagged ‘Statue of Liberty’
ocean and firmament
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Bedeviling, the fog has occasionally opened during the last week.
One such aperture provided this moment on the harbor, when an NYPD Harbor Patrol Launch came crashing across my point of view. Launch No. 36 would likely be what the boat is called by the Gendarme, and that’s the USCG Eagle anchored nearby the Statue of Liberty.
This Maritime Sunday falls on a holiday weekend, and your humble narrator finds himself in ever stranger and more dire predicaments whilst moving about the great human infestation.
All is odd.
visual landmarks
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Just a short posting, as today isn’t just maritime sunday, it’s also Easter Sunday at this- your Newtown Pentacle. Enjoy the holiday, unlike the crews of the many Tugs which are undoubtedly hard at work while you’re reading this.
songs and dreams
– photo by Mitch Waxman
One of my pedantic philosophies, oft repeated to European relatives and acquaintances, is “We all know the uncomfortable truth of America, but it’s the myth that we need to believe in”. This sort of sophistry has always been the provence of artists and bohemians, radicals and writers- not the average joe.
Lately, it seems that the myth has been left out of the curriculum, and that it’s the patients who are running the asylum. Everyone I talk to, it seems, is disillusioned- in the literal sense of the word.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As slave masters go, the fellow depicted in the sculpture above- which sits at the foot of a bridge in Brooklyn- seems to been an ok one, at least according to oral tradition and learned opinions.
Can you be a good slave master though?
That’s the truth.
Cannot tell a lie, honor and fealty, liberty and justice for all.
That’s the myth, and I’ll take it.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It would be childish to not discuss the state of perpetual and unending war, or the inequity of a system that punishes the weak and wounded. One may not forget about original sin, or betrayed friends, or the vagaries of jingoism. What we may not forget is the myth.
I think it’s really important to try and remember about Superman, and Captain America too.
NY Harbor
– stitched panorama of NY Harbor – photo by Mitch Waxman
Just a picture today, but one heck of a picture.
Shot from a moving boat leaving Erie Basin in Red Hook on its way to the Kill Van Kull separating Staten Island and New Jersey, this image represents six 15 megapixel photos which have been joined together. Clicking the image will present a nearly full size, GIGANTIC, image which tracks horizontally across NY Harbor- from the Statue of Liberty all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Its a pretty cool thing, I tell you, in its bigness.
As is always the case with a “stitched panorama” image, I left the seams open.
The Newtown Pentacle 