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Cityscapes project, from PSFK

Cityscapes by Marc Yankus (New York, NY)

“In moments of transient repose, when its elements are briefly cloaked in softness, a kind of beauty envelops even the most mundane street scenes.”

The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
Imagination is the ability to enter someone else’s mind. To penetrate another’s experience. To feel what another feels: to see the world as they see it, to suffer their pain, participate in their sins and in their triumphs, loves, fears and hopes. Imagination is a product of memory and [...]

Rainy Day - pretty, but…

More information about Elizabeth Patterson at the LA Times.
A discussion of John Updike’s ‘pointilist description’ of raindrops on a windscreen (see below) at Paper Cuts.
Its panes were strewn with drops that as if by amoebic decision wouldabruptly merge and break and jerkily run downward, and the windowscreen, like a sampler half-stitched, or a crossword puzzle [...]