[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-guggenheim-manhattan-rambles":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm going to blog about MoCCA and Stumptown festivals soon, but I want to dig up the names of people I met and add web links; right now jet-lag feels like there's a little man running around inside my head, kicking the walls of it as hard as he can. So I'll keep it simple and just post some photos I took from my first day in New York City. For some reason, I'd never been to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guggenheim.org/\">Guggenheim Museum\u003C/a>, and I was very curious about the building and their collection of Kandinsky paintings, so that's the first place I went. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guggenheim4-264ea54b4c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a page from my notebook. Art galleries always give me lots of story ideas and painting tips, but I have to jot them down or I forget them.  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guggenheim2-087b684767.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos and sketchbook under the cut-->\\r\nIf I'd had more time, I would've sketched these tiers of the gallery. I love how the people become calligraphic marks, abstracted because you can only see parts of their dark figures.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guggenheim6-48c4ef3d2d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guggenheim1-2f9d24ec9c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guggenheim3-9d438bb975.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'd spent the whole day before cooped up on airplanes, so I took a long walk from the Guggenheim on 89th, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, 73 blocks down Fifth Avenue to 16th, where I met up with my friends Brynn and Chris for a tour of Google (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/389933.html\">earlier blog post about that here\u003C/a>). Here are a few more pictures of those water towers on the skyline that I liked so much.  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_9-3bbf64754f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou could play a fun 'spot the water tower' game in New York. Split a group into teams, give each team a camera, set a time limit, then see how many water towers they could snap in that time (kind of like my \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/71219.html\">Spot-the-Wharf\u003C/a> game). Okay, yeah, that's a kind of nerdy idea. But, hey.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_3-7c2d925e40.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_4-5c811ae5a3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI like these pipes you see dotted around; this one looks like a Chinese dragon.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_5-a842508546.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSome of the signs seem a bit strange. I mean, what's a 'Hollow Sidewalk'? Does it have a tunnel underneath? And that 'Siamese Standpipe' with two heads, is that a slightly un-PC reference to conjoined twins? \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_1-7aea198115.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis lovely building's starting to crumble; the sign above it door reads \u003Ci>The New York House and Society of Industry, 1878\u003C/i>. I found a short \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/06/realestate/streetscapes-new-york-house-school-industry-where-poor-learned-plain-fine-sewing.html\">NY Times article\u003C/a> about it that says it's a place 'where the poor learned 'plain and fine sewing'.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_8-a9f70715e8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI just liked the colours and lettering on these signs.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_6-ebaf65ad7a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI popped into Pearl Paint and bought some pens and a tin of coloured pencils.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/manhattan_2-c7d1ec44a1.jpg\">","2011-04-21T22:01:00.000Z","guggenheim-manhattan-rambles",[],"guggenheim & manhattan rambles",1776628720011]