Self-Reporting

Two women taking photos in a busy urban environment, with one smiling and holding a smartphone, while the other captures an image with a handheld camera.
Times Square, New York

Seems like if you don’t photograph yourself somewhere, then the place, or maybe you, don’t exist. Almost everyone I saw in Times Square was busy photographing or videoing themselves, so they could prove to their followers that they’d been.

The School for Children Who Don’t Need it

A promotional banner for Gilded Lily Nursery School advertising enrollment, featuring an image of a mother and child interacting with educational blocks, with greenery and an American flag visible in the background.
East 96th Street, New York

To gild the lily:

  1. To embellish or improve something unnecessarily. 
  2. To add superfluous attributes to something. 
  3. Make unnecessary additions to what is already complete. 
  4. Adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful). 

Opening the Honoring Eye

Yesterday at the Terrain Gallery in New York’s SoHo, The Honoring Eye exhibit opened. In case you missed it, the show will be running thought the first quarter of next year (2027) and here are a couple of snaps and a few seconds of video of the event that my daughter captured on her phone.

https://youtube.com/shorts/XaTvVCJvWYQ?si=oN7NrAFgWHEYGV6I