
Looking Downtown







For the explanation of this post title, see Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
from swerve of shore to bend of bay


Atop the Guinness Storehouse is the Gravity Bar, a glass enclosure providing views across Dublin
Developers are putting up hideous new skyscrapers along the South end of the park, supported to a great extent, by anonymous foreigners who are laundering, or otherwise caching money in NY real estate. These shadow-throwing structures often remain unoccupied and are owned by the innermost company of a series of shell companies. May they fade away as they appear to here.


A friend who works downtown was able to let me up to the 64th floor of 1 World Trade Center for a project I’m working on. Even fro a jaded New Yorker like myself, the views take your breath away. More to come.




It’s the law in Chicago that all tourists must take photographs of the lovely mirrored sculpture, the Bean:



Summer series of outdoor French films. This particular evening, Jean Renoir’s Elena et les Hommes with Ingrid Bergman, selected by her daughter, Isabella Rossellini, shown on Pier I sticking out from Riverside Park into the Hudson River, New Jersey in the background. This is a shot of the animated, psychedelic short they showed first.

We got a bit of snow last week…



This scene never ceases to draw my lens.