by the sea side

via where the cool things are

1945 style

via The Sartorialist

My Endless New York

To be sure, we all have our complaints. And while there is no other city where I could imagine living, there are many places that, for different purposes, I would rather be. But this too is a very New York sentiment. Chance made me an American, but I chose to be a New Yorker. I probably always was.

- Tony Judt
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Image here

dance dance dance

look at the photos above from
The Beautiful Ballerina Project by Dane Shitagi.

and then watch the video below of bodies in motion

IRC Dance Movement

oh how i love to dance

sketches of the city

dream come true in pen and ink

russian delight

these photos from Russia 1909-1912 are amazing

i sat for decades

allen ginsburg

I sat for decades at morning breakfast tea looking out my kitchen window, one day recognized my own world the familiar background, a giant wet brick-walled undersea Atlantis garden, waving ailanthus ("stinkweed") "Trees of Heaven," with chimney pots along Avenue A topped by Stuyvesant Town apartments' upper floors two blocks distant on 14th Street, I focus'd on the raindrops along the clothesline. "Things are symbols of themselves," said Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. New York City August 18, 1984