Selasa, 15 Januari 2013

Rude Boy - Day 123

Rude Boy - Day 123
baby photo album
Image by Vox Efx
Photography/Travel Blog~Flickr~Twitter

From Wiki
Controversy is Prince's 4th album, released October 14, 1981. For the most part, the album was an expansion of its predecessor, 1980's Dirty Mind. The title track is a funk workout, where Prince seems to be bored of the media attention he was receiving. "Do Me, Baby" is a classic Prince ballad, with falsetto whoops and camp outbursts peppering the track. "Private Joy" is an upbeat, synthesizer romp layered with saucy innuendo. "Let's Work" is a highlight, based on a funky bass line with a stripped down synth-funk sound, foreshadowing Prince's next album, 1999. "Annie Christian" is an odd political number with sinister lyrics. The album finishes with the rather crude rockabilly ode to mutual masturbation, "Jack U Off." This record was considered to be his most political to date. The album was also an important stepping stone from his early works to the more mature song writing of the mid 1980s.


baby ofra (photos from my grandmother's albums)
baby photo album
Image by Shira Golding


my grandmother and me
baby photo album
Image by Shira Golding


I`m game
baby photo album
Image by यश
thats my photo album in my lap. 30th november 1989. Divya is 3 months old.


Hey, would you like to borrow this kid for a week or two? He's kinda heavy, and my back is getting sore...
baby photo album
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in an Aug 29, 2010 NYC Everyblock blog, titled "1011." It was also published in a Sep 30, 2010 blog titled " Just Enter an Email Address and Get Free Stuff For New Baby."

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As I noted in two earlier Flickr albums (The High Line - June 2009 and Return to the High Line - Jul 2009), a relatively recent Wikipedia article reports that "the High Line has replaced an abandoned 1.45-mile (2.33-km) section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of Manhattan between 20th Street and Gansevoort Street in the West Village. The High Line was originally built in the early 1930s by the New York Central and has been unused as a rail line since 1980. Part of it reopened as a city park on June 8, 2009."

Since its opening in June, the High Line park has gotten quite a lot of publicity -- including a June 10, 2009 Huffington Post blog/article titled "Story of Reusing the City: Welcome to High Line," and a June 15-22, 2009 New York magazine article titled "The Twin Pleasures of the High Line: A Petite New Park, and a District of Lively Architecture" (the online version of which seems to be much more sparsely illustrated than the hard-copy version, though I've just been alerted to the existence of a PDF image of the photos from that New Yorker article, which you can find here).

I made an initial visit to the High Line a few days after it opened, and then returned about 6 weeks later to try to catch the sunset glow on the plants and the people. Unfortunately, the sun had disappeared behind some huge clouds on the New Jersey skyline just after I arrived on that second visit, so I didn't get quite the effect that I wanted. But it was interesting to see how much the plants had grown in the brief period since the first visit, and it was interesting also to see the throngs of people enjoying themselves on this warm summer evening.

I had intended to come back again shortly after Labor Day, but as so often happens, I got distracted by various other commitments and adventures. So an entire year went by before I came back again in August of 2010. The trees and plants have grown even taller, and the crowds seem to have gotten larger -- but the overall feeling of the High Line is still pretty much the same, and that's what I've tried to capture in this small collection of photos...

If you're interested in finding out more, the afore-mentioned Wikipedia article has a number of links to articles and other resources about the past, the present, and the future of the High Line...

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