Saturday, April 19, 2008

Pictures Found on My Cell Phone

I recently discovered that I haven't deleted pictures from my cell phone for the last eight months. Going through the pictures I kind of relived some of the past adventures J. and I have gone on and other events in our lives. The majority were taken prior to our getting a new digital camera, yet, there are a few that are from after that point in time. It's so much easier to whip out your cell phone and take a picture, then remembering to bring your camera with you where ever you go. Or at least that is how it is for me. Here are some the images that I found, in no particular order.
J. and I went to PS. 1's 2007 Warm Up. We ended up going on the opening weekend and got there around 2pm. We were some of the first people to arrive, so the entire setting was quite pristine and untouched. The project was titled Liquid Sky and was designed by Ball-Nogues and was a canopy of tinted mylar petals. Here is a closer picture of the mylar petals:
We actually ended up spending the entire day in Long Island City and ended up having dinner at a pretty decent seafood shack right near where you catch the water taxis.

One Saturday in July, J. and I decided that we wanted to explore Roosevelt Island. Neither of had ever been there and we also wanted to ride the tram. The ride was fun, but short. Once out on the Island we walked from one end to other, which is really easy to do in less than an hour. Saw the crazy currents that collide at the north point of the Island, forming a whirlpool and momentarily thought about the possibility of moving to Roosevelt Island. Then we remembered the movie Dark Water with Jennifer Connelly; how our friends would probably visit us once a year simply for the novelty of coming to Roosevelt Island; that there was only one grocery store and a Chinese food restaurant and the architecture was mostly 1960s urban utopian style and kind of grim and we quickly forgot about that notion. At the south end of the Island are the ruins of the smallpox hospital. Roosevelt Island was known in the 19th century as Welfare Island and housed several hospitals, asylums and correctional institutions. Recently a portion of the smallpox hospital ruins collapsed. I'm trying to reformat the picture of the small pox hospital ruins we took. Instead here is a view of Manhattan from Roosevelt Island:
My problem is that I think I need photoshop in order to fix the pictures I downloaded from my cell phone. Very frustrating.

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