Category: Urban
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Easter Sunday Along the Schuylkill River Banks
The east and west banks of the Schuylkill River are part of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park which — at 4,180 acres — is the largest landscaped park in the United States. Following are a few pictures captured on Easter Sunday along the east bank of this majestic river. Flowering trees, a sparkling blue river, bridges, and…
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Dax Riggs at the Kung Fu Necktie
A Brooklyn e-zine calls his music “swampy dark-blues.” Living music legend Henry Rollins calls his work “re-defining Blues music.” And Dax Rigg’s own website declares: “It sounds like voodoo, feels like redemption and puts off heat like a burning oil rig.” Philadelphia music fans had a chance to define it for themselves when the Louisiana native…
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Boston Gallery
A weekend trip to Boston — six hours from Philly by car in free-flowing traffic — yielded the following images.
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Seattle Architecture
The twin towers of the Westin Seattle are 47 and 40 stories high, respectively, and were constructed between 1969 and 1982. Fun fact: The towers were featured on the cover of the Modest Mouse album, The Lonesome Crowded West. Westin Seattle, (2013)
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Philadelphia Dreaming
Philadelphia Dreaming is a simple digital collage created by blending two jpeg images. The image below left was found via Google image search using the search term “Philadelphia skyline view.” The image below right is a photo collage based on the painting, “Flaming June,” by Sir Frederic Leighton. Each image was scaled to match the…
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