When news of the Underbelly Project’s subway station art show hit the Internet this weekend, subway lovers scrambled to adduce the site and quickly settled upon the South 4th Street subway shell. This is a six-track, IND station in South Williamsburg hidden from the public but identical to the station seen in the photos presented to the public by the Underbelly Project. To the uninitiated, this stop may sound like a phantom subway station. Isn’t the only 4th Street station at West 4th in Manhattan? What is this South 4th Street station? Where is it? And where do the trains that once serviced it go?
The polished rock walls of a Catholic church in northern Italy have been found to contain the skull of a dinosaur. “The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull,” paleontologist Andrea Tintori explained to Discovery News. “The image looks like a CT scan, and clearly shows the cranium, the nasal cavities, and numerous teeth.”
The skull itself was hewn in two; “indeed,” we read, “Tintori found a second section of the same skull in another slab nearby.”
You can read the full story, ‘Church of Plants Past’ here.
Pier 54 used to be really beautiful, a landing for luxury ships on Manhattan’s west side. The Titanic was supposed to land here, instead The Carpathia arrived bearing the survivors of the Titanic. The structure was torn down in 1991 in favor of the West Side Highway (gag).
As it is now it’s one of my favorite spots because there’s nothing on it, a rarity in Manhattan. Hardly any people use the two benches at the end so you can actually be alone there. Don’t tell anyone about it. I’ll try to go back and get some more photos of it soon.
Here’s a throwaway image from my cellphone.
this image looks to me like it was taken from a VHS ‘back in the day’.
Here is the pier in its glory days with The Lusitania docked along side.
There is a banner on the gate to the pier laying out some rough plans for a park there, they currently host concerts.
ENG // Series “Landmarks”
LANDMARKS is a project which sets up an anamorphosis made of light marks in the landscapes around Maribor. After selecting one landscape point of view she will keep until the end, the artist, assisted by her team, installs mirror systems according to pre-established brands, that reflect sunlight towards the lens. Various generic and geometric shapes then emerge from a commonplace landscape: a rectangle homothetic to the picture frame, a diagonal joining both ends. The areas reflected in the landscape are like so many areas of resistance, and the sunlight in its natural inclination is thus deflected and thereby transformed into a signal. The dialogue between the light source-the sun-and the photographer becomes in- timate and privileged, because only accessible from the view originally taken.
