How do beings communicate with the world? First and foremost through reflection. Reflection is the mechanism for broadcasting and perceiving the fact that one thing (or being) has, in some way, registered another. Here are some reflections I have collected from my surroundings.
Left behind, but not alone. A reflected companion stares back at this rejected apple on a subway seat.Self reflection on squalid subway glass, framed by quotidian station info. Trying to capture the contact info of a handyman service, the photographer is captured, twice (in the door and in the mirror), and at two entirely different scales! A giant and a midget in one.The nearly silhouetted form of a building can be seen on the side a glass-walled building.Buildings reflecting each other in vivid color.A portrait of the whole block—and even a whole miniature skyline—on one wall.Buildings reflecting buildings.Construction and chaos, reflected back by the finished portion of this in-progress structure.Building under construction with orange scaffolding, illuminated by reflected light. The partially obscured adjacent building is a church, lighted red and green for Christmas.White light reflecting on metal scaffolding on street level and on pink and yellow scaffolding on a building under renovation.Scaffolding always seems more colorful than the intentionally built permanent structures. Is this an apt metaphor for life?Water reflecting bridge, shore, and lights.Water reflecting toy boats, tiny buoys, tree branches, and tall buildings.
Reflections on faraway and obstructed-view surfaces (above and below).
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the hungriest of them all?The window may be made for looking through, but it’s just as good as a medium for reflecting back the outside to itself. Be it pictures of beauty (left and center) or blight (right), each window is like a framed painting, depicting slices of the world around it.The inside and outside worlds coexist in the same glass surface, viewed from outside in (above and below).
In a stunning twist, the next several images show us that the inside and outside worlds coexist in the same surface, viewed from inside out!
The panes of window glass reflect the interior of the room where I stand AND directly show the glass surface of the structure across the street, which in turn reflects back the structure containing the room where I stand.The windows reflect the street.The street (and part of a street fountain) reflects the windows.The wall reflects the drawbridge.
This video, taken while hurrying across town to a meeting (hence the shaky-cam quality), shows a whole chunk of the cityscape… and the sun itself, recreated on the glass side of a building.
TODAY'S CHIRP: Notice how some people say "right?" as a verbal tic (like "um")? They utter it casually after making a contentious remark in a throwaway tone, as if it's an obvious statement of a widely accepted fact that needs no defense. Then, they breeze on to arguments based on that undefended statement. This is no random quirk. It’s an affectation with an agenda.
Sujan Dutta on the political situation in Bangladesh and its impact on relations with India
Travel: Yellowstone
Music: Kabir Suman & Bangla Khayal
Fiction: Haunted
Cuckoo News footage of the migrant crisis protests outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan.
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