More NYC metro(card) love.

via My Modern Met

Last year, artists Jean-Pierre Roy and MIchael Kagan had a brilliant idea. They would recycle the countless, used MetroCards New Yorkers mindlessly throw away and turn them into something amazing. These discarded pieces of trash would serve as canvases on which to create miniature works of art. They would call the show Single Fare.

Last night I decided to clean out my purse – who knew that would make me nostalgic for New York City. Floating around the bottom of my huge purse were three MetroCards I collected during my trip last month to New York. This blog is always an ode to my love of New York City, so I thought a photo from the Sloan Fine Art Gallery on the Lower East Side would be perfect for today’s post.

Blank pages.

The Impossible Meeting (detail), 2005 - Peter Callesan

Writers may seem pretty neurotic, but it takes a lot of courage to fill a blank page. – Mike Sager

A matter of perspective.

alking through Columbia University’s campus, I always try to blend in (aka put my head down, grab a book and look like I am contemplating the reason for life on Earth – smart people stuff, you know). But a few days ago I had to pull out the digital camera to snap a few shots – what I call “going tourist.” Campus is beautiful. And in a city where you can find EVERYTHING and ANYTHING, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. Perspective matters.

(Drop cap art from – http://dailydropcap.com/)