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Commuters, WTC Station
New York, NY - Peter - Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 : goo
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Countless people live in New Jersey but work in Manhattan. They take the PATH train into the city each day, and flood out of the WTC stop into the streets above...
Often, I have to go against the flow, and walk straight into a wave of oncoming commuters, all rushing to get to work on time, just so I can get to my train on time...
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kc: 15th Jun 2005 - 04:10 GMT
I was thinking they look almost like ghosts, bright ones. But maybe that's because of WTC...
elaine: 15th Jun 2005 - 05:53 GMT
actually after looking at cyanotypes again, these look like a weird hybid, like the people are walking out of a blueprint - conceptually dreamy
Peter: 15th Jun 2005 - 14:21 GMT
perhaps I will start making such photos every day when I pass through there, and leaving them for y'all to analyze for interesting tidbits. often, its interesting to hear about what other, fresher eyes have to say about the content of the photos of thigns i pass nonchalantly each day.
so, here is this morning's offering:
elaine: 15th Jun 2005 - 16:22 GMT
yep, kc's right, that's the undead alright, but they don't look too unhappy
Peter: 15th Jun 2005 - 16:41 GMT
zombie commuters! thats that then. i shall make a photo a day of these commuters.
elaine: i like that first one today
Peter: 20th Jun 2005 - 15:01 GMT
me too. its very ghostly. i had to add teh second, though, cause while less interesting, the focused parts show a little detail of the station.
elaine: 20th Jun 2005 - 15:18 GMT
you have the top one as an establishing shot, you don't need the last one - belt and braces!
elaine: i am feeling this as an animation, p
Fredrik/Sweden: 23rd Jun 2005 - 09:05 GMT
I think the pictures are great-its a proof of what kind of society we live in today, we´re faceless bodies rush you by, where no time stnads still. With your pix you´ve catched some moments that makes me feel great on a rainy day over here in Sweden!!! Thanks!
elaine: mmmm mossy greeeen coooool... wa.. ter..
Jamie: 23rd Jun 2005 - 14:35 GMT
i somehow missed all this. keep on posting petey. i love this sorta thang
Peter: 23rd Jun 2005 - 14:36 GMT
yeah, its fun snapping one every day on teh way to work. its become a little morning rituaql now, akin to reading my book on the train or getting coffee on the way into work.
Peter: 23rd Jun 2005 - 14:38 GMT
also: i pass some of the same people every morning, as the trains, much like people's workday schedules, run like clockwork. what would be cool would be to get a week's worth of photos of the same person, over time...
elaine: 23rd Jun 2005 - 14:40 GMT
which would go in the animation nicely - i bet that would make it kind of poingnant
Peter: 23rd Jun 2005 - 15:11 GMT
jamie: heh, i actually said that in my last comment, then deleted that part before posting it, you know, so as to preserve the naivete :)
Jamie: 24th Jun 2005 - 13:49 GMT
nice, stripey top. like a frenchman or a burgular. also: blueshirtguy looks awfully dejected, whilse blacksuit-whitepapers guy looks to be striding rather overpurposefully.
Peter: 24th Jun 2005 - 14:05 GMT
i thought the exact same thing re: blueshirtguy and the powersuitman. im sure its the case of one being upper management anad one being a lowly prole in the corporate world... if you dont wear a coat-and-tie to work, theres no way you make over $100k, lol.
all of these people are from new jersey, and commute into the city to work for the big bucks.
and because of them, i have to commute form nyc to jersey to work, as the current brain-drain in nyc has opened some great positions with great pay right across the river ;)
elaine: 28th Jun 2005 - 17:12 GMT
that stripey top looks more like a rugby fan than a frenchman or burgular
Jamie: 29th Jun 2005 - 14:09 GMT
She aint nothin but a hoochie momma. Hump back, hump back, hoochie momma. Big booty hooooo!
Peter: 30th Jun 2005 - 14:10 GMT
i do try to capture the same folks as often as possible, though you cant tell very well from the grainy photos :)
Jamie: 6th Jul 2005 - 14:18 GMT
your commuters are becoming increasingly immpressionistic (if thats a real word)
Peter: 6th Jul 2005 - 14:26 GMT
...that and the fact that my cam doesnt like hot, humid, rainy days ;)
elaine: 6th Jul 2005 - 15:10 GMT
jamie, it is a real word, but not a real spelling (impressionistic)
Peter: 13th Jul 2005 - 15:06 GMT
i try ;) sinc ethe trains work like clockwork, andi commute at almost the exact same time each weekday, its easier than you might think to run into the same people. i really wish i could do this with a more high-res camera, but i think that would be too obvious.
elaine: 13th Jul 2005 - 15:08 GMT
yeah but my point is you don't need to if you turn it into a fillum
Peter: i love how the guy's face turned out today.
jack: 19th Jul 2005 - 22:44 GMT
peter, they are great. when you take more photos try to get 130 cedar street. there were golden doors at the entrance.
Peter: 20th Jul 2005 - 13:39 GMT
ill try, though lately no photos for me, as my camphone is out of commision for the moment :(
elaine: 20th Jul 2005 - 14:51 GMT
mine has a persistent smudge which i think, horribly, is in the digital works. my friend ian helpfully suggested i wash it under the tap, but i don't think that was the advice i will follow. i keep using it, but the smudge bothers me, and i mean to get it serviced but am put off by the probable wait. horrible horrible. i sympathise - it's a dreadful thing
Peter: 20th Jul 2005 - 14:52 GMT
i wouldnt reccommend water, but some cleaning with denatured alcohol or methanol can work wonders... cleaning without damaging the electronics!
i dropped mine and broke the screen, but will be taking delivery of a newer/better model this week! that means higher-res shots :)
elaine: 20th Jul 2005 - 14:54 GMT
maybe. it actually could be the lens, and just a recalcitrant stain - hard to tell eith these timy lenses
elaine: 21st Jul 2005 - 08:32 GMT
ta, i took the plunge... and being a make do and mend person i used what i had lying around, and today's solvent was whiteboard cleaner which has alcohol and something called alipathic ester, which sounds medicinal.. anyway i gave it a good scrub with the corner of a pillowcase and took some test shots. bit hard to tell from indoor stuff, and the sky is annoyingly cloudy, but tentatively i think it may have worked
Peter: well, lets see some photos then! :)
elaine: 21st Jul 2005 - 15:41 GMT
cheeky!
funny thing though, i can't tell from the test shots if it worked, i think it did, but i have thought that before
GGP: 25th Jul 2005 - 19:41 GMT
peter, i hadn't seen this series before. i must add my voice to the chorus of appreciators by letting you know how much I love this series! really stunning and full of so many different moods.
elaine: be careful. wiping your camera with a pillowcase can cause cameras to inadvertantly shoot dreams. if this happens, I hope will post the dreamynoise.
GGP: 26th Jul 2005 - 14:51 GMT
remember Till the End of the World, the Wim Wenders film where everyone goes around watching their dreams on video, so enthralled that they ignore their waking lives?
elaine: ha ha, that's me, that is!
GGP: YEAH, when they invent that, it's all over.
Peter: 11th Aug 2005 - 15:18 GMT
now that i have a new/working cameraphone, its back to this series! in higher-res, no less!
jack: 11th Aug 2005 - 15:43 GMT
people without faces. rushing to wherever. i used to be one of them in the wtc. this is humanity. your looking at a scene that could be anywhere in the world. if we knew any of these people we would find out how nice they are personnally. i would like to take my old s r camera and take photos of peter taking photos of people.
elaine: 11th Aug 2005 - 16:35 GMT
yes, it's good. it's got a limpid quality at high res without losing the movement mojo. the colour is less hysterical too, tho that may be a loss, we will have to see.
Deshant: 12th Aug 2005 - 20:22 GMT
"If I were a ghost and no one told me I was dead and it turned out that all my promises for an afterlife (virgins washing my feet, whores washing everything else and my long dead dog fetching a couple of brews for him and myself) were just that I guess I'd head to work like I did every other day of my miserable existence. Stop by the office and find out what happened on Survivor or Six Feet Under, here the murmurings and gossip about the replacement temp..." From "The World's Worst Temp" coming soon to a bookstore near you
elaine: 15th Aug 2005 - 14:23 GMT
see, does anyone actually suit that shade of yellow? it makes me feel slightly nauseous
Olive Thomas: 22nd Aug 2005 - 23:40 GMT
It's amazing to think about how many generations of anonymous commuters have passed through NYC portals over the last 175 years of or so of mechanised transport isn't it?
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