NY – portraits

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A Chinatown – NY, les odeurs de cuisine, les bruits et le chant des dialectes, les gens et leurs vêtements importés, tout cela nous a vraiment fait faire un plongeon dans la Chine des années 90. Colombus Park: des centaines de personnes (pour la plupart, âgées) jouent aux cartes, au go, jouent du erhu, papotent en groupe, font du tai chi…

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Dans le métro, heure de pointe

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Police portrait

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Resto bobo un dimanche vers midi, non loin du bout du Highline, ancien chemin de fer reconverti en balade verte.

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NY – photos

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This is the statue of Jose Marti, the hero of the independence war of Cuba, falling from his horse in the first of his last battle field. Cuba get rid of the political dominance of Spanish empire, and it subdued to the American economical one.

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The metro in NY is the third one, in 1904, long time after the one in London, 1863, and Budapest one, approved in 1870, and built in 1894.

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impressions from Metropolitan Museum

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Looking at this painting from the XVth century, in Deccan empire (India), I think at Dürer’s ‘Four riders of Apocalypse’ with a background from the fractal computer art of the 80’s. It’s not good to make comparisons in art, but I cannot refrain to remember the art in New England, 300 years later.

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Who is Velasquez of these days ? Berlusconi probably is Philippe II.

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The first ET among us