{"id":1888,"date":"2010-11-06T23:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T03:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2010-11-06T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T03:55:44","slug":"new-yorklong-island-city-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/new-yorklong-island-city-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Long Island City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to PS1 in Long Island City to the New York Art Book Fair, an immense bazaar of independent publishers and self publishers. It was overwhelming. Thousands of books and a crowd exuding off-the-charts coolness. I felt I was in some parallel universe, a self-contained world of hyper-awareness and solipsism. Lots of great stuff I&#8217;m sure, but it all began to diminish before me, like looking through the wrong end of a telescope, smaller and smaller and smaller.<\/p>\n<p>So, I did what I always do when confronted with such situations&#8211;I took pictures. First a security guard leaning against a glass wall. Then out the window, the Citibank tower aglow. Then in the courtyard, a concrete wall and rosy sky. Through the museum entrance and into the street I followed the last shards of sunlight bursting in a kaleidoscope of graffiti painted walls, I walked home toward the G train past a contructivist mashup of shapes and letters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/ps1security.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1889\" title=\"ps1security\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ps1security.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ps1security.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ps1security-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/citiglow.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1890\" title=\"citiglow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/citiglow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/citiglow.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/citiglow-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/ps1wall.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1891\" title=\"ps1wall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ps1wall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ps1wall.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ps1wall-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/citiwide.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1892\" title=\"citiwide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/citiwide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/citiwide.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/citiwide-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/graffitireflection.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1893\" title=\"graffitireflection\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/graffitireflection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/graffitireflection.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/graffitireflection-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/momaps.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1894\" title=\"momaps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/momaps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/momaps.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/momaps-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to PS1 in Long Island City to the New York Art Book Fair, an immense bazaar of independent publishers and self publishers. It was overwhelming. Thousands of books and a crowd exuding off-the-charts coolness. I felt I was in some parallel universe, a self-contained world of hyper-awareness and solipsism. Lots of great stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}