Week 1 picture explanation

Here are the explanations of the first texture pictures I posted.

Of the many icons of New York City, one of the most famous is the Brooklyn Bridge. Thousands if not millions cross it each year, some as commuters going to and from work and many as tourists just wanting to walk across an icon. If you have walked it you will see the cables that suspend the bridge. These cables give a texture to the bridge and the views. Next time you walk across the bridge try to look at the structure in a different way.

This too is detail on one of the many bridges that connect Manhattan to the surrounding boroughs and New Jersey. This texture is from the Queensboro Bridge. When you look at the bridge, which spans over Roosevelt Island, it looks like many industrial metal bridges. Only when you get close to one of the ends you can see this beautiful tile work (at least on Manhattan). This detail is easily overlooked as most people are driving over it on the bridge or just don't pay attention.

This little texture of New York City is tucked away down a short dead-end street that many people would never go down. As I ventured down the east side trying to get a better look at the Queensboro Bridge, I went to a little park at the end of Sutton Square a little street just off of Sutton Place. This is the front door of a row house on the street. The woodcarving, whether hand-made or mechanical is beautiful and surely a great site to see when the occupant goes home after work.

New Yorkers, tourists and commuters all have seen countless tiles and mosaics as they ride the MTA subway system. Each station seems to have its own design or symbol like the "T" at Times Square/42nd Street. As more stations were built or old ones remodeled the mosaics have changed too. This mosaic covers the wall at the East 53rd Street at the Citicorp Center. The art piece quickly became one of my favorite NYC subway mosaics.

There are many historic or landmark buildings in New York. One address that has become known because it is also the name of a sitcom on NBC is 30 Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock). All of the landmark buildings have distinguishing traits to them like the Chrysler Building's sun motive at the top of the building. Even though the Rockefeller Plaza has many buildings and tons of people see them each year, some of the details are overlooked like this colored and shaped glass which is right out on the plaza side right over the entrance way. Above it is a great image of a god and the quote "Knowledge and Wisdom Shall be the Stability of Thy Times."

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More textures coming soon.