NYC
grrlscientist | September 4, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 1]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto…
grrlscientist | September 3, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of Italy.…
grrlscientist | September 2, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Onset of Winter, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Onset of Winter.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #1 [Detail 5]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of…
grrlscientist | September 1, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Onset of Winter, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Onset of Winter.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #1 [Detail 3]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of…
grrlscientist | August 31, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Onset of Winter, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Onset of Winter.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #1 [Detail 3]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of…
grrlscientist | August 30, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Onset of Winter, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Onset of Winter.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #1 [Detail 2]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of…
grrlscientist | August 29, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Onset of Winter, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Onset of Winter.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #1 [Detail 1]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of…
grrlscientist | August 28, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Onset of Winter, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Onset of Winter.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #1
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto of Italy. They…
grrlscientist | August 27, 2008tags: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, birds, Central Park, Image of the Day
How Best to Scratch an Itch.
Image: Bob Levy, author of Club George [larger].
The photographer, Bob Levy, writes;
Here's a Black-crowned Night Heron fledgling demonstrating how to best scratch an itch with what one has available. In this case it's a carefully retracted leg and sinewy foot.
grrlscientist | August 22, 2008
Adult plumage Ring-billed Gull, Larus delawarensis, stands on a lamp on Roosevelt Island, overlooking the East River. Manhattan Island is in the background.
Image: GrrlScientist, 21 August 2008 [larger view].
I went on a little day trip to Roosevelt Island to look at birds and to learn a little about a company known as Verdant Power. Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island, and before that, Blackwell's Island) is a small island that is roughly two miles long located in the middle of the East River, a tidal estuary that flows between Manhattan Island and the Borough of Queens.
Verdant…
grrlscientist | August 15, 2008tags: AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, horses, special exhibits, SciBlings in NYC 2008
And God took a handful of South wind and from it formed a horse, saying:
"I create thee, Oh Arabian.
To thy forelock, I bind Victory in battle.
On thy back, I set a rich spoil
And a Treasure in thy loins.
I establish thee as one of the Glories of the Earth...
I give thee flight without wings."
-- Ancient Bedouin Legend
Trotting Horse Mount
This skeleton of Lee Axworthy, the first trotting stallion to break the two-minute mile, was mounted by Samuel Harmsted Chubb, an anatomist and research…
grrlscientist | July 28, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #21
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 27, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #20
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 26, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #19
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 25, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #18 [Detail]
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC…
grrlscientist | July 24, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #18
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 23, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #17
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 22, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #16
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 21, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #15
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | July 20, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #14
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…