Tag: Zoom In
Morgan Freeman acting repertoire is so long, he’s been everybody by now. And now, he wants to be your friend. Or, at least, this Madame Tussauds’ wax Morgan is cool with you pretending that you’re buds. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti writers carry many weapons in their arsenal — spray paint, markers, etching paste, and stickers. For this series, we went out to document some of the stickers — hand-written ones, specifically — that are currently running on the streets of Manhattan, kicking off with KATSU (above). Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the […]
Who wants to see what a $1,900,000 Bugatti looks like? If you’re mystified at how someone can own a car in New York City, these photos from inside the Javits Center aren’t going to help. Check out New York International Auto Show’s shiniest. Vroom. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the […]
You never get to see the bottoms of skateboards, so we asked these skaters around Chelsea Piers and Times Square to flip their boards over. Check out the stickers, the tags, the scratches and the gashes that tell a story. Shred. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery […]
You don’t see a lot of “drug stores” anymore. It’s all giant, visibly branded “pharmacies” and, seemingly, it’s only the mom ‘n’ pop variety of shops that still go by the “drug” moniker. Here’s a small bunch. Ah, nostalgia. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. […]
Inspired by Liz Magic Laser’s artistic direction of transparency for the Armory Show, here are our photos of the actual people who go to this prestigious art fair to look at art… sans said art. Please notice how alive John Waters still is. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the […]
Signage? Who needs signage? Take a tour through Brooklyn, where the bars have no names… on the outside. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Times Square is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world. But it’s easy to get distracted by the big fancy lights and blinking advertisements so here is a gallery of all of the little things you might have missed, close up. Really close up, using that special hacked camera again. Check back every […]
Storefront statues date back to the 1800’s when wooden Cigar Store Indians were used to lure costumers to tobacconist shops. To deal with the illiteracy of the general public, business owners advertised their shops from the sidewalks using life-sized statues. The tradition continues on to this day with many NYC shop owners utilizing the age-old […]
New York streets are stocked with food carts. But have you looked at the food? Like, really looked at the food? Here are some close-ups of various NYC street foods, taken with my DSLR hacked with a Pentax 25mm 1.4 TV lens usually used for 1″ CCTV security cameras. Bon appétit. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the […]
