Monday, February 21st, 2011
There’s a magical water fountain in Central Park dispensing snowflakes instead of drinking water!
Also, I hope you don’t mind but I turned it on overnight.
Monday, January 31st, 2011
I’ve always said that cultures of peoples in cold climates – preferably ones with all four seasons – produce the best art. Something about the notion of change, or in the case of the recent (and recurring) snowstorms in NYC it’s about seeing something (or someplace, like a busy Broadway intersection brought to a halt) you’ll likely never see again, and videographer Jamie Stuart captures the sentiment beautifully in this short film:
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Normally the heat of the city (pipes, buildings, body steam) melts any standing snow before the next snowfall – but the Snowpocalypse of 2010 simply dropped so much snow that many piles of it have not yet melted. And now a new snowstorm rolls in, this one not predicted to be as big as the last one, but the snow-on-snow is quite lovely – this new bright white on top of the old dirty.
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Last night (above) and this morning (below)! The snow drifts around the Cottage are easily 3 feet or more!
The drifts even made a nice little pile outside my front door:
I went out to see a concert last night, and walking one block in the blizzard winds resulted in this:
And upon getting home, the normally bustling Queens Plaza was dead, completely dead. You’ll see just one or two taxis on the far side of the plaza in this clip – it took me nearly 5 minutes to walk UP this one block against those winds:
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Great photo from yesterday’s Snowmageddon moving up the eastern seaboard and surrounding my home, NYC. the near-solid white line on the southern edge of the storm is particularly impressive. You can visit the MODIS web to see a larger version.
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
My friend and fellow artist Simo Alitalo wrote me this morning to inform me that Finland is without snow this winter. FINLAND… WITHOUT SNOW. I mean, cmon!! He writes:
Greetings from the darkness!
There is an old Finnish Christmas Carol where they sing that Christmas
is like a summer in the middle of winter.The global warming is giving a new literal meaning to the song:
after the very warm year we are having extremely warm winter. No
snow, no ice, instead green grass and buds in bushes – and because
there is no snow the darkness is unbelievable!
The image up top was snapped from http://62.73.32.2/ , a URI Simo sent of a webcam pointed at a Finnish square. Look at how pitiful that Christmas tree near the middle looks. Just pitiful! Normally Finnish squares are a blanket of white!
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