Posts tagged "cityporn"

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boston america cityporn
Apr 16

Sydney

Sydney

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cityporn sydney australia
Mar 30

We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of everything: otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)
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cityporn england
Mar 23

pitchfork: “Step”, from Vampire Weekend’s forthcoming Modern Vampires of the City, is named Best New Track. You can also hear “Diane Young” from the new album.  Oh! Cover art!

pitchfork:

“Step”, from Vampire Weekend’s forthcoming Modern Vampires of the City, is named Best New Track. You can also hear “Diane Young” from the new album. 

Oh! Cover art!

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Album covers I love music cityporn
Mar 18

Seoul’s 63 Building is gold-plated. So, at dawn, this happens.

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cityporn
Mar 16

Green Day, “Homecoming,” American Idiot (2004) I started fuckin’ runningJust as soon as my feet touched the ground.We’re back in the barrio,But to you and me that’s Jingletown. “Jingletown” sounds so fictitiously named that I hadn’t realized until now that it’s a real neighborhood in Oakland. And this after earlier in the song Billie Joe makes reference to a “facility on East 12th Street” — which is just nearby, it turns out.  I’m maybe thinking about adding a brief two day visit to San Francisco to my coming US wanderings; I’ve finally found the town intriguing after it having been for so long a bit of a void in terms of my American knowledge. (I mean: hippies, Kerouac, Green Day, Jawbreaker, the Transamerica Pyramid, Nancy Pelosi, tech companies, UC Berkeley, E-40, Mac Dre, hyphy, Castro, the Zodiac killer, expensive real estate — it’s a longish list but it doesn’t really resolve into a coherent whole. Perhaps that’s because San Francisco, like New Orleans, is a city that can’t be understood at all through its skyline?) Anyway, maybe I’ll take a couple days to drive up Highway 1 from LA to SF before flying to Seattle.

Green Day, “Homecoming,” American Idiot (2004)

I started fuckin’ running
Just as soon as my feet touched the ground.
We’re back in the barrio,
But to you and me that’s Jingletown.

“Jingletown” sounds so fictitiously named that I hadn’t realized until now that it’s a real neighborhood in Oakland. And this after earlier in the song Billie Joe makes reference to a “facility on East 12th Street” — which is just nearby, it turns out. 

I’m maybe thinking about adding a brief two day visit to San Francisco to my coming US wanderings; I’ve finally found the town intriguing after it having been for so long a bit of a void in terms of my American knowledge. (I mean: hippies, Kerouac, Green Day, Jawbreaker, the Transamerica Pyramid, Nancy Pelosi, tech companies, UC Berkeley, E-40, Mac Dre, hyphy, Castro, the Zodiac killer, expensive real estate — it’s a longish list but it doesn’t really resolve into a coherent whole. Perhaps that’s because San Francisco, like New Orleans, is a city that can’t be understood at all through its skyline?)

Anyway, maybe I’ll take a couple days to drive up Highway 1 from LA to SF before flying to Seattle.

the yay cityporn music ya boy
Mar 12

Also Dubai just looks like a Sim City.

Also Dubai just looks like a Sim City.

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cityporn
Mar 06

Why that’s not a bad pair of towers you’ve got there, Manama, Bahrain. (File under buildings that could double for award show statuettes.) It’s nice to know that places outside the UAE are boarding the Middle Eastern oil-funded architectural decadence train.

Why that’s not a bad pair of towers you’ve got there, Manama, Bahrain. (File under buildings that could double for award show statuettes.) It’s nice to know that places outside the UAE are boarding the Middle Eastern oil-funded architectural decadence train.

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cityporn
Mar 06

atthisverymoment:

thenextstation:

I just want to adopt all these lonely little houses :(

Detroit-abandoned-house-city porn

“And where I live, it was house, field, field. Field, field, house. Abandoned house, field, field.”

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music cityporn detroit hip-hop america
Feb 23

Ellis likes to say that the myths about L.A. are wrong, that it’s less a city of reinvention than a place where you become yourself, and he’s correct in this regard. As many actresses as have moved from Iowa and taken new names, and as delightful as it is to live in a place where no one asks about your alma mater or tries to pinpoint your family’s financial status, it’s a lonely place: There are few public spaces in the city other than hiking trails, and the distances between the most mundane activities, often spent on apocalyptic freeways, loom large in the mind. Most important, given the difficulty of making it in Hollywood in any way other than through social connections, the concern of most of those you meet is not collegiality or lasting friendship but what you can do for me, whom you can introduce me to. You find yourself staying home more often than not.
Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Bret Easton Ellis’s Real Art Form Is the Tweet,” New York Magazine, January 20, 2013
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cityporn los angeles california america
Feb 22


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