Startled, confused, annoyed. My first thought of the day: “I can’t wait to go to bed tonight.” Any so begins my daily commuticide.
Drive. Speed. You are late.
Pay and go to platform. Don't talk to anyone.
Wait. Its cold.
Here comes train, bright.
Ride train. This early you will get a whole row to yourself. Sleep if you aren't too awake from the cold, else, suffer.
Get off train, go to subway, take it uptown.
Rise to the surface. At this hour, its mostly construction workers and a few desk monkeys like my self. There are almost no women.
Walk past this statue into building. Man, sculptures can be so dumb.
The office--but I'll leave its contents for another post.
Time to leave. Peace out, hot dog vendor who plays Egyptian music all day.
Take enter subway, the sun is already down.
Down into the tubes.
Wait and jockey for door position. This train will be packed but if you don't make it, you could miss your connection.
Get on NJ Transit.
Home station. Is that light at the end of the tunnel?
Usually for young professionals, the idea is to live in New York. Duh, that’s one of the attractions of working in New York, it’s an excuse to live there. You could be anywhere from a several block walk to work, to a 40 minute subway ride. The social scene is babes and bars. But hear this: while there are city people and there are country people, I am neither. No, I love the burbs.
Great pictures. This is about as cool as a totally uncool thing can get, nice work James.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nick. The idea was to get the people in the shots to all be blurry while the environments stayed in focus. This was to give the sense of the fast pace that everyone rushes around at during the commute trying to get wherever it is they're going. Also, the blurriness was intended to leave forms without faces--so these people don't really have identities. At least to me they don't, they're just busy ants. Finally, I wanted to use a new technique called high dynamic range processing to bring out the lighting features. It worked out alright I think. I really like the one of the tunnel.
ReplyDeleteman, I really liked this photo essay. And then you wrote about how much process went into it. Very nice work. The contrast with the photo at the end is like an extremely satisfying conclusion to a movie. Ever seen 'la jette'?
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