Underwear Ninja comes with Space Suit: for all you bloggers

Underwear Ninja comes with Space Suit

to blog or not to blog, which is the path a true underwear ninja must take? whichever path it be, it will surely be a rough-hewn one. argyle, possibly.

Monday, June 05, 2006

for all you bloggers

i'm going through a phase in my photography where i want everything to be highly contrasted, dynamic, and colorful. these are all pics i've taken, messed with in paintshop pro, and used as wallpapers for my puter. but i'm not a fan of the "stretching" that windows thinks i want and defaults to when i put them as wallpaper. i prefer to just have them "centered". i like 'em, so now i release them unto the world.

this skyline was taken from astoria park right after a rain. no, not the 7-train fiasco, but a light early evening shower. i was looking at an apartment to rent and when i stepped outside it was cool. and i'm a sucker for these kinds of nature dawn/dusk shots. they make me feel small and big at the same time. there's a certain look the sky has right after it rains. the air is clear and everything is shiny and the clouds are darkish, well-defined, and well-lit. i increased the contrast a whole lot to get that dramatic feel and the 'heavenly' light on the buildings.

this one is the back of the traffic sign hanging from the pedestrian bridge that crosses over FDR drive at 78th street. looking north (like you care). you can see the street through the crack. this picture is special because its one of the first pics i took coming out of my apartment having just quit my job about 1 hour prior. its the pic of a new career and about a 2 minute walk from my apt! i actually didn't do anything to alter the colors. this is what it looks like at 7am when you're looking at the back of the sign on the bridge.

this was a shot i took of the queens-boro bridge at around 60th street i think. the bridge itself looks pretty cool. but underneath the bridge, the part holding it up, looks even cooler. a spiderweb of rusty I-beams, gritty construction, and pre-1980's architecture. when i look at it i can hear the creak of metal stress. like the titanic! i wish someone would put a big speaker underneath and just pump out a looping track about an hour long of different metal clanging and bending. hey might freak people out but i'd be happy. again, going for the dramatic, i super-contrasted it and changed the overall hue. i also made it darker. you can't see as much detail with the bolts and rust, but it's a pretty cool trade i think.

this one actually never made it as a wallpaper. its the wrong dimensions. i'd have to lay it on its side to make it work right. maybe it could be used as a wallpaper for one of those monitors that you can tilt and make vertical. i just thought it looked cool. originally it was all green and the lighting was kinda gloomy. but i like the heavy contrast and different colors. i think it made it feel more moist somehow. and i like moisture in nature coz it makes me feel like life is growing.

well anyways, that's all for now until i take more pics. i've been taking a lot of video these days instead. i'm trying to find the average new yorkian doing the average things. and by that i mean weirdos doing funny/insane things. i've actually got a lot of footage of this stuff already, but i want more and then i'm make a little video montage and maybe even put it up on youtube hehe

posted by underwear ninja 10:23 PM

4 Comments:

At 6:47 AM EDT, Big Penguin said…

You know, I was going to say "That looks like the back of the FDR sign at 7am"!

Great pics. I like them all except for the "moist" one.
At 11:36 AM EDT, R the Great said…

Love your interpretation of the world. Thanks for sharing!

You should sell your photos.
At 6:40 PM EDT, Iris Blue said…

New Yorkians? I think they call themselves New Yorkers. Nice pics. Would look great as a poster.
At 8:33 PM EDT, Anonymous said…

fabulous. two talents here in abundance. great images (pro quality I think). And candor, a gift to match. fabulous.