Big Apple Big Hope by PAIROJ PICHETMETAKUL (Pok) 

             "I was drawn into Pairoj’s work when I first saw his Abraham Lincoln portrait.  It captured the soul of a man in what appears to be a time of hardship.  I feel that a portrait should capture the depth and personality of the subject without the distortion of reality. In some of his portraits, he uses a lot of vibrant colors that pop out of the canvas like a layer of texture in different dimensions.  Pairoj’s portraits provokes many questions about reality."  -Ek Wongleecharoen

Pairoj is my friend and like my brother. He started his Big Apple Big Hope in NYC to help homeless people for their better life and unforgetting. He will bring food and money from donation and his own money to homeless people but not only giving them food and money. He even draw their portrait to catch people who walk pass by and stop to pay attention and help them too. From Pairoj warm heart, all artists around NYC are helping him to. Most of the photographer that help him shooting are street photographers and films.

Big Apple Big Hope

Credits

Pairoj Pichetmetakul http://www.likepairoj.com/hope/index.html

Photographer Justin Bettman Creates Sets From Discarded Furniture On NYC’s Streets

     I love this post by IGNANT.de! New York photographer Justin Bettman and stylist Gozde Eker have created unique sets right on the sidewalks of New York City inviting everyone to shoot their own photos and share them on instagram with the hashtag #setinthestreet. One of their more recent sets that they built was created for one of their followers Jose Luis who wrote to Justin asking him to build a set so that he could propose to his girlfriend. View the video of the coverage of the event.

              Justin Bettman recently built a set for Jose Luis who wrote him a hopeful email saying that he wanted to propose to his girlfriend in one of his sets. View the making-of video for this memorable moment below.

Credits

IGNANT http://www.ignant.de/2015/04/17/justin-bettman-setinthestreet/

18 vintage photos from 110 years of the New York subway

Board the nostalgia express with these photos of the age-old subway system and her retro rides of yesteryear

   I would like to show the photos that have been taken for over 100 years. It's very interesting and cool. Beneath the streets of New York City lies one of the largest metro systems in the world, spanning over 660 miles of track, boasting 468 stations, transporting over 5 million people a day, and being the best designated driver a city could ask for. After living in New York for a while, it's hard to be a good commuter on the crowded trains, but these images might just have you rekindling your love for MTA all over again. Although some subway stations need some repairs, the future is bright for the system with features like digital metro cards, more WiFi enabled stations, and the long awaited artsy Second Ave subway line; but until then, enjoy our favorite photos from the subway and the trains of the past 110 years of service.

28th Street Station, 1904

Borough Hall subway station, 1907

A tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn, 1907

Manhattan, Bowery and Canal Streets, 1909

Atlantic Ave Station, circa 1910

Subway car, circa 1920

Subway turnstile, circa 1940s

IRT World Fair subway car, August 1946

Borough Hall station, 1948

City Hall station, circa 1950s

Subway passengers, March 1958

125th Street and Broadway station, circa 1960s

Subway passengers, 1960

Subway passenger, 1962

Subway passenger, 1960

Coney Island station, 1963

New subway cars being transported by barge to NYC, 1964

Subway car interior, 1980s

  Credits
Micheal Frye texted
Photos: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/vintage-photos-of-110-years-of-the-new-york-subway

STANLEY KUBRICK SHOOTS THE N.Y.C. SUBWAY, 1946

Today I would like to take you back to the CLASSIC WORLD... to ...Black and White!!!

In the summer of 1945, Stanley Kubrick, many years before he was the acclaimed director of Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, had a series of photographs published in LOOK magazine, a competitor to LIFE. He was just 16 years old. Thus would begin a relationship with the magazine that would last several years, until he began making movies in earnest around the age of 23, in the early 1950s.

Credits

Photography Stanley Kubrick

Text Martin Schneider

Images © Museum of the City of New York

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