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An animated version of New York City shows a timeless quality
No matter how many ways New York City is depicted in film, there is always another view that offers a surprise. Here is a link to a video by New York artist and filmmaker Jeff Scher. He writes the blog The Animated Life for the New York Times. As he says about this particular 2:06 minutes of visual artistry he created in 1975, there is a timeless quality about New York.
What Scher made more than 30-years-ago looks similar to the essence of New York City today. That's not true about many places.
A few years ago when I was on a six-hour walking tour of Cleveland, I thought about how that city had changed since the 1960s when the Terminal Tower was the 2nd tallest building in the world. It was the world that Ralphie of A Christmas Story went to on his visit to Santa Claus. Higbees where Ralphie gazed in the window at animated wonder has long closed. Downtown Cleveland on a Saturday morning along Euclid Ave. is not a crackling place. I really love Cleveland. I really do. I'd live there if I didn't live here. But if you did a video 30-years-ago of Cleveland, it would not look the same as today's version--at least not if you shot it downtown. Maybe it would, if you squinted and imagined people.
Scher's vision of New York City is a jazzy rendition of a city that no matter what happens has a constancy that one can count on year after year. Jeremy is capturing much of it in his weekly series "Undiscovered New York." Plus, Scher's film is a cool art piece besides.
The photo is from another one of Scher's blogs, Reasons to Be Glad. The blog has other shots of New York City that are examples of the variety of intersting angles out there.
A few years ago when I was on a six-hour walking tour of Cleveland, I thought about how that city had changed since the 1960s when the Terminal Towers was the 2nd tallest building in the world. It was the world that Ralphie of the movie A Christmas Story went to on his visit to Santa Claus. Higbees where Ralphie gazed in the window at animated wonder has long closed. Downtown Cleveland on a Saturday morning along Euclid Ave. is not a crackling place. I really love Cleveland. I really do. I'd live there if I didn't live here. But if you did a video 30 years ago of Cleveland, it would not look the same as today's version--at least not if you shot it downtown.
Scher's vision of New York City is a jazzy rendition of a city that no matter what happens has a constancy that one can count on year after year. Plus, it's a cool art piece besides. The photo of a bus and a taxi is another Scher creation and a feature of his blog "Reasons to Be Glad".
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