I’ve changed my homepage a bit since I last wrote about it. I’ve added much of the content I’m scanning as French, since my aim of the current year is by and large to progress my french from the abysmal level it’s at at the moment and attain some sort of competence. So I have duplicates of many of my English sections in French. I think anything that will encourage me to absorb more is a good thing.
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I’ve run across a beautiful website that hosts a large collection of photos of New York City from around 1935-38. What’s fascinating is side by side, photographer Douglas Levere has gone out and attempted to shoot the exact same scene in contemporary (1997-2001) New York. The result is a series of astonishingly beautiful, and remarkably similar photographs. While in some shots, especially those of domestic dwellings like apartment blocks, the whole image is different. However in others not a thing, save different traffic lights, has changed. Often buildings and detritus from the 30′s has disappeared by the year 2000. My certain favorite is the photos of Seventh Ave South. There’s almost no change whatsover!
The site is at newyorkchanging.com while a gallery of the new photographs by Levere, not shown side by side with originals, is also on the same site
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Copperfield, and two female assistants were leaving a performance building after a show that evening in West Palm Beach, Florida, heading toward their tour bus when they were approached by the teens who then attempted to rob them. The assistants handed over money and a mobile phone, but the illusionist turned his pockets inside out revealing nothing, despite carrying his passport, wallet and a cell phone.
“He said in depositions that he had things on him, but it wasn’t difficult to make it seem like there was nothing there,” prosecutor Sherri Collins said.
from CNN.com
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