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Naked Cities Journal attempts to bring together a number of passions that have captivated me over a lifetime: a love of exploring the urban landscape and its extraordinarily diverse range of places and spaces; a love of journeys both internal and external; a love of keeping writer’s notebooks; and a love of Urban Studies an intellectual discipline – Marcus D. Niski
Posted on December 20, 2017December 20, 2017

Chelsea Hotel.

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Chelsea Hotel, New York City (2010)                   

Image ©  Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017

 

Posted on December 16, 2017

Karteikarten • Index Cards — Street Photography

via Karteikarten • Index Cards — Street Photography

Posted on November 26, 2017

“I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” — Art of Quotation

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ― Robert Frank, photographer (photo “London Street 1951” by Robert Frank)

via “I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” — Art of Quotation

Posted on November 23, 2017

Front row seat to life on the street — Ordinary People Doing Ordinary Things

“I don’t want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.” – Sophia Myles

via Front row seat to life on the street — Ordinary People Doing Ordinary Things

Posted on November 23, 2017

Impervious to the Psychological Pressures — Bill Chance

“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived like an advanced species of machine in the neutral atmosphere. This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in […]

via Impervious to the Psychological Pressures — Bill Chance

Posted on November 23, 2017November 23, 2017

Stencil Art by M-City in Lodz, Poland — ArtRing

Mariusz Waras is a Polish artist known as M-City. Street artist but not only, he is currently working on the Department of Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Born in Gdynia, his works depict factories, chimneys, bridges, galleries, roofs, shipyards. This type of scenario has accompanied him during his training, the building […]

via Stencil Art by M-City in Lodz, Poland — ArtRing

Posted on November 22, 2017November 22, 2017

The Smallest Pieces — Black Mark

“All the pieces matter” Lester Freamon The Wire This is just a small post with a small collection of photos about the smallest works of street art. The antidote to the inflated egos and dubious aesthetics of murals are the smallest of graffiti pieces. To find them just look in the opposite direction to the […]

via The Smallest Pieces — Black Mark

Posted on November 22, 2017

Cathedral Arcade. Melbourne

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Image © Marcus D. Niski 2007

Posted on November 21, 2017November 21, 2017

Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century — Hyperallergic

Cendrars was, beyond all questions, the pioneer of poetic modernism.

via Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century — Hyperallergic

Posted on November 18, 2017

In safe hands? — Travel with Intent

And this is what happens behind those doors: – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 13 November 2017 Posted as part of Monday Mural Safehands Barbers at 5 Miller Street, Glasgow

via In safe hands? — Travel with Intent

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