In a blog about street art it’s not possible to miss one of the pioneers of the movement. Keith Haring is an American artist, starting from the suburbs where le leaved his mark on the advertising panels in the metropolitan stations, he achieved an international recognition due to his high communicative style. Flowing into his […]
Staircase – Chelsea Hotel.
Staircase – Chelsea Hotel, New York City (2010)
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017
Manhattan Morning.
Manhattan Morning, New York City (2010)
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017
Late Night Writing – Chelsea Hotel.
Late Night Writing – Chelsea Hotel, New York City (2010)
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017
Chelsea Hotel.
Chelsea Hotel, New York City (2010)
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017
Chrysler Building.
Chrysler Building, New York City (2010)
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017
A selection from my galley of New York City Photography (2010) as found at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60074660@N06/sets/72157626040104291/
Laneways.
Melbourne Laneways – Fulham Place Image © Marcus D. Niski 2007
Parking.
Neon Parking Sign, Bourke St., Melbourne. Image © Marcus D. Niski 2014
On Neon Signs
By Marcus D. Niski
There is something elegant and peculiarly captivating about neon signs: they have a certain memorizing quality about them no matter how seemingly mundane their messages might be.
My earliest memory of a viewing my first neon sign was that of the ‘The Skipping Girl’ one of Melbourne’s most famous visual landmarks – in reality an elaborate promotional sign for a brand of table vinegar – located along Victoria Street, Abbotsford in the city’s inner suburbs.
While always very low key about it, my father in fact spent some of his early working life in Australia as a graphic designer of neon signs designing several landmark signs as well as later printing light box signage for national advertisers.
Many years ago in the 1990s whilst living in Sydney, I took this photograph of the St James Station entrance located on the northern side of Hyde Park. It has always remained one of my favorite photographs of neons given the electric blue and red hue set against the mundane entrance to one of Sydney’s famous inner-city stations.
Image © Marcus D. Niski 1995-2017
Melbourne’s famous ‘Skipping Girl’ landmark:
Finding the Structure of the World
… I’m thinking structures. I’ve always taken it for granted that in literary writing content and form are intertwined, one. Now I’m examining my belief. Iain says that the writer is a person who finds, rather than makes, structures. “I began to see the pattern of the living city in myth,” he tells me. “If you look, you can see the structures that lie underneath.”
“Is this how we write? By seeing? By finding?” “I think so.”
“Then, to write an epic is to see the structure of one’s city or of one’s life as epic?” …
Extracted from: Ian Sinclair an Interview with Kathy Acker in – ‘Writing as Magic in London in Its Summer: Iain Sinclair and the Crafting of Place.’
Read the full interview at: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-4-issue-3-summer-2009/writing-as-magic-in-london-in-its-summer/
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