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NYC

EXPLORE DOWNTOWN NEW YORK

MOMA

VAN GOGH’S STARY NIGHT

brooklyn bridge and the empire state building from washington street

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Contents Empire State Building 4

Brooklyn Bridge

Van Gough 10

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Times Square Archetecture The Author 12

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by J. Patric Lewis

I am an American boy, standing up to the world.

I sleep the city sleeps. We dream the riveter’s dream, held island-fast.

I wake to taxi alarms.

I am a 102-stop elevator ride to heaven.

I am ten million bricks of unshakable faith.

I capture imagination at its peak.

I hugged King Kong, he hugged me back.

I look down on Broadway for a work of art, the Fulton Fish Market for a slice of life, United Nations Headquarters for a little peace.

It’s lonely up here without my twin brothers, the World Trade Center Towers.

Wait here on my doorstep, Central Park, while I look over Harlem.

I am an American boy, face to face with the world.

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Empire State of Mind

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Brooklyn Baby

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Whilst in New York I spent

a considerable amout of

time in Brooklyn , I found it

to be a very unique area of

New York full of hipsteresc shops.

The clasic arcutecturecom-

plemented this atmosphere that was created. But noth-

ing quite compaired to the

veiw across the East River..

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w0nn Issue 1 - Feb 2017 Brooklyn bridge and the surrounding area contains a range of stunning veiws. The winter snow we experienced amplified this areas beauty. The stunning reflections of the sunset in both the river and the snow created an atmospher of

peace in this chaotic and busy city. Suddenly the roar of traffic, rumbeling of the subway and the songs of angry taxi drivers horns became mute.

Nothing else mattered in this moment. The twilight was kissing the towering skyscrapers as if

they were meant to be there and alays had been.

As unnatural this city is, it has combined the work of so many arcitechs giving them each a piece of this madening Garden of Eden.

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Van Gogh

VAN GOGH’S THE STARRY NIGHT IS DISPLAYED IN THE MOMA IN NEW YORK.

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The Science Behind Van

Gogh’s The Starry Night There have been multipule studies linking Van Gogh’s 1889 painting The Starry Night with sudies of turbulence.

The conection has an interesting history, being inspired by a picture of a distant star from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope where gas and dust turbulence is clearly seen. Because of this scientists wanted to check whether there was some kind of mathematical conection between Van Gogh’s creation and turbulence.

The found a large selecton of Van Gogh’s art - particularly in paintings when his mental illness was at it’s peak - mirror natural turbulence down to mathematic precision.

The brush work he created maked use of a property known as luminance.

Luminance is a measure of the relative brightness between different points.

The human eye is more sensitive to a chnage in luminance change than colour change. This is what gives many Impressionist paintings the

been going for as long as we have been watching (some 300 plus years).

Aragon and collaborators The physicists carrying out this studdy took dig- found that Van Gogh’s ital pictures of the paint- luminance scales in the same way as the relative ing in order to calculate probability distribution of the relative probability flid velocities at different that two pixels at a cerscales R in a turbulent tain distance R would have the same luminance. flow.

The Starry Night, Wheat Feild with Crows The paintings created by and Road with Cypress Van Gough in his most turbulant times due to and Star present scalmental illness perfectly ing law - when the same mirror natural turbulent patterens are repeated flow that are found in at different spatil scales. nature. It is almost as if Scaling laws have typical his mind was somehow power associated with them, usually given by an tapped into a universal integer or a fraction. This archetype where lumilinks directly to the theo- nos becomes numinous. ry of turbulance. twinkeling we see in The Starry Night.

In fluid turbulance, there is a famous scaling law known as Kolmogorov scaling, from Soviet physicist Andrei Kolmogrov’s theory from the 1940s.

When a fluid hits turbulent flow large eddies of size R break down into saller ones and energy is transfered from large to small scales according to scalling laws. This can be seen in Jupiter’s famous red spot, a self-sustaining turbulent flow that has

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Times Square Times Square is probably the busiest part of New York at any given time, wheater this be 4am or 11am.

I have never seen so many things going on at once. You’d look in one direction and you’d see someone dressed up as Woody from Toy Story, glance across the street and see people window shopping (too afraid of the prices to go into the shop), look behind you and see a man walking to work answering business calls whilst trying to drink his coffee and eat a baegle. On my first night in New York I met a girl who was from London but had been living in New York for the past three months working on her music. While a flower

crown and pianpple isn’t usually what you’d take out whilst paying a synth in the center of times square it makes for an interesting music video.

Although I had interupted her filming to go and ask her about her music, unlike your average New Yorker she seemed fairly relaxed about it and happily had a chat with me.

She said:

smallest thing can inspire an artist. Even something that may feel insignificant.

The huge variety of cultures and uniqueness of every person shines through in this city.

Times square almost feels like a zoo where all of these different people meet.

“The time I have spent in New York has helped me grow as an artist - every day I see something new that inpires me musically.” this shows how even the smallest thing can inspire an artist. Even something this shows how even the

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ABOUT THE

AUTHOR

As an artist Beth Harvey believes that everything has the potential to be seen in a different way it just depends on how it is presented.

Therefore, she is able to capture something ordinary and present it as being something extraordinary by thinking outside the box. By emphasizing one feature of her subject matter or approaching one subject from many different perspectives she can portray a message in the form of fine art photography. Her intentions are to illustrate emotions and make someone take something away from my work.

Beth has been studying photography for the past three years – for two years in sixth form and one year at college. This combination of educational experience has not only taught me how to study the subject as an art but also understand it as a commercial business.

Throughout my years studying the field of photography she has been influenced by a range of other photographers and artists. She feels that some of the most influential photographers that have impacted her work are the likes of Brett Weston, Marilyn Minter and Jonathan Zawada. All have influenced her work in a different way, but continue to impact my work today.

She has gained experience in the field by taking photos for a theater group (this included both head shots and images of the stage show), taking images of stand up shows at a local comedy club and taking photos for a concert in London; this work has been published on an online article for Folk Magazine.

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