The Flat Streets of San Francisco

The city of San Francisco is famous for it's hills and impossibly inclined streets. But what would San Francisco be without its steep hills? Photographer Dan Ng attempts to “level” the streets of San Francisco by photographing it with a tilted camera, resulting in an altogether unique gallery of the city.

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The Fantastic Sinking Boat by Julien Berthier

Love-love is a perpetually sinking boat created by French artist Julien Berthier. The boat appears to be sinking but never actually does, thanks to it’s clever design.

For this piece he adapted an abandoned 6.5 meter yacht so that it appears to be perpetually sinking. To create this, the vessel was split and a new keel was constructed allowing it to be sailed by Berthier at a 45 degree angle off the coast of Normandy. Love-Love, like much of his oeuvre, is impressive, poetic and humorous.

In this project, the artist invests his energies and resources into creating an art of fiasco, aiming in his words to “fix an object at the moment of its deregulation.” The image, and metaphor of the sinking ship is an iconic one – it signifies death, lost hope and sinking dreams. Berthier’s Love-Love freezes those sentiments permanently both celebrating and overturning them. On display in the gallery will be the boat itself as well as a series of accompanying photographs and documentary video showing the performance in Normandy.

The boat now belongs to some wealthy London Banker to whom he sold it for £50,000.

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My Favorite Sleeping Pose

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New York: The City That Never Sleeps

Last week The Wall Street Journal sent a bunch of their in-house photographers out in the depth of the night to shoot the New York city when most of its citizens were asleep. But even at those unearthly hours, certain parts of the city was buzzing with activity – hawkers arranging newspapers to be delivered early in the morning, policemen patrolling the streets, late night owls enjoying a drink at a bar and an occasional street peddler or two. This gallery showcases those people who are awake when most of the city is not.
Delivery man Rich Lopes carries a stack of newspapers to a vendor on Wall Streets at 5:57 a.m. (Keith Bedford For The Wall Street Journal)

Lesley Shannon, 24, and Brandon hollely, 29, kiss at the corner of 27th St. and Broadway. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)


A man works on his laptop in front of the Apple Store on 14th Street at 4:46 a.m. (Keith Bedford For The Wall Street Journal)

The dance floor at Enid’s in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Macier Radman, in the blact hat, takes an order at a Punjab food cart on 27th St. and 5th Ave. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Italian tourists sit on the curb on 9th Avenue and 14th Street after leaving a bar at 4:58 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Two couples have intimate moments on Avenue A. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

A man purchases a copy of The Wall Street Journal from a vendor on Wall Street at 5:54 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

A young man gets sick on 2nd Street near Avenue A. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

Police officers line up for roll call at Madison Square Park at 5:04 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

A traffic officer crosses Canal Street at 6:47a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal!)

Street sweepers clean along Wall Street at 6:25 a.m. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal!)

One last drink in Union Square around 5:30 a.m. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

A food vendor walks up 11th Avenue near at 47th St. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

[via The Wall Street Journal]

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