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Published: 2009-09-11 03:29:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1102; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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Madison Avenue NYC2011: Have re investigated the original file.
Looking for more shadow detail -- larger file size for potential prints, etc.
2015: Visited the file again and restored detail and color.
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*whistles* Now THAT is a staircase! The words grand and black-tie come to mind. Is this a private residence?
Very impressive shot, James. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks very much. It's actually a former residence but now the Polish Consulate in New York.
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You're welcome. 
That's interesting. Detroit had many old turn-of-the-century mansions, three or four stories; most weren't the scale of the De Lamar House. Still, the ornate architecture...stairways, plasterwork, woodwork...the majority of them were razed as they had been abandoned for years. That's a real shame.
Places like these give a glimpse at what that era was like. My late, maternal grandmother grew up in Detroit. Her mother came over through Ellis Island from Czechoslovakia, and they had a store here. Anyway, grandma told of how back then, Belle Isle and the Michigan Central Station were alive and bustling with fedora clad men, and women in dresses with hats and umbrellas. She said she would have a picnic on the lawn of the Depot occasionally. Like something out of an old black and white film.
My,how things change, eh? 
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Detroit is a museum of destruction and decay. Even so, some nice things have been saved. I can't imagine another city whose ruins are good enough for coffee table books. Your forebears were immigrants, as were mine. These were the people who worked in this country - made things. It's all scattered now, which is why cities look the way they do. Nobody really needs them, if they can exist through their cars and endless highways. My pleasure.
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Whoops, started to fav it thinking it not a edit but a fresh post - accidentally unfaved, refaved. That's got to be some sort of DA button-fail record for me. 
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You're too kind, just the same
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It really is stunning.
I think this newer interpretation, as you say, lends it a degree of clarity at the expense of mystery - more literal, whereas the first version felt more abstract and conceptual. Still, the beauty of the shot stands on it's own. (The angle and perspective just catches my eye every time it pops up on my monitor).
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Marvelous.
Well, thanks a lot !!
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You know you're always welcome!
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Today we have sun, high pressure, and few gusts, and 43F. Uneventful weather but certainly better than the extremes!
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Ah, and here, our 4-hr days, and constant light snow....grey, but lovely.
Thanks! I will not have time to listen before Wednesday for sure but I'm sure they'll be a welcome midweek humour break.
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Such astounding structure!
I've only seen days approaching such dimness in Quebec, but the sun was still up at Noon. I'll make sure the selection is fresh.
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"Just smell that roasted, carefully aged aroma of vintage goodness!"
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lol .. Handpicked from only the finest files.
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"....from our hard drive, to yours."
(......wonder how long we could keep this going? Knowing us, very damn long, too long, and I must stop spamming your posts. 
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Or proving that you can write good ad copy at the drop of a mouserug...
Accept only the best.
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I'm after Peggy Olsen's job, a few decades later....
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Lovely isn't she.
You should view "The Apartment" with Jack Lemon and Shirley Maclaine (1960). THAT does what Man Men cannot even do -- provide period people as well as the great costumes and furniture. You would never believe such an era existed.
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I love those characters in general, but she, Don and Joan I find equally wonderful! I just think for a modern show, they've put more heart and soul into those characters, more nuance, than we generally get. I just lap that show up, I absolutely love it, and I think Jon Hamm is outstanding - his facial gestures are just so nuanced, so perfect.
You know, I think I saw "The Apartment" as a kid...but I won't remember much of it at all, so it would be completely worth watching again. I really should hit up Amazon and stock up on old movies - (I refuse to pay for cable, most of it is just garbage!)....so many that I loved and it's the perfect holiday/bad weather pasttime.....
I remember getting the chance to see a re-screening of Vertigo in a modern theatre - the only thing more awesome than Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart on a little screen is Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart on a BIG one - and it was so blissfully quiet, compared to a modern movie. You really feel like old movies give you a chance to linger on everything - consider each scene and drink it all in - not just Hitchcock, of course but so many directors understood that back then.
That's probably why I liked "Melancholia", (mother hated it but I think she just doesn't get into dark as much as she would like to THINK she does, "The Wall" is about her limit.
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Well, I mis-represented (inadvertently) my feelings toward Mad Men. You should know that I watched the entire series in one weekend, so taken I was with it. They do (or they did) an inspired job of presenting real human drama within that 60's framework, without trying to put modern morays all over it. Having worked in that area of NY a lot, I can say that it does ring true. And my own father would have been in John Hamm's (I mean Don Draper) generation, so I remember the silk suits, the cigs, the ashtrays, the booze, and the Selectrics. The show got a few niggling details wrong, but what's right with it far out-weighed that. I adored the show. I did mean that sometimes you still had to go back to the year itself in order to get the real thing. Robert Morse's casting was an inspired addition, consequently. Yes, yes, yes - I'm sold
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...and thus, my faith in Mr. Steeber subsequently restored... (hee-hee, just kidding!)
You really didn't. I got no "negative" feeling off your comment about the show at all. But on that note - I have to sleep! (I've been much better lately about doing this diligently....) Nighty J.
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Excellent. Good time for me to grab dinner.
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Hyvรครค ruokahalua!
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Merci.
Had to look up a pronunciation. My mouth doesn't want to do that.
But eat I did - thanks.
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This looks like it could be a staircase from a Tim Burton movie.
Great shot!
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beautiful shot, subtle colors. the irregular curves of the staircase are adding the something extra!
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Awesome... Technically, like your speed, most of the time if I can try to shoot at 1/60 since with good iso, can give a so beautiful result, but here, it is not only technical, just your vision and the capture is really beautiful... and astonishing. Really great shoot!
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Thanks very much.
What are you building in Mali?
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I'm building my life! Not joking, but also being there a miner, on a gold mine... So building a new way of mining, am from a generation where compromising is not standable in the work about some stuff like how you work, how you deal with environment, how you mine...
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Great answer. Who would have guessed? Thanks.
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This is pretty badass, James.
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This one surely hit big. Thanks very much. It is a great stairway.
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Hmm, indeed. I had a feeling you'd get some nice feedback on this one!
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