Everyone come to liverpool ny for christmas, we have *checks notes* scary two mile light show along the water

Anyway, for the non-new york and upstate folks, this niche event is called Lights on the Lake, and (as of 2023-2024) its a 2-mile-long drive-thru christmas light show through Onondaga Lake Park ❄️

Manhattan diptych

less emphasis on the mutant turtle and more emphasis on the teenage ninja

raise your hand if you're enjoying the constant jarthur art (i raise my hand, completely alone) ((closeups under the cut))

A Holiday Greeting

May the joy of the season envelop you and your loved ones with smiles and treasured memories as the holidays progress. I hope you have a joyous and festive Christmas.

Thank you for all your support this past year.

“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.”—Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

Brooklyn Flowers, NYC, 2018. Tea toned and hand colored gelatin silver print

Apple Blossoms by Charles Caryl Coleman (1889)

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art

February 18th, 2018

i think one of the only ways to make gotham work as a populated city is that it has to be beautiful. there has to be some external, artificial draw that keeps bringing in new people that, only then, does its curse make them stay. otherwise, there's no appeal to such a crime-ridden city. gotham more or less represents the equivalent of new york city, but there has to be more to it than just trash and trains and tall architecture. there has to be some kind of ethereal beauty, something people can't quite describe until they are in it, deep in its belly. gotham must be beautiful and teeming with allure or else it just does not work. i think people get too caught up in the crime and gloomy aesthetic that i attribute largely to what the dark knight did to batman as a whole. the grittiness i feel like has overwhelmed interpretation of gotham when it should have some level of grit but also a gleaming shine of beautiful city life and culture. there has to be a richness to anyone's interpretation of gotham that must go beyond what the wayne's stuck their fingers in. if you want a proper gotham, it has to be one that attracts people, that keeps them coming back for more despite the risks. there must be attraction there or all you've got is a smelly city and overpopulation, and that's not what gotham is

The Conservative Supreme Court Vision That Means Inequality for Women

“I'm trying to understand if there’s a flaw in the history and traditions kind of framework to the extent that when we're looking at history and tradition, we're not considering the history and tradition of all of the people but only some of the people, as per the government's articulation of the test?”

--Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, regarding United States v. Rahimi

This is a gift🎁link that anyone can use to get past the NY Times paywall to read this entire column about how the championing of "a history-and-tradition-bound method of constitutional interpretation" by the conservative SCOTUS justices will most likely limit women's rights. As the authors Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw point out, at the time the Constitution was written, "the principle of 'coverture' [that] gave husbands legal authority over their wives" was part of common law. So (perhaps by design) an originalist constitutional interpretation will result in second-class status for women.

The requirement that present-day gun laws resemble gun laws of the distant past prioritizes history and tradition in much the same way the Dobbs court looked to the historic regulation of abortion, pregnancy and birth to support the view that the Constitution did not protect a right to abortion. [...] The history-and-tradition methodology privileges laws enacted in eras like the 1780s, when the original Constitution was ratified, and the 1860s, when the 14th Amendment was drafted and ratified — moments in time when neither women nor people of color were able to fully join the political community and played no official role in enacting laws. Should a method that privileges eras of extreme democratic deficit be relied upon to determine contemporary constitutional meaning? [...] As an amicus brief...explains, in common law, the principle of “coverture” gave husbands legal authority over their wives, including the prerogative to “correct” or “chastise” through force or violence. There is active debate regarding how domestic violence was perceived in the 18th and 19th centuries. But arguing on these terms still embraces a fundamentally antidemocratic principle — that history alone, at whatever level of generality, can determine whether contemporary laws are constitutional. Although the history of domestic violence enforcement was extensively discussed and debated in the briefs, it was only glancingly referred to in oral argument. This too is notable. If the terms of the debate are history and tradition, whose history and traditions will get priority? [color emphasis added]

Busy streets of New York🌆

Black Santa Claus’s origin story!

❄️🎅🏾🎁

My final for my wintersession class🌃

nearly cried I was so excited to see these in person 🤍

I drew these three in class. Bingin' a lot of John Carpenter movies, rn

ok. I'm done now 💯

The gentleman’s dressing room / study stands at one end of the bathroom. The inlaid geometric pattern in the marble floor serves to segment the various elements of this long bathroom.

Bathrooms, 1996