Architect Kirsten Hively documents neon signs in New York City. She photographs the city's best working signs and tells us a little about the establishments behind the neon. She explains why she haunts the dark streets of New York searching out iconic glowing tubes:
I have been told that New York’s neon is unexceptional in comparison to Chicago's or Portland's. I wanted to prove otherwise," she writes. "I also wanted to demonstrate (mostly to myself) that the quirky, independent New York is still here — it’s not all chain stores, standard-issue vinyl awnings and luxury condos.
She has Flickred and mapped their locations in case you want to check them out.
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I just don't get it.
I think he does in in that program because most of us discard MS Paint as just a cheap sketchbook pad that hasn't got nearly enough capacities to make such complicated renderings.
He shows that you actually can make difficult drawings in this simple program.
I started to use MS-Paint for simple technical drawings that don't require me to beg endlessly with my systems operator for an extra cad-program on our firm's network. He and my boss flatly refuse to buy such programs Why, they won't tell), so I am stuck on the only program available, being MS-Paint...
This guy is my Hero because he shows me that for the time being I can very well do with MS-Paint
But I don't see how it can be used for technical drawings.. there aren't even any measuring tools.
I use it for rudimentary sketches, and even that takes ages to make it look like something better than what I drew in kindergarten.