It's never really dark in New York anyway, but it was noticeably brighter last night with the cloud cover and white snowfall. All that light was just bouncing around between them. You can't really tell from the picture, but it was as light as a cloudy day! No wonder this city never sleeps.
I was walking near Bryant Park in Manhattan today and I noticed all these chunks of ice (about the size of pens or playing cards) continuously falling onto the sidewalk from way up high. I stopped and looked up, and they were coming from the tops of the skyscrapers! It didn't strike me as particularly dangerous, but it didn't make me feel too comfortable either! The pieces of ice didn't show up in the photo, but the view from the sidewalk looking up turned out kind of cool:
I also noticed that the fountain in the park was still running, which is unusual. The water made icicles and frozen lumps around the base (also you can tell which way the wind is blowing!):
The reason I was in Midtown was for the fifth in a series of research studies I've been participating in. They don't pay much, but it's very interesting stuff (and harmless) and it was something I picked up to occupy myself while unemployed. Basically I wear special glasses and look at different images on a computer screen on the other side of the room, then push buttons on a keypad depending on what I see.
The study is being conducted by the optometry department of the State University of New York in order to help people without 3D vision learn to see in three dimensions. Yes, you read that right! I was so shocked to learn that some people just don't see in 3D! But they are finding out more about how the eyes and brain work together to produce 3D images, and they are starting to be able to "train" people with 2D vision to see with depth perception.
So I get paid a little, I learn cool things, and I get to use my perfect vision to help those without it. Score! Also, I get to sit in a room with this awesome sign on the door:
It looks like something I would've put on my bedroom door when I was a kid! I love it!
5 comments:
I loved the photos, esoecially the skyscraper one! So different from the things I get to see. :-)
Also loved your description of the snow "It was falling fine and steady like flour from a sifter" - wonderful.
Two years ago we installed a heating system so the park's fountain could run throughout the winter to complement The Pond and Holiday Shops. Thanks for noticing!
Love 'looking up' picture. And the 'testing in progress' sign, totally classy. Absolutely loving the extra step they took to attach it to a string and attach that string to the door/wall. It suggests an evolution of that sign; from sticky note to plain white paper on wall, to the cardboard framed string contraption it is now. It's really got me thinking, where did it come from, who made it, why cardboard and paper, why string, were there others?
Jajajaja, ¿cómo consigues esos empleos en los que experimentan con tu cuerpo?
Por cierto, no soy Pep si no David, no recuerdo por que me puse Pep de nombre en Google...
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