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Bridging Time

By Jon Roemer On 5 Mar ’11 · 2 Comments

An excellent time lapse film by Stephen Mallon. Great angles, many cameras, and tons of planning:

The new Willis Avenue Bridge is floated 136 miles down the Hudson River, around the tip of Manhattan, up the East River to the Harlem River, and installed, connecting Manhattan with the Bronx.

First seen on [...]

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Genius

By Jon Roemer On 16 Feb ’11 · Leave a Comment

Inglourious Basterds was a work of genius in my book. The opening scene, filmed like aLeone opening, creating a WWII western in Nazi occupied France – all perfect in the the look, the dialogue, the sound, and the world it created. The movie even works when Bowie’s Cat People comes popping [...]

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Canon Unveils the Wonder Camera

By Jon Roemer On 6 Jul ’10 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday at the Shanghai World Expo Canon exhibited a new camera concept, the Wonder Camera.

Fans everywhere of Sleeper inspired design rejoiced…

Engadget story on the Wonder Camera and via Electronista.

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Times Square Fixture

By Jon Roemer On 22 Feb ’10 · Leave a Comment

My kids seem obsessed with knowing a person’s age. Somehow, to them, it connotes where the person fits in the world.

Dad, how old is the Naked Cowboy?

Fifteen. [That's my stock answer when it's clear there is absolutely no reason I should know the person's age.]

Yeah, right. [...]

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North by Northwest Dental

By Jon Roemer On 12 Feb ’10 · Leave a Comment

Photographed this past fall, NYU Dental School’s new Oral and Urgent Care suite struck me in how much it reminded me of the house in North by Northwest.

The house in the movie, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, never existed in real life. The exteriors were painted mattes composited with live [...]

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Screen View, Princeton, NJ, January 26, 2010

The Incredible Shrinking Man

By Jon Roemer On 26 Jan ’10 · Leave a Comment

This morning, before work, I was in our basement crawl space on leg three of replacing the battery backup sump pump. An odyssey which began two days earlier and required no less than three trips to Lowe’s.

It should have been simple. I already had a battery backup sump pump in place. Swap it out [...]

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