Soo I didn't have time surrounding the NYC Trip to write anything about it, but I thought it pertinent to add Lincoln Center seeing as it is now my favorite place in the entire city. Just being there made me feel at home. I know the Julliard School is probably my mom's favorite place in the world, and just sitting in the cafe area made me feel like when I was little. All of the people were dressed like the ones who would fill up the Egg during all my sister's recitals. They are all snobby and stuck-up, but their attitude wasn't offensive to me... it was more familiar. It's probably this collection of people and places that I grew up in that makes me appreciate little things like sitting in a cafe with a bunch of dancing fanatics. Or what makes me appreciate motorcyclists, or video game designers... I've been exposed to many different kinds of people and towns, and atmospheres, and each unique kind of person or place reminds me of home.
I think it's also interesting for me to notice how dramatic and elevated the Lincoln Center architecture is. In many ways it's reminiscent of both the Empire State Plaza in Albany, and the SUNY Albany campus. The materials are similar and the starkness of it is also related. I also really liked how Lincoln Center is almost a carbon-copy of Michelangelo's Campindoglio in Rome... only a more stylized and abstracted version. The space the three big buildings create is amazing existentially, and really 'grounded' from an architectural point of view. Walking amongst the tall, concrete pillars made me feel like I was back in Albany, going to class at a campus most people find ugly, but that I find completely intriguing.
- c
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