United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021
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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021
All the pixels, none of the bickering, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335
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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021
All the pixels, none of the bickering, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335
Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).
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Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).
Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.
Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).
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Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.
Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).
The UN Secretariat building was designed by an international team of architects (most notably Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer) and completed in 1950. It was the first important "International Style" modernist skyscraper in New York - exemplified here here by a simple, unadorned rectangle with reflective glass curtain walls on either side.
Glass box office buildings became almost cliche in mid-century NYC, but the UN remains unusual in being set apart in the skyline, uncrowded by neighbors.
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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021
All the pixels, none of the bickering, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335
@mattblaze cracking shot
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The UN Secretariat building was designed by an international team of architects (most notably Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer) and completed in 1950. It was the first important "International Style" modernist skyscraper in New York - exemplified here here by a simple, unadorned rectangle with reflective glass curtain walls on either side.
Glass box office buildings became almost cliche in mid-century NYC, but the UN remains unusual in being set apart in the skyline, uncrowded by neighbors.
I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.
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Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.
Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).
@mattblaze I like it a lot! You get some kind of pixel effect from the windows at that distance.
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I've heard good very good things about the P1 camera/back. This looks impressive. How big is the file?
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I've heard good very good things about the P1 camera/back. This looks impressive. How big is the file?
@TheTravelingPilgrim I really like the system. Expensive, but extremely flexible. The raw files are huge; over 100MB.
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Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).
@mattblaze Great shot!
With such a short lens, I'm surprised the contours of the building align so nicely with the frame. Am I correct in assuming that's because you're shooting larger format film?
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Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.
Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).
And if you inadvertently design them with a nice parabolic curve you get a solar death ray for free.
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@worik @strypey @reiver You're right; ActivityPub is encrypted from one end to the other.
The problem is data at rest. AP activities are stored on the sender's server and cached on the receiver's server in the clear. If your server admin, or mine, decides to go spelunking in their database, they can violate our privacy and read our messages.
This is no better or worse than unencrypted email. However, a lot of people on the Fediverse have accounts on servers they don't trust.
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@frank awesome! would you maybe like to contribute this to the plugin? I am thinking about a snippets "directory", to show how the plugin can be extended with special features!?
I will create a barebone folder with a readme for that!?
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@peterkotrcka 4 days for all of them? I think it's too much.
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@tfb define "easy" 🙂
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@peterkotrcka Easy to get to from France?
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@stefano and do you think they are close enough for someone, let's say, from Slovakia, to travel through all of these in 4 days?
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Being the web performance zealot I am, I strive to having as little JavaScript on my sites as possible. JavaScript after all has to be downloaded and has to be executed, so extra JS will always have a performance impact even when in the best of circumstances it exceptionally does not impact Core Web Vitals (which are a snapshot of the bigger performance and sustainability picture). Hence when adding blocks in WordPress, I check if the block is entirely rendered server-side and if not I look for alternatives to avoid multiple files from wp-includes/js/dist (and in the case of some 3rd party blocks the entire React JS and more) being loaded.
For that reason I tested the WordPress ActivityPub plugin with the reactions block loaded as per these guidelines and indeed it triggers the loading of hooks.min.js, i18n.min.js, url.min.js, api-fetch.min.js (all in wp-includes/js/dist) and 2 files from the plugin itself (/wp-content/plugins/activitypub/build/reactions/view.js and /wp-content/plugins/activitypub/build/remote-reply/view.js).
To be able to reduce the dependency on those JavaScript files, 2 questions needed to be answered; how to have reactions (which I like a lot) without the JavaScript-driven rendering and what is that remote-reply thing.Starting with the latter; “remote-reply” handles the federation of local comments on reactions (comments) from the Fediverse, showing a modal window where the commenter is asked what ActivityPub account they want to post the reaction from. I decided this was not that important for me and –with some help from Matthias @pfefferle who always gives great support- came up with a couple of lines of code to not “do” remote-reply on this blog.
Now that Fediverse reactions block is very nice and I did want reactions showing on my blog, so I started looking at the database and the ActivityPub plugin code and saw that all Fediverse reactions were stored in the wp-comment en wp-comment-meta db-tables and were in fact accessible with the WP_Comment_Query class and with quite a bit of trial and error I ultimately ended up with a totally server-side generated solution that looked pretty nice (and similar to the JavaScript-rendered one).
If you’re interested, you can find the code in this gist, but don’t expect it to be good. Some negatives include no language handling, unminified CSS inline and the placement of the reactions might not work on every theme as I hook into the comments_template action to try to show them just before the comments. But who knows it might just work for you as well?
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@peterkotrcka They're all in Northern Italy
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