Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/20/2011 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110120_202619.jpg.html > > I shot this January 20th with my 85 1.8 after dark. Or during dark. A few > blocks from me its the 24 hour Big Nick's Pizza& Burger Joint. A New York > institution. > The door on the left you go in and its Pizza. The left its Burger. But > It's > really the same place and one of the more graphically interesting places > I've ever hung out in. its filled on the walls with small signs and Glossys > of actors. And the menu is page after page after page you can get also lost > in the typography and forget to be thinking about what you might order. > There is a key scene in Midnight Cowboy in which it was either Viva or > Ultra > Violet had Dustin Hoffman and John Voight a ticket to an Andy Warhol party > which they later attend and steal all the food they can pocket. They watt > all the way in the back against the back wall. Its interesting to be sat in > that very seat at this point. Its 1969 all over again. > > You can see as you slide from left to right if you hit the enlarge button > in > the image you can get either ostridge or buffalo burgers. But no tofu > versions of these. But plenty of veggie options for me. But in general they > have everything. And they have it at 4:30 in the morning. My kind of place. > But if you sit outside its not fresh air. Its cigarette smoke. So you sit > inside. When the smokers don't own the sidewalks I will be a happy guy. > > This shot I decided to have been a seamless stitch I guess. > So I'm getting wide with a tele. > Its always what you don't think. And I didn't have to stand in the middle > of > Broadway to do it. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > That is a really excellent image, but $2 for a bag of ice? Not sure about the turkey balls either, though I like lamb fries, but I will look it up next time I'm there. Ken