Random pics

[joswift]

A better question is for a thread titled "Random Pics" does the current stock of photos meet the OP's original intent? The definition of random is; made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision. The definition of pics (pictures) is; a painting or drawing or represent (someone or something) in a photograph or picture.

Considering the scope of how people could interpret the thread title, I think it does meet the criteria in someways and in other ways not so much. There is a definite lack of variety in the subject matter. But then, for the most part, only a few people post here and they naturally post what interests them.

If you're bored with looking at women's abundant butts and fake boobs, the easy solution is to post some other subject matter. Anyone can post here and they can post a wide variety of pictures as long as what they post doesn't violate forum rules. So, rather than complain about other folks post, post up something yourself.

Keeping this on topic, here is a photo of someone painting a picture.

this is pretty random

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COVID-19 NYC Lockdown photos

Madison Street, March 30, 2020, 7:11 p.m.
Looking southwest at One World Trade Center from lower Chinatown, Seliger observed only one or two people on the street. “It gives a sense of scale—there’s this girth to everything in New York, and then you see this tiny speck of a human being.”

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Times Square, April 5, 2020, 6:32 a.m.
“There’s usually so many people in Times Square, nobody notices what you’re doing,” says Seliger. “I jumped up on a little stand to take pictures and a cop driving by yelled, ‘Get out of the middle of the street!’”

 

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Grand Central Terminal, April 12, 2020, 5:51pm
“There was an eeriness about how it was essentially just empty with only one or two people passing through,” says Seliger. “Not necessarily people getting on trains, but people also curious about what it looks like right now.”MARK SELIGER

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Apollo Theater, April 9, 2020, 7:25pm
“As you journey through the city, you become aware of empathy everywhere, especially from the closed places getting hit really hard,” Seliger says. “Rather than advertising, the message is stay strong, be safe, be well. There’s strength in the marquee.”MARK SELIGER

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Waverly Place, March 29, 2020, 7:16 p.m.
“I find nightfall to be the time when it all becomes hyperreal.”

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Washington Square Park, March 31, 2020, 7:10 p.m.
While reviewing images back in his studio, Seliger saw, for the first time, the inscription on the park’s arch. “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. —Washington.”

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, April 14, 2020, 6:33am
From a small emergency lane on the FDR Drive, Seliger photographed the refrigerated trucks that are serving as Bellevue hospital’s temporary morgue. The angle created “a symbolic crest,” he says, “beneath the building, under the tree line, the trucks are like a burial ground.”MARK SELIGER

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Coney Island, April 14, 2020, 7:49am
“The sand at the beach there is always kind of chewed up,” says Seliger, “but now there is just the pattern made by how the workers shaped it, and nature creeping into the landscape of the lightless park.”MARK SELIGER

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Jacob Javits Convention Center, April 16, 2020, 10:48am
“It was remarkable to see the vastness of the convention center turned into a ready-to-go hospital,” says Seliger. Ken Dixon, the center’s vice president of security and safety is now helping other convention centers around the country to make the transformation.MARK SELIGER

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Park Avenue, April 13, 2020, 7:59pm
“We set up the shot in the middle of the street during a rainstorm,” says Seliger. “There was nothing coming at us except for the occasional car or taxi. You could actually see the storm move across New York City, pushing its way across the avenue.”MARK SELIGER

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Williamsburg Bridge, April 6, 2020, 7:40 p.m.
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve marveled at that landscape,” says Seliger. “There’s such characters in the skyline.”

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Chinatown, March 29, 2020, 6:23 p.m.
The normally bustling Doyers Street has “always been one of my favorite places to shoot…it took on a different cinematic quality by being that empty.”

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Madison Avenue, April 2, 2020, 6:56 p.m.
In spite of everything, the city still churns autonomically beneath its empty streets. “I’ve always thought those stacks were so magical,” Seliger says of the ubiquitous Manhattan vents.

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Bleecker Playground, April 1, 2020, 7:11 p.m.
“There’s a significant burden of raising families in New York at this time,” says Seliger. “The silver lining is, hopefully, that we get a chance to reconnect with our families.”

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Central Park, April 7, 2020, 7:35 a.m.
Seliger, accompanied by dog Willie, visited the magnolia trees across from the American Museum of Natural History. “Nature continues to evolve and change in front of you when everything else has stopped,” he says.




Central Park, April 7, 2020, 7:37 p.m.
The temporary 68-bed field hospital outside of Mount Sinai was recently constructed on the park’s baseball fields. “The only thing you can hear is just sirens and birds,” says Seliger.

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THE EYE OF THE STORM
With Italy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and 60 million people across the nation ordered to remain indoors, a documentary photographer ventures out to record the quiet desolation of a modern plague

MAY 2020
ALEX MAJOLI

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 Lena Waithe is re-writing the rules for the next generation

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