ck/ck

I want you to pick a door to open, and enter the room and shut the door behind you. You have to stay in the room you choose for one hour. You cannot turn off the engine. You do not get a gas mask.

I'm guessing you chose the Door Number Two, with the electric car, right? Door number one is a fatal choice - who would ever want to breathe those fumes?

This is the choice the world is making right now.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger, “I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change.”

Mary Ellen Mark and her posse. Coney Island, New York City, August 2008.

I had no idea who I was photographing at the time, it was just something that caught my eye, seeing a photographer with their own posse of assistants. It wasn’t until years later, long after I’d forgotten about the photo, that I found out it was none other than Mary Ellen Mark I’d photographed that summer day.

Bass Lake, California, during a recent wildfire.

Broadway Lights. Times Square, New York City, 1996.

Times Square in the rain. New York City, 1998.

New York City, circa 1947.

Subway entrance, New York City, circa 1950s.

One of my favourite Robin Williams films is Moscow on the Hudson, an underrated and overlooked little gem which was written and directed by Paul Mazursky (who also passed away quite recently). Give it a look if you haven't seen it, or rewatch it if you have.

I just got back from an 8-day road trip through Sweden and Norway and I can only conclude that not only did Norway get ALL the amazing natural wonders of the Scandinavian peninsula, their moose warning sign is far more charming and well-designed than the Swedish one, too.