field trip_fulton ferry landing
flow on, river! flow
with the flood-tide. and
ebb with ebb-tide!
frolic on, crested and
scallop-edg’d waves!
gorgeous clouds of the
sunset! drench with your
splendor me, or the men
and women generations
after me! cross from shore
to shore, countless crowds
of passengers! stand up,
tall masts of mannahatta!
stand up, beautiful
hills of brooklyn!
throb, baffled and
curious brain! throw out
questions and answers!
-walt whitman-
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fulton ferry landing by google
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These passages from Walt Whitman are carved in the hand-railing of the Fulton Ferry Landing pier.
While I was standing at the pier and looking out at Manhattan, I could still imagine, how it might have had been in early 1800. The crowd of tourists visiting the space and creating “chaos” who is going to take the best spot to take a picture. Reading the passages from Whitman
Cross from shore to shore,
Countless crowds of passengers!
We experience this everyday in the subways, or buses, where everyone is rushing to go somewhere. Whitman liked riding with ferry because it made him interact with people more.
This is really excellent, Miri! I really like the way you created your own visual text out of the railings (I’m thinking here especially of the first few images). There are only a couple of other things I’d like to see: it would be wonderful to have these images on Flickr so that others could comment on them and so that you could geo-tag them and add them to our class map; and I’d like to see you do a bit more work on the poem these lines come from, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”
But this is an excellent start a creative response to the field trip. Well done.
Comment by Prof. Gold — October 24, 2009 @ 10:38 pm
Thank you prof. I will add more images on the Flickr.
Comment by miri — October 25, 2009 @ 1:48 am
What an amazing post– thank you! Would you tag it “fieldtrip” so my students here in Fredericksburg can see it? I’m not sure how these fractured images can so fully capture that space, but they do.
Comment by Mara — October 26, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
Yeah,
I have to gree with Mara, this is amazing, I am going to tag it frontpage so it ill be featured on the main blog. Fine work!
Comment by admin — October 27, 2009 @ 11:54 pm
Wow.
Comment by Claire Fontaine — October 28, 2009 @ 7:20 am
This is awesome!!!!!!! Next time I’m in NY I will definitely have to see this. I love the way you cropped these together to make one image. It’s ominous in a way…
Comment by Erin Longbottom — October 29, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
Thank You!
Comment by miri — November 9, 2009 @ 2:13 am