I’ve always loved road signs – even as a little kid, many of my drawings featured highway signs or billboards. I love them so much because they tell you where to go, and also where you’ve been. They are the metadata of the physical world, and what they can tell you contextually is priceless.
Here are some photos of New York City from the past few weeks. Most of the high-rises in Long Island City and Greenpoint were certainly not there at all when I lived in that area 15 years ago.
I analyzed some of my Google Photos and did a bit of QA on their AI logic – some of the mismatches are pretty funny, but it’s quite accurate considering how many thousands of photos it processes in just a single user’s account.
Here are some pictures from the past few weeks in the Bronx. They are mostly from the area west of Jerome Avenue.