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Bryce Tolpen's avatar

The full-screen width of these pictures makes slowly scrolling down a pleasure, and it also privileges the trees and rooflines. Each photo's a soft landing. I also think I got some insight into your love for Hopper's work. I enjoy experiencing this old neighborhood through your practiced eye.

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Theo Mackey Pollack's avatar

Thanks, Bryce. So glad you liked those effects. I think that section of Brooklyn is very Hopper-esque, although its current owners have gentrified much of the brooding industrial tragedy out of its once-gritty parts. For me, those blocks also retain the ghosts of Whitman, the Abolitionist writers, and the starry-eyed exuberance of early Industry.

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