The Color Imperative of Big City At Night: Rainbow City Shanghai

Rainbow City Shanghai, originally uploaded by cuellar.

The splash of primary colors is the last thing that a nocturnal river can ever let itself to be associated with; however, the city closing in on the waterway winding through it gives both a stage for its painting over in glaring neon-light stripes of color-tinged perspective on the other shore of the sky-line generically reminiscent of other cities but nevertheless coming together in a shape that is uniquely itself not least in the view it allows at itself from the opposite bank as a possibly exclusive promenade and a series of vantage points from which the unexpected succession of technicolor light fields calls into memory a free association between pointillism and impressionism thrown on photographically frozen water surface.

What Virtual Flaneur Would Find: Shanghai City Shape

shanghai city shape, originally uploaded by amadeuswhui.

Breathtaking reflection of bicycle itself similar to the carved frame that cuts it to its own round shape provides a spot of light irradiating from the image longingly staring into what must be an antiquities shop heaping in its insides floral furniture decoration from Europe, Asian animal-shaped finishings, and apparently local fruit of craftsmanship that has put the mirror into the shape going up in smoke-like curls of its chiseled framing waiting for an eyes-level place on the walls that any metropolis has in abundance in the apartments of its dwellers walking through the streets and arcades in search of what would arrest their acquisitive gaze.

Though the Looking Glass of Digital Photography: Shanghai Model City

Shanghai Model City, originally uploaded by Ivan Walsh.

It takes blowing up the initial image to see the words 'Virtual Worlds' in the background to what spreads itself in the fore- and middle ground: a city as a forest of buildings sprouting from the plane of immanence of their actual and/or future construction that unfolds before the eyes of their spectators as an always already presence of what time holds in its store as such, as a surface for modeling past and coming stage of how a city looks at different points of its time-line that unexpectedly becomes a three-dimensional spectacle of urban space scaled down for the scopic pleasure and its material anticipation.