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A picture taken in the midst of Times Square. This place is essentially a huge, fragmentary collage of billboards and 500-ft tall video screens. If one stands perfectly still in the middle of the sidewalk, one can watch the entire essence of New York City flow past. Times Square is definitely the heart and soul of the American empire--and the level of energy it possesses is nearly schizophrenic.

The Manhattan landscape is an architect's playground, and an engineer's heaven. Massive corridors (like this one) direct the flow of people through the cityscape. At each turn, one feels the presence of the architect, the engineer, and (most importantly) of the businessman.

In many ways, the New York landscape is a self-conscious conglomeration of geometric shapes. Each angle presents an entirely different view, and some of them are quite beautiful.

I believe each modern era is defined by the manner in which it presents and creates visual media. For example, when we reminisce about the 1950's, we generally think of grainy Technicolor images. If my theory is correct, then the early 21st century will be remembered as a series of perfect digital images to which no randomness is introduced. This perfection is responsible for the sense of artificiality found in films like George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: the real world is analog, not digital. Without static, without 'white noise', a very surreal landscape is created: the landscape of Times Square.

A break dancer in the middle of Times Square. New York City possesses an incredible dynamism: in a single day, the cityscape is permeated with music, video, acrobatics, advertising, and a multitude of other things.

A photograph of Columbia University taken from the third storey of their architecture department. This campus has appeared on the silver screen many times, most notably in the opening sequence of Ghostbusters.