Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 3

Posted on September 19, 2022 by ingon

Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 3

On Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, it was more than two years since we came to New York City. NYC was an epic place for the deadly virus and took many lives. Now we came to enjoy the place and people once again. The COVID-19 virus is scaled down a great deal, and many more people have been vaccinated to prevent the virus. However, some people who took the vaccine still get sick from the virus, but the sickness is not severe or deadly. Some people were still wearing masks but many more did not.

We still see the mixture of people that makes us feel comfortable to be in NYC. It is a melting pot, and in many ways a center for the diverse population of the world.

We walked toward to the Chinatown area where are the rows of Chinese restaurants on every street. Our stomachs were growling in anticipation of the taste of fried dumplings and sour soup.

Our destination was not a big restaurant. We headed to the small lane, called Mosco Street. In the middle of the lane is a very small takeout restaurant that specializes in fried dumplings and soup. We bought fried dumpling and soup to go.

🙂THE DUMPLING LADY OF CHINATOWN 🙂

At the bottom of the lane, just a few minutes’ walk from the dumpling restaurant, is a small park, called Columbus Park Playground. There is a basketball court next to the children’s playground. There are some benches for parents or anyone to sit and rest, enjoying watching the little children play on the swings and slide. We found a bench to sit, watching little ones having a good time playing while we consumed our delicious fried dumplings and soup.

We went to buy a pack of Melon cakes for John. I chose a pack black bean cakes and we also bought some other items to take home.

We walked back down to Mosco Street heading home, taking Path train to Newark, New Jersey. As we looked up, we saw the New World Trade Center standing tall in the sky.

We wanted to celebrate our trip to NYC, but we could not stop thinking about September 11, for the anniversary for twentieth year was coming soon. We still remember the event that caused heart ache for so many people. But following that dreadful day, an important thing happened in USA and around the world. It became a unifying factor for solidarity among most of humanity. Today however, it seems the opposite is taking place. Especially in US politics, such as January 6 event in 2021 with the mobs ordered by Mr. Trump to attack the US Capital.

Please make every effort to encourage unity, compassion and understanding between people the world over. With this we can find peace and happiness together as one human family.

Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Monday, September 19, 2022

For my page on Remembering 9/11, please visit the following link: http://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/

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Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 2

Posted on September 17, 2022 by ingon

Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 2

On Tuesday, August 30, 2022

John and I had not visited New York City for a couple years because of COVID-19. We were eager to see once again the places we enjoyed walking about, seeing all kinds of people, mural artwork on the walls of buildings, and sculpture in parks and other places. On Tuesday, August 30 this year (2022), we had to go to midtown in New York City to conduct some business. We left our house about 8:00 AM, and walked to Newark Penn station to take the Path train to the World Trade Center. We took subway north to midtown and finished our business about noon. It was time for us to have our favorite lunch in China Town. For this we took a downtown subway to Canal and Lafayette Street. Here we were very glad to see murals on the sidewalks, tall buildings, and colorful graffiti on the walls of a parking lot. One interesting artwork was a large sun flower crochet on the fence of a parking lot. On Canal Street, we enjoyed viewing all kinds of merchandises being sold on sidewalks and in the shops. From there we turned into a small lane heading to our favorite source for food and a place to rest.

Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Saturday, September 17, 2022

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Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2022 by ingon

Thousands of People and Thousands of Artworks In New York City Part 1

On Tuesday, August 30, 2022

China Town, Canal Street and Lafayette Street

Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, September 13, 2022

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Trail showcases Glasgow Murals and Street Art Around the world

Posted on November 13, 2016 by ingon

Trail showcases Glasgow Murals and Street Art Around the world

Life goes on no matter what happens in the world or in the political arena. After listening to Hillary Clinton gives her acknowledgement of defeat speech, I drove into doing the things I love most, artwork. I visited the BBC News site yesterday and found, “In pictures: Trail showcases Glasgow murals”, I enjoyed and loved their artworks which I would like to share with others. Please enjoy the artwork in which the artists convey their feeling, philosophy and their talent to the world.

Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Wednesday, November 09, 2016

In pictures: Trail showcases Glasgow murals

3 November 2016
From the section Glasgow & West Scotland

A new Mural Trail has been devised aimed at showcasing artwork which has been appearing on walls around Glasgow.
Art Pistol, which creates public art, street art, murals and artistic window graphics, are behind many of the installations.
A spokesman said the group was “delighted with how the city and visitors have embraced the murals”.

For more information please visit the following links:

US election result: Clinton says Trump must have chance to lead:

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37929562

In pictures: Trail showcases Glasgow murals:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37859621

The following mural photos are from Mr. Christian Peter site.

Thanks to Mr. Christian Peter from Google+ site showing our community with fantastic murals, around the world. Please visit his site for more street artwork at Google+. The link is: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChristianPeters69

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Peace Comes To Astoria, Street Art Queens, New York City, New York

Posted on July 4, 2016 by ingon

Peace Comes To Astoria, Street Art

Murals and Surrounding Astoria Neighborhood

Queens, New York City, New York

On Sunday, June 26, 2016

Photographs by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts

Happy 4^th of July everyone 🙂 🙂 🙂

John and I went to Astoria, Queens, NYC, New York on the previous Sunday, June 26, 2016 to view the latest murals. We enjoyed walking about seeing murals on 30 Street, 12 Street and Welling Court by Astoria Boulevard. I was very happy to see some artists produced Peace artwork. We arrived about 2 P.M., the sun was very hot. We cannot see the pictures on our equipment screens that well. I tried my best to capture the murals that we viewed We only viewed a small part of murals. We decided to return home and will come back again to view more murals in different areas.

There were some people taking pictures of the murals.

I intended to walk across the street to view the murals on the other side of the road but I noticed the reflection of part of the mural with the peace sign artwork on the car window. I realized that there is another mural on a wall inside of a gated property.

I came back and tried to photograph the mural. I could not capture the mural in full view because of the gate blocking it.

Luckily my cheap camcorder is small enough to go through the space between the gate bars. I tried my best to capture the whole image. But I only got part of the mural.

I was glad I was able to at least capture the full peace sign.

Thanks to the artist who produced this peace mural. I wish I could have gotten his or her full name.

These murals are on the opposite side of the street from the peace murals that I have shown above.

A group of tourists came to view the murals. Thanks to all the artists who produced the artworks. I love graffiti or street art because most of the artists wish to convey their thought and express them in a form of artwork in public for other people to view, to feel, and to think, no matter if you agree or disagree. But the artists activate people’s brains to think. Sometimes this may tickle the conscious of the viewer to absorb more information from the artwork. Most graffiti or street art subjects are expressions of a present time which one can use as a chronicle of history in this specific time and place. Eventually these artworks or murals will be gone if they are in the changing hands of property owners who want to demolish properties for other business ventures.

John pointed out to the lady photographer that the damaged car is a useful object to compose a photo looking through the mangled window to view the painted fire hydrant.

I will post John’s photographs in the next project. It is interesting to see the difference in composition of individual photographers traveling the same path.

This person seemed to be interested in taking photos of the remains of the crashed vehicle. I felt sad to see the result of such a tragedy. I hope the person or persons in the car survived.

This person is very smart; he used his bike to ride to more places to view murals. He could travel longer distances, and be less tired compared to traveling by walking.