New York City: The Only Place to Be

“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” ― Djuna Barnes

“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.” ― Helen Keller

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” ― Milos Forman

I love New York City. The reason I live in New York City is because it’s the loudest city on the planet Earth. It’s so loud I never have to listen to any of the shit that’s going on in my own head. It’s really loud. They literally have guys come with jackhammers and they drill the streets and just leave cones in front of your apartment; you don’t even know why. Garbage men come; they don’t pick up the garbage, they just bang the cans together. ― Lewis Black

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” ―Mark Twain

“In New York it seems like there’s no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.” ―Thierry Henry

michalsudo says:

October 14, 2014 at 9:59 pm

I really like the title you chose for this diary entry, it was a great way to capture the ethnocentric culture so common amongst New Yorkers, an idea that you further developed through the quotes you used. Without having to read each quote specifically the importance of New York is made clear, simply through using bold font to emphasize the city’s name and make it stand out from the rest of the quote. The changing of the fonts and font size between each quote was a great addition to the overall aesthetics but also contributed to the development of key characteristics of New York, notably the diversity and constant change. I find the overall structure of the visual and textual parts interesting, I’m not sure if I’m looking in too deeply into the way you positioned each part but it seems as though the jagged left side mimics the skyline of the city.