Comments: Fearful Symmetry

Is this feeling of inverted vertigo similar to that in your blog entry on the episode from West Wing?

http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000140.html

There seems to be a theme of sensibility to the sublime running through your entries. In the West Wing episode entry it was sound that contributed greatly to the affect. In the WTC towers entry it appears to be a visual effect. Could the surimposition you seek in visual terms be accomplished by a montage of both sound and sight?

Posted by Francois Lachance at September 11, 2003 03:47 PM

That's a very sensitive reading, Francois. I don't have an answer for you but I appreciate the suggestion.

Posted by MGK at September 11, 2003 10:56 PM

According to what they tell us tourists from Europe, the Empire State Building is built in steps to accommodate zoning rules at the time. In order to keep Manhattan from being to dark, they required a certain footprint to be allowed to build to a certain height.

Posted by Anders Fagerjord at September 15, 2003 08:51 AM

Robert Walker photograph "World Trade Center Lobby" page 88 in _New York: Inside Out_ (Skyline Press imprint of OUP, 1984)ISBN 0-19-540603-6

It's the last piece in the book and may be the piece that may help in "snapping to grid".

Posted by Francois Lachance at September 24, 2003 04:13 PM