[audiobook] Stride Piano: Jazz Piano Solos Series Volume 35 by Brent Edstrom in Arts-Photography

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This is a book about New York City; as seen through the eyes and sensibilities of Danish architect and artist Mikael Olrik. The combination of watercolor; photograph and text offers the reader an original; multi-dimensional experience of a city so well known and yet still to be discovered; still mystifying. Trained to identify both what is important and what is distinctive; Olrik is gifted; with an intuitive sense of what to capture; what is abiding and totemic about a particular place. While one might anticipate the pastoral Central Park scenes and such landmarks as the Empire State Building and Brooklyn Bridge; the images of Soho tenements and Williamsburg street scenes serve as stark reminders that New York may very well be the most complex city in the world; a city Mikael Olrik respectfully refers to as a living organism. After many extended stays there; he is comfortable in New York; always ready to process its changes and embrace its surprises; but never complacent or jaded.Walks in My New York" is just that - a strolling; personal tour of New York City and parts of four of its boroughs. >p>Thoughtful guide; Mikael invites you to join him. Positioning you at each stop; he gives you the broad view of an architect; the specificity of an artist; the straight-forwardness of a photographer; and the companionable text of a diarist. You are drawn in and made complicit in the experience. As a bonus; small maps accompany each entry and act as a sort of GPS in print. Mikael Olrik sees to it that you have everything you need to explore a great and restless city abounding in sights and stories. Everything; that is; except a pair of sturdy walking shoes!