This image depicts Seattle city in the nighttime, which is a very great scene to me. Seattle is the farthest I have been from my house, which is unfortunate because I have always been interested in the city. To me a city is just a giant human culture theme park. It is filled with so many interesting and different ways of life and always looks amazing. It looks even more amazing at night. My visit to Seattle city was exciting, and it is the reason why I love the urban life. This image really reminds me of one of the reasons why I am interested in this lifestyle. Even at night a place like this manages to look so busy, with lights scattering the city.
I was about ten when I first came to Seattle. It was a trip to visit my mom’s side of the family, and it was for thanksgiving. During the winter Seattle can be either near freezing or very rainy. Although usually rainy weather can be a very nasty site down here in California, for some reason I loved the look of it in the city. We went to a lot of places there including the space needle and an underground mall, which had one of the oldest comic books I’ve ever seen in a store. After that we visited the gum wall which was a huge brick wall in an alleyway entirely covered in gum. This was pretty gross but very interesting. By then it was nighttime. Right when it gets dark everything lights up and it’s almost like the city changes into a different place entirely. We went by a really small coffee shop and since it was cold we decided to go inside. I was very warm and cozy and the view of the freezing dark city through the window made me feel a lot cozier. This is the cozy feeling that really makes me feel like I belong in a busy city.
In the city everything towers over you. Everything is big and you feel so much smaller. There are so many different sounds playing all at once. Cars are honking while at the same time a street performer is playing free form jazz. People are talking on cell phones while televisions inside stores play movies and advertisements. The city also had lots of different smells; the markets, thousands of cars, the restaurants, coffee shops and thousands of distinctive aromas that would take forever to list. Art is everywhere. You can see it through graffiti on walls, different posters and advertisements on billboards and in the way people dress. The amount of busy people is overwhelming. They are so busy they don’t even have time to say excuse me if they bump into you. This can be hard to appreciate, but it makes me feel like I’m in the middle of a land of very important people.
A lot of the places in the city had a style I now learned about called art deco. Art deco is the 60’s Aztec looking style shown in giant buildings. The whole town had an art deco feel to it, and to this day it is my favorite type of design. Everything is made up of triangles, squares lightening bolts and all kinds of straight lines in city buildings. It reminds me of jazz music, and a very rich style in the sense of big business. As complicated as it sounds it is a very simple style with lots of simple colors and negative space surrounding it.
My picture that I chose is really in the middle of the urban life that I like. Everything looks very cold, and there are lots of doors and alley ways and places to explore and it looks like it goes on forever. In the background big buildings cover the sky, and yellow and orange lights cover the picture, showing that millions of people are still up and busy. I can imagine living here, and being inside a building seeing this outside of my window would make me feel very comfortable, like I belong there.
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