New York

PA-LA LOMA is a bicycle club located in Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The members of PA-LA LOMA don't get together to practice biking as a sport, but to enjoy each others company and relax, what they call "bacilar". After spending sometime with them and appreciating their pimped bicycles, we understood that the main reasons why these guys get together is their love for retro collectable bicycles and puerto rican brotherhood. They all agree that by riding a bicycle they don't only save money but life is more enjoyable.

Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY: PA-LA LOMA, a club for uncoventional bikers.

Surrounded by rivers and a tidal stream, Manhattan has always been a hub of maritime commerce. Seafaring has shaped the city in many ways and even the term skyscraper refers to the to the highest sail on a clipper ship. New Yorker connection with the water however has eroded through time. Highways and industrial complex separate the city form the water. For most the ocean is a scary dimension over which we have no or little control. However human body is mostly water, we live in water for 9 moth of our life, to be in water and play with it is an innate desire.

Nature

The future of our warming world with rising seas levels is the focus of a series of illustrations by New York-based designers Studio Lindfors. In the striking and serene images, the designers explore what New York will look like in a few hundred years time. Visit: http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/1881-rising-water-world-images.html

My journey into the heart of Orchard Beach began out of a desire to focus on stories closer to home. The proximity of a real story is often right at our fingertips. As we walk through the hallways of our apartments, pass our neighbors at the coffee shop, and brush shoulders against strangers in the subway, I have often wondered who these people are, these passing lives with unspoken gestures. Sometimes you can gather a glimpse of their story in the second when you hold their gaze. At other times you are presented merely with a stolid mask as people strip their emotions from peering eyes.