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An interesting article, politics aren't really the issue in me posting this. I grew up in a largely selfish generation, something that I notice more and more these days. Personal happiness still precedes caring about the big picture for many in this generation, as evidenced in many of the comments in this article. Of course, I know a great deal of people from my generation who are humane, kind, devoted, and giving. I think it was being a part of "alternative culture" that accounted for the selfish aspects. Really, do people in their mid-40's still need to be proud of being "alternative?" I see many parents from my generation trying to promote their own ideas of coolness to their little kids. So stupid. I like the generation after mine's attitude more, I've noticed it in the younger gen-x's, and those who came of age after the selfish 80's and early 90's. In general they as a whole seem to have a much more relaxed and less self-conscious attitude, more focused on just being whoever they are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/fashion/paul-ryan-a-wake-up-call-for-gen-xers-cultural-studies.html?adxnnl=1&ref=fashion&adxnnlx=1345896026-w2o/wg8Ru14I2HGbDVfbQQ

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Going it alone on a vacation is an interesting experience, there is a lot of time to think. And surprisingly, for spending a week in Manhattan, I have spent most of that outside and in nature. An hour and a half by bus from Port Authority Bus Terminal (crazy place) is the largest sculpture park in the country. Here are some photos. I was prepared for the scale of the park (500 acres) but not the scale of the artworks. Massive. I only had four hours, so I rented a bike for twice what admission cost me so I could see everything in time. I tried to place orange bike or tourists in my photos, but the tourists were few and far between, and sometimes I had to leave the bike so I could walk to the sculptures. Most of the large sculptures in these photos are over 3 stories high, to give an idea of scale. Many of them had their own half acre of lawn to sit on.

My favorite piece I mistook for a Richard Serra but was actually by an artist I've never encountered before - Menashe Kadishman . I will point it out in the photos.

This one was my favorite:

I miss those who are not with me this week.

Claes Oldenburg's Soft August Calendar.

Today I was privileged to visit three major contemporary landscape design sites: Highline Park (James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Irish Hunger Memorial - which I incorrectly identified below as Teardrop Park (artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect) and Battery Park Bosque (Piet Oudolf).

Highline Park, NYC (Chelsea)