#city of boxes

[huariqueje]

Cliff Dwellers - Robert Beck , 2024.

American , b. 1950 -

Oil on canvas , 24 x 24 in.

[unboundprompts]

Hi do you by chance have any prompts for describing the city (especially at night)? I'm looking for like a futuristic fantasy setting if that makes sense. Thanks!

Describing a City at Night

-> feel free to edit as you see fit.

The city glowed with neon veins, casting a strange, electric light over towering spires that scraped the sky. Holographic advertisements danced across windows while streams of fog curled through alleyways like rivers of light. Above, drones drifted lazily, their shadows weaving patterns on the streets below, creating an endless maze of pulsing, glowing reflections.

The skyline stretched sharp and unbroken, towers of glass and steel rising in clean, geometric lines against the sky. Windows glowed softly, each one a story of someone working late or an empty office left on standby.

In the dead of night, the city seemed to take on a different rhythm: quiet but with an underlying hum of energy. Few people walked the streets, but the occasional flicker of a phone screen or quiet murmur from an all-night café hinted at life. The shadows of the alleys were cut by security lights, giving them a strobe-lit effect, while the dull glow from rooftop gardens and balconies softened the city’s sharp edges.

A canal snaked through the heart of the city, the water dark and reflecting neon signs from towering skyscrapers above. Sleek boats glided quietly, transporting passengers between stops along the waterfront, each boat’s headlights cutting clean lines through the night. Pedestrians strolled along the edge, pausing to take photos or enjoy the city’s lights reflected in the gentle ripples below.

Even at 3 a.m., the city streets were alive, the constant flow of traffic muted yet steady as it moved beneath rows of LED streetlights. All-night coffee shops and convenience stores dotted the blocks, their windows spilling soft light onto the sidewalk. Pedestrians, many lost in their own world of screens and earbuds, walked with purpose, the occasional laughter or conversation blending into the endless hum of the city’s heartbeat.

[laughingsquid]

Man Dressed As a Ballot Box Performs Election Themed Stand Up Comedy on the New York City Subway

[thelostpretzel]

World Needs A Hero

[gabrielleragusi]

Wanderlust Window Collectible

12 windows into different fantasy worlds, designed in 2023 for the Bookish Box

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[grape-souffle]

Hey guys!

I was just wondering if there's anything specific u would like to see from my blog next year!

I'm trying to make it more entertaining for everyone, so if u have any suggestions please feel free to lmk either commenting here or using asks!

[haxanbroker]

Telephone box. Charlton, South London, January 2025.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

GAC City Box Concept, 2024. The Chinese car maker has used Milan Design Week to present a series of futuristic city car concepts as part of a new brand slogan "GAC Love Design." The City Box takes inspiration from the Italian Piaggio Ape updated with an electric drivetrain and panoramic cabin

[mochaticat]

So! How does it feel to be a minor in a "forgotten/old" fandom and literally only find ppl in their 20s-30s actually talking about it?

[wallpapedits-vvc]

Details of pictures I've taken 👁️👁️ pt. 15

Like/reblog/comment if you save ⭐

[laf-outloud]

Jared is looking extra dilfy just lately. The longer hair, the scruff, the v necks. Yum.

Very much so!

yomeangphotography, x, x

[batfam-belfry]

a compilation of dc babes eating cereal <3

[beaft]

the great cat relocation of 2024 is about to take place

[aster-valley]

downtown aster 🚗

[galleryofart]

The Song of the Shirt

Artist: Anna Elizabeth Blunden (English, 1829–1915

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Anna Blunden worked as a governess but quit to attend art school after reading the first volume of John Ruskin’s seminal Modern Painters (1843). She became a devotee of Ruskin, who was a trenchant critic of the new industrial capitalism and inspired Victorians as diverse as Cardinal Henry Edward Manning and Oscar Wilde. Blunden echoed Ruskin’s opinions about the dehumanizing effects of modern urbanism in this painting, which dramatizes the plight of workers who came to London seeking employment but found the pollution and poverty of the early Industrial Revolution. It was the first picture Blunden exhibited publicly at the Society of British Artists in 1854, where it was accompanied by a quotation from Thomas Hood’s poem “The Song of the Shirt” that gives voice to a “weary and worn” seamstress as she longs for her youth in the countryside: “For only one short hour / To feel as I used to feel, / Before I knew the woes of want, / And the walk that costs a meal!”

[lovertm]

tokyo, japan by Sam Ekbatani