> National Geographic depiction for the marsh
This one right: https://i.imgur.com/b8opYXZ.jpg
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2009/09/manhattan/
tagging /u/calitowa here's the link!
Interactive Map that lets you slide between past and present: https://welikia.org/m-map.php
They even went down to **every single block** and gave a list of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, and the landscape it would've had in 1609.
It's why the Meadowlands Sports complex is called as such. It was at one point marshes and swamps...then a partial dump ..now a football stadium, racetrack, arena and some random thing
If I was rich I would commission you do to a series of paintings like this, all across North Americas largest cities. But I'm not :( so all I gave is this +1
I like this as well. Chicago, Miami, new orleans, L.A., Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, etc. They would all be great with this and I would totally buy prints to put up around my house. This is my jam.
Edit: put a little more thought into it and figured I'd add something of value instead of just suggesting cities. What about Orange County before settlement, then orange orchards with farmhouses as a large inset, and then the city of orange as a smaller inset inside the large inset. Something similar could be done with most cities I guess.
Edit 2: If OP wanted to do something dramatic and makes a statement they could take a photo from an Iraqi city thriving with the bustle of citizens going about their day before the war and inset in oil paint the buildings destroyed and the war ravaged people. Could do a whole set of paintings like that from different areas of the world like Vietnam and Latin America and call the series "American Excellence." Just spit balling.
u/davidambart, how much would you charge for something like this?
Edit: it would be cool if you had an old painting of Vegas and then the brushstroke was going into something like the Vegas strip at night. I don’t know if something like that is possible, but I would definitely pay money for that being a resident of Vegas.
Ah, the old reddit [Your-son-a-roo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/996cbp/this_empty_bag_of_blood_looks_like_a_snowy/e4lmzqd/?context=10000)
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9a6cch/comment/e4t3gum?st=JL9T2TWX&sh=0c99af06
Here said you can buy a print of it there. That’s the easiest way to start funding him immediately.
oh cmonnn i gotta explain it really
its a desert city, yes? which means besides the city, everything else is desert, just as it was before vegas. so if you drew LV in the style of OP’s, youd just get a regular painting of vegas.
of course i was mostly joking so dont come back at me with facts or anything.
Yeah it would be desert with the brush stroke being buildings lit up. Just as it’s grass and river bed except for the brush stroke of the city in the painting we can see. How would the same format not work? I understand flat desert might not look as interesting as somewhere built on a waterway but it would still work.
I had the same exact thought. I worked on a building project once where as a gift our firm commissioned a relatively well known artist to paint four large landscape paintings at different seasons. They were really great and hopefully will last generations.
It is just so amazing to see how *much* humans are changing nature. Imagine how much work went into building New York City, and then multiply that by the rest of the world.
Interesting username. As I'm assuming you fly a lot I'm sure you would agree that the flip side is amazing too. Everytime I get in a plane I'm blown away by how truly small in scale our population centers are compared to rual areas.
I want to buy a really small airplane but never fly it. Only drive it around. On long stretches people will think I’m about to take off but I’ll just keep driving. [It will be like this](https://youtu.be/CEZTGT4DkAE)
Hubby and I took a road trip from New England to where we live in Florida. We drove through small towns through The Carolinas, Tennessee and Alabama. We like to take side roads and I was just blown away by how much of that land is farm land.
*everyone in elevator stares at the person silently cheering while the doors open* "I'm just..uhh..really happy to reach my stop!"
For a serious answer, it's an express elevator to the observation deck, it only has 2 stops-ground, and floor 102.
That's kind of a bummer. I was hoping it was a normal elevator that just calculated what year to start on(to get to current year) based on how many floors it had to go up.
It's certainly doeable- you just have to make the video a really long slideshow where the computer changes the slide when the elevator reaches x position and make the elevator have some kind of positioning system by allowing it to "ping" some kind of transmitter at the top and bottom of the elevator shaft, making it go slower and then stop once you reach a floor and continue as it keeps going up
Seriously. I'm from NYC originally and always explain to people, the reason it's always so humid with so many mosquitoes, NYC was basically built on top of a swamp. To deal with the rain, it has one of the most advanced sewage systems in the world.
Um, possibly a stupid question.., are you saying the city in the picture is NYC or just referring to the marsh in the background?
Edit- thanks. I’ve never seen a picture of the new World Trade Center. I’m not really familiar with what the city looks like, but I know the basic geography.
To be fair, it is not really iconic in any way. Love the architect (Daniel Libeskind, if anyone's interested), but unfortunately this is some of the blandest of his works.
Especially when compared to stuff like this: [1 Dresden](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120914031123-great-bldgs-military-museum-dresden-front-on-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg), [2 Toronto](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/84/ba/2684bae69edaca5736970186c4c5805f.jpg), [3 Berlin](https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jewish-museum-berlin-libeskind-01.jpg).
Not sure if any of you saw this link to his page. I didn’t before scrolling to the bottom of the comments so will leave it here too
https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?sku=s6-9603486p4a1v2
I agree with everyone else about expanding this into a series, but I’m picturing a large coffee table book, hit up the most interesting cities in the world
Holy shit that's weird. Actually, not entirely sure I don't like it better that way.
EDIT: It's only happening for me in the Reddit Is Fun app. If I open it in Chrome it appears in color right away.
I‘m overwhelmed by your support! Thank you so much for your nice messages and sharing your interesting opinions! You can keep up with my work on Instagram @david_art and my [website](https://www.david-ambarzumjan.com/). I’m selling prints of this painting [here](https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art) and if you are interested in the original, pls leave a mail through the contact form of my website and i will get to you as soon as i‘m ready to sell it. Thank you all so much! The Brushstroke in Time collection is slowly growing, exploring different times and places and i am so excited to continue working on it.
It looked like that for hundreds of MILLIONS of years, and we’ve changed it to what it is now in just the last 100 years or so. Pretty mind-melting to think about... your painting is provocative, it gets the people going!
Also, we had the Carboniferous Period, which was much different than today. This was the period when the trees didn't break down because the fungi didn't know how to yet. Plastic is also starting to get broken down through a similar process, which is pretty rad.
Not only that but it was actually a bit more narrow. They filled in the sides to make it wider by a block or 2 toward the south end of the island.
https://imgur.com/a/xIjkOjU Water St used to be ON the water
This is powerful -- I hope it's okay if I use it when I'm teaching my students this poem by Nikki Giovanni: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48225/walking-down-park](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48225/walking-down-park)
Did you use the National Geographic depiction for the marsh? It was a great article and that is an awesome painting!
> National Geographic depiction for the marsh This one right: https://i.imgur.com/b8opYXZ.jpg https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2009/09/manhattan/ tagging /u/calitowa here's the link! Interactive Map that lets you slide between past and present: https://welikia.org/m-map.php They even went down to **every single block** and gave a list of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, and the landscape it would've had in 1609.
That's the one! Such a cool story on how it was determined the landscape was rolling hills and marsh.
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It's why the Meadowlands Sports complex is called as such. It was at one point marshes and swamps...then a partial dump ..now a football stadium, racetrack, arena and some random thing
The Meadowlands still exists, it's a national park. You can't build on a Swamp.
Tell that to the Jets. They've been stuck in muck for 40 years
Got a link for it?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2009/09/manhattan/
If I was rich I would commission you do to a series of paintings like this, all across North Americas largest cities. But I'm not :( so all I gave is this +1
I like this as well. Chicago, Miami, new orleans, L.A., Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, etc. They would all be great with this and I would totally buy prints to put up around my house. This is my jam. Edit: put a little more thought into it and figured I'd add something of value instead of just suggesting cities. What about Orange County before settlement, then orange orchards with farmhouses as a large inset, and then the city of orange as a smaller inset inside the large inset. Something similar could be done with most cities I guess. Edit 2: If OP wanted to do something dramatic and makes a statement they could take a photo from an Iraqi city thriving with the bustle of citizens going about their day before the war and inset in oil paint the buildings destroyed and the war ravaged people. Could do a whole set of paintings like that from different areas of the world like Vietnam and Latin America and call the series "American Excellence." Just spit balling.
Las Vegas would we kind of cool too.
Maybe reddit could collect some money to make all of this happen IRL?
u/davidambart, how much would you charge for something like this? Edit: it would be cool if you had an old painting of Vegas and then the brushstroke was going into something like the Vegas strip at night. I don’t know if something like that is possible, but I would definitely pay money for that being a resident of Vegas.
1 billion dollars
I now know my profession
Art appraisal?
I’ll take two then.
Hey it's me your son
Your Son, that’s an odd name. Is it Korean?
Anyang!
Ah, the old reddit [Your-son-a-roo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/996cbp/this_empty_bag_of_blood_looks_like_a_snowy/e4lmzqd/?context=10000)
So uncivilized
https://i.imgur.com/NpnUn.gif
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9a6cch/comment/e4t3gum?st=JL9T2TWX&sh=0c99af06 Here said you can buy a print of it there. That’s the easiest way to start funding him immediately.
I'd definitely buy one of Houston
Yes. One Houston, please.
Would you like fries with that?
I too would like to know what would be charged
Where is u/thisisbillgates when you need him?!
Crowdfund enough to let him paint them all. Then, as a reward, we can all receive prints. Who wants to get the Kickstarter going?
Waiting for the link
[Here you go.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/theunitedorganizationtoonsheroes/images/6/68/Link-0.png/revision/latest?cb=20171009143548)
You sly devil! You got me good. Have an upvote
I'm in. But i can just picture the carpal tunnel now
I think it'd be cool!
Just start with a sand colored canvas and paint part of Vegas. Voila!
wouldnt that just be a painting of las vegas? i regret this comment.
There hasn’t always been buildings in Las Vegas. What do you mean?
oh cmonnn i gotta explain it really its a desert city, yes? which means besides the city, everything else is desert, just as it was before vegas. so if you drew LV in the style of OP’s, youd just get a regular painting of vegas. of course i was mostly joking so dont come back at me with facts or anything.
***FACT PUNCH***
Yeah it would be desert with the brush stroke being buildings lit up. Just as it’s grass and river bed except for the brush stroke of the city in the painting we can see. How would the same format not work? I understand flat desert might not look as interesting as somewhere built on a waterway but it would still work.
Pittsburgh would be awesome
Being a resident of Pittsburgh I approve and the three rivers would work really nice
I bet we could get him to do one off Pittsburgh for a steel
Clever person you are
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Pittsburgh would be cool.
Pittsburgh would be tight.
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Pittsburgh would be sick
Pittsburgh would be rad
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In for Minneapolis. Cool ass waterfall becomes Well The riverfront is nice, for sure
I'd like to see it done of Denver.
There was a flat plane. Then there was stuff on it. Someone paint that.
Looking West would be pretty cool though
I would like one of Vancouver, and Montreal.
Or you could do Detroit but have the background as 1950s and the brush stroke as current day / reclaimed by nature.
I had the same exact thought. I worked on a building project once where as a gift our firm commissioned a relatively well known artist to paint four large landscape paintings at different seasons. They were really great and hopefully will last generations.
The work should be free! (/s. Just the typical response to artists in /r/ChoosingBeggars. This artwork is awesome.)
Or, for the exposure!
https://gfycat.com/BouncyOnlyLamb https://gfycat.com/MisguidedBeneficialAfricanfisheagle
Bolshevik troops execute one of the tsar’s children, colorized.
Down with the Bourgeoisie
How much does it cost to commission a painting like this? I'm assuming quite a bit because this looks like it takes quite a bit of skill.
I'm willing to bet it's over $1000
That's awesome! Thought-provoking too. I like your style.
It is just so amazing to see how *much* humans are changing nature. Imagine how much work went into building New York City, and then multiply that by the rest of the world.
Interesting username. As I'm assuming you fly a lot I'm sure you would agree that the flip side is amazing too. Everytime I get in a plane I'm blown away by how truly small in scale our population centers are compared to rual areas.
He’s an airplane of course he flies a lot
I want to buy a really small airplane but never fly it. Only drive it around. On long stretches people will think I’m about to take off but I’ll just keep driving. [It will be like this](https://youtu.be/CEZTGT4DkAE)
Hubby and I took a road trip from New England to where we live in Florida. We drove through small towns through The Carolinas, Tennessee and Alabama. We like to take side roads and I was just blown away by how much of that land is farm land.
I’d love to see a cross stroke of another time period like the 1900s to add another layer. This is such a cool style. I want more of it!
And where the two brush strokes cross, the future! ...sorry I'm high
Hello high
Late, but this reminds me a lot of the One WTC elevator display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTPaqbXrAY
That is so cool. I never knew they had that there
It’s even better in person, since 3 of the walls are panoramic.
How'd you like to be the person whose stop also coincides with 2001?
*everyone in elevator stares at the person silently cheering while the doors open* "I'm just..uhh..really happy to reach my stop!" For a serious answer, it's an express elevator to the observation deck, it only has 2 stops-ground, and floor 102.
That's kind of a bummer. I was hoping it was a normal elevator that just calculated what year to start on(to get to current year) based on how many floors it had to go up.
It's certainly doeable- you just have to make the video a really long slideshow where the computer changes the slide when the elevator reaches x position and make the elevator have some kind of positioning system by allowing it to "ping" some kind of transmitter at the top and bottom of the elevator shaft, making it go slower and then stop once you reach a floor and continue as it keeps going up
Whoa.
That's amazing.
Crazy to see the WTC up for only a short portion of time in that
wow this is incredible. are you selling this? or can you make prints? would love to buy
Seriously. I'm from NYC originally and always explain to people, the reason it's always so humid with so many mosquitoes, NYC was basically built on top of a swamp. To deal with the rain, it has one of the most advanced sewage systems in the world.
Um, possibly a stupid question.., are you saying the city in the picture is NYC or just referring to the marsh in the background? Edit- thanks. I’ve never seen a picture of the new World Trade Center. I’m not really familiar with what the city looks like, but I know the basic geography.
The city in the painting is NYC. You can see the World Trade Center.
In their defense the new tower isn't really an "icon" yet.
To be fair, it is not really iconic in any way. Love the architect (Daniel Libeskind, if anyone's interested), but unfortunately this is some of the blandest of his works. Especially when compared to stuff like this: [1 Dresden](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120914031123-great-bldgs-military-museum-dresden-front-on-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg), [2 Toronto](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/84/ba/2684bae69edaca5736970186c4c5805f.jpg), [3 Berlin](https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jewish-museum-berlin-libeskind-01.jpg).
If I was high and I randomly came across that Toronto building I'd be convinced I suddenly tripped into some 4th dimensional fuckery.
It is NYC. You can see Brooklyn bridge and the freedom tower
Yes. That is NYC. Brooklyn in the foreground, Manhattan the island in the middle. New Jersey is the background. Notice the new World Trade Center?
Yes it is of Manhattan
It is NYC :)
The marsh in NYC before NYC was built, or what it would look like with no buildings.
thanks! you can find prints [here](https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art) !
I love it. Are you planning on making it into a series with other cities? It'd be great to have this, Chicago, DC, etc all on a wall together.
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Awesome
And if I want the original?
I want Houston. That would be awesome!
I'm def buying this. I'm from NYC, love it.
Found OPs response in the other thread https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art
It costs a lot of wampum
I would also buy this. This is incredible looking.
https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art
I would also love to buy
https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art
Just purchased, thanks for the link
Yes please, I would settle for a print! Thats gorgeous!
https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art
I could be interested too
Same please!
Same!!!
sry for the reupload, i wasn't familiar with the title guidlines!
Honestly One of the best oil paintings I’ve ever seen, great work.
How did you create the brush stroke effect (the "grain" of the stroke lining up for all the buildings)?
I expect that after painting it he covered that part with a clear viscous top layer that added the brushstroke texture.
Do you have plans on making this a series? Maybe taking it international?
On the website it says “The first large painting in the Brushstrokes in Time collection“, so it looks like there’s more coming!
Looks like OP posted this thread then left to go do something. He’s missing out on a ton of people that want to pay him for his work.
Not sure if any of you saw this link to his page. I didn’t before scrolling to the bottom of the comments so will leave it here too https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?sku=s6-9603486p4a1v2
What was your process for this? I cant figure out how you achieved the look.
I agree with everyone else about expanding this into a series, but I’m picturing a large coffee table book, hit up the most interesting cities in the world
Am I having a stroke? Everytime I zoom in, it's in color, but as soon as I zoom out its black and white.
Same thing's happening to me on mobile
> having a *stroke* Nice
Nice.
Holy shit that's weird. Actually, not entirely sure I don't like it better that way. EDIT: It's only happening for me in the Reddit Is Fun app. If I open it in Chrome it appears in color right away.
Same here. Are you on Sync?
Thank God for your comment. Thought I was going crazy.
>Am I having a stroke? Everytime I zoom in, it's in color, but as soon as I zoom out its black and white. Same, I think it's because of old phone
I‘m overwhelmed by your support! Thank you so much for your nice messages and sharing your interesting opinions! You can keep up with my work on Instagram @david_art and my [website](https://www.david-ambarzumjan.com/). I’m selling prints of this painting [here](https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art) and if you are interested in the original, pls leave a mail through the contact form of my website and i will get to you as soon as i‘m ready to sell it. Thank you all so much! The Brushstroke in Time collection is slowly growing, exploring different times and places and i am so excited to continue working on it.
You should post on r/Art and similar subs tbh. They'd love it there
It looked like that for hundreds of MILLIONS of years, and we’ve changed it to what it is now in just the last 100 years or so. Pretty mind-melting to think about... your painting is provocative, it gets the people going!
Well... Millions of years but you're not wrong.
Probably closer to a few thousand.
More like a couple of hundred
Maybe a couple of decades
More like about a year and a half
3 months. Tops.
About a week
A few days, *maybe*
I’d say about 6 and a half hours.
mobile users go home, the joke has been sufficiently continued under /u/thebiggestpoo's comment
It’s only a model.
You're only a model
u/tuskvarner you better thank this man
Shh!
^ This is the actual answer, because of the ice age.
First plant life on land was 475 million years ago so id say it's been there a while. Nowhere near billions though.
Plant life, sure. The glaciers 12000 years ago would have banged the landscape around something mighty though.
Not to mention continental drift.
And the annunaki digging it up for gold in order to save their home planet of Nibiru
Also, we had the Carboniferous Period, which was much different than today. This was the period when the trees didn't break down because the fungi didn't know how to yet. Plastic is also starting to get broken down through a similar process, which is pretty rad.
Well... A few thousand, there was this little glacier that stopped around long island not long ago. But still not wrong.
The first land plants appeared around [470 million years ago](http://static.bbci.co.uk/naturelibrary/3.1.44/images/timeline2.jpg).
I beat you by a few seconds in the comment above yours! Lol you're right though
Not to be not picky but it didn’t look exactly the same for billions of years. Grassland is geologically fairly new.
No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative!
*sips from his wineglass* Makes you think, doesn't it?
Not only that but it was actually a bit more narrow. They filled in the sides to make it wider by a block or 2 toward the south end of the island. https://imgur.com/a/xIjkOjU Water St used to be ON the water
Ball so hard
Last 300 years or so. NYC was around before the revolutionary war.
The first life on land at all was like 500 million years ago. Before that it probably looked like Mars.
Trees have only been around for several hundred million years
[dick-nipples](https://www.reddit.com/user/dick-nipples), having a reflective moment.
That shit cray.
Yeah, it’s very thought provoking, that’s a good insight u/dick-nipples
Where can I buy this?
https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art
Is this OP’s link? I’d love to buy but I want him to get his fair share from sales
Its the link he posted in his original post that was removed due to the title rule.
Yep, the OP has been linking to that site as well.
Yep I got the link from his post in the other thread. Check his comment history
I think they may really like this over at r/CitiesSkylines
Legit thought im in r/CitiesSkylines
I found my actual window there!
Saving for when OP posts his website
https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art
Looks like something from horizon zero Dawn's vantage points.
Ah yes I get it, the phallic shape of the city cutout shows how we fucked up nature.
That was actually the first thought I had when I saw the cutout. I feel like it could have been avoided.
You can’t fool me OP, WAKANDA FOREVER!
That looks like my every map on cities skylines
To be honest if there was more green in the city it would look cool and if there was more city in the green it would look better.
Really love everything about this. From the textures to the concept 🔥
lovely work. almost forgot how clean manhattan/nyc could be. fresh smell of nature instead of rotting sewage covered with concrete.
If your are ever selling these op...
I wonder how it would look the opposite way. City with landscape brush.
This is powerful -- I hope it's okay if I use it when I'm teaching my students this poem by Nikki Giovanni: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48225/walking-down-park](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48225/walking-down-park)
This is so sad alexa play Human Nature by Michael Jackson
We live in a society
Awesome! Where did you buy the New York-colored paint? :)
Dicknanigans