The same goes for sunsets, traffic lights, statues, flowers, or any other picture that's not, you know, the person I'm typing to on a phone.
Sure, it's nicer to stand on a train platform in a bucolic setting looking at the sunset than at traffic crawling by on the 405.
Even the images freighted with bits of dread or pain – the defeated man with his head down in an airport cafeteria, or the scene of the crowd staring at what might be either a sunset or a brutal traffic accident – possess no real urgency.
My brother and sister-in-law both worked in Dubai at the time; both had great jobs … the contrast was that they lived in a villa in a private compound on the beach and when they finished work they could sit on a yacht with a glass of champagne and watch the sunset, whereas I queued in traffic on the motorway".
All traffic lanes on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood that were flooded by a water main break may not be fully opened until at least Wednesday morning, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials said Monday.
At sunset, we were stuck in rush-hour traffic near Santa Barbara, windshield wipers ticking, as a chain of red brake lights snaked up the freeway in front of us.
"No buildings, no traffic, just natural beauty, golden sunsets and fresh air," Castanos said.
Environmental conditions that traverse all modes include weather (normal, rain, clouds, and snow), time of day (sunrise, afternoon, sunset, and night), and the density of pedestrians, traffic, and police officers.
Come ruddy sunset, these circus folk threw tapering shadows that spanned traffic, just hooking their heads and shoulders into my parking lot.
Recent, and best of the works so far, is a big Ed Ruscha word mural that reads, with block letters dropped out in sunset rose-red, "HONEY, I TWISTED THROUGH MORE DAMN TRAFFIC TODAY".
