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This article is from September 18, 2001, and is no longer current.

Two Views of the Twin Towers

It’s been a week since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Like you, at creativepro.com we found it difficult to focus on anything else as the tragedy unfolded. The images being beamed to us on television and through the Internet were horrible and mesmerizing. While our prayers go out to anyone and everyone who’s been affected by these terrible events, our thoughts also turn to those in our extended family of creative professionals.
In addition to being an international financial center, New York is the heart of the creative world and the home of key media, advertising, and design companies. After ascertaining that individual contributors to creativepro.com were safe, we pondered a larger issue: What was it like, we wondered, for creative people to experience the destruction of their city? Designers are visually oriented souls who have heightened awareness of and a deep connection to their environment. It’s one thing to play around in Photoshop — moving buildings, changing landscapes — but destroying the World Trade Center and the lives contained therein? What was it like to see this through their eyes?
Katrin Eismann and John McIntosh are not only experts in digital imaging, they are husband and wife. Their Weehawken, New Jersey apartment looks out across the Hudson and takes in panoramic views of lower Manhattan, including the World Trade Center. As the world as we know it changed, they did what comes automatically to visual people: They watched, and then they grabbed their digital cameras. This is what they saw and how they felt.

In a New York Minute
by Katrin Eismann

 

  • SandeeCohen says:

    Joh and Katrin’s articles are very poignant.

    But they will be off the front page very quickly. (Tomorrow? Monday?)

    And then what?

    Creativepro.com does not have anything else on the front page honoring the victims of this deliberate attack against the United States.

    I am so sorry to see this.

  • anonymous says:

    “In A New York Minute”? How catchy. How disgusting. Does either of these articles shed new light on the events? No, not really.

    Publishing these articles is just another example of designers being self-congratulatory drama queens.

    Authors: Do you even realize how in poor taste it is to “copyright” the images of the destroyed towers? Are you protecting your right to make money from those images? Disgusting.

    Creativepro: Why didn’t you choose to report on the columns of light memorial, or the proposed new WTC architecture? Now that would be DESIGN news related to what has happened.

  • anonymous says:

    I awoke that day in the Bronx, NY listening to eyewitness phone calls to a NJ rock music radio station (I usually listen to WFUV) and just finished looking at the DVD “What We Saw” from CBS News, a video and a book I took out from the City Island (the Bronx’s seaport) library yesterday and having not read the reports but in viewing the pictures appreciated their relevance to my situation. Most of the media coverage has been from mid-town and on the scene. Whenever I worked in NY, NJ, Governors Island, the twin towers were in the background. I work in archaeology and read of a laser-sighting to plan a railroad curve in NJ from the top of one of them, which I visitred after being coaxed by Bernadette Peters in a radio ad, during a lunch hour downtown. I also worked for a Texas company, a builder of power plants, EBASCO, on five of six floors up near the top, when they did the archaeological survey of Fort Drum for the 10th Mountain Division, there now, Bob Dole’s old unit from Camp Hale, CO.

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