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Bloomberg offices, NYC

Last night I watched Roy Andersson's You, the Living (I review it here). Like the films of Tsai Ming Liang, Andersson's film treats with the isolation and loneliness of the human condition with pathos and humor. In one scene, a man plays the tuba. His wife yells at him, but he can't or won't hear her. In the apartment below, an older man pounds on his ceiling, trying to get the man to stop. Across the street, another man watches the action; his wife bades him to come to bed. The characters' stories are all interconnected, but they're not connecting.

Something about seeing an office space from a distance seems to tell a similar story, each person isolated in their cubicle, surrounded by people, all caught in their own stories.

I shot this while at a food and design event sponsored by the NYTimes. It was a delicious evening, and I made my way slowly through the Architects and Designers building, sampling everything I could. I can't wait to attend the next one.