They don't call it "spring" for nothin'

leave it to the NYT to host the task of my dreams:  find out what people all over the world are doing at the exact same moment in time.  It's brilliant...And no research funding necessary!

Check out the New York Times photography blog post at Lens

Here is an excerpt:

So far, that portrait seems to be one of surprising tranquillity. No one has to tell readers of The Times, or just about anyone else, how upended and violent the world seems to be at the moment. But our respondents tended to show moments of repose, rather than anxiety; of warmth, rather than heat. It may not constitute a “realistic” view of the human condition, but it does offer something of a balance to the images of suffering and destruction that are more often a staple of the Lens blog.

2 May 2010 - Highland Park, NJ