Andrew Manganelli

I respect it.

I'm still in pain.

so anyway i got to my destination but i overshot it by a little bit there was a little park there so i sat in the park and it's classic new york beautiful like late afternoon sun setting park uh in new york there are these chess tables where there are tables that have like a chess board like embedded in the stone table you know iconic new york situation right

And I was sitting there and I saw this guy sitting on his chess tables with his laptop in his lap playing chess on a chess website.

Yeah, chess.com on the chess table with no one across from him.

And I was just like, visual metaphor.

So I use my iPhone Air at 6x zoom.

Which looks really bad.

But it's what I had on me.

And I took a photo.

I made sure to like... David, you know what they say about the camera you have on you.

It's the worst.

It's the worst.

You know, I made sure to crop out

Any identifying features about him, I only had his hands with the laptop so you could see the screen that was the chess app or the chess website with the chess board.

And I made sure to shoot it from high enough down so you could see the chess board on the table.

Anyway, I was just like, I just put it on social media and I said 2026.

Yeah.

Because it's a visual metaphor because it represents the fact that we are no longer playing things in front of each other, doing connection in front of each other.

Now everything you do is online and you're connecting with strangers that you don't really know.