City porn. New term I’m coining. What is it? Pictures of cities that are so mouth wateringly amazing, so mindblowingly dramatic, that they are down right pornographic. (attn: If you came here expecting this news story I’m sorry I’ve misled you.)
What caused me to think of this new way of objectifying urbanity? This:

From The Boston Globe (Link)

With the end of the Olympics in Beijing, all eyes turned for a moment to London, site of the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics. While looking for good photographs of London, I was contacted by London photographer Jason Hawkes, who had some wonderful images of London, seen from above at night (from a helicopter, to be exact) – some of which which he’s agreed to let me share here. From Jason: “Shooting aerial photography during the daytime had its own difficulties, you are strapped tightly into a harness leaning out of the helicopter, shouting directions through the headsets to the pilot. If shooting in the day can be difficult, night and the lack of light causes its own set of problems, but overcoming them is half the fun and the results can be stunning. I shoot at night using the very latest digital cameras, mounted on either one or two gyro stablazied mounts, depending on the format of the camera and length of lens I’m having to use.”

Click on the link or the picture to see the rest of them. They are stunning.