I have a fascination with faraway traffic cams mediated by the small screen of a 3G mobile phone.

Thanks to this elegant application, I drift and click across the traffic cams of end-of-night Manhattan. A virtual flaneur strolling down trans-atlantic airwaves.

The 5-second refresh allows cars to appear and disappear. Stop-motion headlights. Traffic lights chase red and green.

I end up loitering on 9th avenue & 34th street as dawn breaks. Trucks and vans are urban blood cells rushing to nourish the city. The people driving cars remain unseen. Some must be going home. Others off to work.

Is someone crying? What songs are playing? Has someone just discovered love?