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Sep 30, 2011
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NYC

This is my first real blog post that is about 8 years too late. I’ve wanted one but never felt compelled to share my creative activity with others until now… yeaa. This blog is way unfinished and I’m going to work on the design so bear with me…

So I just went to NYC for the first time and I’m still processing the experience. It’s a really cool city and I want to go back soon. It’s awesome how mypreconceived notions of New York were TOTALLY WRONG. I got to dip myself into that culture for a minute and my outlook on everything has changed in a totally decent way.

This is literally the first thing visible when I emerged the subway into Manhattan…
a cab jumped the median and probably mowed down some people.

Our hotel - The Moderne… so modern.

Times Square - lots of people, ad’s, construction orange, and subway steam stacks

Central Park was absurdly beautiful. 78 degrees and partly cloudy; the green in the trees grass and water popped so bright, it was total nature bliss. By far my favorite part of this trip.

Movie set

John Lennon mosaic tribute in Strawberry Fields.

New York Children.

My bike tour guide… So I couldn’t afford to do a Carrie Bradshaw Horse&buggie ride thru central park so I had this dude tote me around central park and up to Times Square for 50$. Worth it.

Here is the only picture I took during my reunion with Pam..
I’m pissed I didn’t get a Diane Arbus style shot of her sitting and talking with me on her bed. If anyone knows her work Arbus would take pictures of people sitting on their beds in their tiny NYC apartments… it was intended for an intimate portrait, but a natural setting because New York apartments really only have room for a bed to sit on. I totally felt like I got a taste of New York living chillin in Pam and Maria’s apartments… watching and listening to them talk about what it’s like to support themselves as young people in the city - it was a New York moment I should have captured but I think I was way too stoned to realize that at the time haha.

Other pictures I wish I took while we’re on the subject… occupy wall street protestors, top of Rockefeller center, mosaic murals and more of me and Brandon…

Anyways I took this picture after I took the subway to Pam’s hood waiting for her to meet me on the corner. So yea Pam next time I come Imma take your portrait <3

Manhattan’s architecture is really a free for all - wherever they could cram in a skyscraper around a completely different styled building they did. It was stunning.

Union Station. Brandon took this picture of me.

(below) The Hearst Tower - Brandon pitched as the creative rep for icrossing to Hersey on the top floor… he’s killin it. I am beyond proud of him.

The Freedom Tower

We barely made it into the 9/11 memorial site because we were almost an hour late to our tour time… they were really strict on letting people in so before we left Chicago I reserved 2 tickets for a 5:00 tour and donated some money to the 9/11 fund. When we got there some ginger girl denied us which was bullshit but we just went thru the line again and got in… Lesson to all: if your denied - try again!

Standing in the very spot almost 3,000 people died was a really unimaginable thing, I almost expected to feel really overwhelmed and uncomfortable… but the new grounds felt really peaceful. It was a well designed tribute for this unfortunate place.

This picture shows a reflection of buildings and a big hole under construction, but
if you look inside the unfinished 9/11 museum, you can see the last standing beams from the WTC. The woman in the picture is wiping away tears.