Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Wednesday 14 March 2008

Wednesday morning we got up and left to go explore some more. When you step outside of the loft I am staying at and look left, you get to see this:

The View from the Front Lobby
(Sarah's photo, it's amazing! The Brooklyn Bridge [told you we were right on the water] and The Empire State right through the bridge)

Down Low

Up High
If you turn left a little more and look behind you, you'll see 42 Main Street, the building I am staying at. It's right above and to the right of the Starbucks on the 3rd floor

Venti Caramel Frappuccino

Venti Caramel Frappuccino
Sarah took these of me. I used to boycott Starbucks like all the cool kids, but man... I just gave in about two months ago. And I'll be damned if I didn't admit that Venti Caramel Frappuccino's are the way to my heart...

Pug!
On the way to the F Train we passed a pug... the cutest one ever... well next to my pug, Tally, who I miss so much!




I was itching to go to KidRobot, so Sarah and I went to Prince Street. This is Sarah on the A, and me in the reflection

Sarah on the A Train

Afterwards we walked through Little Italy

Little Italy
(sarah's photo)

We stopped for lunch and saw Mary-Kate Olsen walk by these very same windows minutes after we sat down and were eating our pizza:

A minute after this was taken Mary-Kate Olsen walked by
(sarah's photo)


My favorite part was stopping in every single gallery we passed. Some of those included:

Pop International Gallery
Pop! One of my favorite galleries in New York. The first time I went was in 1999.

The Icon Gallery

The Martin-Lawrence Gallery

The Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery

Compton Gallery
(all images of galleries are sarah's)

We of course took plenty of time to go shopping. Diesel, French Connection (Of course I got a "I'd fcuk me" shirt,) Paul Frank Store, Ed Hardy, H&M, etc... My favorites were:

American Apparel
I mean, duh. You best believe I found that shit quick ;D

& Evolution: (I just came from working at the Chief Medical Examiner's in NC -- I was in Heaven with a two story store full of all things dead, artsy & related)

Evolution


Evolution

Evolution

Evolution

Evolution

Evolution

Evolution
(all photos my images)

Me and Jack Skellington
(Jack Skellington & I outside of Evolution - sarah's photo)



Free Market

Me and the cute Swiss Hat Lady
We walked by a market and found a cute hat lady... cute enough to persuade us to buy hats, hah


Hat lady also turned out to be quite a photographer: Sarah & I:
Sarah & I

I love sunglasses

Kanye Glasses
So last Friday, I went to see Kanye (& Rihanna, N.E.R.D., & Lupe Fiaso) and became a pretty big fan. I made Sarah take pictures of the glasses so I could send them to my sister, along with a pair cause I'm a good sister like that


They all look that good

Relax
These are just some random shots of graffiti I took somewhere along the way that day..

F Train
On our way home stepping off the F train at our stop, York & Jay


The View from Our Balcony

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We got home late, and I totally forgot it was the opening of the DUMBO Photo Exhibit, from the 14-18th. These aren't good shots, I was handholding a 72-800 f/2.8 on a d200 of our balcony railing at 1/30th of a second... what do you expect? (Excuses excuses). They're just the hundreds of people waiting outside to get a glance... & The intersection where I live

Monday, May 12, 2008

Hello Brooklyn!

We made it to Brooklyn with great timing...

We're Here
Sarah, afer she stepped out of the parking deck (in my hoodie :))

I'm here!
& Me.. too many camera bags and no, i could not have actually gotten a bigger computer :D
(sarah's photo)

3A
The view of 3A from the elevator
(sarah's photo)

Enter 3A
stepping inside...

Kitchen & Living Room
talk about a spacious kitchen

View from the Living Room
The balcony & view!

What a great thing to see
What everyone wants to see as soon as they walk in :D :D
(sarah's photo)

Rian's Room
Rian's Room.. I would kill to have window light like that.. gorgeous.

Mikey's room
Mikey's room and our shit

Mikey's room
Taking over

Sarah in Mikey's room
Sarah as a human scale to show just how insanely large and open the rooms are

So we lasted about five minutes in the apartment before we couldn't hold our excitement in any longer and booked it on up to the roof...

Taking it all in
taking it all in

I had a beer as soon as we walked in
yes, I had a beer as soon as we got in. &
yes, I totally deserved it after driving 15 hours

We made it!
okay, it's sunk in! now i'm cheezin'...

Sarah was cheezin'!
...but not cheezin' as hard as sarah haha

Looking down
yeah, we're up high as hell :D

I am God
Coming back down...