My friend Marc and I went for our first weekly “photowalk” today. We met up around 3pm at Union Square and strolled around Chelsea and SoHo until it got dark, kept walking, and then finally split around dinner time. Although we probably both got more exercise than we did photographs, it seemed like a good start to – hopefully – a new tradition that will keep us both shooting, even in our free time.
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Yesterday my mom and her good friend Rosemary came down for a visit. Tom joined us for the jaunt as we zipped down and up and down and up again through Manhattan, hitting up some very essential favorite places. First, to Smac for some of the best macaroni and cheese in existence. This time, I tried the goat cheese with olives, spinach and mushrooms. I really think by the end of the year, I’ll have tried every set dish they have on their menu. I’m almost there already if you include trying dishes other people have ordered. I only have about 2 or 3 left to go.
After that, we headed uptown to the Whitney Museum to see what exhibits were going on. Some really “interesting” stuff going on up there right now. We took a tour of the Weiner exhibit on the 5th floor, and if we hadn’t, I could never have appreciated it as much as it should be. It’s some out there, over-thought, ultra-simplistic looking stuff. One of the most interesting parts of the exhibit were the museum’s attempts to immerse the entire building in this retrospective, including putting some of it outside, and even making the elevator a part of it, which most people wouldn’t realize unless they read about it or took the tour upstairs. Examples:
After we got all cultured up, we down to SoHo to visit Rice to Riches where we actually saw Michael Rapaport fighting with his girlfriend and looking verrry angry about whatever they were discussing.
I snapped a quick picture of some interesting graffiti before bidding the gals adieu.
Tom and Alex’s friend Lara Longo was having a birthday bash on Saturday night, complete with a schedule of several bars to visit (only 2 out of 4 were actually visited in the end). There were some interesting characters and I’m still enjoying my new semi-fisheye lens so it made for some fun shots.
Check out the clear glasses fashion design student who had 2 drinks then took a nap:
or maybe Brian‘s new tattoo:
or just Sam the socialite‘s always awesome face
As I’m sure you all know, it’s New Years Day. To celebrate the eve, we had a bash at our apartment and combined it with the neighbors’ party on the second floor to make one big ol’ shindig. As an early Birthday present, my mom ordered me some fun new essentials for my camera – a new tripod, flash cord, and….. semi-FISHEYE LENS! It was pretty much all that was used all evening, as you’ll be able to tell by the resulting photos.
There was Rock Band up here in our apartment on the 3rd floor for most of the night. People floated up and down from floor to floor depending on the mood – to ROCK
or to DRINK.
And as an added surprise, we figured out how to get up onto the roof in time to see the fireworks all around us going off in each of the boroughs at midnight.
Happy New Year!
As if having my best friend around again wasn’t fun enough, when I got back to Brooklyn I had some early birthday presents waiting for me that my mom had ordered, including a fun new fisheye lens…
