Spring Break MONDAY

So I decided I would finally post some of my sightings from my spring break in the city. I had a great first weekend, but I do not have my images ready to post from that, so here we are Monday March 16th. I started my day with getting my hair cut. It was a lovely way to start the week.

From there I grabbed some lunch, and was perplexed where to eat it before I went to the MoMA, since I was in midtown I decided to eat in one of the public courtyards big buildings are required to put in, because thats what they are there for right? Well I chose the right courtyard, because it had a Hello Kitty themed sculpture garden. She just seems to be everywhere, in office buildings and creepy M.A.C. ads.

Outside of the courtyard I saw a movie trailer that had Lucy and Desi on the doors. I see trailers with their names on it everywhere, I always wonder what is going on being a big I Love Lucy fan, my brother thought perhaps all these trailers belong to Desilu productions.

Then I headed to the MoMA, and saw EVERYTHING. That's right everything. I started in teh 6th floor, and wandered through every gallery. It was absolutely exhausting, but was cool because I have never done that before. I normally go to see a few exhibits and thats it. The special exhibit on the 6th floor is a retrospective of of Martin Kippenbergers work, which I was not familiar with before but was thoroughly impressed with after visiting. Such an expansive body of work, it is people like him who make me want to spend all my time creating, and also anger me because I do not spend all my time creating. I am also including the picture of the matchbook I mentioned a while ago (I saw it at the MoMA first). I also got to see the MoMA 40 years of Modern Art Exhbiting, which was also very cool.

The MoMA wore me out, so I decided to head home and I passed the Friars Club on the way and noticed a plaque noting there was a time capsule buried there not to be opened until 2104. I thought that was pretty cool.

Gross

MTA has voted today to raise fares from $2.00 to $2.50.

Gross.

Read that article here.

SPRING BREAK

Hello Friends! Hopefully I will be posting regularly this week, but officially I am on Spring Break. But as you read a few days ago my plan is to stay in the city and do everything I possibly can, so hopefully I will have lots of cool things to post about! But I may be to busy hanging out with my city to do so.

I would still love to here your suggestions on what I should do with my city. So far I have had suggestions to kick it in Central Park and some yummy places to check out. I am up for anything so let me know what you think!

Found on flickr

Advice?

Hello Readers of my Blog! For this spring break I am staying in NYC and am planning to do everything I can possibly do. 

Any suggestions of what I should do for my free week in the city?

Image from AnnieBees flickr stream.

Paul Rudd

Earlier today I was watching Clueless and thought I should really write a post about Paul Rudd. My brother and I have often discussed that an actor that can still make you love him after hooking up with his step-sister is a genius. We were Paul Rudd fans before people even knew you could be a Paul Rudd fan.

Well I got distracted, and didn't write about Paul. Then tonight I went to dinner with my friend Jeff at the Burger Joint, and low and behold PAUL RUDD WAS THERE. I was too excited for words. It was quite possibly one of the greatest nights of my life. Oh Paul, how I love thee.

(I couldn't decide picture was better, so I chose to post both because you can never have to much Paul Rudd. First image from Portroids [a pretty cool concept] second image from google)

New Yorkers Rejoice

Apparently the MTA has started replacing the E train with new subway cars. I was standing waiting for the V today, and an E train went by and it was a glorious site. Perhaps now the E train won't smell like someone has died on it.

Fly me to the moon

Or to NY.

Currently I am on a plane flying back from LA to NY. That's right I AM ON THE PLANE. I am flying Virgin America which means I have wifi. BALLER.

The Beverly Hills Short Film Festival went very well for Stealing Second, and we are looking forward to what will come next. Now I am heading from warm and sunny LA, where I spent the last two days lounging by the pool, to NY where there is over a foot of snow. 

But I am going to take advantage of this wintery weather I think and do wintery activities, perhaps I will finally go ice skating this season. However I think if I attempt to do a special jump like the guys above I will fall and chip a tooth.

See you soon NY, see you soon.

Picture from google life photo archives.

That Girl!

I also love That Girl!

Between Mary and Ann Marie no wonder when I was little I wanted the perfect hair flip, and that I ended up in NYC at 18.

Love The Strand

I love The Strand. I just bought my textbooks for this semester for over 50% off. How great to be able to buy used to cheap textbooks when you are taking a class on the conservation of the rainforest.

Another thing I love about The Strand is that it is located at my favorite corner, 12th St and Broadway. That corner has the greatest view of the Empire Sate Building. When I lived on 12th street, I would cross that corner every day on the way home and realize how lucky I am to live in the city.

I also bought a book about the village in the 1960's. It is called "A Freewheelin' Time" and I am really excited to read it.

Oh and fun fact? If you dig Dylan, you probably know it is quite a mystery who the girl in the picture with him is, well my calligraphy teacher is apparently really good friends with her. How crazy is that?

OH SHIT

Street Find

I was walking home the other day and passed this chair on the curb. It's pattern caught my eye.

Smart People

I watched Smart People last night, and enjoyed it. I had wanted to see it since it came out, so I guess it shouldn't surprise me that I enjoyed it, but I haven't really liked any SJP role since Sex and the City, but I liked her in this. So if you haven't seen it, I recommend it.

And speaking of SJP. I had one of the best celebrity sightings of my life. Normally I don't get too excited, but the other day I was leaving school and I saw MATTHEW BRODERICK. I wanted to run up and hug him so badly, but resisted the temptation. I had just watched Ferris Bueller the night before and was thinking how lucky SJP is. Oh my god, I love Matthew Broderick.

Brilliant

I was at the strand and saw this man carrying around a little stool on his shoulder. This is the greatest idea for the city, I need to find myself an identical stool to carry with me.

Funny thing is my friends actually created a similar thing for a project last year because our stools at Parsons are so incredibly uncomfortable, and our classes are a minimum of 3 hours. All of us are going to have to have physical therapy at the end of our four years.

Hello Again

Today I am back in New York. Hello...

Bye for now

New york I will be leaving you tomorrow for quite sometime. Will you miss me as much I will miss you?

Photo from Joyzipper's flickr.

Coney Island

When I go to Coney Island there are two things that must happen. One, I must ride the Wonder Wheel, and two I must ride the Cyclone. When you look at the cyclone you think it can't be that thrilling, but my oh my it is. I stand by my statement that is the best roller coaster I have ever been on. The rest of astroland is a little shady, but it is fun to stroll on the boardwalk, and last week I played on the beach there for the first time, and it was actually quite fun. So if you are ever visiting New York and you think, "Hey I want to take an hour train ride" you should take that ride out to Coney Island and buy yourself a ticket for the Cyclone.

Image from westland.net

Hey there Soldier, and Kermit

Street art seen in Soho.

St. Maarten

I hate that the rain has come back to NY. Not cool. Send me back to St. Maarten ASAP.

Lazy Hazy Days of Summer

We are all longing for summer to be here, both for school to be over, and for the the weather to change. This was a picture I took last summer when I was walking through Washington Square Park, I believe that day there was a circus going on, as well as a duo of an upright and piano and drum kit playing. It was a pretty spectacular day, too bad I won't be able to hang out in the park this summer due to the re-design but I still can't wait for the sunny days to be here again.

The Armory Show - Yay Post #50!

My spectacular friend Alan and I went to the Armory Show this weekend and this is one of the pieces that caught our eye (for some reason this is importing sideways, so you are going to have to turn your head, sorry). It is fun to go to the show and see such a huge and widespread collection of modern art. If you are ever in New York the weekend of the show make sure you check it out.