New York!
-Olivia and I went to New York for the first time, wow!!
We landed and dropped our stuff at the friend of O's we were staying at then rushed over to the MoMa.
Since O was conferencing so hard, a lot of the time I had to myself I was freewheeling around on my own. Day 2 & Day 3 I hung out with aloe (of aloe.gay)!!!! how freaking cool is that??
That third day was so deliciously misty. Before I met up with aloe I walked around central park a bit.
And then after that 3rd day aloe hang I got a dang tattoo! It's by f.k. segismundo, an artist I've admired for literally years. I can't believe I have something so beautiful on my body!! 😭
The next day was fairly unstructured, but I knew I wanted some "laptop time" after hanging w/ aloe, but I ended up absolutely trapped in an indecision spiral. I landed on going to the stonewall inn, because why the hell not.
Anyway, it was a nice time "walking around the village" (as Olivia's advisor had implored them to do.) I gave Cassidy a call on the telephone and landed at Bluestockings afterwards for a nice book and web browsing session.
Then I zoomed over to the Met Cloisters for the last half hour they were open!!
and then I made my way back down the hill and back to the hotel!
Not many photos the next morning, but then I ended up early for a ramen meet-up and wandered around Penn Station. Couldn't help myself at the guts of the train station, so many photos.
delightful delightful delightful; boba and yuri, then a second visit to "Times Square"[1], then a tumble through the night into the next morning for an early flight out!
and hey, for good measure, here's my little barebones after-the-fact itinerary :
It's kind of too bad because it was so much work to pick and convert and assemble and describe all these photos that I don't really feel like saying much more about my thoughts and feelings about the trip... Some of that is also just that it feels fresh and personal and maybe I don't want to share all that here, but mainly I'm just tired and excited to spend my website time playing with rhodochrosite instead...
[1]: The 1977 Max Neuhaus installation, not the place :P ↩
have you ever been to new york? what'd you think? the main thing i've been saying to people is that "it really felt like a different country but was also so absolutely american." also that my impressions from having seen My Dinner with Andre of it as a place with a really powerful and inescapable gravitational well holds up!
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Rose!
- I've been in New York twice and had radically different experiences. The first time was when I was like 13 maybe? I went with my dad and my step mom as part of a two-week vacation around her family reunion. I dont remember a ton, aside from her not letting me go see phantom of the opera (a show me and my sisters loved and which my sisters went to go see but i had to see mary poppins with my much younger stepbrothers, very distressing), and a two-story McDonalds in time square that we went into but did not eat at. The second time was during a trip with a former friend to visit her sisters first in Boston and then in New York. We spent a day and a night in NYC and I just remember being so overwhelemed the entire time and not being able to enjoy much because there was too much happening. We did go into a basillica and that was stunning, I do not remember which one... We also went to see the Stonewall in but didn't actually go inside which is a shame. Anyways hope you (and Olivia through conference woes) had a nice time, you're itinerary looks very full but you do like to be on the move a lot. the pictures you took are very pretty!
PS. I am loving going through your neocities, expect more comments, and I also might start my own Neocities, seems like a way to appease the “ want to use the Internet to share some of the photos I take” wolf and the “ I hate instagram and Mark Zuckerburg and never want to engage with either ever again” wolf inside of me.
Comstock
- that is very well said re: the city's super countried / noncountriedness. I've nnever articulated it at all but that's exactly how I felt the first time I went! So thanks for that!
really envious of the mist you got to be in
the image of Olivia in the MOMA is incredible!!!
congratulations on your tattoo ~~~!!!!!
why don't you take any pictures of food? y no foodstagram??
fran
you know that's a good question, i think more often than not i'm disappointed with my food photos bc they don't capture the joy and the thrill and the sensoria of the meal. I also usually only do photos of stuff that's homemade bc i'm like, proud and wanting to commemorate but when i'm getting food from a place i'm more immersed in the experience of eating that i don't think to photo.