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Oh, New York, I miss you so. I know our time together wasn't always perfect, and that I complained a lot and maybe once or twice even said, "I hate this place and everything in it," but I understand now that I was wrong.
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Things I miss about NY...let's start with its world famous culture, like the Brooklyn Museum here. (Which, according to some, is just a warehouse for the spoils of colonialism, but check out that floor!)
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And this blue orb thingy, which I think was created by the artist who (for reasons I don't understand) got first/only(?) dibs on making stuff with that uber black pigment some scientists invented a while back.
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At the Met, working on my pre-contrapposto era posing. (And eff you Flickr algorithms for not knowing how to spell "contrapposto." Why did I even bother going to art school?)
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Irving Penn's portrait of Truman Capote with a bunch of people reflected in it. There's really nothing worse than a photo of photo taken at a crowded museum. You're welcome.
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Another from Penn's important 20th century writers and their cigarettes series - Carson Mccullers. I may have to take up smoking again, just in the hopes of someday looking this cool.
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The whale at the American Museum of Natural History, not easy to fit into a photograph. Btw, I should probably mention that this album is cobbled together from three separate trips to NY made over the last couple years.
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The AMNH subway stop, where reptiles will totally steal your backpack if you're not careful.
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PSA: According to this photo collection, the time it takes to grow out bangs is roughly one year and three months. So think it over before you commit to that hairstyle.
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Inside the Guggenheim, "a landmark work of 20th-century architecture" (I don't disagree, I just want to properly credit Wikipedia) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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At ICP's newish Bowery location. The main exhibit was Cartier-Bresson, but I can only photograph so many photos.
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One of my favorite things in Brooklyn/all the world: the snake urns at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park.
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Though this shrubbery-adorned greyhound at Elizabeth Street Garden is also pretty awesome.
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I'm pretty sure I never noticed this place while living in NY. To be fair, I don't think it was publicly accessible the whole time, but I'm still going to use it as an example of how you can always stumble upon new and wonderful things in the city.
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Central Park. To those Austinites who might say, "Gross, I would never lay on the grass in a filthy New York park!" I have three words for you: NO FIRE ANTS.
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The inevitable trip to Jersey City, where friends who want to do crazy shit like own homes now live.
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Some cool industrial looking thing. It's like the Jersey equivalent of a Manhattan Art Deco building.
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A cat with a view. I honestly can't tell/recall if we're looking at lower Manhattan here or just more Jersey. (Patrick? Where the hell are we?)
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Some surrounding buildings. It's rather appalling that we didn't make it here during trip one, when we were mere blocks away, but I kind of assumed it would be lame.
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In reality it's beautifully done, and the only tacky element is all the people taking cheerful selfies in front of the pools of infinite darkness.
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And today, we're going to Coney Island (!!!) with famed Jersey City homeowners the Hambrechts. Study the details of this photo and you will learn everything you need to know about this place.
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To my left (stage left, house right): Patrick, Kate, and Luther (who hates the beach and is only putting up with this nonsense for the promise of more rollercoastering).
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Important architecture of New York....The Flatiron building. I'm not going to provide information on most of these because it would just be me copying and pasting from Wikipedia.
