well all of my roomies and neighbors back at 64 morton welcomed me back last night from h-town. we got together to send off sammy (4th from left in pic), a short time resident of the guys in 1c. first time in a while we are all at home and no one is traveling for work/ family etc. so we took a few silly pix to mark the rare moment. some times i really feel like we are on an episode of friends......except fortunately much more diverse :)
Well it's been a while since i managed to find time to do a bit of blogging but now that i am on vacation i have a free moment. however, i am going to go outside my usual nyc finds to post a few pix of me hanging out with my familia here in tejas : )
it's quite the different slow pace here in Houston compared to Manhattan. not to mention the weather is perfect! i know god gave me these warm days here (70 and sunny) before the freeze back in nyc.
earlier this week i felt like a fish out of water driving in my parent's SUV on the 16 lane freeway :P rather than hopping on the subway. i met a friend for dinner at a restaurant here so big you could have fit all 5 of my favorite restaurants in the west village in it! needless to say i am having some good times here catching up with family and friends but i had forgotten how different the south is from the BIG diverse apple :)
hmm well i switched over to this new beta format for blogging and it seems i messed up my blog a bit in an attempt to improve it.
that is why you should not mess with your blog while you are at work and can't take the proper time to work on it :) well maybe on my upcoming vacation i'll have time to use all the new features to improve my nearly year old template!
until then sorry for the annoying archive that now show up first on the side bar. more changes to come........yeah and what happened to my map?? guess i'll have to re-insert that in my template :(
but i did want to post a link to this great list of cool websites for all you graphic web design lovers out there. i already sent it to some of you but here is the link if you missed it. Grimshaw is #37. enjoy....
CLICK HERE for links to cool websites and graphics
Well it's the usual deadline fervor and there is no time to blog or do anything else but think of getting back to my machine here at 100 Reade :) I know it sounds like the same old story....and it is
hopefully this weekend post deadline I will be able to get back out into the city to do some wandering as the weather is getting so cold now the days for walking about are becoming less and less. However, I have to say despite my
Ok have to get back to my drawings here…………………………………
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My good friend Karla was in town from
Also for those of you who know Karla it was great to see her because she is now nearly 5 months pregnant with a baby boy!!!! She is as slim as ever though and you would hardly know she was expecting. Here is a rather red picture of us enjoying dinner here in nyc.
at my mother's request for more pix of where i live i thought i would put up this collage of pix i made for a card for one of my roomies when she moved out. hope it's not too blurred and photoshopped for you mom! :) don't forget to click on the images to see them larger. man i wish i knew more about how to mess with my template and the code for this thing so i could make the pic spread further out of the margins that are currently set...oh well maybe i better just add a more "normal" shot too.
This is my roommate’s fiancé’s company. pretty cool stuff : ) Webber actually left his programming job (i think or something like that with Merrill lynch or one of those guys) to start this company with his long time friend. just thought i would share! check out their site YoYoNation.com
Over the weekend I went with most of 64 Morton (my apt. + all my neighbors) to a wedding for one of our friends who comes to our small group. The wedding was out in
Unfortunately I did not get many good pix of the bride, i was helping out with greeting the guest and doing some stuff for post wedding, so i even missed part of the ceremony.
however, here are a few of me and the guest (and a blurry bride one)! the group shot is of my room mates and neighbors that live below me. Check out this fish...it was sooo big and yummy!
I forgot to mention in the last post that the whole reason for going over the Bridge was actually not just for the amazing views but we were heading to a local favorite pizzeria called Grimaldi's. It's located just under the Brooklyn Bridge and is so good that you have to wait in line a minimum of 30+ minutes outside the place before you get a seat, and the line has been known to run around the block! But the atmosphere inside is great and so is the pizza, very homey (is that a real word? oh well who cares :) So this is jo and i pigging out as well as chimeister and jake my fellow grimshaw buddies enjoying some good ny pie!
as my laptop is dying a slow death i have neglected my blogging because i just can't keep my connection: ( anyway i'll try and remedy that soon : ) seems i have done a lot of wanderings these last few weeks and don't know where to start. i promise though this post won't just have pix of buildings :)
well one of the best things i did recently was walk over the Brooklyn bridge. it's defn the best free thing to do in new york (that i have discovered so far), much better than going on the staten island ferry (formerly my favorite free new york thing to do). it was amazing. my friend jo from paris was visiting last week and i thought we should do some touristy stuff, so a walk over the brooklyn bridge was a must! : )
i have not had much time to blog these days, or write of my random thoughts in the city but every once in a while an image comes my way and i like to throw it on here for your viewing pleasure :)
someone at grimshaw sent me this image of this cool car park in germany. if all car parks were like this is would be great! imagine how it would transform the houston landscape!! : )
I had the amazing opportunity to visit the Times building again last week. My old colleague Serge from (RPBW) took me and few other former interns around the site. We actually walked up 14 flights of stairs at one point because the elevator had already stopped running : ) that was not the highlight of the trip but I thought I would comment on it anyway.
The spaces are so amazing and the play of light with the tubes or "baguettes" on the facade create amazing shadows.
