Coney Island and a Movie
I missed it in 2012, and not for a bad reason. The Beach of Coney Island is really nice – the sea, the waves and sand, like home. And in my back the Luna Park – I can hear it, so this is everything together for a rest off the daily life?
I got rid of my shoes and socks and stepped into the atlantic sea, and I listened. Yes, I grew up at the north sea, and I like to think, that people like us like to get in touch with this planet like this.
The evening was mine, in Brooklyn, at the Habana Outpost, with a Burrito, and the sun went down, and the movie came up on the wall: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York at it’s best.
Bushwick Block Party
Like we see it in Hamburg/Germany, as soon as the artists have raised the value of an area, the rents go high, and the artists move to another area – it is the same here in New York. You can be sad about it, but maybe you shouldn’t …
Today, I went to the Block Party in Bushwick, and I am still impressed by the creativity, not only of the art, they were presenting, but of the making-things-and-buildings-special-beautiful. I consider this human evolution 4.0. Surrounded by the most awesome Summer day, I dig into a so-unlike-manhattan space, to find so much of the people an life, I love so much of the whole City. It is like everything comes together in places like this just to spread out over the rest of New York, and maybe … all over the world.
And, yes, finally I was able to climb a roof, and, look at the picture…
Central Park and the night
The fix point of my day was, again, Romeo and Juliet in the Central Park. I started my way at the north side of the Park, where the gentrification is just starting. It’s where Harlem begins, it is living at the Central Park, with no luxury. However, it was nice to take a walk there and I admire the great weather after the rain of the past days.
After the theater, I walk through the night, which is almost quiet here, compared to the Times Square, where the big life is, even at 2 am.
The Barefoot Shakespeare Company
Today, I went to the Central Park to photograph the barefoot shakespeare company, their premier play of Romeo and Juliet – at the Summit Rock, right beside the 82nd Street.
On my way, I discovered the streets of the west side – and right at the broadway, somebody was selling used books, and I thought, that this is it, what I like the most about New York, the different kinds of creativity in making business, stacks of old books and records in front of a bank, or a hot dog man in the financial district, fighting with his smoking char.
And Romeo and Juliet? What can I say: It was amazing beautiful, funny and sad, entertaining and thoughtful – a one of a kind journey for about 50 people. Tomorrow, I will be here again.
The One World Observatory
So, today I got up there, to the highest spot of NYC, the One World Observatory, on the 102nd floor – after the airport like screening, of corse. 60 sec. the elevator took … what a ride – the whole elevator is a screen, on which you see the City growing, from nature to today.
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Yes, the view up there is really impressive, supported by relaxing music. At two points, there is an employee, explaining ways to enjoy New York, very personal, with the sense and knowledge of a native.
A day off in New York
The rain from yesterday decided to stay, so I decided to take a day off. After working on a few Photos from the Steinway & Sons shoot, I took my umbrella and went on a walk through Astoria, and I only took a few pictures with my iPhone.
Now, at the end of this day, I feel a little off track – did I just waste these hours? Maybe, it’s this, what the people are talking about, when they claim to go to New York for Success? When you walk through Manhattan, the moving energy sucks you in, the busy people can make you run along. And after a while, you realize, that you have to make the decision to actually sit on that bench and to nothing, for ten minutes.
Photographing at Steinway & Sons and rain
This was one of these days, I will never forget. At 9:30 AM, Logan Thomson welcome me at the workshop of dreams, the dreams of every Piano player of this world. And then, I was able to dig into a one of a kind world, where wonderful people are building something so special, that everyone is grateful in every cell … like me at the end of this, when I was allowed to play on the biggest Piano.
Some of the photos of this day at Steinway & Sons–>
After that, I dig into the rain:
East Harlem at the water and with rain
In the old days, no New Yorker would live at the waterside. There, it was loud and smelly – everybody wanted to live inside Manhattan, where the business and the live was, like still today.
Than the container was invented, and the waterside trading moved to New Jersey, and now more and more people would like to see the water, from where they live. But this is not easy to achieve, because something else was built in this area – the highway. I went to one of the areas:
Manhattanhenge Part One
The reason, why I prefer to live at a private place is, that I want to make me feel, like I am actually living at the chosen place. I live a daily life, I buy food and prepare it at home, I have long conversations with my roommate Michela – and today I went with her and her best friend Cassandra to IKEA in Brooklyn, to by new legs for her Dining Table. Well, I refused to take pictures at IKEA, because, it looks the same as in Germany, but the way to this place was quite interesting. It was an unreal world near the water, scrap Metal is traded here, and the smell … well …
After IKEA, Michela and Cassandra went back to Queens, while I went to Manhattan, for the full Manhattanhenge.
The weather seamed to be perfect, but when I go to my Place at the 19th Street, there were a big cloud, where the sun was supposed to go. Yes, I was upset, but I got my energy back for other thing to take photographs of.
Manhattanhenge Part one half
It doesn’t sound by accident like Stonehenge. Two times a year, the sunset aligns with the grid of Manhattan, so you can see her all the was through the cross streets. In this year, it is the 30th of may and the 12th of July.
Today, we should have seen the half of the sun between the buildings of every cross street, like the 19th, where I was waiting, well, not alone. I chose this street because of the new surface, which reflects the light very good.
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