New York, NY

I just returned from a glorious trip to NY. If you've ever moved away from a place and then gone back after a long hiatus, then you know that things can change and the locale can become a very different place. New York is not like that. It literally seemed like I'd never left. Of course, I stayed in my old apartment and visited with friends, so not much had changed in that regard. On the other hand, I was able to just enjoy it without having to drown in sea of commuting and busyness and work. That was real nice. The video camera was taken with as well as the point-and-shoot digital camera.

On Friday evening we went to a rooftop film festival presented by IFC. The scene was very New York. It was (obviously) on the rooftop of a building, a high school at that, and skyline was visible from every vantage point on the roof. And all the movies were independent films about life in the city. It was the New York-est activity you could possibly imagine. A bunch of hipsters on a rooftop in NY, watching independent films about NY with an intermission featuring a rapper from East Africa. Check out more info here.

Here are a few more pictures. I made it a point to take some time to do some photography and whatnot. I particularly sought out graffiti this time around.