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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Asbury Park & Ocean Grove NJ weekend!

Last weekend we made a quick getaway to NJ from NYC, within 2 hours from Penn Station we were in another world where we felt like we went back in time to America 40 years ago! Neatly manicured streets with victorian houses everywhere and american flags everywhere! Quite a trip but it was lovely nonetheless!

5 pointz!!

I recently started to teaching a class at the Miami Ad School, which is the school I went to study photography almost 6 years ago! Although not the first class I taught, it is the first class I am teaching photo 1 which has been interesting and fun! I took my students on a trip to 5pointz (http://5ptz.com/), an amazing graffiti museum/building in Long Island City to understand depth of field and composition! It was a hot, humid sunny day, perfect light for taking pictures of saturated, colorful walls. The people were all really chill and encouraged us to take as many photos as possible. I took a few snaps below as well....

We also found out that they might be tearing down the whole building to builde high rises! Go here if you want to http://www.facebook.com/Save5Pointz!!

my class being inspired by the location!

Photoville NYC

Unfortunately http://photovillenyc.org/ is over, but at least you can check out the photos and get an idea of what it was! Photoville was a free, outdoor gallery exhibit that took place in large shipping containers in Dumbo, Brooklyn! It was a really interesting "pop up" concept that had some really interesting exhibits, and also gave me a chance to check out a part of Dumbo i've never been in! I was pretty inspired by all the gritty, industrial parts and sweeping vistas of lower manhattan as you can see!! ;-)

hiking in new paltz, ny!

so i've come to terms that i'm never going to regularly update my blog, rather update it in spurts of 4 or 5 posts, so here goes! A few day/weekend trips and some snaps! enjoy!

This was a day trip me and a few friends went on recently to New Paltz, NY in the Hudson Valley! it was a lovely day to hike, be outside and take a dip in the lake! we also stopped by a really nice country market with a beautiful plant nursery attached!