more summer

what we've been up to lately:

1 trying to sleep at night (this fan makes it easier)
2 bike everywhere
3 spend dusk outside (mostly due to infernal temperatures in our apartment)
4, 5 july 4th bbq at a friend's rooftop in greenpoint

summer at ps1

I've been taking more pictures in the last two weeks,
trying to catch this summer on film.

the pictures above were taken at last week's ps1 warm-up,
an event that makes hordes of people swarm to otherwise very quiet Long Island City.
It was great fun, and the light was just perfect.

how is your summer?

chicago in april

remember the weekend trip to chicago I told you about in april?
I realized that I never uploaded any pictures.

it was super foggy, mostly rainy, and very windy while we were in town,
but I still liked it very much and was sad to leave after only two days.

1 view from our friend N's apartment. later that day you couldn't see anything at all!
2, 3, 4 anish kapoor's "cloud gate" was breathtaking, but needed polishing
5, 6 the art institute's new wing by renzo piano
7 cruising along lake shore drive

more soon!

summer mornings

I have not been in the mood to take pictures lately, I don't know what's wrong.
I have carried cameras round the city for days without using them a single time.
my lomo lc-a and my Pentax K1000 have had the same films in them for more than two months. still not finished.

I haven't been up to much in the last weeks, just generally enjoying summer.
the city is magical in summer. I'm so grateful to be able to live here for a while.
we've been biking around brooklyn. meeting friends to watch the worldcup.
eating and drinking outdoors. endless iced lattes, ice creams, smoothies, frozen yoghurts.
it's been pretty hot for the last three weeks, although not that humid yet.
it is completely dark here by 9 pm, and sometimes I miss the long northern european summer daylight I grew up with.
but I also love the dark hot summer nights here.

at the beginning of august we will go to germany for two weeks
to visit family and friends. we haven't been there since last september.
I can't wait!

manhattan sunset

this weekend we went to see what they call manhattanhenge:
the sun setting in line with the manhattan grid.
it felt like a very special moment, everyone stopped to stand in the street and watch
until the sun disappeared.

zoo

some pictures from our visit to the bronx zoo yesterday.
T let me borrow his canon G9 for the day.

hot pink

today was a super hot day (somewhere in the mid-nineties, or 36 in Celsius).

I'm not crazy about the heat during the day
(except for the first 15 minutes after exiting an air conditioned space)

but I love the heat when it's dark,
maybe just because, being northern european,
it is something that feels very exotic to me.

I'm off for dinner (outside!) and a little walk before bedtime.

how is the weather where you are?