Entering NY

This is Nashville! I know I told you last time that my next post was going to be about Brooklyn and NY and my experiences thus far, and it will. But first you have to hear and see a few pictures about Texas and the drive there. My mom was my co-pilot to Texas. We stayed in Nashville because the drive from Bloomfield Hills, MI to Houston, TX is about 23 hours. DISCLAIMER: All of the photos for the rest of the summer will probably be taken with my camera phone. Photos in lower lighting will probably a bit more grainy. Sorry about that, its what I got right now.

I went and saw a couple bands play at the venue in Houston called Super Happy Fun Land I can hardly remember the names of the bands anymore, but it was a good time. The place is a house in Houston with a large room that has been converted into a stage with old theater style seating. This was the friendly note in the bathroom.

Stuffed jalapeños, Texas-style. Shuffleboard, American-style.

I finally make it to Brooklyn. These are the accommodations that I have been set up with for the 3 months that I'm here. The room and the roof access. Decent view of Manhattan from here as well.

This is where I'm working for the summer. The first shot is Matt taking a photo of Jason for boards that his brother is designing. Next is David and Wyeth setting up a shot for a project they are doing for VH1. To find out more about who these people are and what they do and where I work, go to AthleticsNYC.com

I bought a taxidermy bat.

I've been biking back and forth to Manhattan across the Williamsburg bridge. The first time I rode over it I was blown away. It gave me one of those "you are in NY" kind of sensations. Last weekend I biked around the tip of Manhattan past Battery Park. I cruised by and checked out the Brooklyn Banks. Looks like a lot has changed over there since the shots I used to see in the skate videos growing up, but it still looks like tons of fun. This is a photo of the Manhattan bridge and you can see the Brooklyn Bridge just beyond it.

I went to a party in a loft building in Bushwick and it reminded me so much of the old loft in Pilsen. Ahh, Chicago nostalgia.

This is somewhere in Williamsburg by where they are building a whole lot of big condo-looking buildings. It looks like Williamsburg is about to change is a major way. It seems pretty crowded already, but it looks like its about to be impossible to get to NY via the train during rush hour. I hear its pretty hard already, but I have yet to experience it because I live and work in the same area code. You can actually see one the condo buildings in the upper right side of this photo.

Lastly here is a shot of the Autumn Bowl in Greenpoint. This bowl reminded me that:

• I'm a street skater
• I suck at anything taller than me
• I can't frontside carve for shit

Hopefully these are all things I will overcome by the end of the summer.