Hunter Mountain, Up State NEW YORK. ” She looked lonely and I knew the cure, old memories would win her heart for sure. I thought I I’d walk on in and I give it my best shot. She used to love me a lot. ” She is Camille run… I’m talking pictures about the people …
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I remember my first time in New York. It was some months after the World Trade Center attack. You could see the military police everywhere. At that moment I was staying in Greenpoint with my friend Danny who is half Swedish, half Puerto Rican. I remember when my friend told me there was …
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is Toñita, the big boss. “La matriarca” (the matriarch). She is the mother of everyone who hangs there. She is always happy and has a smile, but at the same time makes sure there is order and respect in the bar. Toñita wakes up early to buy food at the supermarket and …
High Line, Manhattan. I always try to walk over the High Line and feel the city. I love all kind of arts, but the architecture and locations blow my mind. Locations inspire me when I begin a screenplay. I imagine what could be happening on it and how the character would move around that space. …
These old wooden piers get a bit shaky underfoot during a big swell. Safe? Well all of the piers down here in the outer banks have been totally wiped out by storms at one time or another and like everything else here get rebuilt. When it’s breaking out beyond the pier most normal people …
Chinatown, Manhattan. It was cold. We walked around looking for a restaurant to eat. Suddenly we listened to the beautiful voice of a woman signing, but we saw nothing around. The sound of the lady that we keept listening was in between of some clasic sound s that characterize the city (car honks, cars and …
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The bar, Caribbean Social Club, has a lot of Puerto Rican food, for all the people hanging out there. This guy ate after a lot of drinks. I grew up in Puerto Rico and that is my base for the moment. This diary is part of my trip around New York, the city …
Part of my outer banks summer flashback series. Surfer at Avalon pier break does a cutback into the wave and a serious ” lip slash”.
Summer flashback on the coldest day of winter. Avalon pier break surfer checks out the waves before paddling out. In the outer banks a strong current often carries surfers perhaps several hundred yards from where they paddled out, so they walk back to their starting point. It’s not an easy life.
It’s freezing cold in the outer banks right now. So I am posting a summertime flashback of what now seems a hazy memory. Summer is right around the corner, yes?
