I am back
I am back.
I am so, so tired.
Manhattan is TOO AWESOME!!
I skated in the Rockefeller center, went to the Phantom of the Opera, watched Evil Dead the Musical (extremely awesome!), visited a gazillion buildings, went to Grand Central (pretty!), walked around in Central Park, walked around the island, went shopping, froze my ass, got myself a hat (!!), and just all in all had a grand week. Mostly everyone was incredibly nice there, people were really helpful and I suppose tourist girls who dance around are amusing, as people chatted me up frequently because of that (I danced inside the MoMA for a guy taking pictures of feet :)... the only thing that made me uncomfortable was a couple of big stores, like the Prada and the Calvin Klein, where we went to see the building and the people treated us like second class citizens. Same in the Vitra and the Louis Vitton. Pfeh for them! the people in Knoll were very helpful and nice. The Vitra folks might want to remember that though we are no one right now, we are their future market. I mean, blowing off 30 young architects-to-be... even if we are small time, small town professionals... Meh. Too pretentious for me. But there were a lot of people who made up with their kindness :)
My teacher, Federico, was a doll all thorough the trip. The other architects were acting like high school idiots. It was very annoying. The students behaved much better than the teachers, and that's ridiculous. They were so annoying, aieee!! But Federico saved us all. I had amazing food. I spent way too much money. I walked a lot, loved the subway, hardly had any fights with my roommates and the Secret Agent Princess (aka D). He's was such a princess. I laughed at his prissy little ways all week long.
I got myself a mp3 player, a Zen Vplus. It plays videos, so I dropped some Justice League episodes on it and watched them on the plane. It's really, really cool. Though.. the hats really make me unbearably happy :)
I went to Midtown comics in Lexington and... 40something street. I bought Batman Ego (which later almost made me cry in the hotel) and Voice of the Fire, a novel by Alan Moore. I wanted Lost Girls!! but it was so heavy, and I barely had any space left in my bags! woe!
I saw Spiderman outside the Planet Hollywood in times Square. He had very girly hips, and I giggled, and wondered why I didn't get to see Superman or Batman. And then Superman got out of a police car. I squealed like the fangirl I am :)
Went to the Empire State top at night, visited the Chrysler, and walked the Brooklyin Bridge. We also went to the Ford foundation, which turned out to be my favorite building of the city. It's gorgeous. I'm not a big fan of cristal boxes, but the Ford Foundation is really not a cristal box. The lush interior garden and the offices and... man. I loved it. Some more buildings by Tadao Ando, Phillip Stark and Renzo Piano. Ah, the new Ghery building (look at me not liking Ghery)... and.. more stuff. I can't even remember. Visited the MoMA and the Guggenheim, where I got terribly dizzy. Curse you, Frank Lloyd Wright, and your ramps! my brain tried to make the floor flat, but it wasn't! it gave me a headache! There was a Zaha Hadid expo in the Guggenheim that was incredible. Very cool, even if I'm not such a big fan of her. We also went to the ONU, which is kind of a let down. You can't see the bigger rooms, obviously, and the lobby and main public halls are modernist pastiche.
My hotel was... erm. Let's say it was a hell mouth and leave it at that. It was under renovation, everything was half a ruin (ok, maybe a third of a ruin), my floor smelled like old soup and my room had suspicious stains on the carpet and on the.. bed cover thingie. I didn't want to know. It was 290 dlls a night. Manhattan, you expensive evil thing.
Well, I have school tomorrow morning and I have slept like.. erm.. 5 hours in 2 days. If which 2 of them were done in the subway/plane/car. This was really great. I wish I could have met you, T!
I am so, so tired.
Manhattan is TOO AWESOME!!
I skated in the Rockefeller center, went to the Phantom of the Opera, watched Evil Dead the Musical (extremely awesome!), visited a gazillion buildings, went to Grand Central (pretty!), walked around in Central Park, walked around the island, went shopping, froze my ass, got myself a hat (!!), and just all in all had a grand week. Mostly everyone was incredibly nice there, people were really helpful and I suppose tourist girls who dance around are amusing, as people chatted me up frequently because of that (I danced inside the MoMA for a guy taking pictures of feet :)... the only thing that made me uncomfortable was a couple of big stores, like the Prada and the Calvin Klein, where we went to see the building and the people treated us like second class citizens. Same in the Vitra and the Louis Vitton. Pfeh for them! the people in Knoll were very helpful and nice. The Vitra folks might want to remember that though we are no one right now, we are their future market. I mean, blowing off 30 young architects-to-be... even if we are small time, small town professionals... Meh. Too pretentious for me. But there were a lot of people who made up with their kindness :)
My teacher, Federico, was a doll all thorough the trip. The other architects were acting like high school idiots. It was very annoying. The students behaved much better than the teachers, and that's ridiculous. They were so annoying, aieee!! But Federico saved us all. I had amazing food. I spent way too much money. I walked a lot, loved the subway, hardly had any fights with my roommates and the Secret Agent Princess (aka D). He's was such a princess. I laughed at his prissy little ways all week long.
I got myself a mp3 player, a Zen Vplus. It plays videos, so I dropped some Justice League episodes on it and watched them on the plane. It's really, really cool. Though.. the hats really make me unbearably happy :)
I went to Midtown comics in Lexington and... 40something street. I bought Batman Ego (which later almost made me cry in the hotel) and Voice of the Fire, a novel by Alan Moore. I wanted Lost Girls!! but it was so heavy, and I barely had any space left in my bags! woe!
I saw Spiderman outside the Planet Hollywood in times Square. He had very girly hips, and I giggled, and wondered why I didn't get to see Superman or Batman. And then Superman got out of a police car. I squealed like the fangirl I am :)
Went to the Empire State top at night, visited the Chrysler, and walked the Brooklyin Bridge. We also went to the Ford foundation, which turned out to be my favorite building of the city. It's gorgeous. I'm not a big fan of cristal boxes, but the Ford Foundation is really not a cristal box. The lush interior garden and the offices and... man. I loved it. Some more buildings by Tadao Ando, Phillip Stark and Renzo Piano. Ah, the new Ghery building (look at me not liking Ghery)... and.. more stuff. I can't even remember. Visited the MoMA and the Guggenheim, where I got terribly dizzy. Curse you, Frank Lloyd Wright, and your ramps! my brain tried to make the floor flat, but it wasn't! it gave me a headache! There was a Zaha Hadid expo in the Guggenheim that was incredible. Very cool, even if I'm not such a big fan of her. We also went to the ONU, which is kind of a let down. You can't see the bigger rooms, obviously, and the lobby and main public halls are modernist pastiche.
My hotel was... erm. Let's say it was a hell mouth and leave it at that. It was under renovation, everything was half a ruin (ok, maybe a third of a ruin), my floor smelled like old soup and my room had suspicious stains on the carpet and on the.. bed cover thingie. I didn't want to know. It was 290 dlls a night. Manhattan, you expensive evil thing.
Well, I have school tomorrow morning and I have slept like.. erm.. 5 hours in 2 days. If which 2 of them were done in the subway/plane/car. This was really great. I wish I could have met you, T!