Oh how I long to be in Paris

Photographic tricks

About a year ago I discovered a brilliant little programme called toycamera which allows you to make your shiny high resolution digital pictures look like they were taken on a crappy broken analogue. It so happens that mostly I find that look a lot more appealing than the polished digital one and so for those not that devoted to photography and possibly short on funds it is a much cheaper and faster alternative to disposable cameras et al. Of course this does not mean to say that you should ditch your good old analogue. Nothing can ever replace the process of real photography and I much prefer the results of exposing real film to light and then having it developed and properly printed (though places that will actually do that are quite hard to find these days). But this little gem of a tool does make it much easier to take lomography style pictures without hesitation and second thoughts about the money spent on endless snapshots.

NYC toycamera

Actually I was planning to upload a number of toycamera impressions of my stay in New York but sadly blogger is being rubbish and only this one made it through. I guess I'll have to find some other way. The rest will follow shortly.

Tuesday

As I already reported, I went to a fashion show on Tuesday which was really exciting.

Afterwards I met up with Maureen and we went to Cafe Gitane at Jane Hotel. It's so pretty there.


I could have stayed forever.

 Lovely Maureen, always on her Blackberry.

They even have a fusball table.

The bar was also amazing, I will definitely be checking that out this weekend.

From there we went for a stroll along the Highline.

After the show I had seen people with these bags everywhere because there had been a Mulberry show at the same time and a really nice lady gave me hers when I asked her about it. Yay!

When Maureen left I decided to sit on the highline and read for a bit.

Oh New York City!

South of Houston

My day started with breakfast on the window sill.

This is me about to run out of the door.

I went to Opening Ceremony to meet up with a friend

They had candles from Ladurée and my heart almost stopped thinking they're selling macaroons but unfortunately that was not the case.

Then we went to a shop called 'In God We Trust'. They had so many nice things, I could easily have bankrupted myself.

Rachel who works there is so sweet and told me lots of things to do in New York.

This little key necklace had to come with me.

Exhausted from all the shopping we decided to go to La Gitane and ordered couscous and the most delicious pasta bake.

Statement of purpose

Although there are endless blogs out there these days and none of them seem to need a purpose of existence, I feel I need to justify the narcissitic decision of keeping one myself.

I have just graduated from university and by habit or by nature - who knows really - I packed all my things, stored most of them in a basement somewhere and left. Seeing as I don't expect to have a base anywhere for a while, planning to travel back and forth between countries and continents, and considering that I usually carry a silly amount of cameras around with me, I thought it'd be nice to have somewhere to document everything: the pictures and the anecdotes. An anchor of some sort and a place to store all the memories. It's not necessarily a project for others - although if someone discovers and enjoys this blog it would make me rather happy - but mainly for myself. So that, I guess, is the purpose of this blog.

New York Fashion Week

After finishing my fashion internship last week, I had little hope that, despite being in New York, I would get to experience Fashion Week at all. As it turns out I was far off. My former bosses treated me to the Matthew Ames show today at Milk Studios and it was absolutely incredible. Intimidatingly fashionable people everywhere, photographers, models, industrial music, "the front row"... Who would have thought that fashion shows were actually, well, like fashion shows. I really really enjoyed it and while, had I still been working, I would have been busy at the showroom and going would have been unthinkable, I got to enjoy a sunny afternoon in the West Village.  Life really could be worse.