Taking a day off
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//sometimes
is the right decision. Even though it is almost every time strongly linked to spending money, times like these help to make life comfortable so far away from home. Besides, the weather just changed after my little afternoon sleep so i had the opportunity to walk through the lower East / lower West side and get some fresh air.
Here's how New York looks like in the summer:
people gather at the few green spots, washington square in this case, and have a good time. Lots of people playing music, somebody spitting and juggling fire, breakdance squads, street preachers, everybodys on the street.
For me, this day turned out to be the big reading day. The obligatory magazine buyout began with the efx magazine, the cinefex and wired. That said, yesterday i had my play and 3dworldmagazine and an additional multiformat games magazine which grabbed my attention by a giant screenshot of the amiga hit "Godz" from the bitmap brothers, but turned out to be the good old half-racist half-sadistic geekmag as usual.
But the big hit came when i entered the forbidden planet comic store and tripped on ChannelZero by Brian Wood. A really really great comic, subversive and extremely crafted, it's main subject is crtiticism of the mass media.
Gues what, i liked it so much that i bought everything they had from him including a designbook showing some development stages...
Brian Wood now designs for Rockstar games, who themselves might be familiar to some of you by the quite famous "Grand Theft Auto" Series.
Interesting how people develop.
Enough written words, back to some more pictures, this time from my new found home in brooklyn, 30 Minutes from Midtown on the G and A Train, located at DeKalb Avenue.
And i must admit, it is slightly more the feeling of being at home...
But according to my non-digitial information acquire-mayhem, i think it's time for yet another bag to take with me on my long awaited trip home...
It will not be easy to convince customs that i won't take anything back from the US...
Monday, May 10, 2004
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//sometimes
is the right decision. Even though it is almost every time strongly linked to spending money, times like these help to make life comfortable so far away from home. Besides, the weather just changed after my little afternoon sleep so i had the opportunity to walk through the lower East / lower West side and get some fresh air.
Here's how New York looks like in the summer:
people gather at the few green spots, washington square in this case, and have a good time. Lots of people playing music, somebody spitting and juggling fire, breakdance squads, street preachers, everybodys on the street.
For me, this day turned out to be the big reading day. The obligatory magazine buyout began with the efx magazine, the cinefex and wired. That said, yesterday i had my play and 3dworldmagazine and an additional multiformat games magazine which grabbed my attention by a giant screenshot of the amiga hit "Godz" from the bitmap brothers, but turned out to be the good old half-racist half-sadistic geekmag as usual.
But the big hit came when i entered the forbidden planet comic store and tripped on ChannelZero by Brian Wood. A really really great comic, subversive and extremely crafted, it's main subject is crtiticism of the mass media.
Gues what, i liked it so much that i bought everything they had from him including a designbook showing some development stages...
Brian Wood now designs for Rockstar games, who themselves might be familiar to some of you by the quite famous "Grand Theft Auto" Series.
Interesting how people develop.
Enough written words, back to some more pictures, this time from my new found home in brooklyn, 30 Minutes from Midtown on the G and A Train, located at DeKalb Avenue.
And i must admit, it is slightly more the feeling of being at home...
But according to my non-digitial information acquire-mayhem, i think it's time for yet another bag to take with me on my long awaited trip home...
It will not be easy to convince customs that i won't take anything back from the US...
Monday, May 10, 2004
