I’m now officially a staff blog writer for ISO Magazine, a student-run fine art photography magazine.
I write and post weekly articles (usually on Saturdays).
Check it out here: www.isozine.com/blog
Writing
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For all of you who have no idea what I am studying,
I’m studying what I call “The Arts, Media, and Social Justice.”
I’m studying how to use print publications and various forms of media and the arts, such as photography and creative writing, combined with an understanding of language and communication, to bring about social change.
With a minor in Documentary.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
This morning, I got up at 9:00. I brushed my teeth and got dressed and had breakfast in the dining hall. I printed out some Spanish homework in the computer lab, and I walked to Dunkin Donuts on 14th. Now I am sitting in my bed sipping my small hot chocolate and getting some work done before my Spanish class on campus at 12:30 while my roommate is still sound asleep in her bed.
Mornings can be nice.
Greetings from 75 3rd Ave
Snow Day!
Yesterday, we had some big ole blizzards blow through, and school got cancelled! (Columbia, however, still had school. Proving that NYU is clearly superior.) I was so glad to get to sleep in. I stayed cuddled up in my sweatshirt in my bed for most of the day. That night, I walked to 23rd with Miriam, and we rented Easy A, which was quite funny. Oh! and I managed to get some laundry done. All in all, it was a lovely snow day in. 🙂
Here are some pictures from around the city on snow day! New Yorkers are a creative bunch.
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
I’m hustling along 5th avenue, midtown, looking for a particular building. I’m moving quickly, as always, trying to run my errand as quickly as possible. I slow down for a moment when I notice a large amount of people. It’s Saks Fifth, and all of the windows are lit up and on display, ready for Christmas. I stop for a moment, smile, then cross the street. I suddenly notice that there are things falling; they stick on my eyelashes. It is snowing. I smile.
The smile sticks on my face until I realize that I don’t remember exactly where the store is that I need to go to. I start wandering around the block, searching for it. As I turn a corner, I see the tree. Rockefeller Center. Never have I seen a tree so large. I gaze up at the huge, illuminated fern and wonder, how on earth do they transport this thing here? It was too much to take in. The colorful lights shone like stars on a black night.
The snow continues to fall and I continue to walk around the block, slower now. I see Frosty the Snowman and countless tin soldiers and wooden nutcrackers and lots of people. But they aren’t shoving and shouting the way they do in Times Square. It’s nice here. Crowded, but nice.I walk away from Rockefeller Center and find myself on 5th again. There’s the store. It was on the corner all along, I just had not seen it the first time. I’m glad I didn’t.
Tonight, I walked along 5th Ave with snowflakes in my eyelashes and brisk wind on my face and my hands hiding in my pockets. Tonight, I stood under the greatest tree I’ve ever seen and walked past a Salvation Army Santa doing a rousing rendition of “Feliz Navidad.” Tonight, I experienced Christmas in New York, even if it isn’t quite Christmas yet.
Who needs Santa with blessings like these?
Keeping my fingers crossed
that my prints make it there in time for final judging!
This morning,
after I woke up and got out of bed, I noticed there was something on my left ankle. It was the cloth headband that is always on either my wrist or my head. Though it was very strange, I just assumed it had been wrapped up in my bed, and my foot had somehow slipped its way into it. But I realized it was wrapped twice around my ankle, in a way that could only happen purposefully. Then I remembered that last night I had had a dream that I had broken my left leg.
That’s right. My unconscious self bandaged my broken leg. I performed first aid in my sleep.
That’s me!
Front page photo!
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