NYC // day one.

this is New York City.
this is my home for a month!
this is so exciting!

this is for moments when you realize how little you know about film
this is for realizing how much experience and knowledge you lack
this is for pizza from John's.
this is for walking through Times Square not to be tourist but to run errands.
this is for spending 6 hours on a equipment check out.
this is for walking down the street through a film shoot
this is for being excited because you know you will be those people in two days.
this is for all kinds of people on the subway.

this is for adventures.
this is for doing scary scary things and finally being more excited to be challenged than being afraid.
this is for seeing Silvercup studios.
this is for being happy alone.

this is for gardened court yards as lush paradises in the city.
this is for stainglass on subway overpasses.
this is for thinking views out of restaurant windows must be matte paintings because its just too unreal.
this is for comfy, happy small New York apartments.
this is for realizing I missed my life. this life.
this is for possibilities.

New York City has something that no other city I have been to has. There are so many people.. so many people of different faiths, traditions, ethnicities, vocations, and lifestyles. I love it. People who are utterly happy to be who they are. Every age and every demographic. If you looked hard enough I bet you would find an example of at least every possible combination of background and personality. You get to be exposed to so many NEW things! So many perspectives and ways of life you might never know. That in itself is so glorious. So refreshing. That's the only way I can describe it. .:. When you live so close to so many people you have to respect each other.. you become a community. And what a spastically crazy and amazing community this is.

((above the entrance to the neighborhood in Queens I am living in))