rue de la pompe

i am such a mess when it comes to updating photos (there are still an alarming large amount of blog posts i have to do about london / spring break / europe travels let alone the 20 i forgot about last year. alas / c'est pas grave). so long/dramatic story short, my five days in paris extended to two weeks and then extended to a month frolicking around with the french. more on that and all my emotions later.
i like taking pictures of people in their spaces, so here is victoria in her host mother's home in the 16 arrondissement in paris. it's this wonderful, old, twisting, wooden, vintage/lavish looking place (i can't do adjectives at the moment) that perfectly fits all preconceived notions of what paris apartments should look like.
she recently she moved out of this room that she had been living in for the past academic year to a cozy apartment on the top floor of the adjacent building. (which means we labor up six flights of ~seemingly benign~ wooden spiral staircases to the top, wheezing like elderly women) pix taken the day she had to move out ~*~*~*~ repetitive, so pick a favorite plz.
#INTENSE #SYMBOLISM #ART

wbs - part 2: weekend in the city

winter break shenanigans, part dos! because we are big kids now - victoria and i escaped new jersey for a weekend to cavort and frolic around the city. we spent the first day at the MoMA in which i shot two rolls of double exposed film (or attempted too) and i still have to scan those, so here are the photos from saturday.

i've decided to spend the remainder of my break reading, so i got a nice fat stack of books waiting to be devoured.

in one day we: went to georgetown cupcakes in soho in the morning to get a free cupcake, went to williamsburg to explore (in which we spent a good hour wandering around semi-lost, but we ended up finding out way), went to eataly for a delicious dinner, went to the brooklyn bridge at night and took photos of the manhattan skyline, and thennn concluded with a max brenner's delight.

bam, one day. (and a few himym episodes as well). we are efficiency and fatassery at it's finest.

lunch was at a korean fusion grill, and it was delicious. williamsburg is hip n' fresh and full of surprising treasures, but god damn it is hard to find if you do not know your way/have a faint idea of what you are doing. this is when i gave victoria my mark ii for a spin (above photo is hers). so i didn't take that many photos :) brooklyn bridge at night will always be my favorite. above two photos are victoria's. it was wonderfully foggy that night and i just love watching the skyscrapers disappear into the clouds. failed attempts at using a flash as old as my film camera. and too lazy to adjust because 1)the food was here 2)i think we were blinding people in the restaurant. bam done.