Sande in NYC

Josh and Yvonne, the couple I was staying with get both New York Magazine and Time Out New York. Both of these magazines accomplish the same goal of keeping New Yorkers up to date on what all is going on in their awesomely large city. Anyway, there was an article about someone who had gone around to a few places and spray painted a stencil of “cliche photo”. One happened to be on 33rd St and of the Empire State Building. Well, I didn’t have one of those, yet, so I figured a trek to find it was on the agenda so a few stops on the subway later and…

…there I was, taking cliche pictures. Hooray!

If I remember right this was on the 6 line. The Whitney Museum of American Art is also on the 6 line so I decided to go there. Unfortunately, the Whitney was preparing for it’s “Biennial”…whatever that is. I never took the time to figure out what that really is but apparently it requires them to close off 4 of their 5 floors. Disappointing…but I had actually found something I had set out to find using the subway, so I paid the reduced admission and wandered around the 5th floor. The art was…okay. It is, of course, understandable but they don’t let you take any pictures…so you’ll either have to check out their website (with the previously included link) or go their yourself. So I took a few pics of the outside…

…and then checked out the gift shop. The gift shop actually had the coolest thing I had seen all day (besides the actual Whitney building). It was called a Simple Diary. The Simple Diary is “an assistant for life, a book for any occasion, for any person at any age.” It’s very cool and I wasn’t able to get back to the Whitney to buy one before I left but if I ever get my security clearance and make it back, I’m definitely getting one.

Anyway, after that I wandered through Central Park. Of course, Central Park is really big and so this was a completely different part of the park. Also, the sun was setting so it made for some relatively interesting pictures.

Normally the fountain is turned on in the summer when they take tourism-related photos…but pictures of snowball fights inside the fountain is almost better, right?

That bridge thing has a fancy name but I can’t remember it right now.

…notice the bat in the background…heh…

Anyway, here’s some more of the park and then the Museum of Art and Design which was very cool. Very neat stuff but, unfortunately, another museum that doesn’t allow photos inside. Just wait till I get to the photos I took at the MoMA though. Very cool stuff and then let you take photos of everything except the “special exhibits” (i.e. the Tim Burton exhibit).