Gem's meal - Beef Stroganoff and potato pancake
Adam's meal - Ukrainian meatballs and mash potato
Veselka kitchen
Veselka restaurant
Hot subway man
Bedford Ave - Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Street art in Williamsburg
Bakery which we walked past every day on the way to the gym
Time to buy many t-shirt...teen
heya,
well....time for another quick update on our adventures. This week has been fairly busy with work stuff. I completed my rather intensive course on Friday so most of the week was spent working my butt off getting all of my pieces done...the result was pretty encouraging.
So, lets start with Gem, who spent some time in little Italy, Chinatown and some more of the Lwr East Side and the East Village. Despite battling some headaches and the odd baby related pains she continued to churn through her spending money on bargain after bargain...i think she has now bought about 20 things which is quite impressive considering i only gave her $50. Sometimes i come home from work and there are a few items laid out on the bed which is pretty funny...it is even cuter when those items are for our little bun cookin in her tum.
Work for me was cool. It was good to complete the course and it was great to spend some time 'working' in NYC. I finished off with 7 final pieces including 4 film trailers, a BMW commercial (which i created out of the raw footage from a book promotional trailer!) and two separate scenes from feature films...on top of the standard course workload. Other dudes in the class had maybe 4 or 5 so it was nice to get a few more under my belt. Looking at the other works people did i reckon mine came up well and i feel encouraged and inspired by the experience.
During the week we also had round two of our artist in residence...the same chick from last week Bobbie O'Steen came in and we worked through the films Bodyheat and Gosford Park. On Friday we were taken out to lunch at Saigon Market, a cool eatery in a fairly ritzy part of town. We talked extensively about future plans for everyone and got plenty of great feedback and advice on those next steps. Following that (and a couple of drinks) we ventured out to one of my fave post production facilities - OUTPOST DIGITAL. Well, Outpost was bought out by one of my fave places @RADICAL MEDIA but you get the gist. We were privileged enough to have had a few hours with the dude who started Outpost at aged 26 from his apartment. Now, at age 32, he is well and truly minted and is at the pointy end of one of the most respected agencies in the industry. He is freakishly driven, loud and has that NY swagger...and is very very funny.
@RADICAL MEDIA works on feature films, feature and short form documentary (including SOME KIND OF MONSTER), music videos (80 a year including JAY Z and Kanye), web content, apps for ipad etc and has produced about 1500 hours of TV (including setting up MAD MEN!!). We got the full tour of the facility, which was like walking through Willy Wonka's factory for me, and met some cool worker bees...one guy was the talented young gent who did the full sound mix on the recent award winning flick, BLUE VALENTINE. Overall, i was in my element and felt even more inspired.
After that a few work mates and i hit a cool bar down the street in the West Village. A few beers later it was time to bid adieu to my friends from the Manhattan Edit Workshop. I will definitely keep in touch with some of these guys.
Saturday i woke up a little tired after dreaming about @RADICAL. Reality then kicked in and i got to work on Matt Sharp's wedding invite and putting together my own showreel website. Ended up just chilling out before taking my pregnant hot mama out for a feast of the Ukrainian style. Veselka is a hot spot recommended again by Anthony Bourdain - that guy's tips never fail. Let me just say that food was AWESOME and LARGE. Unflattering photos above. Feeling a little guilty after our gluttony we decided to walk home...but someone....someone who is little....someone who is little and kinda roundish wanted some doughnut action. Enter a walk by Dunkin Donuts for a 6 pack. Times have changed....i remember getting a 6 pack of something else on the way home!!
Today we slept in and then made our way to Brooklyn for lunch at 5 Leaves (ledger's inspired joint) and some shopping. Turns out 5 Leaves was full of 'too cool for skool' types and they had stopped serving our fave sandwich...because we were 10 mins late!! We ditched that place in a hurry and grabbed a coffee and a muffin down the street. Spent the next couple of hours browsing the shops and checking out all of the cool people and models that now frequent this part of town. I got my spend on with 4 t-shirts, a cap and a pair of pricy vintage sunglasses. Now i am too cool for skool.
Well that is it. We are currently watching the NBA All-Star game live (awesome) and digesting one of the best pasta meals ever, courtesy of Supper down the street.
Tomorrow, we will begin an action packed final week in NYC. Galleries, photos, shops, Harlem, Jersey, Broadway and Dave Letterman.
Chat next weekend before we hit New Orleans.
Take care all.
love, Ads and Gem and ? xx
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