I try to post something on my blog at least once a week, preferably more.

Woops.

It’s been like a month since a posted anything. And it’s not like I necessarily forgot, it’s just like, it’s been so long that I don’t even know what to write. So here I am, one month later writing about how I don’t know what to write. COOL! Not that anyone particularly missed my posts or even noticed that they weren’t here, but I like to kind of have a log of everything I’ve been doing to look back on later. Which is the reason why I don’t reblog pictures of like tv shows and hot girls like everybody else. Don’t get me wrong tv shows and hot girls are great, just not on this page ya feel me? Why am I explaining myself?

Anyways, lotsssss of stuff going on so I think I’ll do some additional posts after this one with some stuff that’s been happening recently.

In general I’m just really busy with school and my internship (one of which sucks and one of which is awesome, guess which is which) so that’s what has been consuming my life this past month. Oh, that and all of the new shows that are on TV now. #supercoolkidrighthere

So I’ll talk to you all soon!

PS. It’s the internship that’s awesome.

Footage I took from the 9/11 Memorial, the Tribute In Light, and the memorial at Battery Park. 

As tragic an event as 9/11 was, it’s amazing what it’s anniversary does to this city. It brings out the patriotism and brotherhood in all of us, and I’m honored that I got to be here for the tenth anniversary.

Despite the fact that there were new terror threats made on the city, on the 9/11 anniversary, I know that New York City and this country are safer than they’ve ever been. The NYPD has been out in full force the past few days, and I felt perfectly safe going down to Ground Zero 3 times during the past 5 days.

Last night, on 9/11, I went down to the World Trade Center area to take some pictures of the Tribute In Light and 1 World Trade Center (formally known as the Freedom Tower) sporting red, white, and blue.

I couldn’t go to the official memorial yet because it was only open to the families of the victims of 9/11 yesterday, but I walked all the way down to Battery Park where they had placed one American flag for every single person who died in the tragedy. Then, each flag was made up of the names of the victims. It was very cool.

Then today, I was extremely lucky to be able to see the official 9/11 Memorial on the first day that it was open to the public. They’ve got a system set up where you can’t just show up and go in, you have to get a visitors pass online. The passes are free, but they’re sold out all the way through mid-October. I wish that I could say I have awesome connections that hooked me up, but really I happened to log into the site at the exact second somebody cancelled and was able to get a ticket for today. If anyone found this post and is looking to get tickets, definitely keep checking the site (911memorial.org) for openings. You could get lucky.

Anyway, the memorial is absolutely amazing. Anyone reading this no matter where you live should check it out someday. It’s got these two huge empty craters in the ground in the exact footprint of the original Twin Towers. Then, inside, are the largest manmade waterfalls in North America, and around the border is the name of every single victim inscribed in bronze. The rest of the plaza is filled with trees and seating areas.

Overlooking the memorial is the brand new 1 World Trade Center, which is about 82 stories right now, but when construction is completed in a few years, it will be the tallest building in America at 105 stories.

Finally, this is the “survivor tree.” It was planted at the Twin Towers when they were constructed in the 70’s, and survived their destruction in 2001. It lives on at the memorial.

For more info about the memorial go to 911memorial.org. I highly recommend everyone check it out, and it’s just going to get even better as they finish the museum (opening next year) and all of the new surrounding World Trade Center buildings (all opening within the next few years).

I posted a lot more pics on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2148380264464.2107748.1095030269&type=1 

USA <3 

Rebuild, Recover, Remember.

Well this week was the first week of school, and it officially feels like the summer was a year and a half ago. 

I’m actually only taking three classes plus an internship this semester. They are: Intermediate Short Form Production, Producing for TV, Production & Technology (GenEd) and the internship with SNL.

(Haha, I just noticed that every single one of my classes has some variation of the word “produce” in it.)

So far everything seems pretty good. A little more work than I was generally expecting, but I think it’s manageable. And my schedule works out so that I only have class on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Then I’ll work at SNL on Saturday and Tuesday, so I still get a weekend on Sunday and Monday.

I am in a production class so I will be making some new stuff this semester. But unlike last semester, it won’t be one big short film. It will be a bunch of smaller projects. Should be cool, we’ll see how it turns out.

As for SNL, I haven’t actually started yet. I’m starting this Tuesday but as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not really going to be able to blog about it.

Thanks for reading all the pointless stuff I put on here!

Stupid video I made yesterday haha.

So I came here to Vermont because my sister is starting college at UVM next week. The fam has been here since last Tuesday, but my plan was to fly up Thursday from NYC, be there when Kristi moved into her dorm yesterday, and then fly back on today, while my parents were supposed to fly back to SoFla on Sunday.

Hah. Then Hurricane Irene happened.

The storm that was supposed to give some South Florida kids a few days off of school has turned north, gotten stronger, and is now ready to distroy the east coast. My flight today was cancelled, and all flights on Sunday and Monday have also been cancelled.

At first, my parents and I were going to try to get on the last flight out of here and ride the storm out at my apartment in New York, but is it really worth trying to get on a flight that may or may not get cancelled just to fly to a city that may or may not be destroyed by a big storm?

So we’re staying here in Burlington, Vermont until Tuesday, which is also scheduled to get hit with Irene, but will probably just get some heavy rain and wind. I didn’t bring enough clothes (or even my laptop) but it’s probably the safer choice. I mean, the pic above is the view from our hotel, so there are worse places to be stuck.

Here’s to hoping my first floor apartment still exists when I get back.

Actually I didn’t feel it at all.

I was walking down 14th Street at the time and nobody on the street even noticed anything. We were finding out via text, not via earth vibrations.

They were saying on TV that, in NYC anyway, people on the ground weren’t really feeling it, while people in buildings, especially high rises, were seeing some small shaking. So all the local channels went into all out news mode, and were trying so hard to turn this into something significant. But really it was nothing. This girl sums it up nicely:

http://yfrog.com/np90lz

What we really have to worry about now is a hurricane headed directly for NYC. Sweeeeet.

That picture I posted earlier was featured on CBS2 News here in New York tonight!

PS. It’s Dee-Uh-Gah-Tee, but nice try Lonnie.

Lightning over New York City.

I took this during tonight’s lighting storm from my friend’s place downtown. It was so cloudy that you can’t even see the skyscrapers that would normally be in the picture. It took a few tries but I ended up with a pretty cool shot (courtesy of my new camera!). The colors were adjusted a little bit in Photoshop.