The past month or two has been a total whirlwind. In the heat of MS defense time and finals (oh, and trying to sell my house in Baltimore), M and I also needed to travel to New York City to find an apartment. We found a great Duplex in Manhattan near the Empire State Building (it only took us a day!). A video of the interior is at the end of this post. We found the agent playing Mr. Hip New York Real Estate Agent funny–”No no! You give me 10%!”

Chrysler Building at Night

The Chrysler Building shot is from our apartment window a couple weeks ago. I anticipate posting a lot of architecture shots in the coming months, as I become acclimated to my new area.

The crappy looking pano shot is from our apartment window too. That one was shot after a night of getting acclimated to our new area (i.e. checking out a few of the local bars!). I initially uploaded it to Flickr just for the hell of it and to show friends what it looked like, but somebody made a comment that the roughness of the pano stitching fit the subject matter well: rough looking different architecture. It was convincing enough for me to post here–many, many more to come in the future, I’m sure.

Night View

Shortly after the apartment details were finished, I successfully defended my MS Thesis. I have a few minor edits to make before submitting the hard copy to the graduate school. So finally, finally, I’ve finished. After years of going part-time and feeling like I’d never finish, then biting the bullet and going back full-time to get things done once and for all, it’s done. So what’s next? Working full-time again, and considering Ph.D. programs in New York for next spring.

And last but not least, to top off our month(s) of craziness, we took an extended weekend to Ocean City, MD this past weekend. It was senior week, so it was marginally annoying with the loud douchebags drag racing all night, but otherwise was a great relaxing weekend of reading and walking and photoing and eating and drinking. And getting overly sunburned like usual (I’m in perpetual denial that I’m the whitest white man that ever lived, so sunblock is a necessity). The top photo was taken from Assateague Island, a small national park on the beach that has good fishing and wild horses. It’s very picturesque. Here’s a full-sized version of the pano.

Duplex in Murray Hill from Seinberg on Vimeo.

This is from the Obama Inauguration in DC. It’s somewhere around 10pm in the DC subway, after all the millions of people and commotion at the National Mall near the Capitol building. This guy was clearly exhausted from the day’s events.

Also, in case you haven’t noticed, there are now links below all the images on the site with “Buy Print” links. I’ve temporarily set the prices for the prints to just over what I’m charged for Fotomoto’s prints and service charge. The integration is really easy, but still in early beta so the only option is to put text below and above the image. Although I haven’t heard anything from Fotomoto, I suspect that will change once they’ve got their service humming along and bringing in business.

This was from a few days ago in the dining room — natural light was shining through the window and created this beautiful lighting on Beethoven and Lenin, so out came the 50mm.

Shot this the other evening as the City came out to fix a clogged sewer drain coming from my house. We couldn’t take showers or do laundry for close to a 24 hours. That little doohicky thingy majig was fascinating, though — it was a really long hose-like metal thing that the machine rapidly spun in circles to clean out the clogged stuff from the sewer. Pretty disgusting!

Oh, this one was shot handheld at night — the only light is from the Sewer guy’s truck and a streetlight.

This was taken from my bedroom window on Saturday afternoon on what was more or less the nicest day of the entire year so far. We have this great beautiful tree outside our bedroom window that’s so nice to wake up next to on nice mornings: a breeze blowing, blue sky, and this great tree.