NYC is extraordinary and out of the ordinary.
Need further proof?
These are two things I randomnly run into today within minutes and within 14 blocks.
No idea what either of them try to accomplish and whose idea they were, but I think they qualify for an “only in NY” kinda moment. No?
Amazingly creative! I hadn’t walked down this block in a long time and was glad to see ABC No Rio was still around and making music (and art!). This bike is completely covered in yard and not just wrapped around but knitted around every part of the bike! Amazing!
Amazingly creative! I hadn’t walked down this block in a long time and was glad to see ABC No Rio was still around and making music (and art!). This bike is completely covered in yard and not just wrapped around but knitted around every part of the bike! Amazing!
I’ll be at SXSW this year again and Jamie Berg of the The Dartmouth Independent will be interviewing me for Studio SX radio on Saturday March 20th at 2pm.
More info here: SXSW: Marc Urselli & Jamie Berk
I love snow. Maybe because it reminds me of my native Switzerland.
After the 15″ overnight snowfall, here’s a picture I just took this morning of a fellow NYer excited about snow: he’s cross-country skiing (or more like cross-neighborhood skiing) through Brooklyn!
I would do the same with my snowboard if I had a friend towing me with an SUV butmy buddy Roman is kitesurfing in the carribeans and so I decided to head to the alps… if planes are taking off that is… Cross country… I mean, cross fingers!
My NYC based friend, kitesurfer and film/tv/video wizard Oliver has been laid off and decided to give it all up for now and live life on the road. He bought a great big old van with a bed and a kitchen (as well as an axe and a shovel on the roof and many other great features!) and is about to embark in the trip of a lifetime…
He packed his kitesurfing, surfing, snowboarding, video and photography gear and he’s all ready to go!
He’ll be blogging and adding pictures and videos at VisionQuest.me and I’ll be following what he does, where he goes, what he tweets…
I took some pics of him on his mean-looking truck tonight after his farewell party tonight in Manhattan and I wanna wish him all the best!
Oliver is looking for sponsors and is probably going to make this into a movie, which I am sure will be worthwhile watching!
Good luck out there Ollie!
PS he’s a really nice guy, I told him to pose like a red neck macho! ;-)
Just got back to the beautiful skyline of NYC after an amazing trip that took me to three countries and seven cities in a little over 10 days. I did so much in 10 days that I feel like I need a vacation to recover from this vacation ;-)
The best of all is that I did it with miles accrued from flying around on tours and other trips. Sweet!
South East Asia is a truly incredible place, full of excitment, nice people, culture, traditions, heritage, music… Of course I couldn’t resist coming back with some new instruments and field recordings of local musicians performing traditional tunes. If I could attach one from my iPhone for you all I would but I’ll just attach some pictures of Thailad, Cambodia and New Year’s Eve in Japan.
Speaking of, I would like to wish all of you ALL the best for a successfull, painless, healthy, recession-free new year, sincerely. I hope it brings you all what you need and deserve!
There’s nothing better than flying for free on miles, except flying for free on miles to a remote location which usually would cost a ton of $$$ to get to…
I’m excited about the journey ahead and just hope that no bags get lost and all our connections and plans work out!
Dec 19
4.15 alarm for a 6.15 flight to snowy Minneapolis… what I’m really not looking forward to is the 14 hour flight to Tokyo followed by the 8 hour flight to Bangkok… we’ll get there eventually I guess… right about now,
for a 6’2″ guy like me, it seems so uncomfortable and far away in time… thank god for emergency exit seats!
6.30am. I’m sitting in a car service that’s taking me home from JFK airport, where I just landed after a long flight from Brazil. This was my first time there and the experience was equal part hell and paradise!
Paradise for the places I saw, the lagoon I kitesurfed in, SOME of the people I met.
Hell because on top of delayed flights with resulting missing connections, within 10 minutes (no joke!!!) of landing at the Brazilian airport I was surrounded by a large crowd (felt like mosh pit at CBGB’s!) who emptied my pockets, leaving me with no wallet (ie no money and no credit cards) and, worse, no IDs and no passport! The subsequent nightmare of consular agencies and embassies is too long to describe but I spent countless hours on phone and email (the iPhone saved my life!), countless money (which my travelling buddies lent me) on cab rides, car rentals, consulate fees, papers and other stuff and about 7 days waiting for an approval from the US consulate (which I was told was gonna take 2 days) and 5 hours in line at the US consulate.
Lesson I learned: always have ALL your IDs and documents scanned and available online for retrival and printing; always have money, IDs and travel documets in differet parts of your body and where you can feel them; never trust a cheering crowd in Brazil; never get robbed in a country where everything is slow and takes forever to happen; …and last but not least get yourself an amazing girlfriend like I have who can get on the horn, make things happen, scan documents, be internet savvy and do things for you (I’d probably still be stuck there if it wasn’t for her help)!
P.S.: oh, did I mention that I have a recording session in 4 hours at the studio?