Spotted...

...everybody's favorite bad boy, Chuck Bass, making eye contact with Norwegian exchange student on Bond street.

xo xo

Late night disco

On Friday night my bed collapsed. We were a Small group of people who wanted to get drunk, but since we're all kind of poor we didn't want to spend money on cover. So we went to my place, had drinks and listened to music. It ended up being a really fun dance party in my bed (my room is so small, there is really no space to dance on the floor). As most would have expected, at least in a sober state, the bed collapsed, and it was hilarious. It didn't spoil the party mood, the last persons left at 8:30.

The picture is taken only seconds after the incident.

Warning

If you go to the movies in the states now, it is likely that have to see this video (click on watch video on the national guard site).

It is ridicules!

Celebs

I haven't seen that many celebrities as expected since I came here. One reason is that I'm not that interested and won't recognize most of them if I saw them.

My best spotting so far was supermodel Agyness Deyn and her boyfriend, the guitarist from The Strokes, Albert Hammond outside Ray's Pizza around the corner from my apt. Yeah!

12 moments

Top left: In front of Statue of liberty. After party at Justins place. Close to Time Square. On the way to Fish bar in American Apparel hot pants. Fish Bar. Infront of Prada after dinner at Mercer Kitchen. Prince Street. Pose at Liberty island. Faces at Justins. 14th st and 3rd ave metro. 2am dinner at Veselka. ? .

From the top to the bottom

Me and Stina went to see Antony and the Johnsons at the legendary Apollo theater in Harlem. It was amazing. The venue is fantastic, a classic theater stage with mezzanines, balconies, a huge chandelier and everything an old theater should have. We were sitting on the upper mezzanine. The seating is so steep there, that you almost feel that you're going to fall down on the stage.

Antony entered the stage in a dress, which best can be described as a fantasy wedding gown. The lights on the stage were turned of, and they didn't come on until he had played three songs. His voice was fantastic. When he sang "Cripple and the starfish", I almost had tears in my eyes. He also sang Beyoncés "Crazy in Love"! It was crazy nice.

And what is more reasonable to do, after you have been listening to one of the worlds best voices than to explore the scene, were you probably can find the worst? I'm talking Karaoke. I'm not a karaoke person, I have only done it in Tokyo before, and there it is mandatory. After some drinks we got hooked in by a girl in Brooklyn to a karaoke bar. And after a considerable amount of Captain Morgan and coke and some tequila and free Jäger shoots, I was ready to share with the world, my version of "Paint it Black". We ended the night in a classy way, shouting fuck you at the girl who was deciding which songs to play, because she hadn't played more of the songs we wanted to sing. Then we ran of, in a dramatic manner, into the New York night.

To night we had dinner at 2am at Veselka. I love New York!

There's no time!

Ooaaee... I feel I don't have time for anything right now. I have my critiques in a few days, my girlfriend is here and I want to spend as much time with her as possible. I haven't had time to answer any mails, messages or, as you know, post anything on the blog. I'll come back stronger after my critiques.

Strange

On the corner of St. Marks and second avenue, I bumped in to Stine, a friend of my from elementary school! It was really weird. We don't keep in touch, we just meet occasionally in bars during Summer an Christmas in the town were we are from. She was here with her architecture class from Oslo, and had just been looking at Cooper. Strange.

Distractions

Almost seven weeks in New York. It has been great so far, I've met lots of interesting people, seen lots interesting people and events. But now I can really feel the pressure of being a student as mid-term critiques are approaching. It has been hard to adapt to the US school system, it is so different from Europe. I feel I hardly have time to work on my on projects, there are classes, readings, writings and lectures all the time. And the city it self just sucks me away from school, so much I wanna see and do before I leave. But as said, mid-term is coming and my production is going to be "evaluated". I find critiques extremely helpful, but they have approached much faster than I had expected. I need at least seven pieces for my drawing class, eight works for my photography class, I'm gonna have a two hour quiz in my architecture class and then all the usual readings and papers! I usually like the pressure, my concentration increases as deadlines approaches. But this time it is different, I'm blaming the city. I'm sure if I was to stay here for years I wouldn't be in such a hurry to see everything, but that's not the case. I guess I just have to cut down on the time I spend sleeping.