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Thursday, July 1, 2010

New York City!

I'm in NYC right now and I'm staying here for the rest of the summer. I thought I'd update with what I've been doing. I'm doing an internship is at an art gallery which I just started. I'm also volunteering at an animal rights organization called Mercy for Animals which should be interesting. I'll update on those once I do more stuff with them, but I thought I'd share what I've been doing just exploring New York. If you have any recommendations for things for me to see, let me know in the comments.

I signed up for this yoga event on June 22nd called Yoga at the Great Lawn. The idea was to have 10,000 people do yoga at a huge class in Central Park. It was a great idea and I was really looking forward to it, but unfortunately it rained and it got canceled. They did start the class, but I was in the back of the line and didn't have a chance to do any. I did get a free yoga mat though and I'm hoping to take a yoga class this summer. I found some photos on their Flickr:

Three Trees

Yoga on the Great Lawn

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I met two makeup gurus from YouTube on June 23rd. Makeup gurus are girls who are usually teen/college age who post videos with makeup tips. The videos are generally informal and just done from the person's home, but a lot of makeup gurus have gotten so popular that they have been featured in magazines and on TV. I met Elle and Blair, who are sisters that each have a video channel on YouTube. One's 17 and the other's 22. I've been watching them for about a year. The event itself was really crazy because there were so many girls (even though they were only expecting 30 people, about 300 showed up). It was weird how much they were treated like celebrities just for being on YouTube. They took pictures with everyone though and they were really nice.

Elle and Blair Meetup

Elle and Blair Meetup

I also went to a concert (I'm planning to go to a bunch this summer) and did a lot of shopping around (I found this cute cupcake place right by where I intern). I went to an Etsy fashion show at the Brooklyn Museum and afterwards went to the Brooklyn Bontanic Garden. I have photos and details on it, but so this entry isn't too long, I'm going to post that another day. Etsy is located in New York so I have to visit their labs sometime.

Brooklyn Museum Day of Fashion

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I went to the "Day of Fashion" event at the Brooklyn Museum. It was partly run by Etsy so I was excited to go. I didn't stay the whole day, but I saw the fashion show. I really liked some of the clothes and there were some really creative ideas. I got some photos. You can see more on my Flickr.

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imageHere These are links to some of the designers:

iheartfink
naKiMuli
Collecthernews
Olek
The Brooklyn Circus
Kasia Wisniewski

Did anybody else go? Or have you been to any similar fashion events?

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