VIEW FROM ABOVE

After staying up extremely late working on stuff for Storey Publishing and Arizona Highways, and getting next to zero sleep, I went yet again to the SoHo Apple store. This time with Cara, and this time about iWeb. Back at Seattle Met I’d worked with this illustrator named Noah Z. Jones who told me he did his whole site in iWeb. It’s nothing fancy but I liked the general idea and want to revamp mine, which just isn’t working for me anymore. The talk was basically an overview of the program, nothing complicated. It’s going to take some tweaking to make it do what I want but it came with my new computer and I like user-friendly programs, which this thing is.

Afterwards we ate some of the best Indian food ever at this buffet in the neighborhood. Absolute the best and freshest Paneer ever. I sure do love that tainted E. Coli spinach! After our risking death, Cara had to go up to the East Side to pick up her number for the half-marathon she’s running on Sunday. The headquarters for her running club is across from Central Park in some rather nice digs, so afterwards we decided to head to The Met to see some Art. You have to love the fact you can pay one-dollar (it’s $20 suggested) and get loaded on some high ideas.

There were some installations up on the rooftop by a Chinese artist named Cai Guo-Qiang. The art was interesting enough, and the crowd was having cocktails and being very NYC, but the real treat was the view of Central Park above the tree line, surrounded by all that amazing architecture. It was right at sunset so the light was magnificent, and the air had this lovely onset-of-fall sensation that was absolutely sublime. It was one of the serendipitous things that always reminds me that the thing you need the most is often on the way to where you had no intention of going in the first place.