Greek In the Big Apple

My top five.... like the line goes from one of my favorite books and movies about music and life... High Fidelity. I am listening to a lot of different and interesting music lately, like I used to. Music was and will always be a salvation, and an expression when no words come to mind. Music creates a moment when you can say everything through the notes of your favorite songs. And in thinking about music and how it represents the city that I now live in, its like a endless pentagram of sounds and cultures being represented. "Music was and will always be a salvation." As my love of this city grows I wanted to make a mix tape... and you know the art of making a mix tape is no simple task.There are so many things to consider when making a sound track for NYC. Its a city full of rich history in Latin Rhythms, Hip Hop, Jazz, Funk... all exceptional, all part of the fabric that envelops it, and its all part of how amazing the artists are, past and present who live, create and

Like many other cities across the globe New York is divided into the day life and night life. There are the busy frenetic moments and those New York City rhythms.  People move in an automatic way almost without seeing each other, deep in their books, thoughts, work, inner lives, while in the evening they wind down anywhere from their local dive bar to the fashionista filled trendy joints that speckle the streets of this great metropolis. This post alludes to a previous one I wrote about the night life in New York that I often miss because Ashtangi time is by no means in the same zone as most night life. I usually miss the nightlife hours, since my bed time is quite early to allow for early yoga practice. We tend to utilize those hours in between night and day,  when I and most of my fellow Ashtangis wake up for our yoga practice. Those hours where many are still sleeping, others are awake from the night before, and still some are the twilight seekers in between. There are many of us

´ Workers on top of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center 1932. We all know New York is famous for its buildings and the iconic pictures of the city skyline plaster our walls at various stages of our lives. From the famous construction worker image above the newly developing city circa 1930's,  to the ever somber image of Lady Liberty as one enters the New York harbor. What is most lovely and even more breath taking about New York, is the constant and ever changing pallet of its beautiful skyline. The colours and hues always changing and shifting. The skies lend themselves to an open canvas, as if created by the able brush of a fine master painter. The blues, the yellows, the purples and  the lines all come to life and as the seasons change from winter to spring to summer and fall the pallet and the colours change with it. Here is my ode to the New York City skyline. And a little song to keep you entertained. The pictures have been taken over a five month period be