I just opened up with New York City section in the store and added this as the first picture.I took it on one of the Christmas holidays shortly before the blizzard hit the city. In case you're wondering why the Beatles haven't been in on iTunes earlier, I believe to know the reason :-DI remember that Beatles originally published their music under their own label named Apple Records. The computer company with the same name had a fight with this record label, and from what I once heard in the radio, they agreed that Apple Computers may keep the name as long as they won't enter the music business. This changed when Apple came up with the iPod and iTunes. I guess some major struggle went on until the Beatles who were originally released under Apple Records made it into the stores of Apple. In fact, I remember those old Beatles records. They had an apple on the center of the cover as well as the center of the LPs. On the cover you saw the apple from the outside, on the LP itself you saw the inside of the apple like it was sliced in half. I used to play those records from time to time when I was very little and always found that apple stuff very original.
Snow Storm Street Scene II
Snow Storm Street Scene
Because of popular demand, I'll keep posting snow storm pictures from New York, but what I actually wanted to do is wishing you a good start into 2011! Anybody has cool and inspiring resolutions? I don't have one. I just returned back home to Germany after almost eight years in the states. I guess that's change enough. Any resolution would be pretty redundant at this point.
It's really cool to be at home. I'm taking it slow. My hometown is somewhat slow paced anyway, and also pretty much snowed in. I'm spending New Year's at home with my grandpa who is now 93 years old. Even at this age, he is still the one fixing and repairing all kinds of things around the house. My family is pretty (re)productive, so he happens to also have a couple more grand children, five grand-grand-sons, two grand-grand-daughters, as well as a grand-grand-grand-daughter and a grand-grand-grand-son. Some of these newer family members barely know me as I obviously haven't been around much. They probably just see me as this weird uncle from America :)
Anyway, wishing you a great start into 2011!!!
Rushing Through the Snow
I get headaches when I think of the Flatiron Building. How do you photograph this thing? This might be my best try so far. I remember standing in front of it several times scratching my head.
Lederhosen
This is what New York City looked like yesterday after only a couple of hours of snowing. Isn't it crazy what's going on with the weather right now? I escaped the flooding in Southern California. Last week I stayed away from Europe because of the icy chaos that is going on over there. Between those two places I felt like on a safe island here in New York. Today I'm trying to fly again and suddenly the city looks like this. But I must admit that I don't mind. It's beautiful.
Passing Face
From a walk through Centro Habana.