park view

View of Central Park from a job I'm working on at Madison Ave and 61st Street.

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Posted on April 2, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under desk views, etc-, places and tagged central park.

belvedere sketch

A happy find. An image of an old sketch done in Central Park of Belvedere Castle from across the Turtle pond. Can't wait till the weather gets nice enough again to sit out and do more sketching.

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Posted on March 31, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, handmade, places and tagged belvedere castle central park sketch.

olly oxen free vintage

Just went to the opening of the Olly Oxen Free Vintage Store on Sunday. Owner Suzanne Palmer has opened a great little Vintage store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I found out about it through Kelly (pictured standing at the storefront). There's a great selection of vintage women and men's clothing as well as accessories, shoes, jewelry, records, books, and other miscellaneous items. There's a 1960-70's vibe to most of the clothing. There is even a rack of hand inked patterned clothing from India in 1971, never work. Fun, colorful, retro prints. Bohemian and mod. You're bound to find something and best of all it's really affordable. I love vintage stores, but they are definitely a strain on the pocketbook. Here, I felt you are bound to find something great at every price range! Kelly and I both walked out with great pieces (she's modeling her's above).

Olly Oxen Free also holds a donations based yoga class on Tuesdays from 7p-8:15p. Also on slate for extracurricular activities are film screenings and workshops. Really great idea to make a retail space in to a community gathering point. I'm all for that.

Check it out next time you are in the area. It's off the Montrose stop on the L train.

Hours: M - closed T - 1p-6p (Yoga 7p-8:15) W-S - 12p-8p SUN - 2p-8p

Olly Oxen Free Vintage 137 Montrose Ave. Brooklyn, New York 11206 (347)731-2860

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Posted on March 29, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, fashion, places and tagged clothing fashion store.

sunsets & towers

Sunset views on Friday from a project in Tribeca my office is working on. Progress on the World Trade Center visible as well.

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Posted on March 25, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, desk views, etc-, places and tagged sunset water tower world trade center.

towering over the park

Tower spires and central park. View from 57th st. & 5th ave at the bottom of the park. Went to a meeting there yesterday and saw this! A great view.

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Posted on March 24, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, etc-, places and tagged central park towers.

an aerial perspective

Skyview_NYC

(image from Super Colossal)

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, etc-, places and tagged aerial view city new york city.

nj/ny

Trapped in traffic in the tunnel between New Jersey & New York. At the midpoint as the wall indicates.

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Posted on February 1, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, places and tagged traffic tunnel.

empire night shot

Night view of the Empire State from in front of the Church of Transfiguration on East 29th street and 5th ave or Broadway. Nice view when walking back from dinner to the subway last night.

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Posted on January 28, 2012 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, places and tagged empire state buiding night.

farewell for now...

Last view as I leave Grandma's to go back to NYC. Miss you Cali.

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Posted on December 29, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, places and tagged sunset.

cityscapes

Attended the "City" exhibit that just opened last night at the Bridge Gallery in the Lower East Side. Beautiful works on exhibit especially by my friend, Raylene Gorum (see first 2 images). Fabulous work Raylene! Congratulations to all in the show it is amazing. Please check it out if you can. Show it up through January.

Bridge Gallery 98 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 (212)674-6320

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Posted on December 22, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, etc-, places and tagged art gallery raylene gorum.

park view: big spotted dog

Stumbled upon this pic recently. It was a Union Square Farmer's market find. I don't know my dogs well, but it is best described as a Great Dane Dalmation mix. It was beautiful and one of the biggest dogs I've ever seen. A great animal! If I could have only gotten his face in the pic. Where does someone keep a dog this big in the city??

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Posted on October 7, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, places and tagged dogs union square.

intersection: mott + prince

@ intersection of mott st. & prince st. in nyc

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Posted on July 19, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, places and tagged art art & architecture wall art.

highline part 2_aerial

Section 2 of the Highline just opened up. Can't wait to see it first hand. More pics to come after my own visit. Check out my previous posts of Section 1 from June 2009.

(image from dezeen)

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under art & architecture, places and tagged elevated park highline park.

missing wheel

Lost little wheel on the subway tracks. How lonely...

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Posted on June 13, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under etc-, places and tagged subway.

desk view: super saturated

The trees really looked this bright after the rain one day

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Posted on May 15, 2011 by Vivien Chin and filed under desk views, places and tagged desk views union square.

sleeping on the job

Maybe the street performer got tired of not getting any donations? Or it's all part of the act...haha...the things I see on my way to work. If only we all got paid to sleep :)