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Day 19 – Homeschooling – Unmitigated Disaster
We have two feral animals that have taken over our apartment. To say the place looks like Aleppo would be an understatement. For those non-New Yorker’s reading this, we predominantly live in apartments in NYC, which is a markedly different experience to having a house. Cabin fever takes on a whole new meaning during stay a home orders. My naughty time consists of trawling Zillow and Trulia dreaming of space and backyards. I’m envious of my many friends with older, self-reliant, kids. Babylicious is 2 and Chisler is 5. They have miraculously become “independent thinkers “with their “own idea” of free time. Parents & schedules be damned. The first few…
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Day 15 – April Fools – No Joke. This Year. Clap Loud.
Since the pandemic feels like one huge apocalyptic April Fool’s joke perpetuated on us – I feel somewhat humorless about cracking April Fools jokes today. Pranks on hold until next year. Impressively New Yorker’s have been taking the stay at home message seriously (and for good reason – as of today 40k infected, 1,097 dead in NYC alone). 7pm in Manhattan and neighborhoods across New York City, resembles feeding time at the zoo. Everyone stops what they are doing, runs to the window, thrown open to the joys of Spring and loudly and rightfully, claps, bangs, hollers and barks for all our first responders, doctors, nurses, police, delivery men,…
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Day 11 – Tumbleweeds
Day 11 – I’ve decided to combine my running with my documentarian side. For those who didn’t know, I used to be a filmmaker back in the day. Nothing of which I’m confident you’ve seen. But I can assure you, no animals or children were harmed in the process (according to IMDB). Hypersensitive to social distancing, I find running on rainy days to be the most appropriate. Less people out and amateur runners stay home. I’ve not experienced an urban run as exhilarating and strange as this. I could run on the roads and paths unfettered by throngs of thousands blocking my way. It felt like I was running in…
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Day 8 – A COVID Diary NYC
It’s Day 8 in NYC and I can already see the effects of a total commercial shutdown. One of the greatest cities in the world, a city I call home and the epicenter of the #COVID-19 outbreak in America, brought to its knees. I never imagined myself and my family, and by extension you reading this, would ever live through a global crisis such as this. It’s almost unimaginable. I now find myself looking at life through a dystopian like prism. Distorted. Raw. Grim. I recoil in horror when I see people shaking hands, kissing, touching, coughing and the like on TV and films – streaming to masses in every…
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Hello world!
Hello folks. My first ever blog. Let’s see how long this lasts. It’s not exactly https://www.humansofnewyork.com/ but the idea of a blog originated with me trying to find a creative way to express NYC and myself while under an unprecedented lock down, by combining my experience of photography, my past experience as a documentary maker and my love of distance running. I want to capture New York City, in a place and time, unmatched in our collective lifetime. If we are lucky, and I hope we are, this blog won’t last three months. I recognize this may yet prove to be an unmitigated disaster. But I guess, I’ll never know…
