Numa just told me that the new building across the street will be a 12-story condominium.

I will have to buy curtains

Across the street there has been a large hole in the ground for about a year. Suddenly the construction company decided to get their shit together and make a building. Our super told us it would be luxury condos. I hope he was teasing, but I don’t think so.

I also don’t think they are union because they are sometimes out there by 3am and they seem to be making a new floor every two days.

I don’t know much about construction but I have seen lots of partially made buildings in the city. They all have steal beams erected from the ground up. Like the one cattycorner from my block. I know that it will be at least 5 stories because it’s beams raise that high.

But I have no idea what they are doing with this building across the street. Its area takes up both sides of the block so I imagine it must be very tall. But instead of steal beams they seem to build a floor, pave it and then build another floor held up by 2x12’s. Like layers of a cake or crackers separated by dozens of toothpicks. So I have no idea how high it will be because each new floor could possibly be a roof.

I know I’m going to lose my beautiful of north Harlem.

I don’t own digital cameras so here is photo taken from my window about 10 months ago. Now there is a 4 story building in the lower portion almost blocking out the street. Mini Mart is no longer visible.


And here is my view in 6 months.

I don’t own a DVD burner

Yeah I really suck right now. I stayed up half the week to finish my animatic and didn’t finish and furthermore- I couldn’t have made a dvd if I had finished.

So my next goal- other than paying rent (and utilities sometime soon) and food- is to buy a dvd burner and a dazzle to import video. Everyone I know has a burner and would let me use it- but I know I need this to be a real person. it's like owning a stapler.

So then I can be listening to records on my vintage phonograph and sipping gourmet coffee brewed from my French press and still be doing actual productive things like exporting my animation so people can watch it on their tv’s and dvd players and not just their internet. I hate myself sometimes.

I did make the deadline however. There’s something a little exciting about waiting in that very long line at the main branch of the post office aiming to make the day’s postmark. Like the last long stretch of your marathon. And then you get to go to macy’s for groceries yum.

They don’t sell bread at Macy’s. Don’t try to find the wonderbread or even 12 grain. They do have everything bagels though. Oh this lady down there told me that every night the sandwiches and salads are “buy one get one free” after 8 i think. You can get one of each ;)

Right now I’m looking at a bag of dried fruit and not hungry. Weird how just knowing you have something to eat tomorrow makes you not hungry. I have a Greek salad in the fridge.

More panels you can only see online…

I haven' t pondered much lately because I'm on a deadline for a grant that I will not receive. Here’s a few storyboards that I have been drawing. Hopefully Tricia and Amy will not be mad that I put them on my blog :) -