I pride myself on having awesome friends, and I have this particularly heroic friend named Shannon. I think the photo speaks for itself. 100% goodness, snapped and edited by myself (sorry, I needed to brag).
Shannon is an artiste slash model currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. She’s modeled for Caliber 59 and Maximilian Fur Salon. In addition to being really really ridiculously good-looking, she’s got a fierce body of work. She also rescues puppies in her off time. Check out her blog for more.
To the huge, hot, glorious mess that is THE city to end all cities.
If I were to attempt to sum up this beautiful video and all the feelings that it encapsulates in my own words, it is very likely that I would embarrass you and myself with an unacceptably high dosage of cheesy, irrelevant rambling… Soo as put by Brain Pickings, cos they said it so well:
New York is a slow love. Beyond its typical emotional roller coaster — a target of all the world’s tourist lust, from the intense infatuation of the infrequent visitor to the quick disillusionment of the recent transplant — lies a rich and beautiful middle, a neverland between the black and white not grey but vibrant and colorful and magnificently enchanted, that over time swells into a powerful attachment.
That slow New York love blossoms when you cease trying to live the city as it should be and surrender to it as it is. When you embrace its uncontrollability and take comfort in its chaos, its whisper in your ear, its breath on your skin, its heartbeat in your heart. When you let the city grow on you and, in the process, you let yourself grow with it.
Here’s to New York, its vibrant neverland between infatuation and disillusionment, its allure of surrender, its promise of growth and, above all, its slow love.
Like the feeling described above, the video builds up slowly. It’s well worth the 30 minutes out of your life to just kick back and let yourself drown in a maze of color, sound, and movement. Oh and the music on these videos is the $hit. Also, that’s gonna be me casually strolling the Brooklyn Bridge in one week.
