Natalie and I got tickets for Friday’s lineup at the All Points West Festival in Liberty State Park; just a few blocks away from our house. We were really looking foreword to seeing The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Beasty Boys. Week before the festival, Adam Yauch of The Beasty Boys was diagnosed with cancer and their Friday’s headline spot was filled in with Jay-Z. Below is The National’s opening which i shot with my iPhone.
A few weeks ago, Natalie and I spend some time at the Jersey Shore in Strathmere. The beach that was completely destroyed by hurricanes last fall, is beginning to be slowly rebuild and transformed. Large amounts of rocks were brought in to further fortify the beach and further along the beach a construction company is building some sort of a plumbing device with massive pipes that I’m assuming with further prevent floods and beach corrosion from future storms.
I’ve taken about 220 images in total on the 4th last week. Again, I was extremely disappointed that I didn’t take my tripod and have already prepared for next year by purchasing a Gorillapod Gripster Tripod on eBay. I’m sure I’ll get a lot of use of it before next year. The tripod is pretty cool as it allows you to wrap its flexible legs around any surface providing a steady platform for the camera. Over the weekend, Natalie area heading to Strathmere where I’ll take the new tripod for a spin.
Right at Exchange Place in Jersey City, literally a block away from our new building stands the Katyn Forest Massacre monument. In 1940, the NKVD, which later on became the KGB murdered thousands of Polish military officers, intellectuals, and civilian prisoners of war. According to Wikipedia, over 22,000 hidden graves were discovered, ironically by Nazi Germany in 1943.
