Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I know, it's way cooler to act like I don't care...

But some times, you just have to celebrate inspiring moments...Hey, at least I'm not jaded, right??? I still enjoy every minute of it. Anyway, a couple weeks ago, I took a couple of POP designers with me on an inspiration trip to NY for Quiksilver. One of them had never been to the city before (yeah, she failed to mention this during her interview), so we proceeded to play Jay-Z & Alicia Key's Empire State from iphone through the taxi's auxiliary cable crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on a very pleasant Monday evening. I know, pretty cheesy, but imagine Megan's first drive into the city with the windows down rocking out to this jam...pretty good entrance. We proceeded to have our inaugural dinner with journalist and a good friend of ours, Jamie Brisick, on our first evening to kick things off on the right foot. Here was the drill - NY for a week, no retail, just get immersed into the art and culture of the coastal-minded folks we know out there. (Many transplants, some locals) Here's some excerpts from my emails home on the three days that followed...

5/10/11 Greetings from NY! Yesterday was a mind numbing inspirational tear through the best vintage archives in NYC. Melet Mercantile and What Goes Around Comes Around to name a few. I normally expect to find a few things here and there, but yesterday's "bounty" was, at times, overwhelming. This morning, I was reviewing the images and I thought I would send some through so you can take the ride with us...



Images sometimes don't do the trick, so on top of the phenomenal vintage finds, I thought I would share a sentiment on yesterday's weather, this was relayed to us by a friend who is a California transplant to New York..."We have ten glorious days in NY every year, and yesterday was one of them...the three-day forecast calls for two more stunners!" OK, no one likes a bragger, but we're to Montauk this morning...

5/11/11 We had an amazing one day trek to Montauk with our very gracious host Paige Straughan. We spent some amazing time with Katherine Foley from Air & Speed, the shop to visit for anything surf related on your next trip to Montauk. (Which for us, is next month!)


(I know, weather doesn't look so good. It was pretty cool up in Montauk, while the city was about 20 degrees warmer, at least)

Now, off to catch the L Train to Brooklyn. Chris Gentile just sent me this text.."see you at the Bedford Station at 9:30 - I'll have boards on the roof so you can't miss me!" Apparently the winds are offshore, I might need to do some further research on this...

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