locals

My summer has been pretty consistent so far since I have been in the city. Wake up, go to work from 9-5 and then spend the evening either resting from the long day or every so often spending time with friends from school that live in the city. One of my goals this summer was to connect with bands that are from nyc and go to as many local shows as I can. In June I went to 7 shows: two at Color Me Bushwick, two at Northside Festival, a Current Joys show, a day of Pizza Fest set up by King Pizza Records, and a 90s japanese girl rock group Shonen Knife. Now that its getting to the second half July and nearing the end, I'm still pushing to go to as many and am trying to carry this consistency of local show going into the school year. In July so far I have been to 4: another Current Joys show, The Bird and Bee, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Neon Trees. So hopefully these connections that I was making online I can continue through the rest of the summer. Here are some of my pictures from the past two months:

Mike of The Nuclears

Pat of Honduras

Alex of Diet Cig

Jason of Lazyeyes

Crazy Pills

Nick of Current Joys

I've really enjoyed my experience so far in immersing myself into the Brooklyn music scene. There are so many local bands and so many little venues that are always having bands play. And the amount of summer music festivals are great too. Attending as many local shows as I can is really pushing my photography.

New York: 2 weeks complete

It's been about 2 weeks since I have been residing in the big apple. I'm currently staying in a NYU dorm, so I'm right near by Greenwich Village, East Village, Union Square and the whole NYU campus. Actually I am in the perfect place for everything. I'm 10 minutes from work, and since work is right on 6th street, all the shopping is right there too. And if I want to hop over the East River, the L is 4 blocks away so that I can head right over to Brooklyn. 

A photo posted by dominique (@domgphotography) on May 26, 2015 at 1:51pm PDT

Last week I got to see an old friend from high school. She was visiting her roommate from college, who lives in the suburbs. I joined in on their adventures of midtown, the upper east side, and the upper west side. We got to deal with rain and traffic, but at the end of the second day we hung out at Lincoln Center for a bit and watched the fountain and all the attendees of the ballet. 

A photo posted by dominique (@domgphotography) on May 30, 2015 at 6:02pm PDT

This past week has been my first week of work at Hook and Loop. Hook and Loop is the in house creative think tank for software company Infor. I remember my uncle telling me that this company was doing big things and they were at the top of their market, I sort of just agreed with him, not knowing any better. But after this past week I'm blown away by how powerful the things that are being made here are. The ideas that float around this office (that's freaking cool) are some super bright ones and I am so glad I am part of this community now. 

A photo posted by dominique (@domgphotography) on Jun 2, 2015 at 10:46am PDT

Here's a view from the lobby of Hook & Loop's office. We were filming executive messages in the lobby the other day, and I snapped a picture.