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I am a korean aquarius vata-dosha rat who grew up in Queens and currently reside in Brooklyn, NY. I work for an amazing artist and am a freelance arts writer. I spend my free time obsessing about my lack of free time. I collect, consume, archive, and inventory my experiences, hence the start of this blog as an outlet. I write, read, draw, cook, craft, walk my dog, ride my bike, recite mantras during a storm, daydream, jog, dance, meditate, perform sun salutations, and sunbathe when possible.

Brooklyn office Caliper Studio have completed an apartment in New York that features a very complicated stainless steel staircase. Called Genetic Stair, the fifteen-foot staircase has Corian treads supported by a structure of diagonal rods.

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens. Of his childhood he said, "I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave." In 1963, Mapplethorpe enrolled at Pratt Institute in nearby Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists such as Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, he also experimented with various materials in mixed-media collages, including photographs cut from books and magazines. He acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970 and began producing his own images to incorporate into the collages, saying he felt "it was more honest." That same year he and Patti Smith, whom he had met three years earlier, moved into the Chelsea Hotel.