Stuff that we have found of interest in NYC and wanted to share with you all.
Welcome to Brooklyn. Home of really awesome pizza, bagels and so much more when you think about it. The hallowed headquarters of PiercingMetal.com is cloistered deep in the middle of a region called Bay Ridge and when visitors travel over the Verazanno Bridge and reach this area as their first point they see this sign very prominently.
Don’t mind my rewind 🙂 but these are the kinds of photos that made me kick off this PiercingKen.com thing in the first place. Set the Delorean for the winter of 2006 Mr. McFly….the Professor needs to go back in time.
Back in the latter part of 2006 I was working a job doing some technical stuff and that position found me based in Jersey City and initially I was not crazy about the location, because it was an additional train and hence and added fare to get there.
Continue reading The USS Intrepid “Sails” To The Repair Dock (12/2006)
So now the time to relax is here if such a thing is at all possible for a citizen of NYC. Use the time to enjoy the sights and things around you with those most important to your day and life. The spanning shot below was taken quite some time ago and if I remember was done when some out of town friends wanted to see the park. It was new to them.
While the plan is to feature some of the pleasant shots we have managed to obtain when wandering the area parks in this blog, there is one set of images that is already online and features all that you need to enjoy about this particular one. I will link to that in a moment but first some back story to help you understand. I was out walking with my friend Eric The Beehivehairdresser and we happened upon a couple of interesting sights that were captured on digital media. After the adventures had completed I realized how a number of the shots I had taken all worked within the framework of a musical genre that I find very important to me as a writer. Resultant of this I composed the “PiercingMetal Viking Quest” which you can enjoy by clicking HERE.
Have fun, I know I sure did.
A few years ago there was a Scottish cultural exhibit being held over at Grand Central Station down on Lexington Avenue. The year was 2005 and I am guessing that this was around April based on the time stamp of my photographs. That was a busy time for me as I had just officially launched PiercingMetal.com but that can be found on another blog. I had to say that for the most part the exhibit didn’t do anything for me, but there was one item on display that was a clear “must see” and a reason to adventure over there without any question. That item was the William Wallace sword.
For those who might not be in the know, William Wallace was a Scottish knight and a patriot in the eyes of his countrymen and lived during the late 1200’s. His was a life of combat and freedom fighting according to his Wikipedia entry and you can learn more about him by clicking on his Wikipedia link which I will have ready for you at the close of this piece.
Continue reading The William Wallace Sword (or The Weapon Of “Braveheart”)