biz in the affirmative

Reminder about your invitation from Biz Urban

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:29:34 -0400

Reminder about your invitation from Biz Urban

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:58:02 -0400

Biz Urban wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:54:03 -0400

The Birds Return

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:51:36 -0400

The Birds Return

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:47:42 -0400

The Birds Return

Rear Window Redux

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:21:05 -0400

Rear Window Redux

Photo

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:33:35 -0400

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a..."

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:58:32 -0400

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

- Jacob A. Riis, photographer and journalist Sent on the Now Network

Gorgeous fireworks on the Hudson River this year!! Happy...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:37:01 -0400

Gorgeous fireworks on the Hudson River this year!! Happy Birthday America!

Great day at the ballpark!! Went into extra innings and then...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:20:56 -0400

Great day at the ballpark!! Went into extra innings and then the Yankees took the win! Nothing like baseball, hotdogs and a sunny day to celebrate the 4th of July!

The Meatpacking District

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:33:01 -0400

The Meatpacking District

The worlds first boom operator. Ever.

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0400

The worlds first boom operator. Ever.

Leanna’s birthday day at the Green Wood Cemetery in...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:36:26 -0400

Leanna’s birthday day at the Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn!! A beautiful day for a picnic. In a cemetery! :)

Momentum

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:29:31 -0400

So excited that I’ve written 3900 words of my childrens book! And no, its not a picture book, its a chapter book- those who were picturing the biggest picture book on the planet. :) Sent on the Now Network

At the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens!

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:21:09 -0400

At the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens!

wheelhousecreative: Dearest Friends of Wheelhouse...

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:49:21 -0400

wheelhousecreative:

Dearest Friends of Wheelhouse Creative

Today is the anniversary of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, and I ask you to keep this video passing around to keep the army of awareness near and dear. My thanks to my producing partners Steffen and Andy Schlachtenhaufen, and of course the amazingly talented and inspiring Mikel Jollett and The Airborne Toxic Event !!!

In Unity,

Brian Girard

Executive Producer

Wheelhouse Creative

At the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Apparently these cactus can...

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:41:00 -0400

At the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Apparently these cactus can bloom at any time, there isn’t a rhyme or reason to it and it got me thinking, what were the circumstances that made this particular cactus bloom at this precise moment…???

apparently my 'oh boy' blog was too long so 'oh boy' (PART TWO)

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:48:00 -0400

Wow, even in writing I’m long - winded. If you want to know how this totally awesome story ends, continue on here…. :)

I was on a suicide mission. I found myself on a floor with absolutely no one else and no escalator to take me from whence I came, not to mention no escalator to deliver to an upper floor. I began to panic when AH! Joy of Technology! An elevator! Let’s just forgot to idea that stairs are a viable option- apparently those are only for emergencies. So on I continued on my journey. To the sixth floor! Triumph! I entered the darkened theater and by some miracle found Julie and Andrea… err… the princesses immediately. But how to get to them? A row of New Yorkers to my left, a wall to my right and a angry looking bar in front of me. Over the bar I go, plop into my seat, greet my girls and the trailers begin! I am VICTORIOUS!!

Two hours later, I wonder why I went to all the trouble and am desperately looking for an acid bath for my eyeballs. *sigh*

I need to end this blog on a good note, remembering my mission statement. Well, I didn’t really make a mission statement but you know, my unspoken mission statement.

What made me smile today:

1. I wrote 1,000 words of my children’s book today.

2. I got to see my girls, Andrea & Julie, who totally rock.

3. I had an awesome video chat with my guy, which was pretty impressive considering my mic wasn’t working, so he had to do all the talking and I would occasionally im him back. I think he liked it a little too much. Hmmmm…. But it’s kinda amazing when you are stripped of a tool that seems quite valuable, like your voice, what you are capable of conveying. An interesting experiment and one I’d do again.

So there, negativity. Take that.

One of my favorite movies. Ever. Bit of a Clark Gable fan. He...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:42:06 -0400

One of my favorite movies. Ever. Bit of a Clark Gable fan. He would so be on my list. If he was still, you know, alive. It Happened One Night. Gable. Colbert (Claudette, not Stephen). So so good. Check it out!

oh boy (PART ONE)

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:32:00 -0400

All I wanted was a little scary movie time with my girlfriends. That’s all I wanted. Is that too much to ask? After spending far too many hours working at my friends yoga studio (one of about a million random jobs I’ve had in my life- we’ll get to that later), all I wanted was to watch a scary little movie. I was even proactive and bought my ticket to said unmentionable kinda sorta scary movie - name that rhymes with Lice - in advance. I got off work, spent a few invaluable minutes video chatting with my man and then was out the door when I got the news- the 8:10pm screening no longer existed. HUH!?!?

In what kind of a world do we live in that the 8:10pm screenings just go away, like magic? I sensed a conspiracy. But dammit, we were going to see the movie. Thanks to modern technology I was on the 1 train down to the 42nd Street AMC. The 84th St theater said all I would have to do was switch out their ticket with one at the 42nd St theater. Easy. Right? Uh-huh. It’s TIMES SQUARE PEOPLE on a Saturday night!! Everyone and their mama was at the theater, mostly trying to go see The Karate Kid (which I heard isn’t even about karate, he’s taught kung-fu, but The Kung-Fu Kid just doesn’t have the same marketability. So.).

After waiting in the line, getting the new ticket (thanks ticket taker #3, you rocked in your speediness)…. I was on my way to meet Andrea and Julie in theater 24. Which is on the sixth floor. SIXTH. By way of escalator. I felt like I was in some really lame video game. Make it to the sixth level, save the princess. But first you have to get the popcorn icon and enter the sublevel entitled “The Restroom”. Tricky old me had earned extra points for sneaking in a can of Coke but that was only going to get me so far. I still had to actually make it to the 6th floor, by choosing the correct escalators every time. Sadly, I choose…. poorly. And found myself on a sui