Do you know how to Park?

New York City Parks... are here for your body and soul to be safely and soundly parked for those summer months. Even though they say that New York was built to make a buck, there are other "means of greens" which define this busy city's face. And these are its parks. They can seduce anyone, really. No matter who you are, what you do, how you look they get their searching roots to your heart and will bloom on it till the end of eternity... 

But if you happen to be unaware of such danger let us give you a quick guide on your hot-five-spots:

July 4th

 

Wednesday of 4th of July brought us a feeling of freedom. A freedom to enter the USA General Consulate official reception on the occasion of Independence Day. It was official and everything,  but the air of true American party was in the air for everyone to relax and enjoy the celebration. 

Five Star Brass band was rocking the floor with their outstanding life-performance this night. Music, delicious food and American freedom of talking to anybody you want in the reception hall - all of that was there to please each and every of very-important guests of American Consulate.

Thank you for this wonderful invitation! Thank you for the incredible feeling of openness you translate. Thank you for willing to collaborate and support the ideas and creativity. It was a great pleasure to get in touch with the celebration traditions of US here among Ural mountains, in Russia.

Thank to the blog we are in love with we were able to enjoy all the fun of 4th of July. It is only fare to pay back and write a new post today. Keep reading and you'll see one of the greatest cities in the World - New York with our excited eyes.

9-11

What happen to you 10 years ago? Will you remember where you were and what were you doing? No? What if I tell you that was the day of 9/11 of year 2001? I am sure now you can recall it. Not only in the USA, but across the World, people know about World Trade Center and what happened here. That is why a newly opened 9/11 Memorial is on our list.

Chicago

Chicago! The place where winds blow, where the river flows back, where sky-scrapers fly up high, where Obama and Oprah had found success, where people stop to help the same minute confusion first appears on your face. We loved it there! Every bit of it! And if you go, make sure you avoid our mistake and spend there at least a week… Here are some of the high lights we couldn’t fit in any particular topic, but we felt obliged to share.

Meet the MIT

Digits. A few tones of digits we got ourselves surrounded with just outside of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. Monument in a shape of a thinking man contains lots of dear to a technology student’s heart characters. With one of those students we have met today.

Ford's Emerald city

“I’ve been working at Ford Rouge Factory longer then Mr. Henry Ford himself!” proudly announces Hank Sawer, who is guiding us through the factory at Dearborn, Michigan today. Since his very first day at the factory in 1973 our hero had managed to work at the most of 250 stages of a famous Ford-conveyer. Now he is retired, but still here as a guide on a green-roof station of our tour. Yes-yes! You’ve read it right! This factory looks just like an Emerald city – walls with a climbing up green screen, roofs are covered with a sedum grass. The last one grows on 4 special layers, all year around letting the insides of the buildings stay 10 degrees cooler at summer and same 10 degrees warmer in winter. Plus this kind of cover preserves the roof itself and it lasts instead of regular 20 years, for long, good 45. There are also a number of solar panels which do safe about 12% of energy placed all around the factory. This is how a modern and trendy eco-wave in the World affects the production here.

“Magic Trash” at Heidelberg Street

When you travel to a city there is list of things formed in your minds to expect. It could be a particular museum, a famous skyscraper, a walk on a bridge, a concert in the end! But once in a while you get surprised. You find something really special by accident. This time it was a Heidelberg street art project in Detroit.