Now available for your viewing pleasure, Fedora Travels Episode #2 – 24 hours in Philadelphia

Packed with pimps, cheap beer, and large objects on fire, WATCH IT NOW!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!

I’ve Re-released the Fedora Travels Brooklyn Episode into a 2 part series on Youtube…if you haven’t seen it yet, then you have not lived life! Click here, watch, now…

In celebration of the Re-release, enjoy my original custom photographed/designed postcard entitled

“Velcome, Little Odessa Babushki”

I would LOVE to hear what you think!  If you have been moved, inspired, experiencing vicarious traveling effects from this material, please leave me your thoughts, questions, feedback, or critiques… 

Thank you please,

Freddie P. 

I couldn’t resist a stop over to the Brooklyn Art Museum with my diverse group of friends from the hostel this weekend…we’re talking China, Chile, Russia, and France.  As we roamed through the museum, almost everyone had a chance to speak and share on behalf of their national origin and traditions feeling proud to be represented. Especially France…as usual  

We happened to partake in a musical performance which, for a commonly tame museum audience, got pretty out of control with a conga line and all…but this is Brooklyn and we indeed, go hard. 

Here is some footage and a few photos from the past weekend…Thanks Katia and Yecca for the footage! 

 

Written & Created by: Freddie Pikovsky

Co-written/Edited by: Anna Starostinetskaya

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Loads of new material that has kept me locked away in the editing room to bring you MORE Fedora Travel episodes starting with “24 hours in Philly”…

There have been many inspiring Fedora Travel moments recently as my notebook fills up with many new scribbles materializing into MORE blogs…

A new Fedora Travels promo is in the works including MORE audience participation!

As operations expand, Fedora Travels officially welcomes a co-writing/editing intern who will help bring form, order, and and a bit of professionalism to my rambling thoughts…

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And now, a formal introduction to Fedora Travels brilliant co-writer/editor intern…

Hello…my name is Anna Starostinetskaya…

I know, looks a little crazy doesn’t it?  I usually have a speech prepared in response to all the questions thrown my way every time I pull out a credit card or ID.  Ready? 16 letters, its Ukrainian…Star-o-sti-net-ska-ya…syllables? let me count, six…yeah six.  Now that we got that out of the way, I will be your new co-writer/editor intern.  

You see, Freddie and I dated for two years before the Fedora project began.  I understand, and often share, his sense of humor and thought pattern. I also conveniently happen to be a damn good writer and have, for my own reasons, recently transplanted to Brooklyn from Los Angeles.  

Although we are no longer together, Freddie and I still get along great and I am very excited to be a part of this project.  I have a background in the legal field and am a meticulous grammar/spell checker (better than your standard word processing software).  All of the ideas will still be fresh from Freddie’s brain, I will just deliver them to you in written words.  New and exciting blogs and videos are coming your way so stay tuned and get involved.

-Anna Starostinetskaya

You can already check out freshly re-written material on the “ABOUT” page NOW! 

I spent the whole day working my shift at the hostel – We were overbooked again and about to kick people out of there rooms to make room…We did this to a group of Ukrainians last week that became a 5 hour dispute until 3 am on a Saturday morning – they are the last group of people you ever want to deal with in this case, they completely understood the only way they would get there revenge on us was to make the biggest shit fest possible. Mission accomplished…

I was happy to get out of the hostel and head over to the east village to get a haircut by my old school Russian posses. Simply jumping into the subway cart was already making me feel better – Always so many different faces to see…My imagination goes wild as I begin to wonder what they do, where there from, and what they’re thinking of at the moment sharing this brief ride together. I notice this cart is particularly quite – it’s almost an awkward silence, as this thought processes –
BiiiiiiNG!
The strong pick of a single guitar string rings throughout the cart – It rings out for a few seconds until it is silent again…
BiiiiNG!
I can feel how everyone is hanging on to this note as it rings out again cutting through the awkward silence…
It’s coming from behind me and I don’t bother to look. We are about to head under the Hudson river for a straight 3 minutes without a stop. I smile and kick my feet up as I know this person has found the perfect moment to engage us in a performance –
he begins to play flamenco style in a minor key accompanied by a sweet spanish vocal ballad. It was really beautiful. The silence of commuters turned into the attention of an audience. It didn’t matter how many times this person played this song on this particular route before, he owned this moment and we all listened. The song ended as we approached the stop, the doors opened and people shuffled out. There was no applause, I never even saw who it was…
New Yorkers may take it for granted, but the performances we are treated to here in the subways everyday are one of the many special things that makes this a wonderful and unique place in the world and well worth shelling out a couple bucks for every now and then –
Its also what gives people here the comfort to feel, act, dress, say, and do whatever they want without any judgement…like the underground moving circus that occurred last week…
Next blog: From Bar Hopping to the Underground Moving Circus