Spring ’22

Sunlit film photo down a narrow Manhattan street, ornate stone and brick facades and construction scaffolding framing a lone cyclist crossing in the shade.

A curving park drive in spring, green canopy overhead and an ornate turreted apartment building rising beyond the trees.

Deep-red crabapple blossoms and bare branches in a park, framing sunlit brick and limestone apartment buildings beyond.

Noel pauses on a blue Citi Bike on a curving park road, looking back over his shoulder in sunglasses and a striped green fleece.

Two hand-painted boards advertising SUP, kayak, and kite lessons stand under palm trees on a white-sand beach in Punta Cana.

Kiteboarders rig their gear on a white-sand beach beside shallow turquoise water, one hoisting a dark kite overhead.

Noel and three friends lean together over a taco-restaurant table at night, mojito, beers, and a QR menu card between them.

Noel and two friends grin into a round convex street mirror at dusk, palms and a curving road warped around them.

Noel, in board shorts and flip-flops, carries a board under one arm and a blue gear bag on his back through a grove of palm trees.

Airplane-window view over the wing of Manhattan and the East River, midtown towers and Central Park hazy in the distance.

Two men wander a grand common room with a floral rug, a tapestry, and a standing taxidermy bear, one pacing on a phone call in a collegiate jacket.

A packed hackathon crowd cheers for a fisheye group photo in a brick-walled loft washed in blue and purple light.

Noel and three friends squeeze onto a rooftop-bar bench at night, cocktails at hand and lit office windows glowing behind them.

Noel and a friend in white button-downs stand arm in arm on a rooftop at dusk, One World Trade Center lit up behind them.

Noel and three friends pose on a rooftop terrace at night with the downtown skyline and One World Trade Center behind them.

Daytime view from a high floor across lower Manhattan rooftops, One World Trade Center rising into a blue, cloud-scattered sky.

The midtown Manhattan skyline glowing at night, seen from a rooftop over dark tenement roofs and a single lit street.

Noel and a companion take a mirror selfie in an apartment lobby, bundled in wool coats with a bank of brass mailboxes behind them.

Noel sits among four smiling dinner companions at a scarred wooden restaurant table set with red wine, beneath large torn-portrait paintings.

A woman in wire-rim glasses reads her phone at a sunny sidewalk table, a red-brick building and passersby soft-focus behind her.

Selfie at a plant-draped outdoor restaurant: a smiling woman in a puffer, a man in a Delta cap, and Noel across the table holding up a card.

Noel takes a mirror selfie in sunglasses and his striped green fleece inside a small shop, a portrait poster on the wall behind him.

Noel grins into a selfie from a park bench with two friends lounging beside him, bare spring trees and a cobblestone path behind.

Three young men in blazers and event lanyards descend a red-carpeted marble staircase beneath a gilded sconce.

Noel, in a tuxedo, laughs mid-toast with a woman in a white slip dress holding champagne against a wavy wall glowing pink.

Three friends in black tie, one in a gray suit and a woman wearing a bow tie, crowd into a selfie under magenta party lighting.

Noel in a tuxedo and a woman in a white slip dress with a small YSL bag pose back to back against a pink-lit sculpted wall.

Ten conference attendees in lanyards share a long marble restaurant table beneath a large coral-print artwork.

Eight people link arms for a group photo in a tin-ceilinged brick loft, wearing event lanyards, a Polygon hoodie, and an a16z Crypto tee.