2012 Instagram Year In Review: January - March

For 2012, Instagram became my primary micro-blogging tool. While I definitely started using it much more in the latter part of the year, and focused mostly on the Naysayer profile earlier on, a lot of cool stuff that happened this year was documented on it. So I decided to do a Year In Review via photos from my Elasticback account. Here is the first installment covering January through March of 2012. These were my favorite posts from that time.

Here are my accounts, in case you haven't seen them:
Personal - @elasticback
Naysayer Skateboards - @naysayerskate

Look out for the April - July post tomorrow...or something.

Date: 1.1.12
Additional Comment: This is some hotel in Flushing, Queens.

Date: 1.1.12
Tags: #queens #EiffelTower #AmericanFlag #hotel #flushing #nyc
Additional Comment: The same hotel as the previous image, but I found the American Flag on the Eiffel Tower humorous.

Date: 1.5.12 Caption: Night at the Museum. Natural History Museum.
Geo-tag: American Museum of Natural History
Tags: #museum #fossils #dinosaurs #afterhours #nyc #manhattan #naturalhistorymuseum #UWS
Additional Comment: I was skating the museum after hours and realized that you could see into the museum from the locked front door...and the dinosaurs were visible!

Date: 1.8.12
Caption: Sunrise over Brooklyn, as seen from the Lower East Side.
Tags: #sunrise #nyc #brooklyn #sky
Date: 1.19.12
Tags: #sunrise #nyc #brooklyn #moon
Additional Comment: When I lived in the LES, I had a pretty epic view from my room. These were a couple of the many sunrises I watched from my bed.

Date: 1.12.12
Geo-tag: Norfolk International Airport (ORF)
Tags: #norfolkinternationalairport #norfolk #virginia #orf #airport
Additional Comment: Went to visit my sister in Virginia Beach.

Date: 1.18.12
Geo-tag: LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
Tags: #landinggear #airplane #lga #queens #usair
Additional Comment: I know that shots from airplanes are kinda cliche, but I enjoy this one because of the visible landing gear. I am pretty sure that is Queens below (or possibly the Bronx).

Date: 1.26.12
Caption: Can't seem to fall asleep before 5am anymore...
Tags: #eyeball #insomnia #cyclops #bed #selfportrait #sleep #eye
Additional Comment: Funny, because I was up until 8am working on this this morning, haha.

Date: 1.29.12
Geo-tag: 169 Bar
Tags: #169bar #alien #discoball #pooltable #billiards #pool #leopardprint
Additional Comment: 169 Bar in the LES is full of all kinds of rad stuff. Not pictured (but Instagrammed, for sure, haha) is the dinosaur decor.

Date: 1.31.12
Tags: #Brooklyn #watertower #silhouette #nyc

Date: 2.3.12
Tags: #sanmateobridge #bayarea #sf #sanfrancisco #bridge #birdseyeview
Additional Comment: On the way into SF for a two week stay to skate with homies.

Date: 2.9.12
Tags: #powerlines #wires #lines #streetgeometry
Additional Comment: There are wires all over SF, be them for cable cars or electricity, there is more above ground that below ground (which is more NYC). It was beautiful in its own regard.

Date: 2.10.12
Caption: I seriously hate AT&T.
Tags: #suckit #throttleservice #dataplan #unlimiteddata #upsell #fail #overit #att
Additional Comment: Sometimes I reply to automated messages.

Date: 2.12.12
Tags: #seagull #bird #sky #sanfracisco #sf

Date: 2.17.12
Tags: #windows #5pointz #queens #LIC #night #lights

Date: 2.18.12
Tags: #sunrise #queens #lic #longislandcity #watertower #building #sky #reflective
Additional Comment: This was on my birthday. I crashed at my homie Jeremy's spot the night before and watched this sunrise from his living room. The reflection was amazing. My birthday was lame, but this was a nice welcoming to the new year.

Date: 2.25.12
Caption: Getting my hair trimmed today for the first time in way too long. I always get anxious that they will cut too much off...

Date: 3.3.12
Caption: My Friday night party consists of soaking in an Epsom Salt bath. Sorry, but it is a private party and you are not invited.
Tags: #sore #bath #epsomsalt #skatingtoomuch #tattoos
Additional Comment: Provocative?

Date: 3.3.12
Caption: My cousin's dog, Coco.
Tags: #chocolatelab #labrador #lab #dog #silhouette
Additional Comment: It was nice having this dog around while my cousin still lived with me. She was so mellow and would chill with me.

Date: 3.4.12
Tags: #helicopter #chopper #sky #clouds #cloudporn

Date: 3.8.12
Caption: DIY.
Geo-tag: WIP
Additional Comment: There were a couple naked girls that they put a white base coat on and had brushes and paint and anyone could go up and paint them.

Date: 3.8.12
Geo-tag: WIP
Additional Comment: Random misplaced cowboy in the middle of the dance floor.

Date: 3.13.12
Caption: Miss this cat. :(
Additional Comment: Kocik! There are few people I love as much as I love this cat.

Date: 3.13.12
Tags: #sunset #cloudporn #sky #Brooklyn #greenpoint #NYC #warehouses #nofilter

Date: 3.13.12
Caption: Cat ball!
Additional Comment: This is Jade. She is lovely...I lived with her for almost a year. I was just visiting when this was taken though.

Date: 3.13.12
Caption: Fire dancer at Le Souk.
Tags: #firedancer #nofilter #lesouk #firejuggler #club #nightclub #westvillage #NYC
Additional Comment: This night was pretty crazed. So much madness going on there that night...

Date: 3.15.12
Caption: Skating around Brooklyn with Brett Nelson in corpse paint. Won $20 on a scratch off. No big deal...
Additional Comment: Brett was filming for some feature he was having on SLAP and wanted to skate around in corpse paint for part of it. I was the only one that came through to skate in face paint with him, however. They accidently used an image of me in corpse paint in the promo image for it instead of him on the site too, haha.