Ask a New Yorker: Hello Amy Snow. I’ve never met anyone with the last name Snow.
Amy: Well, it’s sort of a nick name. It’s an interesting story. I moved to New York when I was fifteen and a half. I played soccer quite often in Washington Square Park. I would play with a group of Rastas. They got used to asking for me and they started saying, “Where’s the snow?” So every time I entered the park everybody would be like, “the snow is here”, because obviously I’m a Caucasian lady and they’re all Jamaican. So it was kind of a funny little way for them to give me a nickname. The name stuck with me for seventeen years.
Ask a New Yorker: How did your parents react?
Amy: Well, essentially when you get married as women you lose your last name anyway. I don’t think they really were bothered too much that I changed my own last name, not legally, but for the fun of it.
Ask a New Yorker: What is your legal last name?
Amy: Straight.
Ask a New Yorker: You could always hyphenate to be Straight-Snow or Snow-Straight. You moved to New York at the tender age of fifteen. What was that like?
Amy: Yes, I decided to drop out of High School and get a job. A girlfriend of mine was going to be a model for Elite. Her aunt had died and she left her an apartment. She came over from California for Spring break and asked me if I wanted to be her roommate. I jumped right on board and bought a plane ticket. Two weeks later I had a job in retail making three hundred dollars a week. I was a resident of the lower east side.
Ask a New Yorker: That’s exactly where I landed 12 years ago, coming here from Hawaii.
Amy: Fifteen in New York City – talk about an adventure and a bombshell of experiences! It is pretty intense for a young person. As ambitious as I was, I was willing to take on the Big Apple with a big bite. That’s exactly what I did.
Ask a NewYorker: You come across as a very straight shooter.
Amy: In this day and age you have to take everything you can in life by the horns and be as upfront as possible, which brings me back to when I was in middle school, I was actually video reporter. I would go around and interview the student body. I would pull them out at lunch or during English. I started the videography crew for my middle school.
Ask a New Yorker: I bet you were very popular, getting pulled out of English class. You’re on fire.
Amy: Thank you. That is my sign. I am an Aries.
Ask a New Yorker: So what are some of the ‘life by the horns’ things you are doing in New York?
Amy: I am very active in NYC’s nightlife. I’m heavily involved in booking artists, DJ’s, concerts, and festivals all along the tri-state area. I attend many different events, from skateboarding events to graffiti on the streets. On a calmer note I like to study health, wellness, crystal healing, color healing and yoga meditation.
Ask a New Yorker; I love aromatherapy myself. I love Jasmine, but my favorite is Gardenia.
Amy: I do too. There’s nothing like a good cologne on a man and a long walk in the park.
Ask a New Yorker: Sure. Is there anything else you would like to share?
Amy: I’ve been thinking about this one art project for a very long time. It’s called the Thoughts Art Project. Basically its how many thoughts does a person on a daily basis allocate to specific ideas? Meaning, how many thoughts are you spending towards your family life, love or money, or other things. So basically it’s a clock and on a daily basis if you had 250,000 thoughts in a day how many thoughts are being used for positive and progressive things. It’s basically a measurement scale to help people visualize where their subconscious is on a daily basis and what they’re thinking about. So they can ask themselves if they should be spending that much time on that specific thing.
Ask a New Yorker: That’s a lot of thoughts in one day. What has Amy Snow been thinking about most recently?
Amy: I have this new banana bread recipe that I’ve been trying to perfect and it keeps blowing up on me. I realized I need three bananas not four.
Ask a New Yorker: Always three bananas. Ya mon!
