5-6-2010

...because a sign is much cheaper than actually fixing anything. This is my tax money hard at work.

Also, I left my camera at home tonight when we went to go look for morels. Of course, we find something crazy and only have a cellphone camera.

5-5-2010

Happy Cinco De Mayo! I hope everyone is having as much fun as she is!

5-4-2010

I try not to be too much of an equiptment nerd, but I realized today that I never posted anything about the camera I've been shooting almost all of my film shots with. Here's my Olympus OM-1n...my current favorite camera. It has tons of scratches, missing paint, brassing, and dust in the lens, but since it's so beat up externally it was really cheap. I bough it on impulse and immediately experienced buyers remorse...until I started using it. It's so small, light, easy and fun to use, I wish film was free like digital so I could shoot it every day.

Here are some more shots I took with it of stores in New York.

Blue In Green and Acne
A.P.C. Surplus
Supreme
Anthropologie
Bear cub

5-3-2010

Nicole and I collect photobooth pictures of us being weird in various places.

5-2-2010

I really can't verbalize how amazing Chinese breakfast is (specifically the type of soup buns pictured above). Real deal, authentic cooks making steaming food magic.

So yeah, breakfast with my family before leaving the city and spending the rest of the day on the highway. I saw things like this and this.

5-1-2010

Today I saw my pregnant sister for the first time since she started growing something inside of her.

We went to the 18th floor of a super fancy hotel in Manhattan to see my cousin get married.

The nigh ended at Gray's Papaya for us. Other people kept the party going at other places.

4-30-2010

After driving all night/morning, I somehow managed to wake up at my grandmother's house in Queens. Her shower cap is way cooler than yours.

Chinese breakfast is by far the best food ever invented, and since I can't get it anywhere where I live, it's often the first thing I do whenever I'm in the city.

There are a lot of people in New York. Living and dead. So many people that in order to get parking anywhere, you pretty much have to cheat.

We spent the rest of the day shopping and walking around all over Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Pizza at the end of the night.

4-29-2010

There are eight hours worth of highway between Cleveland and New York. In that nether region, there are lots of truck stops and places like this.

Apparently truckers are very conscious of precisely how much they weigh.

4-28-2010

I got 1,560 shots worth of expired film today with another 1,200 on the way (anyone want any expired film?). In the process, I got to journey into the heart of an awesome second hand store. Check out this stereo. Everything still works, I even got to listen to the 8 track. Anyone need to make a call?

4-27-2010

Victor and Eric were in town for dinner tonight.

4-26-2010

The carnivorous plant terrarium Nicole got for her birthday is starting to sprout.

4-25-2010

We went foraging for Morel mushrooms today. These can sell for as much as $200 a pound to some gourmet French restaurants, but we just have fun seaching in the forest so we can cook and eat them.

The mushrooms grow in the same woods where we found the nest I posted a few weeks ago. The eggs are now hatched, and today we saw this guy futally attempting to hurtle a train track. Luckly, Nicole was able to help it over the track so it could go swimming with its parents.

Nicole also took the best shot of the day today.

4-24-2010

Pretty much every weekend we go adventuring and treasure hunting in weird places while taking pictures. Through all this, I'm really starting to get more and more interested with the people that devote their lives to run these places.

My friend Terry comes to town once a month to DJ.

4-23-2010

So the free shoes I sent away for on March 17th showed up today! Unfortunately, due to some unseen clause about only sending in one pair per box, it doesn't look like Nicole will be getting her pair which totally sucks. However, I now own the Christian Louboutins of cool kid shoes (and they sent me the more expensive model too!).