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after dinner jams

later that night...

dinner party jams

March 26, 2010, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. menu included pinenut breaded tilapia, rice and sauteed kale

Brighton Beach

dragged me old 4x5 to Brighton Beach the other day.

Crate and Barrel loveseat for sale

lovely Crate and Barrel loveseat for sale....way too big for my place. or trade for Volvo station-wagon. I can dream.

synchronicity watch: Rowers

It's been a while since I mentioned synchronicity. Here are two pictures: The top one is from a bunch of old family pictures I found among my grandparents files, taken in Scotland, somewhere between 1915-1920, I am guessing. The other image is a photograph I took on a boat near Kochi in southern India in 2001.

found: Jeffris family pictures from a trip to Scotland, circa 1918?

when my Bepop died last fall, I took just a few pictures from his office, and am about to take a trip back to Chicago to help clear out the place for good. Here are a few of the strange tiny brownie pictures I found. They must have been taken by a relative of my grandmother, whose family was from Scotland and the Shetland Islands. I am guessing this is about 1915-1920? Some of them are marked, so I know they visited Stirling Castle, near Edinburgh. that's some serious gypsy business

Bizi Gara "HORSEBAT" album release party tomorrow night at Cameo!

Please come tomorrow night, March 19, 2010 at Cameo Gallery at 93 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to celebrate the release of Bizi Gara's new album, HORSEBAT!!! They go on about 11pm but there is great music before also, and The Lovin Cup Cafe up front of Cameo has delicious sliders, mmmmmm. The album is available on iTunes. p.s. I took the album cover picture, in Dunkerque, France.

Bogota, Colombia recommendations

After my recent trip to Bogota, I thought I would detail a few of the places we visited and would recommend to fellow travelers. Bogota is a well kept secret, as far as tourism is concerned and deserves a better reputation than it has. Colombia has worked very hard to move away from the drug-fueled gang wars and violence of the Pablo Escobars and the FARCs of the world. There are definitely still places you should not visit, but Bogota is not one of them.

Hotel Suamox, centrally located in a clean, safe area of Bogota, 2 blocks from the TransMilenio rapid transit system stop at calle 39 on the Caracas. The rooms were $102,000/night, which was about $50 US in February 2010. pretty damn cheap for 2!

Santa Monica Thermal baths in Choachi is a great day trip to relax. You take a bus from Bogota at calle 6 and Caracas for $7000 pesos ($3.50 US); the ride is an hour of harrowing hairpin turns wrapped around mountains, but totally worth it. In Choachi you ask for a local taxi to the baths. They serve food by the thermal Olympic sized pool - I had some "nuggets de la casa" (handmade chicken nuggets).

The Museum of Gold is beautiful and please find the Museum of the National Police, right near the Plaza Bolivar. It is free and you get led around by young national police who proudly show you the models of various stages of Escobars' life, including death. They even have his cousins motorcyle! Funny, in many strange ways.

We stayed at the Hotel Suamox since it was right near La Residencia, where Baptiste and his sister Maia had their show.

Hotel Suamox, Bogota

a crooked tree and seats for anyone in a hotel in Bogota, Colombia.

4 corners

We were waiting for the bus back to Bogota to take off, with the big bus door open on to the street in the small mountain town of Choachi. The man on bicycle and the "4 Esquinas" sign shouted out at me, every town has their favorite corner store. I only shot a few rolls of film because I was too busy having a good time, but I just it back from my favorite lab, Primary, so I will be sharing a few images and adding them to my website.

a lovely face, found in Bogota

This is the last of the 93 negatives we found in Bogota, and one of my favorites.

another fantastic post on Herman Miller's Lifework!

Check out this wonderful post on Herman Miller's blog Lifework, which has a slideshow of my Working Life portraits. I am so happy to be profiled! Many thanks to Cerentha Harris.

Found negatives on carrera 14 (Caracas), Bogota

Maia found some 120 negatives literally on the sidewalk on the Caracas in Bogota. We looked at them and realized they were from the 1950s and 60s and went back the next day and picked up a whole lot more of them, now pretty badly scratched, but still amazing. I think the photographer must have been a journalist. The pictures are so great, and some of them so abstract. I will post a few now, and figure out some way to show a lot of them. I wish there was a way I could find out who took these and how they ended up in the gutter. Check out the rest of them here.

click on the images to see them larger.

I am profiled on Herman Miller's blog Lifework!

I am honored and excited to be profiled on Herman Miller's blog Lifework today. This entry is about my home/office and there will be another post with images from my Working Life series soon. They also did a profile of my friend Nicholas Felton recently featuring my pictures of him from that series.