This Summer, in spite of living in a new (to me) and very picturesque city, I’ve started to fearlessly explore a technique of photography I like to call “objects sitting atop handwritten notes scribbled on the New York Times.” So far, so good.
From the above:
Five Favorite American Actors:
Dennis Hopper
Sean Penn
Christopher Walken
Roger Guenveur Smith
Bill Murray
Non-American Alternates:
Clive Owen
Javier Bardem
Idris Elba
A major thunderstorm strikes midway through about every afternoon during the Summer in New Orleans. It’s almost impossible to see skies this wide, or clouds this low in most northeastern cities.
Regular readers of the Dot Com may be perplexed, disturbed even, but these images are real. Do not [attempt to] adjust your television sets.
The above text was originally intended to accompany photos of a great meal that I cooked, but the pictures didn’t come out as good as the food. So here are some pictures of sneakers. Three items:
a) Marc Johnson’s eponymous sneaker by Lakai ranks among my all-time favorites — here modified with purple laces. Johnson is also the only professional skateboarder known to have graduated from Yale.
b) The apartment I’m subletting has the exact same table as the one I have back in Brooklyn, only without my undone tax shit all over it.
c) Blogger/technologist Lynne Johnson is the person who brought my attention to the Supra Skytop Floral — the most consistently complimented garment I have ever owned. My favorite sneaker dap happened in DC close to 3 a.m. one night a couple months ago.
Guy: “Ay cuz, where’d you get they?”
I felt like Bobbito.
Though I’m not sure if I’ll ever eat there, the Ninja Restaurant and Sushi Bar might be my favorite restaurant and sushi bar in New Orleans. It certainly has the best name and sign combination imaginable.
And while I’m back up to my old tricks again photo-wise, it’s nice to be reminded that the folks who subscribe to the “gun control means using both hands” theory are up to theirs as well.
The plan is to leave the colors of the city behind for a few weeks. Look forward to different kinds of noise in this space.
Joe told me he was a former intern in photojournalism programs at the Washington Post and George Washington University. His main gig’s with the Navy now: intelligence, counter-terrorism. With the olympics coming to New York this year, the field is in demand, you know? A lot of people ask him about the stylish beard. Two years old, he says. “Hey, you’ve got to work with what you got.”
