Another photo from the Colin Hay show I caught while still in San Francisco. I’ve been spending a lot of my free time these past couple of weeks catching up on photo work that had fallen to the wayside and the shots from the show were among them.

The store had filled up fairly quickly as the show went on and since there was decent foot traffic on the sidewalk outside, more than a few passers-by would hear the music, see the crowd, and stop to check out the fuss.

Sadie and Han, of The Invisible Cities, playing at Giant Robot NYC. They’re on the last leg of their Follow Your Whim tour with Goh Nakamura, who’s also one of their members.

I’ve always found it interesting how people (myself included) tend to have this compulsion, when waiting on a train, to lean out over the tracks and look down the tunnel to see if the train’s coming. It isn’t limited to just trains, of course, but for some reason it seems more pointless. A train isn’t [...]

My brain is too tired to make words happen. Maybe next time.

I always receive hostile reactions from vendors when I photograph their displays, and I never really understood why.

Two weeks ago I visited Ground Zero for the first time. I’d been to New York once a year for three years prior to moving here, but I never made it to Ground Zero until this year’s anniversary.

If I had to guess I’d say a good 80-90% of street meat in New York comes from halal carts, and while I do enjoy the food these guys offer, I have to admit that the lack of variety does tend to get a little old.

As can be surmised, I have made it to New York in one piece, more or less. The move was a schlep-and-a-half, and the next time I move out-of-state I’m not doing it by plane, but I made it mostly intact so I can’t complain too much.

I finally got to see Colin Hay play tonight, at The Independent. Right before which, I had some of the best barbecue I’ve had in a long time at Da’Pitt. Unbelievable stuff. The show was amazing. Opened with Bhi Bhiman, a Sri Lankan-American singer/songwriter who sang a lot of blues stuff about the White Man’s [...]