BANANAS ARE BEAUTIFUL

Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing

2012-01-21T12:51:00.002-05:00

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit (Woodstock-live 1969)

2012-01-21T12:26:00.002-05:00

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit

2012-01-21T12:25:00.000-05:00

Barbarella trailer

2012-01-21T12:09:00.000-05:00

Fugs

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vintage New Year's Eve cards

2011-12-31T12:03:00.001-05:00

Richard Tepe

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Richard Tepe, Bloeiende tak (Flowering branch), ca. 1910–40

Richard Tepe, Vink bij zijn nest met jongen deze voederend (Finch feeding its young),
ca. 1910–40

Richard Tepe, Trio haantje met twee hennetjes (Trio: rooster with three hens),
ca. 1910–40

Richard Tepe was one of the first photographers in the Netherlands to photograph nature and to point out the importance of its preservation. Although his work was well known and widely published and exhibited in the early part of the twentieth century, his name was quickly forgotten after his death in 1952.

Tepe was born in Amsterdam in 1864, where he was raised by his grandparents and grew up in an upper-class, Catholic environment. His grandfather owned a textile company and one of Tepe’s relatives was one of the master builders of the well-known Krijtberg church at the Singel canal in Amsterdam.

Tepe was both co-founder and member of several ornithologist and natural preservation clubs and became a member of the Netherlands Patrons of Photographers Association in 1909. It is unclear why he became interested in photography, but it is evident that his interest was not limited to the aesthetic qualities of the photographic image. The aspect of “knowledge” enclosed in the photographic medium was equally important to him. The visual qualities of photography offered opportunities to analyze the subject of research, which is probably how Tepe intended to use his photographs: as an exact copy of nature to study his field work.

In his oeuvre Tepe focused on birds, nests, animals, and landscapes, but he also photographed still lifes and genre scenes. The Rijksmuseum holds approximately 300 of his prints in their collection, and 3,000 original glass plates that were once archived in Amsterdam were transferred to theFotomuseum in Rotterdam in 2000, which shows a selection of his work online.

Source: Christiane Kuhlmann, Richard Tepe: Photography of Nature in the Netherlands 1900–1940, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum and New Amsterdam Publishers, 2007

Elizabeth Taylor, 1932 - 2011

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Philippe Halsman, Elizabeth Taylor, 1948

Cy Twombly: Photographs and Text by David Seidner

2011-12-28T13:54:00.001-05:00

Cy Twombly’s studio is in Lexington, Virginia, his original hometown. Though he now commutes between Lexington and Rome, and has spent a good deal of his life in Italy, he has never lost the drawl of a Southern gentleman. These photographs were taken on a glorious Spring day, a bit cool and foggy in the morning but clearing to reveal great expanses of green rolling hills. Lexington is horse country and the home of a famous military institute. Everywhere gorgeous cookie-cutter cadets in starched and pressed uniforms marched about with impeccable posture. Cy’s father was an important political figure in this part of the country, and a high-school gymnasium is named after Twombly. We began our day with a quick visit to his simple white clapboard house, homey and comfortable at the end of a long drive. Then we went to the make shift studio–a warehouse that is about a five or ten minute ride from the house… When I asked Cy about the near absence of brushes he said, “Oh, I never use brushes.” What do you use?” I asked. And he answered, “Oh, rags, sticks… whatever I can get my hands on.”

Screen Sirens of the 1940s

2011-12-28T13:17:00.000-05:00

Unidentified Photographer, Bette Davis, 1940s-50s

Unidentified Photographer, Ava Gardner, 1940s

George Hurrell, Rita Hayworth, 1941

Robert Capa, [Ingrid Bergman in a dramatic scene from Arch of Triumph, Hollywood], July-October 1946

Vitas Luckas

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Vitas Luckus was born on May 29, 1943 in Kaunas, Lithuania. At the age of eighteen, after graduating with a degree in drawing and painting, his parents gave him an AGFA camera, which initiated his fascination in photography. In the following years he developed a great interest in art photography and became a member of the Kaunas Photo Club, to which he was elected president a few years later.

According to Luckus, the conventional use of light and visual arrangement of a photograph would leave out essential elements that could retrieve the vitality and different levels of reality. He advocated a style in which there was no hierarchy of meaning: every element in the photographic composition was of equal importance. Only then was it possible to capture the “truth” and represent the essence of a scene, of life itself.

For his series, and last work, Attitude towards Old Photography, Luckus made montages from a large collection of photographic images other than his own. In the book he created of these works, text and titles were deliberately excluded to maintain the unity of his constructed realism. In his diary he wrote:

In the beginning I tried to classify my work according to social phenomena and photographical style, emphasizing the topic of life and death. This made me feel like a Lithuanian artist carving statues of God or the saints. When I put everything on the table, however, I felt like a god myself. In front of me I had an Asian and a Red Indian, a Negro, a white, a Moslem, a Buddhist, a Christian, the Czarist army, the Polish army, the Kaiser, the war, funerals and weddings. I shuffled thousands of images into a heap an found they were an orderly heap of life, because everything here was life and because all of us, whether a boxer, a Czar, a beggar or a half-naked woman were disclosed here. Archive photography seemed to me to reflect a bottomless well, waiting for someone to look into it and understand it.

Luckus was known to drink excessively and experienced ongoing confrontation with the authorities. This battle was set off by his refusal to adhere to the conventional standards of beauty, regulations that were firmly guarded by the Lithuanian government. In 1987, during a visit from several men to his home, Luckus got into an argument with one of the men, who was later identified as a KGB agent. The fight became violent and Luckus stabbed and killed the man. Only moments after the incident, Tanya Luckiene, his wife, found Luckus: he had jumped to his death from their balcony.

Together with Aleksandras Macijauskas, Vitas Luckus is considered to be a reformer of the traditional romantic realism within Lithuanian photography.

Source: Vitas Luckus: The Hard Way. Photographer, Lithuania, 1943–1987. Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1994

Vitas Luckus, Holiday mood, 1980

Vitas Luckus, Different water, 1980

Vitas Luckus, It seems nobody of them to be alive now, 1980

Vitas Luckus, Anna, 1980

Autochromes

2011-12-28T13:07:00.002-05:00

John B. Trevor (1878–1956) was an American lawyer and one of the most influential unelected officials active in the Immigration Act of 1924. After World War I, Trevor was a captain in a military intelligence unit in the U.S. Army and was decorated as Chevalier in the French Légion d’Honneur for his assistance to the French Army. A passionate amateur photographer, Trevor discovered Autochrome Lumiere plates in 1907 while vacationing in France. ICP’s collection of Trevor’s autochromes depicts his family, friends and curios he collected from his many vacations aboard. This collection is a brilliant observation of a lifestyle well forgotten but preserved in such a magnificent process.

Brian Paumier, ICP-Bard MFA, 2012

John B. Trevor, Emily Winthrop, 1910

John B. Trevor, John B. Trevor and Bronson Trevor, ca. 1912

John B. Trevor, Mrs. John B. Trevor, ca. 1914

J. B Trevor, Mrs. John B. Trevor, ca. 1914

Lewis Baltz

2011-12-28T12:57:00.003-05:00

It is often stated that in thirty years, when people look at the photographs we shoot today, all they will notice are the haircuts and clothing. This poses a problem when banality is the subject of your work, as it was in the work of the New Topographers–it is hard to make the past seem banal. Does this sense of the banal stay in the work when it is no longer contemporary, or is it inevitable that it will become nostalgic?

Now that we are more than thirty years in the future, it is interesting to see how the work has fared. Some of it has in fact taken on this nostalgic aspect, such as some of the more popular work by Stephen Shore, which often included cars and other ephemeral objects. But some images have retained a very similar sensibility to the day they were shot. The work of Lewis Baltz (born 1945) in particular stands out in this way. Baltz photographed places that seem to lie outside of time: industrial parks, housing developments, construction sites. But in addition to his choice of subject matter is his decision to shoot in stark, geometric, high-contrast images that, while having a compelling geometric formalism, refuse to soften the bleakness and occasional loathsomeness of the imagery by falsely beautifying the subject matter.

The images included here are some of Baltz’s that best capture this exploration of the banal landscape of the American West. They are from a number of his series, including Park City. In the Park City images, he recorded the conversion of a mining town into a middle class ski resort. Looking at the Park Meadows image, we see a pile of dirt and rock, a byproduct of development. The next image, Looking North from Masonic Hill, we see the rectangles of human development appearing alien against the hills. Both images show the cross between the natural and cultivated, human space. The Park City interiors put us now inside the developments, showing us the triumph of human geometry against the curves of nature.

Daniel Temkin, ICP-Bard MFA 2012

Lewis Baltz, Park City, interior, 37, from the Park City series, 1979

Lewis Baltz, Park City, interior, 9, from the Park City series, 1979

Lewis Baltz, Park Meadows, Subdivision 2, Lot 64, looking West, from the Park City series, 1979

Harold Edgerton, Driving the Golf Ball, 1935

2011-12-28T12:22:00.000-05:00

photographer Brett Weston

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Brett Weston (American, 1911-1993), son of the renowned American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), explores the relationships between spaces and planes flawlessly throughout his corpus of work. At times, context is avoided in favor of ambiguity and eventually certain works begin to transform across dimensions. Simply put, Weston’s photography has the ability to synthesize nature and naturalize the synthetic–truly, and completely, altering our perception of the world around us.

Brett Weston, Lichen Covered Rock with Viny Succulent, ca. 1950

Brett Weston, Hanging Leaves and Ground Cover, Bronx Botanical Garden, 1945

Brett Weston, Two Windows with Ivy, New York, ca. 1945

Brett Weston, Apartment Windows with Wrought Iron Gate, New York, 1944

Brett Weston, Reflections, New York, 1971

Richard Avedon, [Contact sheet of Marilyn Monroe posing with dog], 1958

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Weegee, [The World Goes Nuts], ca. 1943. © Weegee/International Center of Photography

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Charles Eisenmann, The Original Eliophobus Family: Rudolph Lucasie, Wife and Son, ca. 1875

2011-12-28T11:07:00.003-05:00

Desert Modernism in Palm Springs

2011-12-17T22:19:00.001-05:00

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Visual Representations of 15 Over-Used Movie Poster Clichés - from Flavorwire

2011-11-21T13:19:00.001-05:00

faces made out of film elements

the thriller

vigilante movies

animal movies

type over face genre

black and white w/red- action flick!

tom cruise, always in profile?

tough love flick

will have sex scenes

horror movie

independent flim

one from Kinokuniya Japanese book store

2011-10-12T21:17:00.002-04:00

http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cgi-bin/wshoseaohb.cgi?W-NIPS=9986794447&AREA=02&LANG=E

NYC

2011-10-10T15:54:00.001-04:00

Untitled, originally uploaded by jessicakrausesmith.

Opening Clam

2011-10-10T15:46:00.001-04:00

IMG_7635, originally uploaded by jessicakrausesmith.

West Island, MA
Feb. 2009

Colosseum!

2011-10-10T15:41:00.001-04:00

IMG_5159, originally uploaded by jessicakrausesmith.

Rome, OCTOBER 2010

Girl outside of Cuzco, Peru

2011-10-10T15:03:00.002-04:00

from my photo archives... May 1999

In Elkins, WV

2011-10-10T14:41:00.001-04:00

elkins WV August 2011, a set on Flickr.

August 2011

10.9.11 williamsburg/greenpoint

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10.9.11 williamsburg/greenpoint, a set on Flickr.

Vintage book: New York Unexpurgated by Petronius c.1966

2011-10-10T01:34:00.003-04:00

saw a copy of this book at Open Air Modern vintage furniture store on Graham Ave. this evening. apparently they are rare. and $300 on Amazon! didn't check the price at Open Air Modern... but intrigued about what it says! more info:
http://vintagesleaze.blogspot.com/2010/10/vintage-sleaze-new-york-unexpurgated.html

About cemeral math- 1984- how i learned mathematics from kindergarten on

2011-09-30T00:34:00.003-04:00

wikipedia---
OVERVIEW: The most influential figure on this project was Frederque’ Papy. This project employs four non-verbal languages for the purpose of posing problems and representing mathematical concepts. They are: the Papy Minicomputer(mental computation), Arrows(relations), Strings(classification) and Calculators(patterns). It was designed to teach mathematics as a problem solving activity rather than just teaching arithmetic skills. The program was highly structured using the spiral scheme of program development. It introduced many basic concepts such as fractions earlier than normal but was criticized for lack of emphasis given to calculation. New content in probability and geometry was introduced. There was a range of supporting material including story books with mathematical problems. Lessons were often posed in a story. One character in these books was Eli the Elephant, a pachyderm with a bag of magic peanuts — some representing positive integers, some negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_School_Mathematics_Program

cemeral math- minicomputers!

2011-09-30T00:29:00.003-04:00

Exploring the McKittrick Hotel - from ScoutingNYC.com

2011-09-26T20:11:00.000-04:00

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=3816 CLICK HERE FOR ALL OF NY SCOUT'S PHOTOS

IN THE JAWS

2011-09-25T23:28:00.002-04:00

SAM - NATE

2011-07-03T13:04:00.002-04:00

BANANA SHIRT AT H&M

2011-07-03T12:53:00.000-04:00

communes publications around the US in 1971- from MOMA.org

2011-04-17T11:36:00.001-04:00

unknown photographer- beautiful b+w images

2011-04-04T23:03:00.001-04:00

banana pen drive

2011-03-21T23:26:00.001-04:00

banana pen drive, originally uploaded by CRoNe aKa El PaYaSo.

jessicajessicaj.tumblr.com

2011-03-06T23:44:00.001-05:00

I am pretty much posting everything on my Tumblr these days...
http://jessicajessicaj.tumblr.com

I will get back here again to bananas at some point.

airport hotel in milan

2011-02-20T13:44:00.002-05:00

IMG_8068, originally uploaded by jessicakrausesmith.

pages from the original Oz books

2011-02-19T20:00:00.001-05:00

random pictures

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2011-02-05T18:31:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by el tornillo.

now in brooklyn

2011-01-27T15:55:00.001-05:00

IMG_9320, originally uploaded by jessicakrausesmith.

cyndi lauper

2011-01-17T14:27:00.002-05:00

cindy lauper, originally uploaded by jessicakrausesmith.

‘Flickr Birthdays, From 10,852,768 Birthday Pictures on Flickr, 12/22/10’’ by Penelope Umbrico

2011-01-09T12:56:00.000-05:00

‘‘Sunset Portraits, From 8,462,359 Sunset Pictures on Flickr, 12/21/10’’ by Penelope Umbrico

2011-01-09T12:44:00.001-05:00

3-D painted rooms

2011-01-04T20:17:00.003-05:00

artwork by Leif Podhajsky

2010-12-19T10:21:00.004-05:00

..making fonts

2010-11-30T12:50:00.000-05:00

some architectural/natural scared places

2010-11-30T12:42:00.006-05:00

some of the Rolling Stones' girlfriends/wives

2010-11-16T11:54:00.004-05:00

Blow Up Hall 50 50 hotel in Poland

2010-11-14T12:35:00.002-05:00

laser engraved banana (thx NOCOT.com)

2010-11-13T12:55:00.001-05:00

busby berkeley uses lots of large feathers!

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2010-10-26T12:57:00.001-04:00

Zimoun : 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010. from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

Klaxons-Echoes single release art

2010-10-01T01:12:00.000-04:00

(from bottom) sterling victorian cake breaker, oyster server, bon bon scoop, butter pick, ice cream slicer, ice cream forks, saratoga chips server

2010-09-12T12:44:00.007-04:00

photos of eva ionesco (in honor of sam's work)

2010-09-12T12:23:00.002-04:00

Joshua Light Show - Liquid Loops (1969)

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abandoned Japanese theme park and buildings

2010-09-08T22:59:00.001-04:00

Shy Child plays in Bogota, Columbia (photos from pflamingo.com)

2010-08-07T01:22:00.003-04:00

images of the Dead Sea

2010-08-02T22:29:00.002-04:00

Shy Child plays in Porto Alegre, Brazil (photos by Gabriela MO)

2010-07-28T20:12:00.004-04:00

interesting vintage typography

2010-07-24T01:48:00.002-04:00

CHARANJIT SINGH - Synthesizing: TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT - india 1982

2010-07-24T01:41:00.000-04:00

a great color concept for a lounge

2010-07-18T11:42:00.001-04:00

Lego counter in kitchen of Parisian designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosetti

2010-07-16T17:52:00.003-04:00

weird ads from the 70s

2010-07-11T09:59:00.004-04:00

"color combos" for clothing (from womensfashion.com)

2010-07-06T23:38:00.001-04:00

sculptures made from colored pencils by Michigan-based artist Jennifer Maestre

2010-07-05T00:39:00.002-04:00

interesting rings... (top by 41park and next two underneath by ahna6 at etsy.com)

2010-07-05T00:16:00.004-04:00

world map in another perspective ...

2010-07-05T00:09:00.001-04:00

baby platypus

2010-07-03T23:57:00.002-04:00

road trip map! by "papercut" (thx nate hill!)

2010-06-17T22:52:00.003-04:00

(May 22: Chelsea) Amir Zaki "Relics" (lifeguard towers along CA coast) at Perry Rubenstein Gallery

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(May 22: Chelsea) Amy Gartrell at Daniel Reich Gallery

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(May 22: Chelsea) Andy Goldsworthy "New York Dirt Water Light' at Galerie Lelong

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(May 22: Chelsea) Eric Wesley at Bortolami

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(May 22: Chelsea) Alex Guofeng Cao at Stux

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(May 22: Chelsea) Carson Nicolai at The Pace Gallery

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(May 22: Chelsea) paintings by Ghada Amer at Cheim & Reid

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(May 22: Chelsea) Botero sculptures at Malborough Gallery

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(May 22: Chelsea) Sungmi Lee at GanaArt

2010-05-23T17:10:00.002-04:00

(May 22: Chelsea) photographer Julian Faulhaber at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

2010-05-23T17:02:00.002-04:00

(May 22: Chelsea) paintings by Piet can den Boog at Mike Weiss Gallery

2010-05-23T17:01:00.000-04:00

(May 22: Chelsea) T.J. Wilcox at Metro Pictures

2010-05-23T17:00:00.000-04:00

(May 22; Chelsea) Paula Hayes - installation for Skidmore's tang teaching museum

2010-05-23T16:49:00.003-04:00

(May 22: Chelsea) Jim Campbell at Bryce Wolkowitz

2010-05-23T16:44:00.002-04:00

various posters by designer Tom Eckersley (1940s through1980s)

2010-05-16T12:52:00.004-04:00

installation artist Heike Weber using permanentmarkers on acrylic floor and walls – surfaces that have reached up to 600 m2.

2010-05-16T12:41:00.003-04:00

Kiersey Temperament Sorter - my personal result is below but click here to take test

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Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the

Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.

Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.

Idealists are relatively rare, making up no more than 15 to 20 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

Idealists at Work
Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. They are naturally drawn to working with people and are gifted with helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potential both on, and off, the job.

Conscience looms large for you; in almost any situation, you feel compelled to measure yourself, other people, and the conditions of the environment against your personal morality. You have a tendency to perceive questions of meaning in even trivial matters and to worry about far-flung consequences of your actions. In your ideal job, you are free to pursue depth rather than breadth and quality rather than quantity. You feel rewarded when your projects and daily tasks allow you to immerse yourself in your process as deeply as you "need to" in order to satisfy your inner standards of quality. You are uncomfortable with the notion of authority per se and may avoid leading, as well as being led, either consciously or unconsciously. As you experience them, adhering to fixed roles and rules amounts to an abdication of your responsibility to exercise your conscience.

photos of natures predators by British photographer Jonathan Griffiths

2010-05-14T23:03:00.004-04:00

cat beds

2010-05-14T21:05:00.003-04:00

an array of UFO shapes

2010-05-11T00:18:00.002-04:00

the upcoming installation at the NYC Armory by artist Christian Boltanski (photos from nytimes.com)

2010-05-09T22:33:00.003-04:00

some things you can see at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

2010-05-09T22:16:00.005-04:00

photos by (top) Martin Parr,1995 and Amy Stevens, 2010

2010-05-09T01:35:00.001-04:00

[video] ha! and it gets deep too. check out these guys from "A Man's Guide to Love".com!

2010-04-21T23:39:00.002-04:00

The Man's Guide To Love #38 from themansguidetolove on Vimeo.

The Man's Guide To Love #22 from themansguidetolove on Vimeo.

The Man's Guide To Love #42 from themansguidetolove on Vimeo.

"My Mom, the style icon" picture contest on Urbanoutfitters.com

2010-04-10T13:29:00.004-04:00

[my Video] our friends Coney Island Swan Dive playing at Parkside Lounge

2010-03-28T21:16:00.000-04:00