Time.com has a great little piece on the top 10 famous college dropouts. It’s interesting to know how a lot of times college education does not always equal success. The list consists of: Bill Gates Steve Jobs Frank Lloyd Wright Buckminster Fuller James Cameron Mark Zuckerberg Tom Hanks Harrison Ford Lady Gagga Tiger Woods See, [...]
These Japanese researchers HAVE to stop making their robots look like humans. It’s just too damn creepy. Just take a look at their latest creation, Diego-san, the extremely disproportionate 1 year old. Built to imitate a human child, this robot is apparently helping them learn more about human child development. This creature from hell has [...]
A large family takes in an orphan. The house is already crowded so the orphan must share an attic room with a child too weak to protest the intrusion. The parents give each of the two children half of the room but ask each child to share a beautiful cabinet, treasured by both. The parents [...]
Vampire Weekend have announced their sophomore album titled “Contra” to be released on January 12, 2010. The pop superstars created quite a buzz with their viral marketing campaign by releasing images of mystery girl in music blogs linking to ithinkuracontra.com. Now we know the site redirects to Vampire Weekend’s site. Here is the track listing: [...]
“You have summoned the fail-whale!” The sad thing about it, I still like to consider myself a Twitter….sigh.
I photographed Gabe back in 2008 amidst the hot summer weather. We were covered in mosquito bites and probably a tick or two by the end but it was all worth it. Here are two of my favorite shots.
And this is why I hate mainstream media…
This shocking video shows the negligence at a Brooklyn’s hospital as doctors, nurses and guards walk by a dying woman and do nothing to help her. According to the Daily News: Green, 49, taken to the unit for “agitation,” keels over out of her chair at 5:32a.m., according to the time stamp on the video. [...]
Looks like Toronto is stepping up its marketing schemes. They are now hiring real people to display clothes infront of stores. Standing for hours at a time without moving. I wonder if they get bathroom breaks? Via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/2619716473/
The odds seem to be in our favor when it comes to meeting girls here in the East Coast. According to this map by Richard Florida, there are 210,820 more single women than men in the New York and northern New Jersey area. Single women seem to be concentrated in large metropolitan cities around the [...]
…when Bonnaroo announces the lineup for this year’s festival. There were many rumors circulating that Led Zeppelin will be headlining the festival this year but I guess that won’t be happening but Lez Zeppelin will be there. Instead Pearl Jam and Metallica (yuck) will be the big names this year. I could careless, there plenty [...]
Hey, just shot with this beautiful german girl, Theresa from Major Models who loves Daft Punk, here are some of the pics from the shoot: Check out more shots on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/gp/21202617@N00/VA1fgT
Thank you for welcoming me from a long day at work with such joy. You thought no one would hear you. You thought no one would see you, but I was present and truly, it scared the shit out of me. Thank you for letting out the biggest fart out your window as you searched [...]
What the heck is a Keepon you may ask? Keepon is a small yellow japanese robot designed by Hideki Kozima to study social interaction mainly amongst kids but also adults. This small cute yellow robot has been recently featured in Spoon’s newest music video for “Don’t You Evah” as a Japanese scientist takes the robot [...]
My friend’s band just recently released their new album “The Musician” and they have used one of my pictures for the cover. The band, Looking Glass Wars is an alternative indie rock band from Westchester NY. Brandon, their singer is a good friend of mine that I met years ago while designing a website for [...]
Is it just me or is Facebook getting a bit too crowded? Ever since they opened its doors the public and with the addition of their 3rd party apps it seems like flocks of MySpacers and migrating to Facebook. It’s great but the site but I feel like MySpacers and Facebookians come from two different [...]
The New York Times said it best: It’s a little embarrassing to watch the New York art world “discovering†Latin American modernist art year after year, as if forever only half-aware of its existence. It’s a little surprising to see the NYC art world not paying much attention to the Latin American artists. There are [...]
I was trying to think about what I enjoyed the most about a cold morning on my way to work. Here are a few things that just popped into my mind: Holding that warm coffee cup, steaming endlessly while I wait on the station for the train. Watching strangers awkwardly huddle together without touching or [...]
It seems like the Bush administration is at it again, what will it take for everyone in this country to open their eyes and do something? He is now trying to grant himself immunity for any possible war crimes committed against detainees. Check out the video:
Shhh….don’t tell the RIAA but I have been ceaselessly listening to Manu Chao’s newest album La Radiolina, set to come out early in September. The album is a bit watered down and the music has become very repetitive and similar to previous albums except for a few songs that are more rock influenced ala Mano [...]
Anybody can take a polaroid, load film, aim the camera and press the button but not everyone can capture such images as The Polaroid Kidd. Mike Brodie (aka The Polaroid Kidd) has been photographing his tribe of young vagabond friends for the past few years as they travel around the country, capturing a very intimate [...]
New York City has proposed new rules that will drastically affect independent film makers and photographers all around the city. Under the new rules proposed on May 25, 2007 by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcast (MOFTB), any group of two or more people using a handheld camera (still or video) for more [...]
The controversial and very hated documentary director Michael Moore has released its latest documentary to the online world, free of charge. Watch it here:
Meet William Kamkwamba. At age 15 he built a windmill entirely from scrap parts, generating enough electricity to power his home in rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa. His personal blog details the steps day-by-day with pics.read more | digg story
The perpetually shirtless and tattooed Terry Richardson is at it again, with some new ads for the Australian division of Lee Jeans. The model: Marilyn’s gorgeous redheaded, Judith Bedard which I had the luck to meet during last season’s Fashion Week in NYC. Judith Bedard by me, March 2007 NYC Fashion Week. Here are the [...]
Why don’t we get any Japanese channels here in the US?! If all they had was shows like this I would never leave the house.
6:30 AM and I am getting ready to leave the house for work, I put on my pea coat, wrap a scarf around my neck and pack some gloves in my bag. It is early January and experience has taught me it is cold around this time of year in NY. I step outside and [...]
The Times has a great article on the abrupt changes and troubles that diamonds have brought to the Cinta-Larga tribe in Brazil, exploring the tensions between miners, the government and the tribe’s own greed. “Back then, we had no idea what diamonds were worth,†recalled Roberto Carlos Cinta-Larga, a tribal leader who, following tradition, uses [...]
So lately my blog has be plagued with spammed comments, it got to a point where I had to close the comments completely. So until I fix this you will have to register in order to comment. Annoying yes, I hate it too. Damn spam, it was also crowding my mail accounts.
Well, it has been…what months? since my last post, yeah it’s been a while. I am not going to explain my absence but rather talk about the future. 2007 is a few days away and its time for a new blog, completely redesigned (simplified) and much more content. Ok, well that’s it, I’m gonna keep [...]
For those who don’t know, digg.com is was a technology news website, but unlike other new sites it has no editors to censor and pick out the stories, it is all run by it’s users. It’s a collective community that submits and promotes their own stories. It started as a technology only news site rivaling [...]
New York City – 11:26 P.M. – A pack of 8 to 10 messy looking, somewhat smelly, and hungry humans lurk in an alley behind a restaurant. They are delighting themselves in an all they can eat fest at the garbage dump, they search and ravage through the dumpster like a flock of starving vultures [...]
A hot Saturday in the city and what better way to spend it than at Central Park? Except it wasn’t just any other day at the park. Today the four elements: Sun, Rain, Cloud and Ice battled for “Element of the Year Award”. It was all part of Improv Everywhere, a group of pranksters and [...]
I’ve never seen the Mamaroneck train station so full in my life, thousands of people coming from nearby towns and states to watch the U.S. Open Golf tournament. It’s rather amusing to see the fanatics and aficionados of the game. Just like any other hooligan they all have their trends and demographics. Mostly white males [...]
I couldn’t stop laughing today, my smaller male cousin was sitting on the couch next to me as we played Halo and he started to complain something about his legs “Ouch my legs, OUCH!”. We had just played a rigorous soccer game and his legs were cramping up, both of them. “Ouch! it’s like I’m [...]
Ok, so its been what? 4-6 six months since my last post? 2 blogs later and after hundreds of posts written, I am back with a new blog. Why did I stop? two simple reasons: 1. Lack of time 2. Lack of interest. I had been posting on blogger previously but I found it so [...]