In The Swim
Goldfish, the preeminent symbol of summer in Japan, are on display by the thousands as part of a “pop up” art gallery in Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall. The installation, designed by Hidetomo Kimura, is hypnotically beautiful even when experienced through video. Warning: this is not for the claustrophic… but it sure beats being trapped in a […]
Fashion Forecast 2012
I was looking through my photo files and found this shot I took in Grand Central back in March. For reasons readily apparent, this guy caught my eye. Upon further examination though, I now realize he was a walking fashion forecast of what was walking down the runways during fashion week. In fact, according to […]
Shades of Summer
Recently I was in Oklahoma City and discovered a fantastic optical store in the same middle-of-seeming-nowhere shopping center as Matthew Kenney’s raw restaurant (where everything I consumed never reached a heat in excess of 105 degrees). I went into this store to see if by any remote chance they might have a pair of Dries […]
Side Projects: From Surfboards to Scotch Tape
Typically, we restrict ourselves to one specific field —the one we “work” at; and fall into a skill set that makes us “set” in our ways. The beauty of side projects is that the project can be completely random and unrelated to anything you do professionally. So, do something you’ve never done or even thought […]