What are your jeans doing today?

[joelz]

went for a walk yesterday down the esplanade from battery park to the world financial center:

did some people watching:

enjoyed the sunset:

then switched up lenses:

[ninja07]

ranon - great pics and posts as usual, and thanks for the mention

joelz - awesome photos!

[Guest]

Hey guys this is my first post here so have mercy! I didn't take these photos but my friend did and she also edited them! We went hiking at Webster's falls in Hamilton a week ago!

We found a log to cross over the river! and we all took turns!

(thats me with the blue sweater!)

group pose!

washing my hands cause they were dirty!

I found another log to climb over.. but this happened.

We also found a table that would be perfect for craps or poker! its a shame we only had leaves to play with..

[Guest]

And what kind of hiking trip would it be without korean bbq at the end?!

and can't forget the tofu!

thanks for looking!

[ranonranonarat]

haha very cool post. i love how you added in the speech bubble thing. rep you when i can! and oh, where is that raddish thing that is so good that you koreans like to eat! i love how koreans are always doing these portable BBQ things. real nice pictures and refreshing!

[Guest I LOVE LFC]

Great last few posts.

Ranon, me and the Mrs use the same moisturiser, haha!

[joelz]

thanks ninja! There's bigger shots of the last 3 in the photography thread, and you can click through to my flickr for bigger ones of all of them

[Jestre]

Took a walk around my area today. Since I've injured my achilles tendon a few months back I've been limited to walking still...so I figured I'd work on my photo skills.

[roy6]

Michael Haris was in SF today, getting ready for a book signing at Unionmade tomorrow (1-4pm), so my jeans and he went to Levi's plaza to meet and greet:

Mike and Una Murphy. Una runs some of the high end Levi's lines now, and used to work at LVC before it went to Belgium.

Mike brought some waistband portions of some 1870s/'80s 501s.

In the Vault exhibit, looking at 1880s 501s.

Looking at a really beautiful early closed-front duck jumper.

a salesman's sample, about 9" tall, from the early 1940s.

Then to Unionmade so Mike could see the space.

Aron, Todd & Mike.

[-Z-]

sooooooooooooooooo. don't tell my wife quite yet.....

taking it out tomorrow for a spin.

[tg76]

what my jeans were doing weeks ago...

we took our German exchange student to the rugby

she ate some food because she seams to be very good at that

one of the girls that was with us had a rather violent grand mal seizure

so i missed the first try and got to prove i knew what to do with an epi

then there was a fight on the field

then two players collided and cracked skulls

then another fight

i shoulda took more photos

heres two of the girls with a sweaty man with blood on the back of his shorts

then went home to help mr with his bike building

by help i mean make a cup of tea for him and hold things to pass to him

i did get to go and choose the colour for the paint and make a super special silver suit with lightning bolts for him to ride in

[aleopold]

congrats -z-

[tg76]

also weeks ago

my skulls walked out under the auckland harbor bridge so the german and daughter of mr could go bungy, the walk out was enough for me as im petrified of heights

historic boat

resent historic boat

then went to deus ex machina with a couple of old friends for lunch and this auction was on http://www.webbs.co.nz/auction/important-and-vintage-motorcycles was very cool to geek out over

then we drove to rotorua

we saw swan lake

we tested the mud

and we watched the sun go down

then we went to burger fuel for tea cause we couldnt be bothered cooking

[Paul T]

I live at the bottom of a hill... every year at this time thousands of people start walking up it to the clearing at the top...

There's a massive space at the top - called Blackheath, one of London's old open spaces, a traditional place for armies to gather during peasants' revolts.

And tonight it feels pagan. Guy Fawkes' night celepebrates the time the catholics attempted to blow up the Houses of Parlaiment and failed... but I suspect it also has Pagan origins. It's just a celebration fo fire, and explosions...

Belstaff and SDA in the gloom...

Going...

Going...

gone...

Goodbye.

[JayFourEyes]

Another day, another playground

[tg76]

more from weeks ago

maori village with super long hard to say cant spell it name

warrior

lady

steaming warrior

because the village is built on geothermic stuff everyone is buried above ground cause who wants cooked dearly departed

and the cloud in the back ground is actually a geyser

and there are all these pools that are different heats

thats mr on the left just in case you care

this is the grumpy old man, it was traditionally used for singing the hair off boars (and maybe an enemy or two but dead human bodies would make its use for food tapu)

and this really deep one is the corn hole (pakiha names cause my maori is crap)

it is the corn hole cause that bit of string on the left is holding a bag of sweet corn... its where they did and still do their cooking

[ah_long]

I was in Japan for a week for the inazuma festival

love these lil bottle of Sake they serve in flight

Ramen

Udon

Sushi

Inazuma (more pics @ the inazuma thread)

got me some hand painted No.1 Evisu

[tg76]

but before we went out we put on food for 9 people

chicken with a moroccan rub and bacon on top of some root veges and pumpkin and stuff

arent my skulls 'kin awesome?

caution hot

cooking with nature

7.5 hours later... it doesnt look too flash but it was super tender and the flavours were delicate and ... YUM

[farmer]

Have been checking out shelters for the last couple weeks for a new dog. Heard about this guy that was brought up here from the south because his time was up at his current kennel. He's a lab rottweiler mix with a blue tongue. A boy with no name and 5 months old. Was abused and is scared of tall men. Spent the afternoon trying to start a bond with him and if it works out he is moving in with us. 710s got hairy(ier)

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kills me to see a dog thats been broken. His head would just hang for the first couple hours and he would not respond to positive physical attention whatsoever. They gave us a room to be alone with him and it took awhile to even get him out from hiding behind the copy machine. Going to spend tomorrow with him too, hope he remembers us. If we give him a home any name recommendations? Was thinking Jamie Foxx but B wasn't having it.

Right here he was finally warming up to Bre. Had to almost drag outside,, but once he was out his personality started to show.

Also a kitten pile

[surly]

Took my Okis to Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery. Mango Mama, the world's greatest beer, is available in growlers for a limited time to celebrate their anniversary. I could have taken other pictures, but this was by far the most important part of my day.

[annabelle1308]

eric i'm in love with him. i used to have a rotti that weighed more than i do. we rescued him from a shelter too and his name was trooper. i like the name jamie foxx though. (he has a new song with drake i really like. look it up!)

i spent the week in nyc. i've been many times before but this trip was more work and inspiration related. part 1 of 5!

ahhh soho, i'm home!

blue in green of course

umm...that guy looks familiar, right?

hillside ties i love

mostly sammies here. i tried on some geishas but unfortunately they didn't fit right.

getting inquire's contest eternals chainstitched

gordon was in japan so i couldn't say what's up. next time, i guess. and trip pics to be continued...

p.s. congrats z!

[tg76]

back at the pa

a high tech bath system

the whole of rotorua smells like eggs,,, all the boiling mud and steam and stuff is super mineally rich and is used for relaxing and healing and other mumbo jumbo

starting at this pool

water is channeled off through a series of troughs at different levels

with high tech undies stopping the flow

ending up at different baths

we had our own version of this back at our motel

here is a cheeky little maori boy on the way out of the village asking to have coins thrown in the water so you can see the native do tricks... he was onto a good thing he made about $25 in the 10 mins i watched, go the tourist dollar

[-Z-]

holy shit. this thread is on the next level...can't rep any of you

except you annabelle...+ rep.

[morse9443]

yea Z sick page, especially at 20 posts per:)

[aleopold]

love those hillside ties, i just don't like the flat bottom style :/ oh well.

[reggae_tin]

^ ^

[Paul T]

OUt early.. . with a delivery to make...

But we visited some of our fave places on the way...

These guys are called Pearly Kings and Queens - traditional Cockney dress.

They were next to the stall where baby t plans to work. A quick check on his height, they reckon he can start in two years. As long as he brings his bag of sweets to work in the morning...

OUr friend Ben, who's sold odd bits from me in the past - but then probabyl made even more with stuff I've bought off him... has a lot of guts. And other body parts.

One of these days, I'm gonna get my nails filed by these fifties floozies. I have posted this place before, but some shallow people, like almostnice, always appreciate them...

[Paul T]

Round the corner from where we get our coffees (Present - who have the new Inventory. Outta my budget at £16, though) we did some quick channeling of Lendo...

Tootal, LVC, SDA, Tickers, H&M, Levi's vintage, Clarkes. Cigarettes from Turkey.

Then a drive to make our delivery. On our way we passed one of London's oldest buildings - the Tower of London, built from 1100, in front of one of the newest : Renzo Piano'sThe Shard - a jagged, glass-encased building just by London bridge which is due to complete in 2012.

and finally... dropped my manuscript off here - the Unilever building, owned by the makers of Persil washing powder, who rent a floor or two out to my publishers. THey will need to sell a hell of a lot of my books to pay the rent. One step nearer to life without David Jones. I dreamt about him last night... maybe the time approaches when I won't.

Then, back home via our local chinese hypermarket, no work to think about except eating. Have a great Sunday night, folks!

[-Z-]

have been really busy lately with work stuff. still haven't gotten out to shoot for real, will tonight / today for sure, so expect 1st post from the 5D today at some point. just walking around the Mall of America yesterday to check out the new Microsoft store...(i'm a Mac guy for life, however I do own an xbox and kinect is pretty damn cool...) look where they placed it, maybe trying to make a statement???? it was damn funny to watch the microsoft and mac guys eye it down across the hallway...

the interior of the store was very well done, i really liked the video walls that went all the way around the store. the only thing that bugged me was the lack of, well, any kind of consistency in the store. stuff just seemed all over the place. granted it was busy...

and on the way home tonight figured i'd mess around with my 17-40L handheld in the dark. which, with the high ISO performance of the 5D mkII was a piece of cake. hand held at 17mm 1/60 f/4 ISO 2000.

sorry for the crap post, just wanted to get some pics up.

[beatle]

So I spent the weekend at IH headquarters in UK...enjoy the highlights of 2 busy days...