What are your jeans doing today?

[dkatz]

Damnit ranon.... can I come visit and you'll just take me around eating for a fuckin' day? The shit you eat always looks AMAZING.

..then again maybe I've just been subjected to East African fare for too long (flavorless starch overload for the win!).

[ninja07]

aleopold - what camera? thanks

[DocBlue]

[beatle]

xpost from waywt - since it´s really more what am I doing today

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[almostnice]

fuck-Z-,if i ask hows the record like,i dont expect a rolling stone-like review!

but most important,what is Win Butler wearing,an LVC 506?

[ranonranonarat]

fuck-Z-,if i ask hows the record like,i dont expect a rolling stone-like review!

but most important,what is Win Butler wearing,an LVC 506?

you can tell from that picture?!?

if theres anyone qualified to write a music review, i would recommend paul to do one given his experience. heh.

but i think its pretty fair to say that they came out on their debut with a bang with a golden album with funeral but sad to say the subsequent albums feel like a sort of decline as with how it happens to most bands. start with a bang and go downhill. no hate.

[almostnice]

you can tell from that picture?!?

if theres anyone qualified to write a music review, i would recommend paul to do one given his experience. heh.

but i think its pretty fair to say that they came out on their debut with a bang with a golden album with funeral but sad to say the subsequent albums feel like a sort of decline as with how it happens to most bands. start with a bang and go downhill. no hate.

not too sure if Paul is familar with Arcade Fire,but Funeral had an effect to my life in 2005,that album was groundbreaking and a milestone in folk/indie whatever you call it,i even managed to influence my kids,they always get mad and demand me to play certain songs again and again...

[ranonranonarat]

not too sure if Paul is familar with Arcade Fire,but Funeral had an effect to my life in 2005,that album was groundbreaking and a milestone in folk/indie whatever you call it,i even managed to influence my kids,they always get mad and demand me to play certain songs again and again...

yeah that album was pretty intense, almost every track in there was a power track. definitely one of my top 10 favourite albums of all time and would easily slip into the best albums beyond year 2000. revolutionised the whole ensemble thing.

[aleopold]

aleopold - what camera? thanks

nikon d700 with a 50mm f/1.8

[almostnice]

yeah that album was pretty intense, almost every track in there was a power track. definitely one of my top 10 favourite albums of all time and would easily slip into the best albums beyond year 2000. revolutionised the whole ensemble thing.

love you even more now,but you know that.come to germany one day and we will have a large one.

[erbs]

The place they played at here sat 5,000 people, so it was definitely not a small show, but I felt that they treated it like a smaller show, bringing a lot of intimacy with the crowd between songs and since it was their first night of the tour, they were really ready to go.

First Ave? I really need to get back to MPLS.

[-Z-]

First Ave? I really need to get back to MPLS.

it was at Roy Wilkins Auditorium

sorry to get all wordy there almostnice...I was still under the influence from the show, got me running my mouth like I know what the fuck is up!!!!! but no doubt, love for great music seems to run DEEP here on the denim boards.

[almostnice]

it was at Roy Wilkins Auditorium

sorry to get all wordy there almostnice...I was still under the influence from the show, got me running my mouth like I know what the fuck is up!!!!! but no doubt, love for great music seems to run DEEP here on the denim boards.

your words describe it perfectly,no doubts about it,forget my rant.

[ranonranonarat]

x-posted from the Burgus World Tour thread

so today is day 3 of the tour and man this is tough. has got to be some boring stuff you guys be reading but bear with this for the while.

so today these tour jeans took a ride with me on the local bus.

its early in the morning and what else can you do besides heading out to have breakfast. was feeling for chinese food today and hence decided to go for dim sum. place was at "east ocean restaurant" which was located in the city area but to be honest the food wasnt fantastic. overpriced i would say. but anyway this was what we had.

started off with porridge with dough fritters as well as egg. one of the most typical kinds of chinese breakfast.

had the rice rolls or what we call "cheong fun" where im from. they are sometimes served just with the sweet sauce but today we had the ones stuffed with BBQ pork. they can be also found stuffed with prawns.

lady with the pushcart came around with this and this was the gf's favourite. jellyfish. i kind of like those served at traditional chinese weddings more because they are sweeter but these are not too bad.

shrimp dumplings. these were probably the best thing this place served because each one came with 2 prawns/shrimps. i love these. really huge.

came here with the intention to have roast duck. these werent too bad just that they were too expensive to have these for $15 i thought we could have had better just around the corner but whats done was done.

finally had the BBQ pork buns as well. these were a little disappointing because the pork wasnt sweet enough and the buns were too thick. verdict: do not visit this chinese restaurant since there are better ones around.

after that, the gf and i went to the south korean embassy since she wanted to get her visa done for her trip in a couple of months. had to leave disappointed because she lacked a few documents.

inside the embassy. i like how they have 2 clocks with one showing local sydney time and local korean time. somehow makes you think about how someone on another side of the world could be sleeping right at that time. i like how it was fuss-free because back home (singapore), to go into an embassy, there were lots of procedures to follow. bag checks followed by the surrender of cameras or camera enabled phones, documentation, pass exchange and all the administrative stuff. but here it was really like just another place where i didnt get to get all those done.

after we were done at the embassy, we went down to The Galeries Victoria where we were yesterday to check out a warehouse sale. decided to queue today and we got in after half an hour. didnt find anything my size or anything that caught my eye but the gf scored a surface 2 air pants for cheap so trip wasnt a waste.

[ranonranonarat]

here we have the building opposite from where i was. its called "Queen Victoria Building". not the best picture but this building is very rhustic and i think it has a really great view from outside. inside they had all the commercial stores but from the outside it always looks lovely. it was originally built as a monument to the long reigning monarch and construction took place in dire times, as Sydney was in a severe recession.the elaborate Romanesque architecture was specially planned for the grand building so the Government could employ many out-of-work craftsmen - stonemasons, plasterers, and stained window artists - in a worthwhile project. originally, a concert hall, coffee shops, offices, showrooms, warehouses and a wide variety of tradespeople, such as tailors, mercers, hairdressers and florists, were accommodated. lovely old building and one of the reasons why the city still appeals to me even though it is pretty much dirty and overpopulated. i have a soft spot for buldings like these.

another building nearby which name eludes me but it is another spectacular picture of grandoise.

walked around the city for a little bit before heading home for a little bit of rest and sufu surfing before heading out for dinner.

went to a popular korean BBQ place called madang and had to queue for about 40mins to get in.

appetisers. ate quite a lot of it before remembering to take pictures. they had kimchi, vegetables, potato salad, potato cubes and this other unidentifiable thing but tasted good.

ordered the spiciest dish on the menu which was made of chicken, pineapples, and rice cake topped up with cheese. fucking spicy and great meal which was amazing. this dish called Oul Dak is apparently pretty hard to find in sydney and i thoroughly enjoyed it. had this hot pot soup as well but didnt get pics since i was too busy eating.

finally after the meal we were feeling so bloated we walked home but not before passing through chinatown (which was truthfully just a street). they have all these bazaars and all going on at night but they didnt have much on offer, just throngs upon throngs of asians. they're all now celebrities since i've taken their picture.

not the most interesting of days but thats what these burgus plus jeans did today. good day and good night!

[ranonranonarat]

Damnit ranon.... can I come visit and you'll just take me around eating for a fuckin' day? The shit you eat always looks AMAZING.

..then again maybe I've just been subjected to East African fare for too long (flavorless starch overload for the win!).

i'll take you to eat your fucking heart out if you come visit me dkatz! thanks for the nice compliment. : )

[HoustonChris]

Damn, I love BBQ pork buns. Might have to talk the wife into going down to Chinatown and grabbing some tomorrow. Good stuff, ranon.

[aleopold]

started the day by cleaning off my desk for monday (first day of classes).

later on went to the bank, and stopped by barnes and noble.

was picking up a small notebook (moleskine) for my photo job at the school paper, and checking out photog magazines. -z-, lemme know if you wanna borrow the photo mag (right) when i'm done with it. ended up getting the ireland magazine for my sister, who for some reason is obsessed with the country and their accent right now.. sooo, anyone from that region who's down to proxy should hit me up

then, mom was feeling nice and took me and sister out for dinner at the outback steakhouse. the bloomin burger is pretty good for a $10 burger imo.

finished off by shooting a volleyball game for my job with the vanguard (portland state's newspaper). i only took 311 photos when i normally shoot 500+ but, i only had one camera, and normally i borrow the paper's d90 to shoot with as well.

[-Z-]

***this is the last 2 days***

did the same thing both days but, busy day around here none the less....picked up some new kicks early on (Clark's was having a 20% off everything sale today. Got a pair of suede Weavers and beeswax Desert Boots!)

then began prep for this...

the weather was fucked. 30 hours of rain really sucks when you're running around trying to get stuff taken care of. especially when you don't want your photography equipment / prints / other shit getting rained on.

my friendly local factory through the car window while sitting in bullshit traffic...

this bullshit traffic...

MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!

finally friday the rain was gone, and got down to business, still have alot of work left, but its a start at least!!!

finally, as we speak sitting down doing some work on the book...thanks to the amazingly easy book creator on Aperture 3. using this as a preliminary way to figure out what I want aesthetically. cover shot. this photo seems to lend itself very well to a book cover.

the title is rotating almost daily right now. i'm having trouble coming up with something I really like...but today it seems "the visitor" sounds appropriate. dunno. anyway. cheers. ranon stop making me hungry this late at night, my Eternals won't fit me!

[ranonranonarat]

\the title is rotating almost daily right now. i'm having trouble coming up with something I really like...but today it seems "the visitor" sounds appropriate. dunno. anyway. cheers. ranon stop making me hungry this late at night, my Eternals won't fit me!

i know what you mean by having a great title come to you today but only waking up to think of it as being not the best one for the cover. eventually my guess is that you'll end up with something random that just hit you while you are going through some mundane tasks. thats the weird thing. would love to know the final one that you come up wth! haha, i doubt my eternals are going to fit me as well. so too bad for us. good luck with your work -z-.

[riff]

Stunning photos, as always -Z-! I've been working on a book, using Aperture 3.0 as well. Snatching time in secret, as it will be one of the gifts I'm planning for our anniversary this year!

What is yours about?

Ranon - stop with the food pics, man! You're killing me! j/k - I am amazed and jealous of your daily eating habits!

[ranonranonarat]

Stunning photos, as always -Z-! I've been working on a book, using Aperture 3.0 as well. Snatching time in secret, as it will be one of the gifts I'm planning for our anniversary this year!

What is yours about?

Ranon - stop with the food pics, man! You're killing me! j/k - I am amazed and jealous of your daily eating habits!

be careful riff, if its for your wife shes on sufu you know after the ROY denim debacle. hahaha.

im killing the waistband of my denim i say. might have to liquidate everything after going home with excess baggage around my waist if i cant fit into any of my pants after that!

[ranonranonarat]

x-posted from the Burgus World Tour thread

greatly enjoying my leg of the tour right now with the updates and i shall keep them rolling while i still have stuff to document in sydney. cant wait to pass them on to lendo though.

so today was a pretty eventful day. did some stuff instead of just eating..

this is the area that im living in right now. in chippendale in sydney. a pretty nice place, situated close to the city and close to glebe and newtown, its a convenient place with lots of eateries and a pretty good mall with supermarkets and movie theatre around.

headed out today with not much intention to do much but of course we had to have lunch first. had vietnamese beef noodles with steamed spring rolls again today as i did last week but this place is good, albeit dirty. thoroughly enjoyed it. place is called "pasteur" just in case you guys were wondering, situated right in the heart of the city.

after lunch we headed out to the nearby chinatown, where i was at last night as well. but this place is pretty different in the day. lots of chinese food to eat.

queued up for the custard puffs here. the queue here is always mad long and being true to singaporean blood, we always feel that wherever there is a queue, there must be good food. hence we joined in.

had some little friends in front of me who got into a scuffle being impatient. these little people starting kicking and shoving and pushing one another. need to be have their ears boxed!

so this is the machine spewing out piping hot custard puffs one after another, manned by a chinese elf. its just like santa's little helpers, being enslaved to a hot room with splattering oil but resigned to serving customer after customer. sad.

not so sad for me as i enjoyed these little bastards, hot as fuck with custard threatening to spew into my eyes.

after that we headed out to pick up a phone the gf sent for repairs weeks ago. got bored and got a picture of the denim.

went to "the rocks", a pretty touristy area, with mega shops like LV, Gucci and your regular shit but they also had some nice little cafes and pubs. didnt go in to try the cakes but they looked pretty amazing, maybe i will go to one day but was feeling a little too full today.

next to this cafe, was a cool little bookstore. had these books like "donts for husbands", maybe i should buy one for our married friends on superdenim. heh.

[ranonranonarat]

maybe then they would learn how to be happy.

they had this obama dress up book as well. its funny how people come up with things like this. i would never see something like this in my own country where we could dress up our political figures. the secret police would whip our arses and throw us in jail for that.

quaint bookshop in question had some cool posters around as well.

headed over to the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) situated opposite for a tour around. this is a lovely lovely place with lots of australian artists. there was an exhibition going on called primavera which featured young contemporary artists. you had all these really beautiful works of art that you wished you could buy. ink on wood, clay pieces, mixed media, installation art, even things like plant art (??) which i dont really get. but mabbe some green fingers might be able to appreciate them. amazing place everyone should check out but the shitty thing is that no photography was allowed.

nonetheless i risked my life to bring you these pictures with my ninja skills. you wouldn't believe that this entire piece was made out of clay. fucking cool.

gallery downstairs which had a lot of really nice pieces by australian artists. the big long brownish piece you see there is made of wood and was all done using a ballpoint pen. fuckass insane stuff.

huge ass plastic bag installation which left me in awe.

walking through it almost made me feel like i was one of those passing through when moses parted the red sea. this installation came up to almost 2.5 meters high, so you can really imagine how impressive it was.

some rusted pieces of metal pieced together to highlight environmental changes. of course there were a lot of really great piece but a pity i couldnt get pictures for everyone.

[ranonranonarat]

pamphlet which had some really good photography inside.

went to the museum shop of course and since this is superdenim, of course there has got to be something related to denim. great magazine with good photography. saw an article/advert about tender denim but didnt have time to browse through much of it since the museum was about to close soon but they had some amazing pictures inside as well.

left the museum in the late afternoon when it closed, then headed out to catch a movie before embarking on dinner at a korean BBQ buffet restaurant called shinara which is really quite popular since the queue was so fucking long after we went in. luckily we went in early

raw meat waiting to be cooked and eaten. they served cow tongue, which was really awesome for me.

cooking is a waiting game.

they had pre-cooked food as well which wasn't too shabby either.

ending the post with a fit pics. just in case you didnt see it in the WAYWT (denim version) thread.

french deadstock military F-2 jacket

gap chambray

black satchel

burgus plus lot 770 tour denim

clarks black leather desert boots

still thinking about whether i should keep the F-2 or whether it is too snug for me.

goodnight and hope you guys enjoy the updates! sorry for the crazy long post!

[morse9443]

[mtchfrnk]

This morning I went to my first carpentry call since breaking my ankle back in June. Installed a soundstage for a concert tonight; going back to load it out at 1am.

Ankle felt solid but the rest of me was pretty rusty after chillin on my couch for two months thanks to worker's comp. My first action back on the job was to give myself a fat lip with a socket wrench--it slipped off the bolt I was tightening and I whanged myself in the face pretty good.

Wish I'd thought to bring a real camera. But then I was working pretty hard so who knows if I could've taken pictures. Here are cell phone pictures after I got back home:

Amazing turn-ups on this snack-cart guy:

Walking through Theodore Roosevelt Park, looking at the Phineas & Sandra Rose Priest Center (Pres. Obama ate dinner here Thursday night, totally fucked up my bus route):

It's warm as hell in New York again, the urban wildlife is loving it. Hard to see but this photo is full of grackles bathing in a leaky-hose-puddle. After starlings, grackles are my favorite city bird:

Corgis are in this season:

I had wanted to get a Shake Shack hotdog after the morning's work...I was not the only one with that idea. Not worth waiting for.

They're repaving Columbus; it looks like a lava flow.

I liked how clear my shadow was, so I took a picture of it

This is what I wore to work. My samurai 710s shrank too much after a machine wash so i can't wear 'em to work anymore. The pleat-front jacket is vintage, made by Montgomery Ward. Boots are vintage Chippewas. The balance is J.Crew, probably.

It turns out the stage we built is for a secret Kid Cudi concert. If you're in New York and you want to crash it, the address is 547 West 26th. I'll bring a better camera and try to take some pictures of load-out, if it's appropriate.

[ranonranonarat]

morse those pictures are great. i love the one of the wooden pylon thing. what are they? if i dont remember wrongly, you just got your camera not too long ago and i must say that you are doing really well with it! gold pictures. too bad i gotta spread! oh and coolest sda's btw!

[liewbaysea]

made dinner in my jeans!

buffalo burgers on pumpkin ciabatta bread, caesar salad

[zeen]

^very nice pics morse. sorry must spread though.

Just got back from a fishing trip, 3 days 2 nights at the South China Sea. Basically we did bottom fishing at shipwrecks.

Here is a picture of the boat, "Rico II".

My faithful Daiwa Saltist.

After setting up the rods, all of us went to sleep as the journey was 7 hours long from Singapore to the fishing spot.

Red moon.

First catch for me was grouper weighing approximately 10lbs. It put up a good fight at the beginning but once it was on its way up, eventually it didn't put up much of a fight, but it sure was heavy.

I was busy eating dinner when i heard my reel scream. Rightaway, i ran to my rod. "Deep breath. 1 thousand, 2 thousand,3,4,5, ......... thousand, tightened drag,,, STRIKE! FISH ON!

It was a solid fish as this guy put up a hell of a fight! Everytime i reeled in, it would go straight back down this guy was no pushover. Eventually after 10 minutes, we managed bring this guy in. Easily my prized catch of the trip, golden snapper weighing at 8lbs.

Later in the night we spotted a pod of dolpins. As we kept throwing away unwanted bait fishes, this guys actually were staying near our boat hoping for more fishes. They swam playfully around the boat and occasionally made a few jumps. Magnificent creatures. Sorry for the bad pics though as they were extremely fast!

Here is the total catch, 5 golden snappers, 4 red snappers, 19 groupers 4 dog sharks, 1 cobia and other assorted fishes. Click for bigger image.

and a quick shot of my Julian Reds