What are your jeans doing today?

[tvshooter]

oh my who could this be???

oh it's just Sarah! (more rep points haha!)

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

after some ice cream, we did. . . more long lines

heat came out and off came the hickory shirt!

later dudes and thanks for all the repz for Quinn!

[farmer]

Same, same. I grew up with 2 labs. Still miss them. Great pic, beatle.

Yeah, but now I feel down. So on a happy note. Now that me a B have a new casa with a nice yard we are thinking about replacing sayds (a fat yellow lab) with a chunky black lab pup we found at a high kill shelter and naming her Oprah. Anyways.. Sup Sayds miss you piggy.

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sorry, continue

[annabelle1308]

i love you pups

i had a random day... first off i was at the model expo with ufc ring girls arianny and rachelle...and yes i'm wearing an indigo dyed top with my purple faces and HEELS (don't hate, i'm the girliest sufuer ever!)

and i know i promised a series of my trip pics but i just got back from nuit blanche which is an annual all-night arts festival in toronto. this festival runs from about 7pm till about 6am or so and i heard that close to a million people attend. they shut down half the streets in downtown so it's a realy big event. here are some pics~

wandering yorkville

"renegade parade" where they got hundreds of people to randomly parade the streets behind this truck blasting music

stopped in sugar mountain for some candy

dundas square...which is like times square meets shibuya crossing

people lined up to hit a button which shoots you out a fortune

this was mine

goodnight, friends!

[riff]

Great stuff Annabelle! We were there as well, and got home a short while ago to tuck the bambino into bed! Yorkville was insane...

[annabelle1308]

i was actually wondering if you guys would be out! lol hope you had a good time!

[-Z-]

riff....when the HELL did you get a 5d mkII and a 50 1.2L ?? thought you had a d300s?

(saw it in waywt [dv])

god i need money so i can get a FF body...

[beatle]

Bieni says thank you for all your kind words and reps...made her very very happy....

[edmond]

i miss bieni i want more pics of her did she get jealous with the new pup?

[beatle]

Ed - Bieni is my golden..

[edmond]

yeah i know who she is! haha i just saw you got a new pup! sorry my bad it was frescos post! fuckin quote reply!

[beatle]

lol... I know... ...............

[dkatz]

Puppies....

you all are making me mad homesick right now.

Last night I was walking to a friend's house-party and made superbestfriends with a street-pup. Homegirl followed me all the way to the party, waited outside for the few hours I was there, and walked me back down to the bar. Unfortunately she was gone by the time I left the bar. Or maybe it was fortunate because I don't think my (former army barracks) flat is any place for a happy pooch

=/

[riff]

Dkatz - We actually did adopt a street pup many years ago! Found her in Barbados & fell in love... Was a lot easier to bring her home than we expected... Our home would be a zoo if we had less self-control!

@ Farmer... Go get that black lab pup... You can never replace an old friend, but it's always good to make more room to love a new one

riff....when the HELL did you get a 5d mkII and a 50 1.2L ?? thought you had a d300s?

(saw it in waywt [dv])

god i need money so i can get a FF body...

Eagle eyes Not mine. A buddy is thinking of stepping up to a full pro rig, and I'm using it for a couple of weeks to check it out. I have the D300 (not the "s"), and it's quite an eye-opener to be using a full frame with lenses of this quality

[ranonranonarat]

Eagle eyes Not mine. A buddy is thinking of stepping up to a full pro rig, and I'm using it for a couple of weeks to check it out. I have the D300 (not the "s"), and it's quite an eye-opener to be using a full frame with lenses of this quality

check it out sounds something like "im gonna buy this but i wanna find out how it feels like first" eh? heh.

all this talk is making me happy to be home with "the little girl", our family darling. this was taken a year back when she was still the baby. back then my mom was still really afraid of dogs but im glad shes now free to run around the house and tear things apart now. heh.

[nicolnicolnicol]

On Friday, we headed out to a small island off my island country (Singapore). Pulau Ubin. Pretty cool place which rent out actually decent mtb for you to cycle around on gravel,mud, tarmac trails. Nice scenery and mangrove forest to explore.

Boat to ferry people to that island

Wheeler pro 1900 and skulls 5010

One of the many off road trails

On top of a 6 storey bird observation tower. Didn't manage to catch this guy though. But did saw a few hornbills.

View from tower

Spot that little guy?

Some weird giant fruit

Just chilling

[nicolnicolnicol]

Mangrove board walk extended out to the coast

Was trying to get a close up of the barnacles and so step down onto that wet patch over there. Slipped and fell when I was turning back to the dry spot. Knelt down in slow mo to break my fall. For once I though I'm gonna hit the rock and fall into the sea.

Spotted plenty of these guys

Some abandoned quarry

Nice coconut to end my day

And a nice hot soak for the jeans

On the next day, wore the same pair of jeans and headed to another island, Sentosa. The jeans are not yet fully dried and decided on a beach wash.

'Hung' up to dry

Sun was good enough for some tanning as well

The end, cheers!

[beatle]

wow..did you bring all ur jeans or a lot of friends ?

[nicolnicolnicol]

wow..did you bring all ur jeans or a lot of friends ?

it was me and 3 other friends.

[dkatz]

Dkatz - back in action! Looking forward to seeing your market haul!

Your wish is my command!

Yesterday my jeans went to Owino Market (apparently now named St. Balikuddembe Market... just learned that) - the biggest market in at least Uganda. It's got pretty much everything you could imagine, but I was there with an eye for clothing (can you believe it?). It's seriously like a thrift-lover's wet dream. I spent a few hours in there, loving the interactions I was having with people (for the most part), and the thrift-hunt.

The day's pickups:

Four shirts: 35,000UGX = ~$16

Apparently I had an eye for checks/stripes. Or maybe patterned shirts just hide the dirt better...

Pretty funny- all four shirts are pretty significantly altered to be slimmed-up (so they fit me great!)

some fantastically wrinkly linen pants, for those super-hot days: 18,000UGX = ~$8.50

some more kitenge (wax-print) fabric, for shirts

the far left will become a long-sleeve button-downs, and maybe the lining of a suit (also very similar to one of the kitenge long-sleeve shirts I already have), the other two will be short-sleeve button-downs. Love the umbrellas

And the real score of the day: a "Chesterfield Racing" motorcycle jacket!

I was pretty damn stoked to stumble across this. Unfortunately I don't ride so I would feel like a tool wearing it, so I gave it to my be-motorcycled roommate.

There are enough motorcycle- and leather-fans around here, there's gotta be someone who can get me some info about this jacket. Anybody?

I'll wait to mention how much I pad for it 'til I get some more info about it from you suckers!

I love the cafe-racer feel of it, particularly because of how well-worn it clearly is.

This sucker's clearly seen some serious riding-days. Could use some good-good loving, but I love the worn-in vintage feel.

A couple other notable finds that I decided against were legit snake-skin cowboy boots (dude started at 100,000UGX, so I probably coulda gotten him down to 40k or so... but decided I don't really need pointy-ass cowboy boots) & a pair of A. Testoni "Red Label" tan loafers that were pretty sick but not enough my style to validate the 55,000UGX price the vendor didn't seem willing to be flexible on.F'

[dkatz]

Today...

I had to marvel at how bad ass I feel in this jacket:

then I dropped my care off at the Bugolobi Football Club's car-wash

it apparently took the dude a solid four hours to get it clean... my little guy was DIRTY.

Decided to have some local grub for breakfast:

Katogo (on the left side of the plate) essentially began as leftovers from the night before, reheated and stewed together. Usually some banana, tomato, beans, uh.. random other shit.

Pilao (on the right side of the plate) is somewhat-fried, "spiced" (extremely mildly) rice.

Avocado. Love it. The avocados here are not the (mutant) hass-style ones we get at home in the States- they're much larger, with smooth green skins, and are much sweeter and creamier. Less good for guacamole, but I still eat the shit out of them.

Beef stew/sauce (in the little bowl). Again, this would traditionally have been some leftovers from the night before. A lot of times when you get katogo, the meat stew is cooked in with the katogo. This sauce actually had pretty good flavor, which is unusually (blandness is the name of the game with Ugandan food).

Lots of "chili sauce".

All told: 3,000 UGX = ~$1.40

suck on that, ranonaranonarat!

After working at the restaurant for a few, I decided to head over to the super swanky Emin Pasha hotel to meet up with some friends and do some work in a nicer environment.

The cafe/bar of this hotel is probably the nicest place to sit in this city. But it's also American-expensive: iced coffee was 8,000 UGX = ~$3.50!

Back to Bugolobi to pick up the car, decided while I was waiting that it was a good moment for some traintrack-porn

(yeah yeah jeans and flipflops. Whatever it was a hot Sunday)

Aaaand then I came back home and went for a run through Bugolobi marsh through the Kitintale slums and out towards Luzira prison. Got good and lost on the way back through the slums until a young homey on a bike offered to be my guide. Then we raced a bit and he kicked my ass and reminded me how out of shape I've gotten in the past year.

And now I just ate some delicious ratatouille made by some friends who decided to come over and cook us all dinner, and I'm back to work... calculating the data-entry company's rate of entry-errors to see if we need to re-enter any part of my survey. Woo Stata...

[dkatz]

Dkatz - We actually did adopt a street pup many years ago! Found her in Barbados & fell in love... Was a lot easier to bring her home than we expected... Our home would be a zoo if we had less self-control!

ah man, you have no idea how close I've been a couple times here. I miss having a dog around something fierce. But my home and my lifestyle here are just not conducive to a happy puppy. And no one likes a sad puppy!

[pomata]

went to a vintage market today. the clothes were not that interesting but the scooters were great.

1951 vespa

1953 vespa

innocenti

[simon626]

Went to Universal Studios Horror Night with my girlfriend for the first time in my life. She usually goes every year.

Wasn't really scary for me knowing they can't touch you. It was like walking around with Star-Power hahaha.

This was my favorite thing there.

One of my highschool classmates was working

[pomata]

and some cars...

'66 autobianchi bianchina

1948 fiat topolino

[Farhad]

Great stuff guys

Edit: riff this is for you as you asked for my to do a WRYDT with my real camera!!! LOL!!!

Here are some pics from my NYC trip. I didn't shoot that much scenery stuff and didn't really make it out of Soho but here are a few anyways.

[Piddan]

lovely pics farhad, i love nyc!

[Farhad]

and here are some iPhone shots as well

and arriving into LAX

cheers!!!

[riff]

check it out sounds something like "im gonna buy this but i wanna find out how it feels like first" eh? heh.

Post more pics of that furry little cutie!

Today...

I had to marvel at how bad ass I feel in this jacket:

I vote keep it!

Great stuff guys

Edit: riff this is for you as you asked for my to do a WRYDT with my real camera!!! LOL!!!

Lovely pics Farhad - thanks for sharing!

@ nicolnicolnicol - I spent a week at Rasa Sentosa a few years ago. Your pics brought back great memories! Singapore is an amazing place!

@Simon - looks like a surreal evening

[superbeveridge]

went to a vintage market today. the clothes were not that interesting but the scooters were great.

1951 vespa

1953 vespa

innocenti

Had one of those 1951 vespa faro basso's in my scooter shop not too long ago, slow as hell but pretty... sold it for a bundle.

[zeen]

@dkatz: you even look bad ass! fit looks snug too!

@pomata: those are some real nice vespas. gotta love the classics!

@simon626 : looks like fun! the guy next to you in the simpson ride seems to be dozing off..

@farhad: killer pics as usual. flawless!