What are your jeans doing today?

[almostnice]

i remember "I dont know" being on a CD supplement of german SPEX magazine.

good stuff.

[Vinneus]

didnt get any pics, but today me and my jeans signed a lease for a 3 bedroom flat in the middle of downtown!

[-Z-]

my jeans have been fucking around with flickr for the entire afternoon trying to get it to accept some images...hopefully i'll have some pictures soon.

well, here's one. at least the sun was out today. getting warmer in the north.

[haploid]

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No shot of the jeans... But that's what they've been doing today.

Sorry about sound quality/my sloppy keyboard playing!

[connor]

i saw dredg play one time and they went on like this 30 minute jam session with these two local jazz musicians on saxophone/trumpet... couple of old guys and they were killing it

[Rob060]

hah. that's cool. guess i'm out of the loop. he was a cool guy. the other one is a musician too. david knight.

death... in a playground

[-Z-]

had some trouble getting the little one to take a picture for mom. in my typical waywt spot out back...

His chucks

Her chucks

Here are some random shots from lately....

[ranonranonarat]

you got a really cute little one. nice!

[superscore]

went to town to get a new Stanley and by accident had a nice find at H&M's

Chambrey Shirt of decent make and for a fiver not to bad at all i guess,...

will post fit pic after the first soak

[connor]

might have to go down to HM

[coupon]

My roommate was bored and hung all our jeans on the wall...and then he took pictures of them. So today, my jeans were hanging on the wall.

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[beatle]

I love that picture

[Paul T]

Quite a few folks here might know I've had my head down recently trying to finish a book on David Bowie. And on a trip up North this weekend to see the folks, we decided to stop off in Tadcaster - where Bowie's dad grew up.

I always thought this was a grim, Northern mill town. How wrong I was. It's beautiful. As I took this pic, an old fella in a flat cap told me that the railway viaduct in the distance is one of the finest examples of stone masonry in the country.

It's a tiny town, which I did know was dominated by several old breweries. So the first thing we did was stop at a pub for lunch. No pics, as it makes you look like a tourist, but this was the Britannia, right by the river, cheap pub food, red-faced friendly, talkative locals, and beer that was made a few hundred yards away that tasted like the nectar of the Gods.

I lost count of how many pubs there were in the tiny town. You could visit three a day and it would still take a week to get through them. THis one is looks good too:

There are two major breweries here: John Smith, a huge more corporate affair, and Samuel Smith - a terrific, smaller brewery whose beers are excellent quality and always keenly-priced. If you're in London, look for a Sam Smith pub and you won't get scalped. There's an earlier wayjdt of mine that shows an amazing Sam SMith pub in Beverley , roughly 50 miles from here.

These two brewery buildings are un-marked, I suspect they're John Smith:

[Paul T]

This is the Samuel Smith HQ< with the brewery chimney poking up behind.

After a while, you get to notice in England, that at the same time the Georgians and Victorians built breweries, they'd also build Methodist Chapels - to try and turn the workers away from the demon drink.

Damn, one things about the town is I didn't see any dogs. Sorry, Lendo. Anyway, here are my SDA - flattering, aren't they, they show off the distorted growth over my knee very nicely.

It was a flying trip; here you can see the gates to York, where we stayed that night. It was a royalist town, subjected to a three month siege during the civil war. Because all the participants were related, they ended the siege politely, shaking hands, without trashing the city.

Before that, having been built by the Romans, it was attacked by Vikings. We spotted a few, trying to look 'hard'. But we know they're not hard. Why? They're wearing warm clothes. In Yorkshire, if you're hard, you go out in the winter, snow or no, dressed in a T-shirt or a thin, pastel-coloured dress and high heels.

The area's great for kids. Castles, vikings, and some of the gas stations have all mod cons - including a Tardis!

Anyway, like Frankie said, it's nice to go travelling... but it's oh, so nice to come home. Especially when you have purchases to unwrap. Cheers!

[superscore]

@ Paul

yeah,... love the looser fit of your jawnz,... would +rep if i could,....

make???

[Paul T]

@ Paul

yeah,... love the looser fit of your jawnz,... would +rep if i could,....

make???

Thanks superscore.

These are the Studio D'Artisan 103XX, natural indigos. SDA are under-appreciated, one of the key Osaka jeans companies. Expsensive, though. More on this thread:

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?p=2051873#post2051873

[grmanny]

My roommate was bored and hung all our jeans on the wall...and then he took pictures of them. So today, my jeans were hanging on the wall.

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this pic is money

[superscore]

@ Paul

thx for the reply,... those really do look great,... but i can´t help it, somehow i limit myself in buying levis´s,... i love the 55 for it´s loser fit and to me those are as authentic as one can get,... maybe i should give another brand a try but also i love to stay with one or maximum two pairs for a while,... so i have not to put so many miles in each to get a nice fading, hahaha

for now i have the 55 and a 33, the later i only soaked so far and wore for a a day or two,... considering selling them, cause they only look good to me worn with suspenders and i am not young enough anymore to go this route,... see, i am a levis person by heart ;-)

[almostnice]

had to work on the other side of the town today.took the chance to take some pics on the fly. passed this wallpainting which always makes me smile:

we had to do some repair on a set for some stupid TV cooking show

at lunchbreak the sun made one of her rare appearances

(wastecontainer did the tripod)

on the way back home i passed this spooky tunnel

(used my shoulderbag this time)

i also stopped at Urban Outshitters,saw a really nice brown canvasbag there,it was on sale from 65,- down to 25,-.a closer inspection showed that all the leatherparts are made from cheap plastic,the hardware was also beyond quality.wtf are they think? they also sell battered second hand shoes for exorbitant prices atm,not sure if i will stop there again.

[crissyw]

My roommate was bored and hung all our jeans on the wall...and then he took pictures of them. So today, my jeans were hanging on the wall.

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my skull lindas !

ive finally gotten them hemmed

[zissou]

That's a great look, markus. Love the jacket.

@ Paul, thanks again for the great photos. I love me some Taddy Porter. Those glasses look great, too.

[jstavrin]

Paul: Those pictures are incredible, but your posts always a bit depressing because of how much I miss the UK.

[DocBlue]

#almostnice : very nice jacket. i like your syle.

[Paul T]

Paul: Those pictures are incredible. Your posts always kind of bum me out though because of how much I miss the UK.

Aw, thanks guys. I've spent so much of my life exploring the US, I only realised a few years ago that I knew it better than the UK, which I appreciate more now. If you'da told me when I was 20 that I'd fall in love with Tascaster I'd have punched you in the mouth.

But weirdly, I think more of the UK is being lost, homogenised ,than the US. In, oh, Michigan, the Carolinas, Florida, it's the 'burbs that have become generic. In Bath, York, Lincoln, Bromley, it's the very centres that have all become the same, with Starbucks, Gap, Carphone Warehouse, the same depressing identikit franchises, and all the old junk, book, and thrift stores being wiped out. So hurray for Tadcaster.

Where are you from jstavrin? Hulme?

[jstavrin]

Aw, thanks guys. I've spent so much of my life exploring the US, I only realised a few years ago that I knew it better than the UK, which I appreciate more now. If you'da told me when I was 20 that I'd fall in love with Tascaster I'd have punched you in the mouth.

But weirdly, I think more of the UK is being lost, homogenised ,than the US. In, oh, Michigan, the Carolinas, Florida, it's the 'burbs that have become generic. In Bath, York, Lincoln, Bromley, it's the very centres that have all become the same, with Starbucks, Gap, Carphone Warehouse, the same depressing identikit franchises, and all the old junk, book, and thrift stores being wiped out. So hurray for Tadcaster.

Where are you from jstavrin? Hulme?

Oh, I'm from the US but I studied in London last year. Honestly though, I've never felt more at home and not a day (hour) goes by when I don't think about my time there. Unfortunately my desired career sort of requires that I be in LA for a little while so I can't go back just yet.

[almostnice]

same here,Paul.Its called gentrification:the old-established shops,flatrenters are recklesslypushed beside by more powerful (read wealthy) social climbers.its happens in all so-called "in-areas" here,mine including.more and more boring all-the-same chain shops,rents are going up that much, that people with a mediocre income(like me) can hardly afford it anymore.its like a plague,that cant be stopped.worst is that its all supported by the green party here,i fuckin hate these cunts right now.since the last election they made sure they will never get my vote again.

[Paul T]

same here,Paul.Its called gentrification:the old-established shops,flatrenters are recklesslypushed beside by more powerful (read wealthy) social climbers.its happens in all so-called "in-areas" here,mine including.more and more boring all-the-same chain shop....

[rant]

Too freakin' right. What's worst where I am is everyone who lives here, if they own their house, think they're rich because it's worth more. Idiots. Because if you sell, where do you go? And if you stay.... more cellphone shops.

[/rant]

[almostnice]

lol,what selfdestructive logic is that??

anyway,better stop politics now or i will go on allnight long.

time to watch the "Baader-Meinhof-Komplex" again...

[Gaijin]

lunchbreak

some guy placed this at my feet

denims relaxed after a few

denim back to work

working

this channel reserved for smokey who stops in from time to time

[riff]

After yesterday's snowfall, we decided to take the pups ( 8 months old & still growing!) for a long walk. The trails were beautiful with fresh snow, and all was quiet.

The snow was heavy & wet, so we dressed accordingly...

We kriss-crossed the river numerous times over bridges

Just in case...

Obligatory denim shot...

Amazing texture - the bark on an old tree

And what's a walk without art...