What are your jeans doing today?

[ninetynine]

Good guess, yeah it's Dunkerhook.

[Vinneus]

Woke up this morning, and decided to go for a bike with my beautiful girlfriend "Meow"...

Stopped for coffee, and sat in something holy on the cathedral lawn...

Got back, and needed to chill befor the impending yet very premature soak of my RRL's....

Last look at two straight months....

finally completed my new aptartment move, got my cat back from "Beatle" haha

[albeeeezy]

Decided to soak up the sun.

[Guest chiquita_chaser]

I went for a walk in the hills with my Lee 101. Usually they don't get much wear, but all my APCs are getting repairjobs. The 101 is top quality though.

I wondered what killed this bird. Its deathpose looks like the pose of the nazi eagles. Nothing implied though. It's a pretty bird. I'm sorry it died.

Found some green rocks to stand on.

Watched my sister paint a garbagestand. Paved some driveway. Had coffee with her boyfriend.

Easter holiday doing nothing idling out, going walking working swimming fishing, passing time and hanging out

[triumph.man]

took my triumph and my fh 3001 on a ride vs my friends' 911s to the golf course.

[weirdnjfan1]

Heading out to work one of the busiest days of the year for a supermaket, Easter Saturday. Not looking forward to it at all. At least I can hope to have off all day tomorrow, but knowing Stop and Shop, I'll be closing the Self Checkout by working 8-3.

[LandoCal126]

My SExIH07BK's and I went down to "The Lower Haight Art Walk" to meet some friends and enjoy the festivities...

Checked out some artwork.

Walked into Idle Hand Tattoo and saw this.

Ended up with a $60 "Get What You Get Tattoo"

Just another day in The Bay...

[thedoad]

Another Mid week camping trip. Boy Im not too excited about starting work again in a few weeks. We went to The Escondido area to check out 2 places that had been heavily hyped up to us as great swimming holes, but They both turned out to be just ok, both were really shallow so Jumping off bigger cliffs was not an option. The were both gorgeous areas (minus shitty tagging all over one) so it was still a great trip and we got to see a pretty intense sunset from our campsite.

Hiking up the road to head down to black canyon falls.

At the falls.

A quick dip.

Drove about an hour out to get to the campsite and Prepare for the longer trip tomorrow.

HDR shot of sunset. it was crazy because the Clouds were Jet black all night but we only got like a 2 minute misting in the middle of the night. Got much colder than I expected also.

Non HDR. AMAZING SUNSET.

Feelin Epic in the 10 minutes of perfect Sunlight before dark.

Next morning drove a few miles to the cedar creek falls trailhead. This chunk of the National forest was Amazing.

HUGE mountaintop waterfall off the side of the trail.

Me on the trail. About to descend 1500. Gotta love trails that start at the top so that walk back is extra not fun after a day of swimming.

Tons of amazing Flowers in bloom. California rarely looks like this down south. Best time of the year IMO.

[thedoad]

CONT....

DANGER! DANGER! Actually tons of drunk and or not so smart people die at this spot with an alarming frequency.

Hiking down to the waterfall top before we doubled back to swim at the bottom.

Top of the falls looking down. I have a heights thing so I was like laying on my belly peeping over haha.

Bottom, and time to swim at last. The water was Ungodly cold.

Ropeswing.

Me and my buddy double jumpin.

One last one of the falls.

[fang]

looks awesome

[riff]

Thedoad - what awesome scenery!! Nice updates from everyone!

I guess this is my Easter WAYJDT....

Part 1:

Started VERY early this AM.... I wrapped up a few choco eggs, and hid them in various places along the trail we use for our morning walk with the pups...

So when we headed out for our hike, our little girl got the map, with the "treasure" clues!

It was chilly out, but we were definitely over-dressed!

Here's one of the choco egg locations.... A few years back, we had massive flooding in the GTA. This is one of many gigantic trees that was up-rooted.

We played here for a while, pretending we were Na'Vi!

After the pups were well tired out, they & my LVC stayed at home for a nap, and we headed out to meet some friends & their kids, for a long bike ride.

Non-drive side shot, but this is my ride:

What I was wearing (jacket got stripped off real quick!):

Breaking in my new gloves, haha!

We started off on the Humber Trail, down & across the lakeshore, culminating with a park & Starbucks!

First long ride of the year for the kids: 35km - pretty good.

En route:

Lakeshore (a friend & her little girl) - keeping an eye out at the intersections:

At the park:

[riff]

Part 2:

The ride back was a lot slower... Tired kids, and huge crowds everywhere.

Before we left, we stopped in to see my buddy Chris, at his store: CORE. Awesome place for BMX & skate. I am really tempted by the longboards:

Got home, showered off & back into my jeans:

Then it was out to dinner! We hit up a middle eastern place... Had a hard time getting photos of food because everyone was ravenous!

Fig walnut salad:

Mmmmm... Chicken shawarma:

Finally, since our little girl is so into "Avatar", I've been toying around on Photoshop, trying to make her one of her very own. Here's where I got to so far! Needs more work.... So I'll keep going with it tonight!

Happy Easter everyone!

[zissou]

thedoad- that HDR shot is unreal. Great adventures! Can't rep.

My jeans started out the day at the local bakery, a Saturday tradition for me and my daughter.

Then, my jeans read an article about Jean Shop while my daughter got her hair cut (yeah).

Got home and did some test strips for new leather dyes...

My daughter went to a friend's for the afternoon, so my jeans vacuumed and mopped the entire house (no vis).

Tired. Need a break...

On a whim, I decided to soak my MFSC 7161s. I wanted to wait another month, but they were getting nasty.

Drip dry

[roy6]

Tonight my jeans and I went to an art opening.

This extremely well-dressed homeless guy is at all the openings at this place, and puts a serious dent in the snacks and cheap red wine. He was wearing a nice vintage-looking mohair peacoat.

This guy gave an unsolicited twenty minute harmonica jam, then a free lecture on 9/11 conspiracy theory. He also suggested I pay him for taking his picture (I didn't).

This guy was actually quite handsome and seemed completely normal until the girl he was with looked away for a split second.

Some art.

Some fashion.

This picture of me isn't so great, but just as it was taken a hipster girl was walking by with a group of drunken friends, and she pointed at me and said, in this very deliberate and matter of fact tone, "rockabilly". Her friends filed past and looked at me blurily and slightly bored, the way you would look at the not very interesting animals at the zoo.

[-Z-]

well, well. great posts from all, AS USUAL!

went wandering in Iowa today, still without an editor here at the old family place, so i picked some photos that looked ok with minimal touch ups. mainly a few cool buildings.

most of these are from the Amana colonies, really cool little german town where you can get some great (hopefully) "authentic" german food and drink, as well as colonial german inspired touristy gifts, etc. my mom really likes this place, and its fun for all ages, so grandparents and little one's alike had a good day today.

i think i was trying to take a "cool" picture of myself, wow facebook profile pic here I come...ha. but the waywt nonetheless

This is the woolen mill, there was a water wheel and some other stuff, but the flood 2 years ago here destroyed it...they're in the process of rebuilding alot of this stuff...they make really comfy socks and scarves. sweaters are a bit boxy for my taste, but good quality stuff.

not much traffic on the road so i braved this shot, told the people in the car to please yell if there was a car coming from behind me...

grabbed a couple beers (dead guy ale and a single wide IPA)

and this is the good old tri-color collie Hogan, my childhood dog. still kickin it.

oh I forgot, have a good easter everyone

[pomata]

amazing pics, Z

my girlfriend, my puppy and me enjoyed some green today. good time

happy easter everybody!

[ninetynine]

Decided to soak up the sun.

Haha weird.

[slide13]

-Z-

Great pics and it's nice to see some Amana pictures show up here. I'm an Iowan, born and bred, living in Wisconsin now and I haven't been to Amana in many many years. Maybe next time I head back to visit I'll make my way there again.

[thedoad]

thanks for Rep. guys. Im givin it back where I can. I figure you guys all have the jeans knowledge here, Ill just try to post some fancy pics now and again.

Love this thread. So much great stuff it isn't even funny.

[almostnice]

went to the annual Easter scooter-rally that took place in my town this year.Hamburg scooterist met up at Friday afternoon to ride to the campsite:

this girl is just 2 years and sits in a sidecar attatched to her dads Vespa:

as soon as i reached the site it was time to warm up for the night,means getting drunk and meeting old friends i havent seen for years(at this time my state of drunkeness wasnt that visible):

taking clean pics wasnt that easy at this time:

a little more under the influence:

dont know why switched to BW

but even this night of alcohol and drug-abuse came to an end in the early morning.I dropped my camera twice,still works without any problems,broke my shades(looks repairable) and soaked my A-2 and Denimes in Beer,Coke and mud.

so yeah,that night was on of my best since a few years.

Next afternoon the incredible Inciters from Chicago played a mini-gig:

after that i felt sober enough to ride back home safely.

[Paul T]

Great pics. I like the way they get more blurred in synchronisation with your alcohol content. You obviously need a camera with image stabilisation (which is also resistant to drops and beer-proof).

Shocking how all our days on here are centred around alcohol...

Z and Roy, great shots and stories as usual.

[almostnice]

shocked,Paul?

youre not doing bad either will all your pics and talk about beer,and no i dont start to count them now...

[whitehorses]

love this thread. if only I had a decent camera...

[Rob060]

workin in the studio. putting together lights and retouching photos. weird angle/distortion because this was taken with the camera on a 27" imac, tilted down, and i look tiny because the workspace counter is raised up so you can be standing at the computer/whatever, instead of sitting.

[ashkaun]

Today my jeans and I got rid of my mohawk (see this post for more mohawk)

Pre-hawk:

Mid-hawk:

(wearing some western shirt from Urban Outfitters)

and Post-hawk:

And yeah, my shaving utensils are in an Ernie and Bert cup. I just need to upgrade to legit safety razor or straight blade.

[thedoad]

Cant rep. Almostnice. Looks like an amazing time. Skin byrds... My poor heart.

[Dchill]

my boy didn't want to sit still for me!

[dkatz]

Finally! Victory! I actually made it out of Kampala for a weekend, with the intent aim of... relaxing!

I didn't even bring my computer. That is serious dedication to the cause. It also helps that the law was on my side.... human subjects research regulations restrict me from being toooo loose with where I take my computer (since it contains data on human subjects research... uh... subjects).

To set the scene: remember the bedraggled tone of my post about field pretesting in Rakai, tack on a few massively hectic round-the-clock work-days and a delightful half-day spent trying to trans-continentally resolve trans-continental identity theft/bank-account-fraud until 12:30am Thursday (er... Friday).

Getting out of Kampala makes me feel like this

Funfortunately Uganda was experiencing a nation-wide gasoline shortage. We found a station with fuel and decided to be smart and fill up a few extra jerry-cans to be safe. We tossed ("placed") them in the trunk, loaded up, and hit the road. The smell of gasoline was bothersome, but we figured it would air out and go away. Buuuut it didn't. In fact, it got progressively worse. Finally, after deciding we'd probably killed off enough brain-cells to forget about work, we decided to pull over and investigate. Sure enough, one of the jerry cans (read: former vegetable oil container) had a leak. Terrific. We found someone with a spare, transferred the fuel and yours truly got his Macguyver on:

(my favorite moment of this experience was when a girl walked by and asked us if that was gasoline or wine. Because logically we'd be tying jugs of wine to the back of our car?)

Repping the Northern Hemisphere. Hard.

A bit of a frontier-town feel, eh?

We made it to Mbarara before sun-down, at which point the driver expressed her desire to switch (she'd been behind the wheel for about 6.5 hours). "Sure" your fearless narrator thought, "I can do this! I've driven twice for a total of 20 minutes in Kampala in a compact sedan, driving a lifted SUV at night on country roads for 2.5 hours should be no sweat!"

I have NEVER worked so hard driving, nor been so exhausted afterwards. No streetlights, narrow roads, rampant pot-holes, oncoming drivers who feel the need to remind you of their presence by turning their high-beams on right when they pass, and the fact that African folks wearing dark clothing at night are damn hard to see... it was an adventure, to say the least!

We stopped in Kabale and wolfed down one of the fastest meals I have ever seen four people concurrently eat - we were almost to the lake and ready to be there. The restaurant staff were clearly STOKED to have gotten the bazungu (for all of 5 minutes). Added to the general theme of fuel-related safety by hacking a small water bottle in half with my leatherman, sticking the small end in the gas tank, and, while Jill poured the extra fuel from the (vegetable oil) jug through water bottle, stabbing an air-hole in the back of the jug to prevent "glugging". Twice (two jugs of extra fuel) Macguyver round two, complete.

The boat ride across the black water in the black night surrounded by little black islands under a massively star-studded sky made it all worthwhile.

As did seeing where I was when I woke up the next morning.

Reppin' the restaurant i worked at through university, and some Tellason Strummers

Enjoyed the cool weather with some cribbage

Pretty stoked on that hand.

If it can be climbed on, it will be climbed on.

[dkatz]

"A UGANDAN CRESTED CRANE A UGANDAN CRESTED CRANE A UGANDAN CRESTED CRANE!!" (Uganda's national bird, on the flag and the state seal)

Unlucky belt

Dinner!

School bus...

To school.

This country is insultingly beautiful (once you get out of Kampala...)

I drove this road two nights previously in the pitch black... makes me feel even better about my driving experience!

Not too shabby of a weekend. Aaaaand now I'm back to the stress-mess that is my life in Kampala.

sigh... when do I get to go back?

[riff]

Dkatz - awesome post! Keep them coming! What an adventure you're having!

Must spread rep....