What are your jeans doing today?

[morse9443]

^Great past few pages...

Took a weekend in Westhampton LI. Weather didn't cooperate, but pretty nonetheless..

A few beach shacks;)... very expensive area

Goodbye LI..

Hello New London

[therelativity]

[therelativity]

[LandoCal126]

Saturday after watching the US/ England match I headed over to the Meet Your Maker event at The Ohio Showroom...

Caught up with kixslf and Sam of Tanner Goods to check out the exclusive Hand Tooled Belts...

Headed over to Cell Space to check out the Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry Film...

Saw this bad boy sitting outside...

Got there too early so I took a macro shot of my SExIH07BK's had to be taken...

Full Bar and Free Drinks...

The Movie...

[LandoCal126]

Decided to skip the UnionMade after party to go check out a band at Bender's...

King City!

Roy Boots and SExIH07BK's kicking a smoke out back...

Cool Poster...

Saw this in the pisser...

Meet up with haptronic and kixslf to blaze one in the name of sufu. Here, have a shotgun with haptronic...

Picked up a night capper at Cancun...

Fuck, I am going to miss you SF!!!

Wrapped up the weekend by eating some slices with a few friends tonight...

[dkatz]

I have a Hario too! I brought it back with me from my last trip to the States and I love it.

[fardin]

landocal love the pics, the guy blowing the horn looks awesome.

[beatle]

trumpet****

[hollowsleather]

This thread delivers.

[therelativity]

Thank you for the reps~

dkatz, yes, I have been using it for 3 days and love it very much. It delivers the Market lane coffee very well~

grilled dumpling

[therelativity]

[raspberries]

@therelativity

i went to cafe dan today! didn't even see your post about it yesterday...

are you living in that area?

[Paul T]

ON Sunday we wandered early into the city. No markets; instead we headed for the area around St Pauls and London Wall.

It\s called London Wall, because it's the first wall. HEre you can see your standard, megalithic office block. It's suspended on pillars - look in the bottom right, and you'll see it hangs over the Roman Wall, built 1800 years ago.

Just opposite is an 80s postmodern building, all red and blue piping and exterior detailing. Underneath is is this little plaque, carved soon after 1666, to commemorate a church burnt down in the Great Fire of London and never rebuilt.

Nearby is an old Police Box - fro the same era as The Tardis, I guess, a public phone from the 1920s, where you could call the cops in an emergency.

All around here is full of office buildings, it's where most of the banks, lawcourts, are still based, although but by bit they're moving to newer places in Canary Wharf. But in the middle of all of this is the tiniest park, a little oasis. It happened to be featued in the movie, Clower, but bfore this was completley unknown unles,s like me, you jsut happened across it by accident. It's called Postman's Park. Maybe it was better when it was a hidden, unknown gem; in the middle s a memorial both to heroism and Victorian sentimentality: a set of ceramic panels commemorating people who died trying to save others.

The ranges of deaths are pretty awesome - a lot of suicides, which was obviously common in Victorain England. I kind of liked the death of Sarah SMith; burnt alive on-stage, an occupational hazard if you were an actress wearing bulky dresses, at a time when theatres were still lit by naked flames.

We dropped in to the museum of London, that has just reoponed after refurbishment. IN there is one of my favourite skulls; from an auroch. These would wander over the area before London was even a town.

They've reopened a Victorian gallerty, and entire reconstructed street. Pretty much standard museum fare, the nipper liked it, I'm not into the Victorians much. But I like the plumbing. So here's my SDA, Converse & H&M, and a Victorain street urinal.

[Paul T]

We thought we'd head home via a pub on the river. These are old-school places, sometimes full of your old working class East Enders, sometimes 'yuppies', as they still call them. ONe of the best ones in the old Limehouse district, it turned out, doesn't let kids in, but we managed to find a black cab which took us over to Wapping, and one of London's nest riverside pubs, the Prospect of Whitby. This is the 'new' building. It was rebuilt in 1779 after a fire.

This was the view, as we ate our prawn sandwiches and I drank some Doom Bar.

The gallows commemorate Captain Kidd, who was hanged at this spot on the river.

On the way back to the staion, we came across this place. An old Edwardian Power staion, now converted into a restaurant. I had a damn good coffee here. They have one the world's most beautiful espresso machines, the faema E61, which is all cirves and chromes, apparently based on the world's most beautiful car, the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale. Two double espressos just about made up for the Doom Bar.

Despite the espressos the Doom Bar was having an effect. I thought I maybe halluncinated this: a bookshop in a greenhouse. I have no idea what it was called but it was damn good. Apparently they do author readings in there, with a maximum of 16 people. Seems a good idea to me, as someone who once did an author reading in Greenwcih and 3 people turned up. Hmmm. By now we were late, I was a little drunk so I bought g/f a Man Ray still lifes book on me credit card.

Back to via Shadwell station. THis is a strange, old area, kind of marooned in the modern city, but it used to be right at the centre of the East End. Lots of changes - most of the old pubs have closed down.

Canle street is famous in London folklore... as the place where the power of the British fascists was broken, in 1936. Oswald Moseley led his blackshirts down this street, while the Police used horses and batons to clear a way thru. But on this street they enacted the Spanish Civil War mottoe, 'no pasaran'; erected barricades, threw slates, rubble, the contents of chamber pots on the police, and the blackshirts. They didn't pass. From that point the powere of the blackshirts to intimidate jews, irish and other immigrants was broken.

This mural, in a Diego Rivera style, commemorates the event.

It was painted in the 70s; the artist was only half way through when it was defaced with garffiti by the National Front, who still meet in the East End. Now the painting's covered with a resin, to resist more attacks. IF you walk right up to it, you can see hundreds of paint splashes, from where boozed up right-wingers have launched renewed assaulits, year after eyar. So the story goes on.

Just behind you, as you look at the mural, is a magnificent old church, by Hawksmoor. THis was built on the site of a notorious crossroads, which occultists believe has a special resonance. There is a pyramid in the churchyard, which inpsired many to believe Hawksmoor had occult or masonic interests. The churchyard itself is spooky, for the building was burnt out in the blitz - the walls survived and they built a small modern church within the walls. Hawksmoor churches always seem to have drunks or crack addicts in the churchyard.

Back in the 1700s, there was a set of supposedly ritual murders on the site. One local was convicted of the crime; later, workmen in the area were digging, and they found a body buried there, apparently the murderer. The skeleton had a stake thru its heart. I did hear that a local landlord managed to get hold of the skull.

I'll go looking for the skull another day.

[ranonranonarat]

PaulT, every picture here is great, I always enjoy reading your posts and you're my favourite posters on this thread because of the insight you can give into each picture and how simple yet amazing things are. the coffee place is amazing, as is the greenhouse bookstore. the mural is fantastic too. the death of alfred frederick croft sounds pretty interesting to me. saving a lunatic but was killed himself. the irony of it all.

i always thought that london was going to be a commercialised/gloomy/urbanish/industrial(?) place with harrods and things like that, but i am clearly wrong and i am liking what i see very much. interesting!

cant wait for your next post already, rep when i am done spreading!

[cheapmuthafukr]

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on sunday, my lvc 33 took part in a 3 and a half mile skateboard race. im in the video a few times...

[thedoad]

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[cash]

Drove out to an island in the middle of a big salty lake for a picnic. Drove? Yea, somebody built a rode to it a bunch of years back. It's been destroyed by flooding, but it's "safe" now.

The man-child. Not a huge fan of denim -- guess he gets that from his mom (she's not always a fan either).

Someone built a ranch on one end of the island. The idea was that it would be too difficult for rustlers to get to the beef. Apparently one of the buildings here (not in this picture) is the oldest Anglo structure in Utah still on it's original foundation -- Paul T's "new" buildings pre-date by 100 years.

The ranch was in operations until the 1980s. Now, its owned by the state and they let you do all sorts of Old-Tyme tourist-trap things that will help you justify your workwear (I need it for lassoing sawhorse steers).

Most of the island is something of a wildlife preserve. Plenty of fucking seagulls, some pronghorn antelope, one of the West's largest bison herds and a stoned horse.

[Paul T]

cash, that last photo in particualr looks like it comes from a brochure. Beautiful. Top posts by cheep and thedoad, too.

[sharpie1200]

Looks delicious, where about in LA?

bad picture of a seafood "fried" rice bowl

pork belly bowl

[-Z-]

been a while. finally got out for some decent shooting, threw up some of the results from you guys.

[-Z-]

and an HDR, experimenting a bit blowing this out of realistic proportion...

[ranonranonarat]

wow -z-, those are some pretty amazing shots from you. i find it hard to believe sometimes that you're shooting on a kit lens. what body are you using? FF?

[-Z-]

the wonders of post processing! and a decent eye

shooting on a Canon T1i (500D), so nothing to write home about there either.

and yea, I keep saying i'm gonna upgrade my glass, but I can't afford it! (well, I can, but my wife is making it a difficult issue) and as long as i'm able to snap off stuff that I'm happy with I think i'm gonna hold off. plus, I want the material I shoot to have a certain look to it, and for that I don't really need anything crazy sharp since i destroy most of my images in processing anyways.

Thanks for the kind words as always, i enjoy spraying my stuff all over this board...fun feedback for me.

[ranonranonarat]

Thanks for the kind words as always, i enjoy spraying my stuff all over this board...fun feedback for me.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[-Z-]

well, VERY poor choice of words there...hahaha.

MOVING ON>>

[beatle]

this thread makes me happy****

[thedoad]

this thread makes me happy****

I love it. Amazing stuff everyone. Glad I had enough Rep to give around and thanks.

Last post was sunday. This is Sat. A big unusually busy day for me..

Went to Long beach for a Belgian beer / american belgian beer style tasting and got pretty toasty. Went back to my buddies house where his cats do Awesome jumps / stunts just about on command. Then a bunch of people partied at my place before going to Chinatown to see CROM. Pictures of dude with the robot arm thing is a not so good band but he controls his drum triggers by punching with that terminator arm and its totally awesome. Please note the big beer spill on my shirt. Classy especially since it was (free) COLT 45.

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

cat jumping photo is A+++

[therelativity]

@therelativity

i went to cafe dan today! didn't even see your post about it yesterday...

are you living in that area?

Hah, its such a small world. I am participating a conference in XUHUIQV