It has been a busy week. I’m so glad that the weekend is finally here. A few highlights from the last couple of days are:

1. My Olloclip arrived in the mail. I ordered one after reading about it in wired. The image above was one of the first ones that I snapped, while using it. Incidentally, this week I read an article in Wired about Instagram. It made me feel a little better about myself, hahaha.

2. Honest people rule. Yesterday I received a mystery paypal deposit. I was a bit nervous, at first. When I checked into it a bit more, I realized it was from a dude in the UK who I had licensed some photos to in May of 2010 for his postcard biz. A welcome surprise. I had basically just written off getting paid for that one.

Have a great weekend.

It’s been a busy week already. Do you know what it feels like to fall in love all over again? I guess I sort of do, now. Reagan and I had one of our most memorable anniversaries to date. I mean, it really was pretty good, despite all of the hype surrounding the 5 year mark. We did the Soho Grand last night. I love the decor, and the locale. I slept in an hour longer than normal, had quick breakfast with my bride, and still made it to work early. Dude, I need to move to lower Manhattan. I really don’t mind downgrading to a studio. Its all about the tradeoffs.

Speaking of my bride, check her first post on DC (Divine Caroline, not District of Columbia). Quick screenshot of the sidebar promo below. Da*m, whoever did those photos is skilled. Hahahaha.

top photo: accessory pile at the soho g.:

• Belt: Tiffany’s
• Watch: Diesel
• Necktie: Nautica
• Chapstick: Natural Ice

Photo by: total nerd.

Feeling a bit whimsical today. A few years back DJ Green Lantern did a Beastie Boys mix tape called “New York State of Mind.” Here is “Body Movin’ (Green Mix)” featuring Ludacris. Spin it.

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Well, I guess that I am now officially one of those people who posts crappy cell phone shots on their blog. Hahahaha. Despite not really having anything planned for the weekend, it ended up being a bit of a banger. I am now officially broke. This Tuesday makes 5 years that I’m married to Mrs. Reagan. I told her that we could take a trip to 47th Street, so that she could pick out something sparkly she liked. We did, and she did. Since we were in the neighborhood, we hit up little Brazil.
We downed some pao de queijo, mandioca frita, guarana, etc.. It was delicious.

To round things out, Reagan recently landed a gig contributing weekly to a site called Divine Caroline, dropping hair knowledge on the masses. We had to shoot a couple of frames for her first post. Here is one of the options that I quite liked. It almost does her eyes justice (photos never really do, you have to see them in real life to appreciate).

Other good things that happened this weekend: Cassette funded. So stoked about this thing. Thanks to everyone who helped my friends fund their project. Reagan and I finished off the weekend watching “True Grit.”  I love cowboy movies. It’s kind of odd, because I don’t really like cowboys. But, I grew up watching this type of movie with papa Breinholt, and I guess you could say that have developed a taste for the genre.

Have a great week.

As quickly as the snow came, it was gone. Today is 60 degrees and rainy. Mother nature is schizophrenic, I tell you. I guess I am too.

After years of badmouthing all things Mac, I broke down and bought an iPh#$e last night. As much as I love Blackberry, the camera on it just sucks too much to even justify using. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not exactly in love with my new apple device. I still don’t like the touchscreen keyboard. Here are some other changes that I would make (after having used it for about 4 hours, so far):

• Make the unlock slider half way up the screen so that my thumb doesn’t have to cramp itself when unlocking with one hand.
• Auto power-down, power-on scheduling. I hate a buzzing phone in the middle of the night.
• Ability to select different alerts for different mailboxes.
• Customizable alert profiles (ie, turn off everything but the alarm clock and calendar alerts)

Maybe these are already functions that are available? I haven’t read the manual, yet. I meant to bring it on the train with me this morning, but forgot.

Anyway, I am now officially on instagram (though I have yet to post anything). In case you would like to be friends, I’m “shotbyjake.” Have a great weekend!

[top image: last weekend's snow, Westchester county, NY]

I posted this a few days ago. Thursday night was the event. It was at a pretty cool space called the Frontrunner gallery. Reagan came by, which was appropriate, since the image that they were exhibiting was of her.

Thanks to my friends who came through. Anwar, sorry we bounced before you arrived, man.

You may recall Crystal Fighters from the soundtrack of this longboarding vid. And to be quite frank, I had kind of forgotten about them until I was listening to a playlist that my homey Matt posted on EFOG the other day. CF turned up remixed in the mega-45min track at the end. Made me feel like sharing it today. Here is “At Home.”

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Okay, the title of this post is a bit dramatic when compared to the content. I mean, who writes about retiring a wallet, anyway? But for some strange reason, saying goodbye to this old boy feels like losing a part of me. I bought this wallet when I first moved to NY (when I still shopped at Guess, hahahah). It was the perfect NY wallet. It folded on the long edge of two credit card sized halves, which made it perfect for carrying in the front pocket (to deter against pickpocketing). It had card pockets on both sides, one vertically stacked with a bifurcated window (super easy to get the ID out for bouncers and TSA), and one horizontally stacked set of pockets (perfect for taking out a metrocard without having to take off your gloves). The finest feature of all, was the stainless external bill clip (below). This feature also turned out to be its downfall.

This wallet came with me to Brazil and Europe. It has spent more time on my person than probably any other non-body-part item that I own.

I noticed about a week ago, that the bills were not as tot as they usually were after closing the clip. If you look closely at the image above, you can see the hairline crack that the clip developed along its spine. I can’t just go around dropping cash all over the floor.

So, tonight I switched over to a nondescript black number by Coach. It doesn’t have nearly as much character, and is not nearly as utilitarian. RIP, my absolute favorite accessory…. ever.

Yeah, we finally had our first legitimate snowstorm of 2012 in NYC. This is normally where I would post some photos that I shot around the city; in the snow; of Reagan bundled up, etc.. Unfortunately for me, my creativity level has been rock bottom, lately. When the good ideas are flowing, so is the motivation to execute them. The converse is also true. I think that part of it has to be the fact the tachometer has be pinned in the red in the realm of “real” work. Now that I spend so many hours per week pouring large amounts of energy into left-brained pragmatic-type projects, I’m wondering if there is just no energy leftover for creativity. I haven’t been dragging my camera around with me nearly as often. Maybe I should just suck it up and cross over to the dark side, buy an iPhone and join the masses on instagram.

Moving on: I saw a few things today that I really liked. The first thing was a post on ISO50 about Poler camping gear. I don’t think that I could ever pull off the snuggy/slanket thing, even as a joke. This thing however…

The top photo in this post was also lifted from ISO50, who apparently lifted it from Poler’s instagram. There it is again, that ubiquitous “gram” word. I’m so torn about it.

Finally, what is cooler than contemporary art created on decommissioned military planes in the middle of the desert? “Not much” is the correct answer.

Here is a little excerpt describing the ‘Boneyard Project’:

Beginning with a series executed by some of today’s most prominent graffiti artists, drawing on a medium that gained notoriety as a pictorial elaboration and adornment of subways and trains, with plans to include a broad variety of artists from different fields of practice, The Boneyard Project will seek to re-envision our evolving relationship with flying through populist and fine art perspectives, allowing prominent figures from the fine art world, installation and conceptual art disciplines as well as revered figures of youth culture, to each remind us of that unique romance we have had with planes in our lifetimes.

Check out the coverage here and here.

Even though this was a short week, because of the holiday on Monday, it has seemed like one of the longest weeks ever. It is probably just because I’m trying to get into my new routine (which is a lot more boring than my old one). Anyway, I’m very glad that the weekend has finally arrived. I had a few minutes to flip through my reader this morning (which has been piling up), and I found these images of some very cool new work by SatOne (above). The image is from his “Chromolog” canvas series. Check out the rest over here.

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