February is the worst month in the union, so if my birthday wasn’t in Feb, I would have nothing to do with it.

So, yeah! It’s my birthday tomorrow! Hooray! Have a good weekend.

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.

Almost a year ago, I got an email from the cool people behind See Kai Run saying they wanted to name a pair of shoes after my Piper Jane! They noticed that the majority of Pip’s shoedrobe is from See Kai Run, and that’s what you do for your VIP clients…you name a shoe or a bag after them once in a while. (like Air Jordan kind of or Jane Berkin perhaps)

“A shoe almost as sweet as she”  is how they’re described and I’d wager that’s quite true. These shoes are adorable and I can’t wait to see my Pip in them!

I’m imagining crazy tap dancing. I hope I’m right.

Don’t be jeal!

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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In 5 years there hasn’t been a dull (good dull and bad dull) moment, and I’m proud that we still love each other so much. Even though there is some seriously hard crap going on all the time it seems like. In fact, just when I feel like I’m going to flip over a table because I stepped in dog poop or because our apt got burgled or because I’m sad about pip, or because I have a suspicious freckle or my identity got stolen or I’m lost driving in Queens…Jake sends me a stupid youtube video, or a photo of a baby chicken running, or maybe he does my taxes or shampoos my hair (figuratively), or it could be that he just laughs at the dumb stuff I say. Sometimes I can’t believe that there is just this guy who understands me so well, adores my quirks, forgives me of my faults, and he’s even hot.

WTF, right?

Anyway, I’m not trying to get all bragsville..I’m just really proud of 5 years. BTW being married for 5 years makes me sound like I’m at least 40 in NYC.

Well, I better go! That Jake’s not going to snuggle himself!

(I love posting old photos. sometimes I just spend hours looking at old photos of pip and me/jake when we were younglings.)

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]

My favorite part of my Pip visits is the moment I first walk in. I usually kind of sneak in quietly to see what Piperjane is up to before she knows she’s being watched. I often find her in funny positions, playing with her figures or climbing things that aren’t meant to be climbed. It cracks me up that she can feel my eyes on her, because she always knows I’m there after just a few seconds…and this is the best part…she turns around and gives me the grinniest evil smile I’ve ever seen since the last time.

Long intro.

So, the other morning, I walked in and Pip was sitting like this in her kiddie cart. I have never seen her do this in my life! I was a little surprised for a minute, and wondered who put her like that, but then she did a quick little shimmy and her legs swept out from under her hiney just like that! I sat there laughing which  made her realize she must have done something hilarious and then she started laughing and it was a chain reaction that lasted nearly 20 minutes.

Or, I guess way longer, because I’m laughing right now 4 days later.

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.