Showing posts with label photographer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photographer. Show all posts

8.09.2010

good habits








I fell in love with tobacco pipes at a very young age. Yes, it's true. The scent I could catch while walking past old men smoking pipes on a bench at Sequoyah Marina in the summer will never fade from memory. It puts me back there every time I catch a whiff. I even tried to pick up the habit once just to get that deja vu. I knock no one for indulging in this fine gentlemanly cheeching method. In fact, I'm afraid the pipe is fading and encourage more dapper young males to pick up the habit...partly for my benefit. Check out very talented, 19 year old photographer (second photo above), Simon Filip's biography pic to see what I'm talking about. He's hitting it spot on (third photo). I think I should just befriend some elderly scotch drinking men.  
With this, I have for you a collection of three, great vintage pipes. One stitched leather, one with a metal stem and screw off filter, and one sport stub with carvings. To indulge with or just to view.



8.07.2010

contraband


Above: deserted, dragonfly infested swimming pool at last weekend's estate sale of insane hoarders. Good for me, bad for them...except that one day I will be them by purchasing all their hoarded possessions... 
And, however disgusting, I could not resist sharing with you the link to Taryn Simon's gallery preview NY Times posted for her upcoming photography exhibit on strange contraband at Kennedy Airport. A deer penis? Cow-dung toothpaste? A plastic pitcher of salami? Who thinks their grandma is going to enjoy these souvenirs? There's going to be 1,075 photos, all shot in only 5 days, shown in both Beverly Hills and New York. Since I'll be missing that, the upcoming coffee table book will surely be mine. Am I weird?