he Doesn't answer questions...

See more photos from my week in San Francisco here.

Fashionista Revolutionary

Totem

Time Machine for SALE

Embarrassing

Upgrade.

New developments in the outskirts of San Francisco mirror looming developments outside our own city.

Sore.

Taken on my recent trip to California

Rage

defend Brooklyn

by any means necessary.

Alternatives to the (hel)L line

Recently, unpredictable meltdowns on the L train line have inspired Brooklandites to invent alternative transportation strategies. My advice don't forget to chain up your cart when you get to work, this is The City after all.

The Bush Bug Doctor

1 part car physician
1 part automotive historian
%100 Bushwick local

In his spare time Julio re-builds volkswagon bugs, like the 1962 NYC-concsience-Black Bug above and this 1974 race-ready eggplant below. If you've gotta problem you can't fix, he can do it in the mix.

God serve's hot coco in Bushwick

"This neighborhood is gettin where its all going," says Bob (below), curator of today's Relief Bus tour in regards to the new influx of artists and young professionals in the mostly black and puerto rican neighborhood. "By the way, did you try the coco?" Bob blessed me as I went on my way to show more Brooklyn apartments today.

get to know your neighbors before moving in

biblio

who said there's no grass in New York City?

this GQ photo was sent to us courtesy of Justin Farrow.

biked

these petrified bicycle remnants indicate that previous tenants may not have been well trained in bike maintenance.

this is Art.

Art(emy) Kolchinsky. He bad and he pretty.

Escalate Her

wall flower

the sun is setting on E.vil

haven't you heard? Manhattan has moved to Brooklyn. Even the far East Village (Williamsburg) is moving out to Bushwick.

anyone read the news today?

The Boids

Last week some friends in the office got in a debate about whether or not Brooklyn has seaguls, so I took it to the streets and interviewed these locals for answers...

Brooklyn artists don't use canvas

Wading through Wiliamsburg wherehouses, one tends to notice a sky blue building. As soon as I find out what's going on behind these retractable metal sheet doors I'll let you know.

borf!

if de la vega was a young nyu-ish art student, most-likely trying to score chicks the cute way, he might be borf! Then again, he might not. At any rate, I've been diggin some of his latest contributions to the street aesthetic around astor place. This mailbox can be found on lafayette st b/w astor and great jones.

Property Shark

searching for new property in Brooklyn sometimes feels like chasing a shadow stretching from the feet of a voice you may never meet.

yo sun, Brooklyn reprazents

care to see this every day? You can do it from here.

where Brookland went to get clean

The old cascade factory in BedStuy (an area recently annexed by the Fort Green concept) sits across from "24 brand new duplex apartments that I have an exclusive renter agreement on". Im told that once upon a time, a chunk of the greater Brooklyn laundry was cleaned and delivered from this and neighboring industrial buildings. In a neighborhood newly owned by hassidic jews, in the ¡SMASH! middle of WoorkLYN and Pratt stew, this block IS the old and the new.

things you never thought you'd see in Brookland

In someways, the whole history of Brooklyn culture is occuring on the corner of Myrtle and Marcy. And sometimes even Cali shows up to play. Is this cat straight outta GTA San Andreas or what?

New York is for HATERS

pink papa (i dunno, that could be his name?) is all over the city. This one lives on the south side of the uptown 6 train at bleeker st. I managed to grab this photo just in time to get chopped in half by the train doors.

priority seating for the ambitious

On the L train, priority seating is reserved for those who bring it.

vanity mirrored

narcissisa lives in the basement of the National Arts club (20th st. b/w Park and Irving)

wow

mean latifah

If you don't like the ads in Brooklyn/Queens then pop the cap off your pen and get to work. This isht cracks me up on the daily. I think most people dont ever take the time to read some of the weird and sometimes hilarious things people write; and hell, some of my best ideas were stolen off of this kind of budget grafitti. You city people are too damn clever.

souperlative

vegan broccoli cashew soup tastes better than it sounds and looks delicious passing across some peoples lips.

going down?

Daren (rhymes w/ garden) and I take the long way around the National Arts Club in gramercy park after hours.

bowl fish

rare glimpse of the loft_ninja in his natural habitat

when we're not renting apts, this is what R E A L real estate agents do. when we are renting apartments we do it to support projects like THIS.

in this city, the kids are stuck on the streets (w/ glue)

everyone wants something

..and everyone has an opinion...


my favorite part is the comma, "sure , asshole". This person truly wanted to project a certain inflection from his/her comment. They did make sure to place that "Sure" in front of the denigrating statement, after all. Beautiful. You can almost see the artist's eyes rolling and head shaking back and forth in passive agressive distaste before slam dunking that classic calculated rebuttal. Did you come from from the Dick Cheney school of public commentay?

"Sure (comma) Asshole."

Anyway...

counter-dogma

Morning Matinee

this shadow dances across my wall every morning from 6am to 730am. Ugh, time to set up the day's viewing appointments.

thesis

this town ain't big enough for the both of me