it's been a long long summer...

this has been my life for the past month but i'm almost back to you...

other places

Sellers is in SF right now and traveling for work. So it may be quiet on this front for a while. I've started up my old blog again so you can visit me there: borrowed, bought, stolen.

Happy Days!

first holga shots.....

redwood print

i love this.

also - where are you?

ok ok

your city is pretty amazing too.
so good seeing you there.

i'm here!

Where are you?

Car Lot on Mission

I'm obsessed with this car lot on Mission street. Do you remember it?

average every day

i'm finally getting to see/experience some average everyday living here in my new city... this morning was just a typical ride on the train. nothing special, but i kind of like it.

gay

not sure if you know this or not, but i'm gay. do you still love me?

familiar faces

You should bring your lady here when you visit in June.

NY laundromat

saw this on a laundromat's door... what does this even mean??? what ever it is it's amazing.

our skylines

this is a photo of Molly & Ryan's windowsill. on it they have a miniture verision of the new york city skyline made from little wooden block buildings. behind it you can just make out the real san francisco skyline. i probably should have taken this photo with something other than my Holga, to really get it right, but i love it none the less. our two cities, together!

also you probably never look at my flickr stream, but you should! go look at all my new photos! xo

i owe you a letter

a real one. on paper. written with one of those thin sharpie pens i love.

but for now here's a picture of my feet and R's. taken at night in the city. i don't wear these red shoes enough.

more letters

new york is really sinking in. it feels good. work isn't all that interesting these days, but it's so amazing just to be in one place. traveling week after week is just not my thing. i've been thinking lately about taking a long vacation. like for a couple months. for some reason with all this change in my life i'm feeling the need to re-calibrate.

i miss you.

chris

guess where?

i hope you visited this place when you lived here. it's one of my favorites.

letters

i agree. i wish we could hand write them and mail them back and forth. we could do it and then scan them in and post them here.

mine today would say:

hey! things here are going really really great. i love my new city, but i sometimes wish you lived here. or sometimes i wish the coasts weren't so far away from each other. how are you? how's life?

do you remember the first time we met? i can't remember the name of the bar, but i met you, and i think you were with rana and tom that night. i remember shortly after going to a party with silver coated walls and thought to myself, "wow, this is exactly where i want to be, and in a few years we will all be such close friends and i can't wait for that." within a couple months you spent the night at my house after a party and rana got jealous because you stayed in my bed. [insert here that this was only a friend sleepover, a true beginning of a real life friendship] i remember the days that i used to spit goldfish and laugh, i'm pretty sure i was drunk. i remember the days that we had a writing group and we would all just sit around supporting each other. some really amazing one liners came out of that time. i remember the zine we did. i guess that was the beginning of all of this. do you remember talking to me about buying a stapler that would be long enough to reach the center of the pages? why don't we use staplers anymore? and copy machines. and typewriters. and pens.

i miss the days without technology too, sometimes, and maybe what i meant when i made you that patch was that - someday i will miss writing you letters.

miss you and love you, can't wait to see you soon!

chris

we should write letters too

remember that patch you made a while back when you took that silk screening class? the one that said technology breaks my heart? that phrase has been popping into my head a lot lately. i am very aware how silly it is to write it on a blog, but sometimes i wish things were slower and that we were all a little less tied to our digital devices. i love this footage of San Francisco from the 1930's. it's silent, which feels just right.



i love it, but sometimes, technology breaks my heart.

i know i know BUT

i can't "embed" this link but please please please click on it. you will be amazed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

....stop motion graffiti.....

Broken Fingaz -Graffiti Stop Motion from Broken Fingaz on Vimeo.

smoking

walking down 9th ave and somehow noticed this.

dirty diana

loving my new toy camera.

train reading

mother and son reading on the train together. they were so serious. these are the small everyday things i love about my new city.

illustrated city

link.

rock with you.

from now on i want to tag everything with "rock with you." amazing!

Publish Post

i love my city

and all its lovely parts...

morning commute...

this is basically what i get to see every morning... i sometimes wish you didn't like SF anymore and lived here.

city on a wall......

happy monday

found here.

Dave on Mission Street

taken with the lovely Holga.

okay okay SF DOES have this...

miss me some cancun....

the old debate: NY vs. SF

more here. thanks for the link Nancy!

tiny things and birthdays

i want to fly home to you every year and give you the best birthday ever!!!

i was on a farm house in upstate this year for your birthday and it just wasn't the same... i quite enjoy setting up little studios and taking pictures for your birthday. it's like a visual time line of each year unfolding.

another note:

something similar in our lives right now... we are having the same weather!

new toy

i got a friend for my Holga for my birthday. isn't she pretty? still working on the first roll, will post pics when i have some.

i missed you at my birthday party this year. truth be told i don't have the energy for throwing parties like i used to. maybe i needed your creative energy again this year, or maybe i'm over celebrating my birthday? something shifted.

kinda true.

as seen here.

first ipad sighting...

i got mine!

i will soon be sharing in the same experience as you and i'm really excited about that.

Mission Dolores bar opening in Brookyln

Clearly you need to check it out.

Looks like it's opening soon. You can tell all the Brooklyn hipsters you've been to the real Dolores Park!

bi coastal

i think we should become, or at least YOU should become, bi-coastal...

your city in miniature

i can't get over how awesome this is..

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

birthday week!

i can't find the proper credit for this photo (first saw it here) but i love it so.

walking

i walked over the brooklyn bridge for the first time this weekend. maybe we can do this when you come in may????

spring and spring

i really wish you were here for this. ny is getting better and better...

holga fun

more here.

long long ago

big news from this coast

molly & ry got the cutest pup ever. her name is Stella.
and someone got engaged! can you guess who?

Jesus on the J

things i see that inspire me to look ...

...in the mirror before i leave my house.

Holga!

I think I told you I pulled out my Holga after not using it for years. I'm having so much fun with it.


more holga photos on my flickr.