Sometimes the Japanese make really cool, useful stuff and sometimes they just make REALLY COOL STUFF.

i'm still so amazed.

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A little over a year ago, my brother-in-law, Christian, published a book of photographs from one of is early projects, "Sound Affects".  It took place during a two-year period of his life in the South, primarily Memphis.

Check it out the link below, which shows the pages of the book.  His site also contains the images from said project. 

"SOUND AFFECTS" BOOK

His book is sold in select stores, but ff you're interested, he's offering signed copies for $100, while the limited supply lasts.  Email to: info@christianpatterson.com.

Christian is currently represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery (nyc), the Robert Koch Gallery (San Fran) and the Kaune, Sudendorf Contemporary (Cologne, Germany).

i love how wiki and youtube can lead you on some strange paths to find some really amazingly fun bits of history.

like this one:  Mr. T's "Be Somebody (or Be Somebody's Fool)".  Mr. T made a motivational video for kids and here's the intro to it where he raps and even attempts some breakdancing.

you cannot deny the awesomeness that was the 80's.....



REACH OUT!

a few friends and i were walking through the Upper West Side, when my friend says, "Sweet!  Check out this tribute to MJ."


it took us a second to realize that this was a tribute to Justice Sotomayor.  in the full drawing, she's wearing a red robe, very MJ-esque, but there are law books behind her.....just to clarify things.

my buddy Google helped me pin down the actual tribute to MJ that the artist, Hani Shihada, had drawn a few blocks north of the Sotomayor one.  honestly, this one reminds me of Erik Estrada instead.

The other day, I was headed home and saw a few people huddled by the side of my work building.  When I got closer, I saw that there was a large bird (I'm guessing falcon) by our loading docks with some red guts hanging from its beak. 


Oh...looky there!  It's feasted on a pigeon!  Thank you Mr. Falcon!

(I feel bad for the custodial staff who had to clean that up.)

The bird lingered around for a few more minutes because it had a broken leg (the one's that's tagged).  Eventually, it was able to fly off (though it flew fairly low) into an area with more trees. 

I've heard of the famous Central Park falcons and now there's news of a nest of baby falcons in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.  I wonder where this one came from?