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I shot a funny event at the Kennedy center yesterday, the above picture is my favorite from the shoot. It’s insane that I’ve lived in Washington for four years and last night was the first time I set foot in there… The picture above is my favorite from the event, but I haven’t seen the ones from my new little Ricoh point and shoot that I’ve been using a whole ton lately.

Everything seems to be status quo at the moment and I have very little to write about it seems! Last night I started looking for places in Bushwick and it was encouraging to see such good stuff listen on CL. I’m writing two posts a day for Wonkette and I see that I’ve made it into their Wikipedia entry. My roommates and I are also planning a vcast sit-com based on our living situation and we hope it will be funny to people other than us (more on this soon).

On Sunday I have a ticket to see a screening of Helvetica at Silverdocs and I’m totally stoked about it. I’ve been jazzed to see this film for months.

And, lastly, I haven’t been able to talk my partner Britt out of moving to Vermont for the summer and she’s leaving today. So that sucks. But I’ve never been to Vermont and it’ll be fun to visit her.

I just learned from Muse-ings that Alec Soth’s Dog Days: Bogota is being published. Not only is this my favorite of Alec’s projects, but it’s the only one I will have the opportunity to own now that both Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagra have both gone out of print. I have already pre-ordered a copy of Dog Days on Amazon because I learned the heard way that it’s important to get your hands on one of these books as soon as humanly possibly. I ordered a copy of Niagra from Amazon before they stopped publishing it, but I guess the demand for it was so high they weren’t able to ship it to me before new ones were made. I then got a message from them saying I was hosed, there are none left.

But not with Dog Days, oh no sir. You can take that to the bank.

My Etsy Store

I know that all of you have just been sitting at your computers breathlessly waiting for the day I made my work available for you to buy. Good news: that day is today. I just finished setting up my Etsy store. Just a few images there for now, sort of testing the waters. We’ll see how it goes.

From the New York Times

There is a global boom in design and construction of artistic spaces. Some people including myself are cynical about this, likening it to the current boom in stadium construction here in the states: a way for cities to bring in more tourist dollars. However, there is no denying the architectural innovation that has occured as a result in the imagining of new museums and concert halls, and New York Times explores the latter in a piece published this morning looking at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the newly rendered images of the upcoming Elble Concert Hall in Hamburg.

The Hamburg construction seems breathtaking. It also strikes me as similar to some of the interiors imagined for the 1969 version of Planet of the Apes, but I mean that in the most endearing way possible. The article is lengthy, but certainly worth reading since it explores the area from which most of the current architectural innovations come from.