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20
Jul
09
day 153: no weapons allowed
07
Jul
09
day 142: vegas – beerolympics
This is the Beerolympics – the objective is to get the ping pong ball into the other teams’ glass, whereby they have to skull the beer. First team to make their opponents finish all their glasses of beer wins. Simple. Vegas.
< Day 141: Vegas- Siegfried & Roy – Masters of the Impossible
Today is Fourth of July aka Independence Day. We kicked off the day in true American style by attending the annual event: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island. This tradition began in 1916 when 4 immigrants had a hot dog eating competition to see who was the most patriotic. Today there are over 30,000 spectators and broadcasted live on ESPN with over 1.5 million viewers. This year’s contest was particular heated as it was supposed to be six-time champion Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi’s come back against two-time defending champion Joey Chestnut. To the crowd’s dismay, Kobayashi lost to Joey Chestnut by 3.5 hot dogs. To you and me that is a fair few hot dogs – not when Joey Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs in 10 mins. A world record. This is what they call Major League Eating at its best. Ahh only in America, you gotta love it.
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - The countdown.
Patriot
Weirdo.
The contestants hoarded by fans as they come off the bus.
The contestants hoarded by fans as they come off the bus.
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas breaks her own female record with 41 hot dogs.
Tim “Eater X” Janus. 3rd Place.
The multi-talented Eric “Badlands” Booker who raps when he's not eating hot dogs.
The police entourage - cos you never know who's out to get these guys.
Joey Chestnut - three times defending champion. Has his own police escot.
Fans entourage.
Hot dog fanatical patriots.
Guy jumping on trampoline with Skies was part of the day's entertainment.
The judges swear in.
Coney Island Strongman gets hammered on top of a bed of nails and gets a crowbar bend around his neck by his sons.
Badlands performs before eating his guts out.
The giant hot dog and midget mr. sam. Why not!
Barracking Fans from the roof.
Tim “Eater X” Janus.
Six-time champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi.
Three -time defending champion Joey Chestnut
The contestants prepare themselves....
And it begins. 13 hot dogs in a matter of seconds. Geezuz!
36 hot dogs....
1m 16s to go. 61 vs 59 hot dogs. Its tight. Tension is think, crowd is in an uproar.
Joey Chestnut wins again. 68 Hot Dogs in 10 mins. A world record.
These guys line up from one end of the strip to the other making crazy flicking noises with 24hr call girl cards and shoving them in your face. People pick them up and within seconds, they end up littered on the ground throughout the strip.
19
Apr
09
day 64: danger party
Tonight I went to ‘the brooklyn bailout‘ which is part of the series of Danger Parties held in NYC for the past several years. Dozen of parties have been held from renagade train parties, all night warehouse parties to taking over the Williamsburg bridge. The party was set in the cavernous rooms & secret niches of the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. It was pretty out there – reminded me of a uni rave-esque parties they used to chuck at Sydney University. What were they called? Freaky Loops or something? It was dark techno, minimal, trancey combinded with a dash of hip hop and pop. It was all sorts, alternate in a hippy uni student way. You get me?
17
Apr
09
day 62: recession blues
New Yorkers doing it tough during recession times are thinking of all sorts of ways to make a buck.
15
Apr
09
day 60: church of rock
I was in uptown today and past this church. Does it look evil or what?
08
Apr
09
day 53: cindy gallop
Today I met with advertising veteran Cindy Gallop to talk about a ‘world changing project’ she is working on. Cindy was an executive at the highly respected agency BBH where she headed up Asia Pacific and NYC offices.
That aside, the real story I want to portray here is her exuberant loft apartment. Across from the infamous Chelsea Hotel, Cindy’s apartment was converted from a seniors locker room in an old YMCA building.
Her loft is home to 250-plus pairs of designer stilettos, a framed AK-47 stamped with the Chanel logo and a gold-painted Gucci chain saw (both by artist Peter Gronquist), a black leather Gucci spanking paddle, a pink-and-yellow YSL light installation among many other artifacts. I felt like I was walking around in a pop culture museum. Italian Vogue was using her apartment for a shoot when I was there. They are not the only ones – Nelly, Diddy, and Usher also used her apartment to shoot their video for “Nasty Girl”.
05
Apr
09
day 50: piano man
Shot taken outside of a close shop late tonight in Lower East Side.
Today was a beautiful day. The sun was out in all its glory. It was definitely the warmest day I’ve experience since landing in NYC. I ate lunch on the steps at Union Square and joined all the people who were basking in the sun. It was an exciting feeling to know that summer is just around the corner with thoughts of what that might bring. In the square, the atmosphere was lively as buskers played their music and street performers entertertained the crowd. The funniest thing though was this crazy guy in a dress yelling absolute rubbish while trying to tie one of those neck cushions you take on a plane to his upper thigh so he can make his dress look wider? (this is what I assumed) He wouldn’t let me take his picture so I asked him what his story was. He told me his story was that he’s a human being and something about the end of the bible is another story – this continued on for about 10 minutes. I ending up sneaking a shot anyways.
FlipGloss Magazine contacted me and asked if I would be a photography contributor for their magazine. Hell Yes! Here is a NYC travelogue feature which I wrote that went live today.
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more about “day 45: flipgloss magazine“, posted with vodpod
29
Mar
09
day 43: track entertainment
I was waiting for a train today and this guy starts pacing up and down the track singing high pitched R&B at the top of his voice and doing all sorts of hand movements. Quite entertaining. I hesitated taking the shot for a while because I wasn’t sure whether he would sing to me or beat me up if he caught me.
28
Mar
09
day 42: bathroom services
Some NYC bars’ bathrooms have guys servicing them. They do jobs like hand you paper towels (because clearly it’s something you’re incapable of doing yourself) and sell you products like mints, gum, cigarettes and sprays of cologne. I know this is common in many other cities but I’m not too keen on having someone watch me pee and pay for services I don’t need.
26
Mar
09
day 40: arrested
No not me! I was in the police station today making a report and this kid gets dragged in all cuffed up. I pounced on the opportunity and secretly fired off a shot. 10 minutes later a 13 year old, half the size of this kid, gets dragged in because he was fighting other kids with a razor blade. Crazy times we live in.
Another busy weekend exploring this city’s diverse offering.
> Owned by Tim Robbins, the Back Room is housed in an actual Speakeasy during the prohibition days.
The entrance is disguised by a toy store that says “Lower East Side Toy Company“.
> Alcohol is served in tea cups and paper bags.
> This is Ojay who hosted a party at Happy Ending – This place used to be an erotic massage parlour.
Hence the name.
> One of the steam rooms from Happy Ending’s former life.
> The milk man outside Happy Ending.
> Santos Party House is where you will find Q-Tip from Tribe Called Quest as resident DJ on Friday nights.
Classic & dance floor hip hop mixed with soul and funk.
> Floor suddenly clears and breakdancers start to bust their moves.
> A fight breaks out during one of the battles.
> From the battle of the dance moves to battle of the creative minds. Cut&Paste is an international design tournament. 2D/3D/Motion designers are given a topic like ‘predicting the future’ and have 20mins to battle it out in front of an audience.
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