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Summer in NYC, is the best time to catch great street performances. One of my favorites, and I think is also the best street performance is The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. The group is from Chicago, and during the  summer they travel to Europe for shows with stops in NYC. I have been very fortunate to be able to see them perform three times this summer alone, all three times in the heart of the city, Times Square. They also perform in Union Squares and few other places in the city. Their performances are like summer treats, their music is amazingly in the spirit and the beat of the city.

They are always able to pull large crowd, and make them stay for sets of their amazing music. Members of the band, and the style of their performance in many ways are very attractive. The seven siblings in the band have great dynamics lending their performance to be ultra photogenic.

Smooth with Fans

A colleague of mine from work introduced me to this brilliant designer through TED talk not so while ago, and recently informed me about a talk he is giving for AIGA. I went and thoroughly enjoyed it, inspired never the less.
Mr. Sagmeister has taken 20 phrases from his diary and able to convince some of his clients to use few in non related promotion. He then took a year off to develop the rest and complete the project by publishing a book of Things I have learn. Impressively designed book.
Asked at the end of his presentation whether he is going to do more of this year off project, he said yes and planning to do the next one in Indonesia of all places. Cool!

I like it when it rains, but not during winter, when its cold and there is chance for the weather to freeze.
I like it when it rains, but not while commuting to work during rush hours.
I like it when it rains, specially when I am at home, in my pajama, looking out of the windows holding my cup of hot tea.
I like it when it rains, chocolates or gold coins.

This fish market is right next to my morning frequented cafe. It is one of those places I know by passing in front of it so often. I know they sell fish, the front window is decorated with catch of the day on the bed of ice. I know the place is well maintained, every time I walked by it I was not hit by the typical smell of fish market. So I know they sell fish, shrimp, crabs, oyster, even sauce for cocktail shrimp. I know the two neon signs they have up there. I know the delivery bikes they have lined up in the front sidewalk. I even like to stand right at the corner in front of it and take pictures of local characters walking about their morning. So I know this place. From the outside.
I never went in, curiously I was never curious about the inside. My mental image of what going on inside is based on my assumption. How often do we do this, how much of our knowledge of a place is based on assumption?

So I was tired of being looked at funny or considered weird, when I pulled out my camera and took a picture or two before attacking my meals. Specially painful if my dining companion had to feel the awkwardness of my action in the middle of crowded restaurant.
I still think some of the food that I was about to consume were note worthy, visually interesting in a way it begged to be photographed or visually noted in some way. So, at times when it didn't permit to photograph, I feast with my eyes first. I took use my meager photographic memory to capture, then later towards the end of the meal, when there were room at the table, I took my food journal out and draw, noted each items on the menu, stopped short of reviewing the meal.

Food Journal

Camper Store Guest Marks

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What is it about leaving our mark, physically I mean, that is still much more satisfying than virtually. We started young with long crayon marks on the living room wall, or pencil or cutter mark on the wooden desk in the elementary school, then permanent marker and even bold spray paints later on. I haven't done that in ages, looking around, people do that as art. Some are spectacularly great, rebellious art is one of my fascination. I once started to take pictures every time I seen one I like, but got overwhelmed, there are just so much to cover. Then I found Luna Park, she has been documenting NYC street art fabulously, I checked her site once in a while to see her latest discoveries.
Now we all leave our mark so often on the web, by blogging, commenting, twittering, flickring. Unlike leaving our mark on the side of a building, we know when one seen or read it. But yet it is still much more satisfying do in it out there, I just wish I have the courage and being a bit more rebellious.

Numero_seis

Last Saturday, I got an email through my Flickr account from Ricardo Galesio at CRU-A, a non-profit online publication with links to 16 of my photographs on Flickr. He ask if I am interested in including them in their next issue. After checking on the photos, and think that they will make a good set, I agreed. On Monday they launched this issue! This guys are fast!  A good friend of mine on flickr Farl is also onthis issue :)

To download the issue go to www.cru-a.com

Lunch break + Calligrapomorphic, originally uploaded by moriza.

Lunch

Or rather, work your lunch. So often do I find my self cleaning out those pieces of dried rice, crackers, granulated sugar, petrified fruit from between the H and J of my keyboard or the scraping bottom of my mouse? I bet you, even more often you find your self eating lunch and browsing at the same time. We take our lunch break, so that we can do more other things non work related, and while at it why don't we eat? Not the other way around.
Yeah, we sometime blamed the stinking weather outside. To hot to go out or freezing rain out there, so I'll eat in here on my desk.