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Amuse Bouches

Cured salmon with melon and sorrel; raspberry soup; and corn fritter.

  

Jean-Georges

New York, New York

(September 2, 2013)

 

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I was about to get into my car in a small town in the mountains of Michoacan when I saw this elderly man slowing coming up the street.

 

Some local women were amused to see me take this man's picture and told me that this viejito was 120 years old.

Spotted this, had to drive round the block to take the shot.

It just amuses me every time I drive by.

I have provided translations if you hove over them ..

 

These were put up by the Berlin daily Die Tageszeitung after Kai Sues and lost when they claimed that he had sought an operation to use parts of corpses to enlarge his allegedly extremely small penis. There has always been arch rivalry between the papers, and this shows just how far the feeling goes against kai.

The Alabama Bookstop sign -- this amused my cousin from Alabama when she was visiting.

Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.

Taken at the Friday Night Union Square Cypher Session.

Taken in 2010.

 

The girl in the tiara seems less than amused as she watches a "Washing Well Wenches" skit at King Richard's Faire in Carver, Massachusetts.

248/365

 

A tribute to my Flickr Friend - FEELING CROPPY - who do some amazing interpretations of songs and music.

Go check her out !

 

In the meantime you can listen to this:

Roger Waters - Amused To Death

  

04.13.2014 -- UConn Car Club's Spring Car Show 2014 at Rentschler Field

Green apple & wasabi dip n' dots with eel in cucumber-melon water.

 

Notes: The green apple-wasabi combination I had encountered, in frozen form no less, nearly a year before at the now closed 1 star Michelin Bon Lloc in Stockholm, Sweden. How interesting that this pairing has made it's way around the world to greet me again in Shanghai!

 

The eel was the really confusing element in this amuse. I can't say that it worked, and I can't say that it failed. Certainly the buttery avocado fit - it's clean flavors complimented the crisp freshness of the cucumber-melon water and the lucid green apple-wasabi dots. I think I'm used to eel served in full-flavored preparations (no doubt to cover eel's often muddy-tasting flesh), like glazed with teriyaki (Japanese) or smoked (northern Europe). Here, the cooked seems to be naked. The other oddity is that in Japanese cuisine, eel is usually served cooked and therefore not taken with wasabi - as it is here. While I'm always enthusiastic for new ways of approaching and eating food, I think what failed to grab me about the eel in this dish is that it ended up disappearing - texturally cloaked by the more compelling firm cubes of luscious avocado and flavorfully masked by the bright lucid green apple and wasabi.

 

The cucumber-melon water was also slightly sweet and tangy - perhaps sherry vinegar?

Amuse Bouche

Prosciutto with caramelized onions; strawberry soda; and lemon-poppy panna cotta.

 

Bluestem

Kansas City, Missouri

(June 27, 2012)

 

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Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.

Before our hastily-arranged two days trip to New York last winter, I asked a friend about the traffic and where to park. He opened Google Maps and pin-pointed all the cheeky little spaces where you park for free (and be assured that your car won't be disappeared when you

come back); and then suddenly stopped and said, "Forget the car. You must take the subway to experience the real NYC."

 

So I did. On the next two cold, rain-drenched days, we left our car on Staten Island and took the ferry and then the subway to explore the city. And as my friend said, it was as if you were experiencing a miniature version of NYC itself inside the rusted, dirty, crowded labyrinth of the subway system. It was a melting pot that didn't melt. A large collection of people of all colors, age and race, coming from all the corners of the world, using all the languages other than may be English.

 

So if you ever get a chance to visit the exhilarating metropolis, do yourself a favor and take the subway. Take a seat, take off the headphones, look around, and you'll see polished fashionistas riding to work, eleven years old Senegalese immigrant selling gummy bears, six-feet tall homeless man reminding everyone of good karma and asking for help, and someone with a acoustic guitar jumping into the car and start singing Strawberry Fields Forever. You can spot people feeling nonchalant, cordial, somber, delighted, depressed, amused, curious, exhausted, swag, numb, reminiscing, exploring, irritated, forever-alone, suspicious, festive, melodious, and global, like a true New Yorker.

Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.

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Lima, Peru

He has such an adorable face. XD

Olympus E-M5

Minolta MC Rokkor PF 58mm f/1.4 (adapted)

ISO 100

f/2.0

1/250

 

LumoPro LP180

f/32

50mm

LumoPro hot shoe mini coiled cord

Flash set slightly upper-right, bounced off white umbrella

 

LR5

VSCO film

Kodak T-Max 3200+ (with add'l edits)

 

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