snapshots and observations

Monday, 3 May 2010

iphone food pics



sorry about the quality of these. i just found them on my iphone.

first pic is the meal i always have at a pub called the junction
in tufnell park. every time we go, i scan the menu and on each
occasion i find the only thing i can eat is...

ricki lake and jockeys
they always try to spoil it with cress or some other such green item,
but i always manage to get the message to the kitchen to just
keep it pure.


the next photo was my meal at a wedding last year. it was at a very
posh restaurant in mayfair. i looked at the menu and the main course
was full of things i couldn't eat ( vegetables and things )
i was just beginning to get my sulk on when the waitress brought
me this...
fish and chips !

the bride had given instructions to the restaurant a few weeks earlier
about my 'dietary requirements' and this is what they came up with.
genius !


and finally, a photo from a posh restaurant where i asked for a
side portion of jockeys...
i swear i nearly cried when they brought this to me.
it's like love and hate on the same plate... good and evil perhaps ?
i was not happy.

coffee



it seems like it's been a while since i bored you with 
photos of the coffee i drink.
so...


here's a cracking black coffee i was given during my shoot at the west house
last week. my friend bruno tells me i should never drink a latte after 11am.
he's a mechanic so i don't know why he tries to advise me on coffee.
still, he's italian and the italians generally know what they are talking
about when it comes to coffee related matters.
it was 11.30 am so i opted for a black coffee.



and here's a very average latte i had today ( at 10.45am )
at a welsh deli in the islington.


cymru am byth.

Sunday, 2 May 2010

yesterday



yesterday, breakfast choice at whitfield towers was hot cross buns
or yoghurt, pineapple, grapes and honey.
i asked the kitchen for the latter...
which was absolutely spot-on.


our weekend away in oxfordshire didn't materialise so
we headed off to the west end for coffee and shopping.


 i made a sneaky purchase at the dover street market


afterwards we went to the dsm warehouse sale in islington.
while queuing up to get in i took this shot of some people who
had just come out and were checking each other's clothes out...


when we got back home i noticed a new motor in the car park...
the new shape seat 600 is quite sporty eh ?


i unwrapped my dover street market buy...
a comme des garçons t-shirt


then in a shock move, i helped out a little in the kitchen by 
cooking up the chorizo i bought in leon a couple of weeks ago.
ay caramba !

it was spicy stuff.




seat 600 convoy in leon.




i forgot to mention this when i did my post on leon a little while ago...
but on the sunday, me and jess were just strolling around town, turned a corner
and boom !
a massive convoy of seat 600's driving through the old city.

it's hardly worth me captioning the photo's. i know they're not great
shots, but i just wanted to show the cars... they were so cool, and the 
organisers and owners had obviously put a lot of effort in.
it was a really nice thing to see.

































gracias leon.

good job i didn't want to open my boot



i parked up in soho to grab a coffee...

later as i walked back to my car i found one of those g-wiz
cars parked parked in an extremely cheeky way.


hmmm...


Saturday, 1 May 2010

krink edition nike air force 1




today i brought some serious heat to the streets.


these bad boys are so rare that i almost used capital letters to spell out 'rare'

i know they don't look that special from above. the gum sole is a nice touch 
but they just look like they are plain grey.


 but check out the details and the heat begins to hit you...
some subtle touches... krink lace jewels and silver tipped laces


krink instead of nike on the tongues


and krink instead of nike on the heel tabs
silver outsole and gum sole. nice combo.

these were designed by krink for nike and on the outer side of each shoe
feature the trademark drip style of krink's work
they work pretty well. the leather is a silver / grey colour and the krink
silver drip is not always noticable. when it catches the light it kicks out a little.

the shoes are covered in a 3m coating so when light hits them...

boom !
they really kick out.

they came boxed with a nike / krink silver marker too.
www.krink.com


Friday, 30 April 2010

science of eight limbs



i did a shoot this morning for a band called
science of eight limbs.


the band forgot the props that i'd asked them to bring along.
they didn't bring any instruments,
nor did they bring the special labcoats they wear on stage.



as i said to them... " it's just going to be a picture of two blokes...
how is anybody going to know you're a band ? "
they usually open their live sets wearing gas masks. i think this could have been
interesting if they had their gas masks on... their lab coats too.
it would have had something about it... looked like a band pic perhaps ?









i did a few frames with my light in the shot, to kind of
make it look like a photo shoot rather than two lads having a snapshot taken.
once again, i think it would have looked better with labcoats and/or gasmasks.









i think we'd all had enough by this point...

imagine it with their gasmasks on, or even with a guitar, microphone,
drums... hell even if one of them was holding a bunch of flowers it would have
been better !









still, i did manage to do one shot that i really liked...
so it wasn't a totally wasted morning