with Andrei (who will not, under any circumstances, gamble - but will buy lottery tickets and accept dares), we are obliged to come up with different ways of settling up at the end of the night:

Our very good friends Matt and Chris came from Minneapolis to stay with us for the weekend. We treated them (and of course, that’s using the word treated rather loosely) to a relatively non-touristy, almost normal New York weekend.

We ate at our Chinatown staple New Green Bo and Matt decided to get the fish in chili sauce:

If you look closely, you can see its eyeball. I ate that eyeball. My very first eyeball ingestion ever, actually. And it wasn’t bad; it tasted almost like scallops. The fish was good, but had many, many bones. The sauce came back to haunt us several times the next day. We also ordered a lot of soup dumplings and ate every one of them.

We also went to our favorite Big Buck Hunter bar, Alibi. I’m pretty sure those guys in the background are talking about how good Ben is at hunting Big Bucks.

And then, to top off a proper trip to Bed-Stuy, we visited our local bodega for after-bar beers. Here is the man who had to help us.

From The New School:

APERTURE FOUNDATION AT THE NEW SCHOOL PRESENTS CONFOUNDING EXPECTATIONS: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT THE INFLUENCE OF THE NEW WEST
Wednesday, March 12, 7:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams’ book The New West signaled a significant shift in photographic representation of the American landscape. Adams documented the transformation of the Denver area, where he lived at the time, through construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, and other forms of development. Joshua Chuang, Marcia Brady Tucker Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery; Mark Klett, photographer; and panelists to be announced, will discuss the impact of Adams’ work as well as the effects of development and urban sprawl on the Western landscape.

While Ben’s turnaround time right now for his film is about two or three days, mine has slowly crept along, and I’m trying to scan as much as I can every time the scanner is free at school. So, I’m up to images that I took about two weeks ago, and that’s about as fast as I’ve turnarounded film since college. There are a few new images up at justinkohmetscher.com.

Last Tuesday was quiz night at Rope. Here I am, explaining to my teammates how it is that I can provide confident, wrong answers every time. (It involves beer and a well-developed sense of delusion.)

I probably should’ve stayed in the back seat. And speaking of the back seat,

In the interest of organization, I finally set up my portfolio site at justinkohmetscher.com. Actually, Michael set it up, and I’m using the template for right now. I’m still working on styling Bradley’s site, which is more important than styling my own site. (And I’m almost done Bradley, I swear!)

However, I did upload a bunch of images. I’ve been scanning some film from the two years before grad school and found some interesting stuff. I don’t have everything from the last year and half up yet because I’m still trying to go through it all.

Blah. Blah. Blah… Blah.

Anyway, go look at my pictures!