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.

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.

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

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.

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Anyway, go look at my pictures!