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Moving day.

Sam — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:00:26 +0000

The blog is over here now. Join me, won’t you?!

Summer-izing.

Sam — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:03:37 +0000

I’ve been real busy, y’all, with no end in sight. So rather than try to catch up with individual posts, here’s a recap of some of what’s happened this summer, photo-wise. Also, I’m in the midst of a website overhaul, so there’ll be more to come, hopefully soon. In the meantime, there was…

…a dance performance at Triskelion Arts…

…Bret Stetka’s review of Greenwood Park…

…Dan Deacon/John Maus…

…Grimes…

…The Kills…

…the opening of Sunset Park artist Ulrike Müller’s Raw/Uncooked exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum…

…the opening of Ghosts in the Machine at The New Museum…

…The New Museum’s Member’s Only Summer White Cocktail party (The Wall Street Journal also ran my photos from this one)…

…the book launch for Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style…

…a salsa dance night on the Hudson…

… Muay Thai kickboxing…

…a feature article on road trips…

…a story on foraging…

…a business piece on a design convention…

…and one very cool backyard baby shower/BBQ.

There were all kinds of other stuff, which you’ll see proof of soon enough.

Andes: nuts.

Sam — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:16:54 +0000

Wrote and photographed Hemispheres’ “Three Perfect Days: Quito, Ecuador” cover story, which you can read here.

Weird science.

Sam — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:13:11 +0000

Cirque This was brilliant in this year’s Machinations.

Schmidt happened.

Sam — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:56:39 +0000

Leanne Schmidt and company took over Triskelion Arts for a few nights in April.

Support the artsy.

Sam — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:24:09 +0000

Some important art-world types, a few of whom you may recognize, converged on the Brooklyn Museum for its Spring Gala. I wrote about it here.

Animal house.

Sam — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:02:23 +0000

A party was thrown to celebrate the rematch between the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. I wrote about it here.

Blood and glitter.

Sam — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:45:53 +0000

CHERYL, “the dance party that will ruin your life,” did its best to ruin MoMA at the museum’s PopRally series in conjunction with the current Cindy Sherman exhibit.

Game changer.

Sam — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:24:09 +0000

Thanks to a friend, I scored an invitation to last weekend’s 2nd Annual Bronx Pipe Smoking Society Small Game Dinner, held at the The Daugavas Vanagi House on 183rd Street in The Bronx. The event, the creation of one Baron Ambrosia, AKA Justin Fornal, the singular host of Bronx Flavor—an excellent long-running culinary show on BronxNet Community Television—and self-proclaimed “Quaffer of Culinary Consciousness,” was clandestine in feel, with candlelight illuminating dishes with such names as “Coyote Enchilado,” “Tree Rat en Croute” and “Pepe Meets Rocky Charcuterie.” Beaver tail dumplings, muskrat confit, possum pastilla, poached raccoon, fisher tacos, braised mink, squirrel pot pie, roasted fox … you name it, I tasted it (a tip for all would-be game meat chefs: slow roast). The meat was provided by Bill Guiles and Jim DeStefano, two New Jersey trappers, and distributed by Fornal to various friends and chefs to prepare in advance of the event, for which the guests, including none other than hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Mele Mell, were asked to dress formally or to “imagine all of the James Bond villains have gotten together for a diabolical dinner party.” I could go on, but I won’t. Needless to say, it was a strange and beautiful evening.

Shooting style.

Sam — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:51:12 +0000

On a recent early winter morning, I met Ougi Theodore and Gabriel Garcia, the extremely fashionable fellas behind The Brooklyn Circus, on the Brooklyn Bridge for Hemispheres’ What to Wear page.