Lynette's Long Island Field Hockey Win

The Lustin Show - the Pilot

5 years out of college and Luke and Justin have nothing to show for it - except two girlfriends who are fed up with them, two actors who can't act (themselves), and an idiot with a camera. When their girlfriends decide they've had enough, Luke and Justin realize they need to get their act together if they ever want to get them back.

9/11/08

A Summer Day Much Appreciated

Maybe I'm just happier than I've been for a long time. Genuinely happy. But something about Central Park actually being there; being a retreat in the middle of all the steel and cement structures, makes me remember what its supposed to be like to be alive. Maybe all it takes is a little game of wiffle ball or touch football or a beautiful smiling face smiling just at me, but it really makes all the difference.

I love the fact that Central Park exists despite its surroundings. May the idea of the park, and the park itself, last forever.

Cycling Through Hobbies

A trip to the Guggenheim reminded me how much I actually like art. I don't expect to ever sell anything or end up in a museum, but I really do like making my own stuff and putting it on my wall. You can tell I'm improving too. I mean, how could I not be, this one has hands WITH fingers!

The Little Things

Sometimes I forget just how amazing the city is.

I gave my friend Annalisa a small look into the current work and life of Lucas Buck. In this glimpse, I took her along to a shoot in New York City's Hearst Building, a structural art work in the form of one of New York's tallest buildings with floor to ceiling prism windows which causes to illuminate each floor with all natural light. If you had to spend all day at a cold sterile desk job, this would be building of choice. After watching a little of the arrivals spectacle, we went back to the 41st floor to shoot the 4 stars of The House Bunny, Anna Faris and Rumor Willis among them. Night fell, work ended and we headed back to Brooklyn to discover a surprisingly good jazz band playing at a local bar.

I saw the whole event through her eyes and I fell in love once again with how incredible this city can be. There are so many amazing things going on all the time in one singular location that sometimes I forget how cool it is to live where I do, do what I do, and have the opportunities I have, and have taken sometimes for granted. I think I'm maturing because I'm really beginning to appreciate it all.

Welcome Home, Mademoiselle!

Lindsay est ma Traductrice! And now she is back in America. Naturally that means we would make a pyramid in her front yard before her welcome party kicks off. After being stuck in a car with four girls for a four hour drive to Baltimore AND having to listen to stories of waxings, bleachings and polishings, it only stands to reason that we would make a human pyramid immediately upon exiting that car.

NOT my idea... but begrudgingly fun none the less.

Fireworks

A view from the roof of my apartment, at what was thus far the best soiree to date.

Coney Island - Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2008

It took two transient New Yorkers to make this happen, but I finally went to Coney Island to witness the spectacle that is Nathan's 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Besides being one of thousands in the middle of a sea of sweaty people on one of the most humid days of the summer thus far; besides being jostled and shoved consistently; besides being stuck holding an unnecessarily large umbrella when it wasn't raining; besides being throughly disgusted by watching a team of people devour hot dogs for 10 minutes on stage after waiting in the afore mentioned sea of sweaty and sweating people for 3 hours; and besides listening to some Doofus rant, rave and MARRY two people in front of a mildly entertained and mostly irritable crowd, I managed to have an amazing time! I blame the Transients!

I also have a bet that in 5 years I will be taking the Doofus' job of riling up the crowd. I've never hoped to lose a bet so much.

The hot dogs were pretty amazing though.... Maybe they give Doofus his hot dogs for free?


Just a small visual of the over-crowded beach, vantage point compliments of the Wonder Wheel.

The Lustin Show Postcards

The Lustin Show Trailer #1

Coming Soon...

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Bye Bye Beta

This is the last run for the good old RastaCam. ET will be soon switching everything to HD. Its been a good run DigiRasta. RIP.

4 AM Breakfast

Tomorrow I have a call time of 5 am. That means I wake up before 4 am. So I made breakfast tonight. Good old Emergen-C and peanut butter bread. Rock on.

My Roomates

One more for the cat and dog, and we're finished!

Left to right, top to bottom: Joe, Diane, Heather, Me, a Robot.

A Boy and his Robot

Self-Portrait

I started painting. I feel like I'm back in Kindergarten. Maybe next I'll use finger paints!

The Starlit Streets of Paris

Long Island is on Fire

When I took off out of Paris, the French country side was spotted with little cul-de-sacs of lights, grouping here and there. Flying into JFK is a completely different story. Once we broke cloud cover, the world below us was completely lit from the north shore of Long Island to the south where the airport is.

The Skies of Notre Dame

I like this picture the best, but the following two I still really like, and couldn't not post.

Mont Poupet, France

The Eiffel Tower (as approached from the right side)

Lindsay made a friend in Paris!

Paris, je t'aime

Why I came to France

I came to France to write something epic, or really to finish something I've started. It hasn't exactly happened like that. We'll see how it turns out.

Tour Eiffel

Montbeliard, France

I've been staying in the small 'city' of Montbeliard, France to finish writing a short story of mine. This is the only time I saw this many people on the street after the sun went down. This town pretty much dies after the sun sets. Its as though, everyone else knows something that I don't, like the town is haunted or something. You even have to ring the doorbell to the only local watering hole that is still open, Le Pub. Spooky.

A Lazy Sunday