Getting Sky High in Humboldt
Aerial photography of Humboldt County coastline and interior foothills from a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing fixed-wing aircraft, the most successful mass produced light aircraft in history, which barely goes over 105 miles per hour, likely less when stuffed like a tin can. Photos © Manny Santiago & Alex McKenzie
Dames and Drinks the Best of 2011
It ain’t over till the sexy lady sips her Manhattan, Holy Headbuzz Batman! was it a good year for dames I’ll never see again and drinks I will remember for the rest of my life. The list of new bars on the map is a long one: New Orleans’ Checkpoint Charlies. San Antonio’s Esquire Tavern. [...]
Homeless in Tokyo
“I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.” ―Leo Tolstoy Click above to view full gallery of images.
Street Photography Examined
“What happens when you interrogate yourself? What happens when you begin to call into question the tacit assumptions and unarticulated presuppositions and begin then to become a different kind of person?” –Dr. Cornell West I have long tried to get at the underlying philosophy of Street Photography. What is it exactly that makes a normal [...]
The American Dream Series Part One
Beer for dinner? Again? It’s the American Dream you say? Well, ok, if you say so, but can we have some lime? We need to go get it? Can we have a beer first? We’re at a bar? Why yes, we are…Ok, good…
Flora and Fauna of the American Northwest
It is spring and the usual photos of Japanese people of all ages and incomes gathered as one nation undivided in drunken revelry beneath cherry blossoms across the archipelago are nowhere to be seen. I’m feeling a bit of anxiety at the missing pink and white pixels flashing across my laptop’s screensaver slideshow. The only [...]
