bobby caputo

New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously - NYTimes.com

laughingsquid:

Chatroulette Map: Not So Anonymous Anymore

In honor of Corey Haim’s passing, the best song you’ll ever hear about The Coreys: “The Ballad of the Coreys” by The Mullet Marauders

This is where the  Bayside/Creed tour jokes start coming.

Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs worried about the “despairing” levels of accidents.

(via Romanian street sign warns drivers of ‘drunk pedestrians’ - Telegraph)

I guess Corey Haim is officially out of the running for The Lost Boys sequel

RT @BreakingNews: Actor Corey Haim died of an ‘apparent overdose,’ Sgt. Frank Albarren of the LAPD tells CNS news

inothernews:

popculturebrain:

Umm @CoCosBeard, @ConansSharpie, @CoCosATMCard,@ConansTaurus, @ConansMonkey, @ConansFreckles and @ConansSquirrel.

I knew it!!!

Awesome…

notthatkindagay:

dvrton:

rooseter:

Well said. via Washington Post:

Readers React to Photo of Two Men Kissing

Powerful photographs can have lasting impact, and a Post photo of two men kissing is an image that many readers can neither forget nor accept.

The photo, which ran on the newspaper’s front page and online last week, captured Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga kissing outside D.C. Superior Court on the day that the District began accepting license applications for same-sex marriages.

Almost immediately, I began hearing from upset readers. That’s normal when controversial photos appear in The Post. The same thing happened recently when The Post published disturbing images of Haiti earthquake victims. Typically, the complaints quickly subside. With last Thursday’s photo, they continued into Friday, through the weekend and even today. Early this morning, before D.C. Superior Court began issuing licenses to same-sex couples who had applied, a caller phoned to warn that he would cancel his Post subscription “if I see another photo of men lip-locking.”

A few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. One called me to complain about “promoting a faggot lifestyle.” Another complained about the photo in an e-mail to the two Post reporters who wrote Thursday’s story about the licenses: “That kind of stuff makes normal people want to throw up. People have kids who are being exposed to this crap. I will be glad when your rag goes out of business. Real men marry women.”

But most simply said The Post had offended their sensibilities by publishing the photo, especially on the front page.

Ann Witty of Woodbridge wrote to say she had canceled the Post subscription she has held since the 1960s.

“I am 65 years old and I realize that the world is changing rapidly – much more rapidly than I would like it to,” she e-mailed. “While I realize that the Post must report on these changes – even the ones with which I do not agree – I feel that the picture on Thursday morning was an affront to the majority of your readership. It is not something that I want coming into my home. I believe that even your editors know that it would have been better placed in the Metro section and that it would have mitigated its impact to do so.”

Wrote Lee Miller of Columbia: “I would appreciate it if your cover pictures would not be so disturbing where my kids can see it easily on the kitchen table… please don’t shove this “Gay” business in our face. This is something that should have shown up on an inside page or two (without the picture).”

In comments to the ombudsman’s call-in line (202.334.7582), one reader said, “the picture of two guys kissing makes me cringe.” Another called it “ridiculous,” adding: “Put it on page 10 or page four, put it in the paper, but I do not like it right there where I can’t avoid looking at it.”

Many threatened to cancel their Post subscriptions, and more than two dozen did. Post circulation vice president Gregg Fernandes said that late last week 27 subscribers canceled, specifically citing the photo. In contrast, The Post reported only two cancellations immediately after last July’s ethics uproar over its ill-advised plan to sell sponsorships to off-the-record “salon” dinners at the publisher’s residence.

Did the Post go too far? Of course not. The photo deserved to be in newspaper and on its Web site, and it warranted front-page display.

News photos capture reality. And the prominent display reflects the historic significance of what was occurring. The recent D.C. Council decision to approve same-sex marriage was the culmination of a decades-long gay rights fight for equality. Same-sex marriage is now legal in the District. The photo of Ames and Ariga kissing simply showed joy that would be exhibited by any couple planning to wed – especially a couple who previously had been denied the legal right to marry.

There was a time, after court-ordered integration, when readers complained about front-page photos of blacks mixing with whites. Today, photo images of same-sex couples capture the same reality of societal change.

R.I.P.

Recently decided to get @Netflix again after 8 or so yrs, now i remember why i got rid if it in the first place. #Cantgetupfromthecouch.FML

Who wants to go with me to @SxSw ?

NYC bakery makes nothing but “Manly cupcakes for manly men” http://bit.ly/9zBdqK

Why the hell is Gilbert Gottfried doing the “Shoedini” commercials? are they trying NOT to sell that stupid thing??

Taken while driving along the Hudson river. I wish i could have stopped to take a proper photograph.

The local highschool’s sports teams are called “The Horsemen”.

Bad Ass

This weekend i took a quick trip up to sleepy hollow, ny. I’ve been up there several times before, it’s nice little town, not much to do there though. So i decided to check out the cemetary.

nycthe:

8 Bit NYC

inothernews:

randomnyc:

Scene at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Washington St, March 26, 1911.

(via Library of Congress)

That building is part of NYU’s “campus” today, and those rowhouses are still there.  One of them on the western end of that row was Will Smith’s residence / lab in I Am Legend.

Coincidentally I was at the Tenement Museum in the LES yesterday and they were talking about that specific incident. I definitely suggest checking out the musuem by the way. very cool. http://www.tenement.org/

I ate a ridiculously good burger last night, at White Slab Palace on Allen & Delancy.

and yes, that is a fried egg on top.

dominilucy:

Why So Many Superheroes Are Drawn to New York - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Which one to get? Canon EOS 7D VS 5D MarkII. http://bit.ly/a39xkW {What would you go for?}

Watching the Travel Channel while at work… Oh, that Andrew Zimmern is one crazy guy with all that junk he eats.

That’s a bingo!

Checked out the tenement museum, which looks like my friends old apartment btw, check it out if your in town. Now for some dinner & drinks.

I’m at Tenement Museum (108 Orchard St, at Houston, New York). http://4sq.com/8ZmgXh

I’m at Le Cubain (81 Ludlow St, at Broome, New York). http://4sq.com/8fxRpo

Sunday Funday.

35 beautiful black and white photographs: http://j.mp/blJSHf /via @petapixel

Back home, looking for a hang, anything going on in NYC tonight?

Getting out of dodge for a few, if anyone needs me I’ll be somewhere upstate.

There must me a college nearby http://twitpic.com/171apx

“I’m Shipping Up To Boston” video featuring The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

rjcaputophotography:

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A New York City Bucket List http://bit.ly/94u3Gx #nyc /via @LoveNewYork

NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com

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Hudson Valley (via rjcaputophotography)

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Lincoln Tunnel

Chrysler Bulding From 37th street, NYC

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

The facade of E.S.P. was built to look like a castle. It was done as a way to intimidate the Inmates.

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Al Capone’s former cell, when he was incarcerated in E.S.P.

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia City Hall

“LOVE” sculpture by Robert Indiana

The view of Philadelphia from my hotel. It looked just as depressing in person as it does in the photo. Don’t get me wrong though, I love Philly.

In the meantime I’ll just post some photos from my recent trip to Philadelphia. Most of the photos i shot while in Philly were taken at Eastern State Penitentiary.

During CMJ 2007 I photographed Jimmy Lee Lindsey better known as “Jay Reatard” perform at The Mercury Lounge. Damn shame to find out this young musician has passed away. he was only 29.

(more info here)

Photo via rjcaputophotogaphy on flickr

Subway Station Entrance Located at East 51st Street & Lexington Avenue (via rjcaputophotography)

Atlas Statue | NYC | 2009

Atlas is a bronze statue in front of Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The sculpture depicts the Ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the world. It was created by sculptor Lee Lawrie with the help of Rene Paul Chambellan, and it was installed in 1937.

The sculpture is in the Art Deco style, as is the entire Rockefeller Center. Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet tall, as high as a four-story building. It weighs seven tons,and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center.The North-South axis of the armillary sphere on his shoulders points towards the North Star as seen from New York City.

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Inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral | NYC | 2009 (via rjcaputophotography)

Over sized Ornaments | NYC | 2009 (via rjcaputophotography)

NYC Cab (via rjcaputophotography)

NYC Street Vender (via rjcaputophotography)

They know how to celebrate the holidays.

Radio City Music Hall | NYC | Christmas 2009 (via rjcaputophotography)

Death Valley | California 2008

Half Dome | Yosemite 2008

San Francisco - 2008

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree (via rjcaputophotography)

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These chestnuts are definitely not roasting on an open fire.

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Times Square | NYC | December 2009

Christmas in Grand Central Terminal - 2008

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Photo of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree i took last year. I like the fact that it’s at an angle for some reason.

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New Orleans architecture

The window of “Reverend Zombie’s House-Voodoo”

I love the texture in this photograph.

Utt’s Liver Pills, New Orleans

A little beat up

Even some more New Orleans architecture

Some more New Orleans architecture

I love New Orleans Architecture