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A wide collection of film journal posts, product reviews and political postings.

‘Qns’ Lower Montauk Study Transit Stumbles into Public View.

This past weekend, the NYC DOT (very) quietly released their study on creating a new rail transit route through Queens. Let’s take a look at this seemingly futile piece of research into a transit project that won’t exist anytime soon.



Photo Journal, Feb 2018. The VueScan Grind / Monastery edition

Welcome back to another (maybe) fun filled monthly film journal. As you all might expect from last month’s post, I ended up doing a tiny bit of research and swallowing the (maybe) bitter pill of purchasing a lifetime subscription to VueScan. With it, hopefully I’ll never need to worry about out-of-date scanner software ever again. […]



The L train Shutdown plan is mediocre at best, dangerous at worst.

Just before Christmas, The MTA finally released their L Train shutdown plan.



Photography Journal, end of 2017 edition. Of Brand Loyalty and Bad Customer Service

Electric gear under an abandoned passenger train car Fuji Superia ISO 100 Welcome to my first entry of what I hope will be a monthly or bi-monthly journal chronicaling a year of experiments, misfortunes and maybe epic wins as I strive to up my photography game this year.



A media post-mortem, financial times article 10 years later.

10 years ago today, myself and the infamous Miru Kim (& her awesome sister) were interviewed for the Financial Times. Looking back at this article, literally so much has changed.



RIP DNAInfo/Gothamist

Late yesterday, news broke that Billionaire Joe Ricketts has shut down two major NYC online news outlets: Gothamist on and DNAInfo.



“QNS” Lower Montauk transit plan remains vague and deceptive two years later.

I really want to be explicit about this: I am one of the biggest transit advocates you’ll ever meet. Strong transit options are what made NYC a great city, and could be leveraged further to make it one of the most ecologically sustainable cities on the planet. Unfortunately our subway and rail systems have not […]



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