Port Jefferson Patch's First Impressions Artist Series

This week a portion of my year-long photo diary shown above (week 13) was chosen for the Port Jefferson Patch's First Impressions Artist Series in which local artists show work and the community reponds to them.  You can click on the image above to see a larger version and check out the project on the Patch!

Vivian Maier, the unknown street photographer

Here's an amazing story of Vivian Maier, a nanny who was a terrific photographer. Her work was found a few years ago by accident and is now being shown in exhibitons. The work itself is right up there with the best street photographers and really stands on its own.

Jaymay live at the Bowery Ballroom 6.10.2008

I reviewed Jaymay's solo show earlier this week for the indie-rock blog Kevchino. If you haven't heard her stuff yet make a point to listen to saome of the tracks off her new album here: Jaymay music

Stars of the South Shore

I was down on the south shore of Long Island this weekend and had an opportunity to visit Freeport for a maritime festival. It was sort of fascinating that I had never happened upon this town before and it's unusual makeup of houses that are all open to water for boating. The festival was awesome and brought me back to being 6 with corn dogs, live cover bands, and a carnival that seemed excitingly unsafe.