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"The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring."

Paul Rand (Design, Form, and Chaos)

The Best of 2019

    The following is a smattering of images taken while I'm doing stuff on the weekends in the year 2019 (in chronological order). They are representative of the best events, not the best photography. Click a thumbnail to see the caption and you can swipe or click to see the next image in the gallery.

1/4 - We saw "Dune" on the big screen!
1/11 - Live movie riffing? Hilaious!
1/12 - Let's do a photo shoot!
1/12 - Everyone get ready for the photoshoot!
1/12 - After the photoshoot for Olga's dresses is done, we do some silly pictures.
1/15 - Out watching the Tappan Zee Bridge explode!
1/19 - Watching a movie at Jaime & Anthony's.
1/21 - All you can eat Korean BBQ for Soung's birthday!
1/27 - Pho for lunch? Heck yeah! Saigonese is the best!
1/27 - Dinner party for the spiciest dish in the world at Brick Lane Curry House.
2/1 - Dinner party at the best Mexican place around. La Perla Poblanita has spoiled all other Mexican restaurants.
2/2 - Fun photo shoot with Mikym Mardati.
2/6 - Let's check out another Motorola press event.
2/7 - Sami Fish NYFW show
2/8 - How's my office look with a wide-angle lens?
2/11 - We're at a big hotel doing a long 2 day photo shoot of a big Biotechnology conference.
2/12 - We're finally done with all the Biotech photos!
2/14 - Out again to photograph a fashion show.
2/16 - Having fun at the spy museum.
2/16 - Having some Mexican Lupper in the afternoon.
2/23 - Making maple syrup in CT with old college friends.
3/2 - Rosy's gotta make the baby smile after ice skating.
3/2 - Time to check out Dasha's art gallery.
3/3 - Westchester Fashion Week show around the block from my place.
3/7 - Just chilling.
3/9 - A silly photo shoot with Hinna Shareen
3/10 - Dinner party time at a sweet Thai restaurant (Pure)
3/11 - My website works alright on Android/Google Wear OS
3/12 - Off to see "Captain Marvel" even though we know it's going to suck.
3/13 - I found the green milk Luke Skywalker drinks out of the Thalia Siren breast!
3/15 - This independent film I helped make the poster for was pretty great.
3/15 - Rooftop model party time!
3/15 - This Christmas light stairway was really cool.
3/16 - Hey, it's me and Dasha on the sidwalk!
3/16 - A Playland Park sunset with Faith Logan
3/17 - Brunch time! Have some pancakes, Liga.
3/17 - The new Vessel in Hudson Yards just opened.
3/19 - Awesome movie! Triple Threat!
3/29 - I got a pretty sweet desk setup, right?
3/30 - Lunching while doing a photo shoot at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
3/30 - Was my hair like that all day?!
3/31 - Climbing that new Vessel thing is so cool!
3/31 - Brana's making a better website for herself.
3/31 - Time to see "The Matrix" again!
4/1 - I love this Pure OS Librem 15 laptop! Learnin' Linux!
4/3 - Dinner at this awesome Mexican place in Tarrytown.
4/6 - Gotta edit some photos on the computers.
4/6 - It's the international pillow fight! Note the dead bodies in the background.
4/7 - This is an awesome Greenwich Hospital benefit party in CT!
4/7 - Myself, Nat Nat, and Denny are amoung the photographers for the Greenwich Hospital benefit party of course.
4/7 - Awesome dinner after the castle party.
4/10 - I love that Linux supports Wacom tablets so well.
4/13 - The Vessel at sunset with Julia.
4/14 - We don't even stop taking pictures for lunch!
4/14 - Taking pictures at Roosevelt Island.
4/15 - Trying out the new Samsung Galaxy Fold.
4/17 - Video chatting while playing Xbox with Little A.
4/20 - We're having fun at Angelina's wedding!
4/20 - A picture with the bride at her wedding.
4/25 - Using a Huawei Matebook for some tabletop photography.
4/27 - It's really cold out, but the dancers don't mind.
5/5 - Awe Yeah, dinner party time!
5/6 - All clean and running smooth!
5/10 - Working on a new cooling system for the RetroPie.
5/11 - We found another Geocache!
5/11 - Great day for a bicycle ride by the reservoir.
5/18 - Uncle Glenn's wedding!
5/18 - Little A is big enough to be my photography assistant now.
5/18 - We all had fun at the BBQ wedding.
5/21 - Brana's learning how to make her website awesome with Linux.
5/21 - Ooh, Silvana's has some good food.
5/23 - Dinner party at Karvouna Mezze.
5/25 - Awesome bike ride to Governor's Island!
5/26 - Look! We're in Hawaii! Just kidding, it's Staten Island.
5/27 - Another nice day for a bicycle ride.
5/28 - Cool new Moto Z4.
6/1 - Bikini beach video shoot time!
6/1 - Behind the scenes
6/2 - Bicycle Sunday on the highway.
6/2 - Lunch at the Tarrytown street fair was great.
6/6 - Cousin Amy, Aunt Terry, and my mom stopped by for lunch on their way back from Bermuda.
6/7 - We just saw Dark Pheonix at Lincoln Center.
6/8 - A little morning video chat.
6/9 - Trying out a new Ramen place with Harry.
6/12 - Little A got all the awards at her 8th Grade graduation.
6/12 - We had to take a graduation picture together.
6/13 - Proof that I dropped this girl off at school for her class trip to the Great Wolf Lodge.
6/13 - A quick hello to Mason while rolling back to NY from Maine.
6/18 - Dinner with Wacom's Sr. PR Manager.
6/20 - Mmm! Sliders at the Pepcom event!
6/22 - June Birthdays! Liga's Brunch party!
6/22 - CoCo J'adore is a pretty nice place for brunch.
6/23 - Awe yeah, Bicycle Sunday on the highway!
6/26 - Working on a video for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
6/26 - Greenwich Beach sunsets are pretty nice, right Olga?
6/27 - Another sunset at Greenwich beach wth Olga and Colleen.
6/27 - Let's get in the water. Why not?
6/28 - Just finishing up editing that S.I. Swim video at a coffee shop.
6/30 - Birthday city in the infinity pool with a view of the Manhattan skyline!
6/30 - The hot tubs, saunas, massage pools, and rooftop pools at SoJo Spa club are so awesome.
6/30 - So many saunas to try out!
6/30 - Heading to the evening birthday party.
6/30 - June Birthdays continue with my birthday twin Brana at a Manhattan terrace party.
7/5 - July holiday time in the Hamptons!
7/5 - Diana certainly knows how to lounge by the pool.
7/5 - Having a fashion show in the Hamptons.
7/7 - Great day to hang out at Governor's Island!
7/7 - I have one audience member.
7/9 - Weird Al UHF movie party?! How's that, Danielle?
7/10 - Let's go get some Sloppie Joes for dinner.
7/18 - Checking out some of Brana's art in sweaty Brooklyn.
7/19 - A nice local restaurant opening party in Pelham.
7/19 - Pelham's mayor cut the ribbon.
7/20 - We all went to the "Strings Attached" Weird Al concert and it was awesome!
7/20 - The Dwyers were at the Weird Al concert, too!
7/21 - Getting some work done after brunch.
7/21 - Oh, that's a cousins video chat party!
7/24 - Off to race the sailboats. My job is to help with tacking.
7/24 - Sunset while sailing is pretty nice.
7/25 - The Lyndhurst Jazz Picnic Thursday starts soon.
7/26 - I found Angelina at Stew's again.
8/3 - Ah, July Birthdays celebration in August!
8/3 - Oh, it's just some video game multi-tasking.
8/4 - Me and Amy and Trevor took little Mason to lunch.
8/5 - Waiting to get into the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launch press event.
8/6 - Deer are pretty much just always hanging around in Westchester.
8/7 - The environment design at Samsung's Unpacked event at the Barclay's Center is really cool.
8/7 - The CEO of Microsoft partnering with Samsung!
8/10 - Summer Streets means everyone's out on the bicycles on Park Ave.
8/10 - Harry getting pictures at South Street Seaport.
8/10 - Beautiful day for a ride!
8/19 - HP's Z-series Dreamcolor displays are getting so good at Adobe RGB!
8/21 - Me and Vinnie went to the World Trade Center for a Huawei cocktail party.
8/21 - We got to play with the nice Mate X folding screen smartphone!
8/23 - Fun walk to Coney Island along the beach.
8/23 - Are all the Coney Island sunsets like this?
8/25 - How about a little mountain bike ride?
8/27 - Baby triplets walking with me for lunch.
8/29 - New Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 16 in the house!
8/30 - A little studio shoot with Dominika
9/1 - So much fun driving a pedal car around Governor's Island!
9/1 - Gotta balance!
9/1 - Let's see if I can ride a unicycle.
9/4 - This module Toughbook sure has a lot of parts!
9/5 - Time to check out the Style NYFW shows.
9/5 - Hidecki eats the French Onion Soup burger with a knife and fork.
9/7 - More NY Fashion week! Hey, check out the triplets.
9/8 - Josie and Daniel are getting married!
9/8 - Josie & Dan's wedding!
9/14 - I guess this is the menu for tonight's movie.
9/16 - Yay! New HP computers to play with!
9/18 - Dinner at Sala Thai!
9/20 - Making your own OpenVPN server is hard.
9/21 - Natardia needs some pasta
9/22 - Bicycle Sunday on the highway!
9/24 - Finally made my own VPN server and it works!
9/29 - Tour de Yonkers on the bicycle!
9/29 - Look, I found Rich on the bike ride!
9/30 - Oh jeez, mom found my old snowboard.
10/1 - If I was watching this alone, I would have turned it off.
10/4 - Comic Con has started! My friends are dressed as Judge Dredds.
10/4 - Marvel's Runaways panel at NYCC.
10/5 - There was an Angel TV show reunion at NYCC.
10/5 - Today was Sith Day for these guys at NYCC.
10/6 - Oops, Spiderman fell.
10/6 - The cast of "The Orville" is so awesome.
10/13 - Gotta have those dumplings!
10/13 - Everyone else has left after seeing "Joker" but we're still here talkin'.
10/18 - Seeing Zombiland 2 at the Alamo means lots of twinkies on the menu.
10/19 - Great fall foliage bicycle ride.
10/19 - A few spots along the path were blocked off, so we had to sneak onto the bridge.
10/22 - Lunch at the best Mexican restaurant around.
10/24 - Samsung's new laptops have wireless charging pads in the trackpads.
10/24 - I found my college photography teacher at the PhotoPlus Expo.
10/24 - I found Arthur at the PhotoPlus Expo, too!
10/26 - Doing a little video of Olga's alumni speech.
10/26 - And now for lunch with Olga L and another photographer.
10/29 - I like controlling my camera remotely for table-top photo shoots.
11/1 - I made a web app for my friends that video calls me.
11/1 - Finally getting to try Kai OS!
11/3 - We got quite the crew for Trinity's photo shoot today.
11/3 - Herb won the NY marathon! Yay!
11/3 - Not many beautiful sunsets in my life this year, huh?
11/6 - It's so cool to have a new Linux laptop! This Pinebook Pro was only $200.
11/9 - We saw "Midway", but Harry wanted to pose with this cardboard.
11/12 - Looks like sunset season.
11/14 - It's the Return to Return to Nuke'em High Blueray launch party!
11/16 - Oh no, kaleidescope Adam!
11/16 - We didn't pose in this room as well as we probably could have.
11/16 - The mirror slits was hilarious!
11/16 - So much fun at the Museum of Illusions!
11/22 - On the way to MA, and I had to stop for an Art Club meeting.
11/22 - Mason knows how to solve the Rubik's cube now.
11/23 - Happy birthday, Little A! You get all the dirty dishes.
11/23 - It's going to be a long night of skip bo.
11/24 - Let's paint today!
11/24 - Three thumbs up!
11/25 - Trying out Project xCloud with this weird contraption. Ha!
11/28 - Thanksgiving snacks are ready!
11/28 - Happy Thanksgiving!
11/29 - Let's see if we can build a cell phone.
11/30 - It works! We made a phone!
11/30 - Let's all go to the movies.
11/30 - The Strand theater has some good food choices.
12/1 - Happy Birthday, Jenn! Jack sure knows how to smile for the camera.
12/3 - Looks like we got some snow at the office.
12/5 - It was so cool to play with the new Motorola Razr at Verizon's Christmas party!
12/11 - It was cool seeing Micheal Fisher at the Huawei Holiday party.
12/15 - Time for a little studio photography with Sofia.
12/19 - Time for Star Wars Episode 9! The presenters gave us a "Previously on Star Wars" synopsis of all the other movies.
12/21 - Harry wanted to do the Microsoft gift vending machine thing.
12/22 - Holiday Hot Tubbing
12/22 - The rooftop infinity pool with a view of the NYC skyline.
12/24 - I converted a Chromebook to run Linux and it's so much better now!
12/25 - Christmas time at Aunt Renee's!
12/25 - Cousin Rochelle loves her aunt Cheryll.
12/26 - Little A's punishment for accidentally breaking her nice new tablet PC convertible is now she has to use a Gallium Linux laptop at school.
12/26 - Heavenly Donuts time!
12/27 - More Christmas time!
12/27 - Virtual Reality in the sunroom.
12/27 - Yay! Got to see an old friend from 1st grade.
12/28 - Having fun at the Trevor Museum again.
12/29 - Playing some Project xCloud on the couch.
12/31 - New Year's Eve Snow!