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Live From Miami

The band played as the Titanic went down. In Miami, the cortados are poured. Guidance + protection to all South Floridians holding tight and everyone upstate getting ready for Irma. Love to all the entire Caribbean and those still recovering from Harvey.

Stay safe, ya'll.

#miami #Irma #hurricane #Harvey #love #faith #strength

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is in you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. -

Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

So, one late afternoon I decided to get acquainted with my records and turntables after a long time to find some summer tunes. Here’s some I brought together to get you through the last of these languid days. This is one take, with all sorts of mixing errors, but I think the songs do what they do regardless of my slips. It’s hot out there

Tracklist:

Devendra Benhårt - The Ballad of Keenan Milton

Tommy Guerrero - 100 Years

Caetano Veloso - Lost in the Paradise

Little Joy - Keep Me in Mind

Washed Out - Falling Back

Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions

Jose Feliciano - Sunny (Shelter Mix)

Small World - I Believe

Steve Spacek - Dollar

Masego x Medisin - Sunday Vibes

#Miami #heat #summer #music #mix

From Paris, With Love

As with many things Parisian, it’s easy to fall in love. The city itself is essentially a romance themed amusement park. Much is said of the French’s love of love itself, and when you see their capital, it seems less a monument to French achievement and culture and more a living embodiment of Love. And with that love, like all loves, comes its many beautiful, quirky, endearing, and infuriating dimensions. But of all of Paris’ intimate beauties, its coffee shops in particular hold a special place for me. Their inherent quaintness; there isn’t seating for 50 people each with a device in tow; the signage is often hand written as is typical in Parisian bistros; the coffee is prepared with precision and without urgency; seating and design often looks like the most serendipitously stylish set of second hand everything.

On my last trip, I stayed in Belleville, on the city’s east side, blocks from the parc of the neighborhood’s namesake, and directly across the street from one of the many delicious, and Anglophone friendly, little coffee shops that seem to be popping up all across the Right Bank. Cream, in the heart of the neighborhood’s immigrant hills, drew me right in. It felt like your friend’s charming, old apartment in the city, which, truthfully, is the feeling you find in many of Paris’s best spaces; a balance of elegance and grit, and a sense of both the space’s history with a keen eye toward the contemporary. When I was leaving Europe, the week after I had stayed in Paris, I found out Cream was closing its doors. While I certainly was not a local by any means, it was a daily part of the ten days I spent in Paris and helped me fall further in love with the city. Cream, I raise my cortado to you. Merci!

#Paris #Cream #coffee #belleville #cafe

Happy birthday to Mr. President, Big Barry O, and my Pops; two men with very divergent political philosophies ✌🏽🇺🇸✌🏻

#Birthday #Obama #Pops #August 4th #Leo #Leo Season #Presidential #USA

København, July 2017

#Copenhagen #black & white

Meditations on coffee in Copenhagen.

#Copenhagen #Denmark #coffee collective #meditation #interiors

Life is a dance in and out of the light and shadow.

#Paris #Luxembourg Gardens #beauty

Visions in the garden; Versailles.

#Versailles #Chateau #France #beauty

With regard to the matter of trivial pursuits, none is more elusive or alluring as is the search for the perfect white tee. Whether of the Brando or Dem Franchise Boyz variety, or the many stops between those two bookends on the subject, the white t-shirt is an American staple in any man’s wardrobe. A clean, easy answer to a constant question. And while the answer to that question may remain reliable, it must be made clear, not every white t-shirt is created equal. The details in the longer response to this question rely on the wearer’s sensibility. Particularly, their style and eye for detail (if any).

But without getting lost in the weeds and dissecting the finer aspects of this point, I can say I have reached the end of the road in my personal quest for the perfect white t-shirt. Without further adieu, I introduce the Bayside 5100 white t-shirt. Already a lock with a form fitting neck, slim cut, and durable fabric but factor in American labor (!) and factor out the cost of what gets passed off as a “luxury” white t-shirt (Get All The Way TFOH) and you got a lifer.

#white t-shirt #menswear #bayside #perfect #perfect white t-shirt #GQ