I went to a motorcycle show at the Javitz this last weekend. Motorcyclist Magazine’s century retrospective, aptly named “Century of Motorcycling” was super rad… one awesome vintage motorcycle to represent each decade. Crazy to think that the magazine has been around for 100 years.

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1. Indian Larry Motorcycle gang jacket
2. Indian Motorcycles logo
3. Custom 1970 TriFlyer
4. 1968 Yamaha DT1 Enduro
5. A Harley Davidson from the 1910s
6. Arguably racist Indian Motorcycles fender ornament

When we started dating, I knew Josh had been in this hardcore band but I never thought I’d see the day that they’d play again. But they did, and that was how I spent my holiday… and it was awesome.

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Photos by Alvin Carrillo and Rebecca Reed

Photos by Shelley Mintz

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Two weeks ago my roommate Shelley and I took a road trip out to Chicago by way of Michigan.  I had been borrowing my brother’s pick-up truck since he moved away for college when I was a Junior in high school.  When I finally moved back to Brooklyn in August it seemed about time to return it to him.  Drive out, fly back—that was the plan.

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We left Brooklyn around 8pm on Thursday night.  We reached Mercer, PA at around 3am.  The first night of the trip was pretty uneventful in the grand scheme.  In the morning we ate our hotel breakfast, took the scenic route back to Rt. 80, ate like queens at Cracker Barrel and were on our way to Michigan.

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Michigan wasn’t originally part of our plan, that is, until I asked a friend from Michigan if he had any suggestions for things to do in Chicago.  He didn’t.  But he was having a house show on Friday night, and honestly a house show didn’t sound like a half-bad excuse to drive a few hours out of the way.

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We packed up in the morning and Jon took us out to breakfast to Golden Harvest.   It was hands down my favorite meal of the entire trip.  If you ever find yourself in Lansing, Michigan you should find your way to Golden Harvest.  Seriously.

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The first night we got to Chicago we went to a Windy City Rollers game.  I was super impressed by the venue and production—they even had WCR branded video displays that reminded me of Knicks and Rangers games at Madison Square Garden.  Total venue envy.

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Between shopping, architecture boat cruises, butterfly havens, and even a terrible yuppie bar we fit in as many of Chicago’s veggie restaurants as possible.  I ate a vegan cinnamon roll at The Chicago Diner, a veggie stir fry at Pick Me Up Cafe, a breakfast burrito with soyrizo at Handlebar.  All were delicious.

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We made a handful of friends along the way, too.  Friends of friends, friends from 4 years ago, friends we hadn’t met yet.  Ian took us out to Pick Me Up Cafe, a book store, and a record store.  I forget who but someone told us to go to Family Tattoo, and that’s how we found Matt.  After getting tattooed (sorry, Mom) he came out and got a root beer at the bar with us and hung out for a while.  He even took us to a rooftop for a nice midnight view of distant downtown Chicago.  You should get tattooed by him if you’re ever in Chicago and into that sort of thing.

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The trip was super rad, and the flight home was pretty uneventful.  It was my first time ever going on vacation, coming home to New York and actually feeling that “Ah, it’s so good to be home.” feeling.  The best feeling.

Here are just a few more pictures and outtakes from the project Jill and I have been working on together in the past few weeks. Recently we’ve been hiking in the woods and shooting at the beach, Jill brought me to this awesome hiking spot in our town (Madison, Connecticut) that I never even knew was there before! Now that I’ve finally upgraded wordpress and school is almost over I promise I’ll get back to blogging soon.

I went down to the beach last night to take some pictures for a a project that me and my friend/classmate/creative counterpart Jill are working on. More on that soon!