Some off and on showers, and scattered sunshine is giving my sunburns a chance to recover, and for me to sneak in a fast post. Looks like I'm not missing much in Cincinnati this week, eat your hearts out!
The youngest of the 5chw4r7z guys, he's a trip, keeping me smiling and crackin me up at every turn.
No trip anywhere is complete until there's a cigar with the 5chw4r7z brothers.
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I'll never ever get tired of this view, the morning sun, the bridges glowing. Something about the steel bridges, a manifestation of the manufactured physical world in a juxtaposition against the beautifully natural hills and sky of Kentucky. And talking about skies, we're off into the wild blue yonder for a week at the beach.
Took some pictures roaming around last night, QCSII is already looking impressive and its only 10 or so stories tall, whats it gonna look like with the other 39 tacked on the top? They just announced another tenant, Frost Brown Todd who is going to occupy four floors starting at the 30th.
The work is going fast and furious on the Banks also, I love this rending of what it will look like when finished.
One of the biggest(but not the only) influences on me blogger wise has been Raymi. I've never met her, maybe one day. She was the second blogger I read regularly and when I started blogging, I just copied her unashamedly. She's had an interview with an online mag and this exept struck me, talking about sticking your neck out.
when you feel insecure about something you are doing, ... that vulnerability means that you are doing the right thing and when you watch that... the part when you started second-guessing ... that is likely the best part ... same goes for writing and photos of yourself. go the extra distance, it pays off.
She's not the only one of course, there's another blogger, who I actually did meet and has always always pushed and pushed me out of my comfort zone. So to everyone who asks, do you ever feel weird talking pictures in restaurants. Aren't you a little full of yourself, talking pictures of yourself all the time?
Actually, I'm probably tons more insecure than you are, but I'm growing and discovering things that I otherwise wouldn't have.
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Or just plain old Imports to me. Talking to Liz, I guess there's some ruffled feathers out there we should be fit in more. Screw that, I'm twisting this place around to suit me. The natives haven't exactly set the place on fire so stand back, we're burning the place to the ground and rebuilding it in our image. Over the river and through the levee to Hofbrauhaus we go
There were tons of people there I didn't recognize, a few I did but had never seen at an Imports meetup before. There is still a massive amount of people moving to and through Cincinnati, and a huge demand for these happy hours. Big question will they stay or move on? I'm guess the anit-progress people would be just as happy if they moved on, but not me.
Peter ParkerMark, your freindly neighborhood photog already busy uploading pictures from the event to Metromix.
Geneva on the Lake for my cousins wedding, what a drive, but at least it was a nice day for it. Got up there early and walked around some, if you love Myrtle Beach, you'll like Geneva on the Lake. Little miniature version of it minus the Wings and Pacific stores. But the main attraction, at least for Ms 5chw4r7z was the wineries.
We may have been over dressed, this isn't the most pretentious winery I've been to. Actually it was one step up from a dive bar, plastic glasses and waitresses we had to keep chasing down.
its Ohio but its outside, cigar time!
3G, Edge. 3G, Edge. 3G, Edge. thats how they roll on the lake.
a breezy evening on Fountain Square for the t-shirt festival leading up to the Indie Summer Music concert, that I totally missed by the way but I see Dan and he mentioned he saw Park+Vine getting name dropped on twitter a bunch the other day and what was up with that? Well right before that I had captured this video, then never turned the phone off.
So I told him how, on twitter there were a group of people trying to make the case for a casino downtown, now, I'm passionate about Cincinnati to say the least. much arm waving ensues.
I mean, have you looked a google earth shot of any casino outside Vegas? Its a wasteland. People drive into the casino, spend their money and leave. That's it. So they say what else will bring people to Cincy? Ha! did you see the NYTimes today? More exaggerated arm waving...
Whats the purpose of attracting people to Cincy for a casino, if 30% goes to the state and the rest flies back to where ever the hell the owner is? They might as well of gone straight to Vegas and bypassed us. If they spend the money instead somewhere local like say Park+Vine, 100% money stays right here in Cincinnati.They get busy and hire help,(which actually happened by the way) creating even more wealth that stays right here. And so on.
More arm waving and streetcar and bike talk...
but what makes it all worth it, the best follow friday I've gotten. thanks guys for putting up with me when that unfollow button is so tempting.
Is that the tipping point, when you start feeling comfortable in a hat you're getting old? not sure if I care, I'm styln and rockn my inner Clark Kent with this hat. We're heading to an outdoor wedding on Lake Erie, not even looking for a hat and saw this and it popped. No burned head for me this weekend. But here's an interesting development, crowd sourced fashion advice, I already knew I wanted it but sometimes I don't have the self confidence I should. A quick twitter picture and everyone came back with a resounding yes! And this isn't a fluke either, a couple weeks ago, while buying a suit, a salesman was talking a tweep into pleated pants, this guys a twenty-something and asked advice, two other women and I told him NO, whatya crazy? Saving the Cincinnati fashion scene one tweet at a time.
no, no,no as exciting as it sound I don't think I'm cut out for modeling, I'm just going to hang around here and be a boring old guy.
Walking around soaking it in, this is the one cultural aspect I feel Cincinnati is lacking. Its out there just not as prominent. And to be fair, yes these were clustered around their art museums so it does make sense. Artworks is doing their share with murals, but I would like to see new projects in Cincinnati incorporate public art. Tarbell had an initiative but it fizzled and never went anywhere.
This was my favorite fountain, outside the Native American Museum, I got it instantly, but you can grasp the energy and movement even more in a static picture.
Getting more and more adventurous around here, we drove way out into the sticks, hours and hours to the Dilly Cafe in Mariemont. But worth the drive as these guys all know beer. The coolest thing ever, it was the Hoperatives anniversary and they were there so they joined right in. I'll take beers nobs for $200 Alex thats "beer snobs" 5chw4r7z Ha! thats not what your mother said last night Trabec.
Peanut, the crack dilly beer expert and the Hoperatives. Those wacky kids still in love after all these years.
the Nomerati decides, well everyone does, but she spearheads the effort, that the Southern Tier Creme Brulee Stout would taste awesome over vanilla ice cream. But WOW no matter how sweet you thought the stout was, boy did it taste bitter over the ice cream. Didn't keep us from enjoying the heck out it though.
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