The Kids Are All Right

Oh DUH!!!!!

LaurenLinderrrr brought to my attention that I forgot to mention that The Kids Are All Right stars our gorgeous friend and my former photo subject YAYA!!!



It really is the best movie I've seen in a while.

And Yaya, well, she must've enjoyed making it...because she gets SUPERNAKED with Rark Muffalo!!!!!

Standard Beer / PPL / MAO Wedding

Kristen had like 20 friends meeting up at the Standard Beer Garden the other night so we went there for some drinks.




Tim stopped by because he lives two blocks away from there now.



Speaking of high school friends, I met up with Patrick, who we last saw in Hong Kong over New Years, and who has been around the city for the summer.





We went to the club at the Trump Soho which is truly awful never ever go there.





Oh and the highlight of the weekend was shooting a wedding up in Greenwich that MAO hooked me up with.

This gig meant a lot to me because remember like five years ago when I had a quarterlife crisis and didn't know what I was doing with my life?

Well Anne helped inspire me to become a photographer and served as my muse and some of the first pretty pretty pictures I ever took were of her as I began to build my portfolio.

And then from that there was our whole Hong Kong Adventure where I hooked her up with the Starz Agency and thus began the brief but lucrative (and possibly ongoing) modeling career.

And now here she is hooking me up with photo gigs because I'm now, like, a real professional photographer y'all!

Anyway, the wedding was super fun. And the pictures turned out beautiful even PRE-photoshop (as you'll see below).







Thank you Anne for the wedding gig, for inspiring me endlessly, for being a great friend, and a for being a true beauty inside and out. Oh and for being a totally nutso vampire-loving goofball weirdo.

Love love love.

Phil is one of the luckiest.

Danny's Montauk Birthday Weekend

Montauk is as far out on Long Island as you can possibly get.

And traffic getting out there on the weekends is notoriously awful.




But everybody loves Danny. And everybody made the trek.

Noops, Z, and I arrived at Danny's summer surfmansion...






And we had actually decided to come a day early, since we didn't really know a lot of Danny's other friends and figured if we came Friday, we'd be part of the "In Crowd" by the time the big party Saturday night rolled around (Saturday was when 50+ were expected to show up).

But we arrived, and everyone was already at the beach.

(Actually this retelling of events is slightly inaccurate, everyone was at the house BBQing when we arrived, but I feel like in recapping the weekend with pictures it makes more sense to condense it all into just one giant day and beaching first makes the most sense in my mind.)



So yes, we found Danny at the beach.



A lovely lovely beach.




And we all became new best friends immediately. Just like we planned.




This was followed by a BBQ.

Danny had provided all kinds of fun party favors from our childhood including such treasures as snapbracelets, Big League Chew, and Pop Rocks.




There were some 50 or so people at the house. It was a good showing.




Everyone so nice and friendly. Because Danny is the best. And if you know Danny, you are probably pretty good too.







There was everything from burgers to cheesesausages to korean beef bulgogi to mussels.



And lots of beergames.



And several flabongoes.



Night fell.



And drinking kicked into high gear. With help, of course, from the flabongo.






There were games...



And dance parties at the house...




There was a dance party at the bar.







There was more danceparty at the house...




And then there was even more danceparty at the bar...












Even Magothy made an appearance!





Mags totally jacked my glasses.




We loves TimLoh!



We LOVES DannyHong!!!!



If any other favorite Asians had shown up I think my little heart might have exploded!



Late night we were disgusting.

Z and I roamed downtown Montauk looking for food or a snackshop. There was none.

We did, however, find a discarded pizza box with someone else's old pizza crusts and proceeded to eat them.

We also found someone's leftover bag of Utz Potato Chips and a can of soup.

Ate those too.



Yum.



The next morning the boys were cooking an EPIC breakfast.



But all the drippy porkfat caused a giant PORKFAT GRILLFIRE which almost burned down the house.




Breakfast fail.



Instead, we headed into town for sandwiches before heading home.

And in town we had our Montauk Celebrity Sighting.

Jay the Australian who dated Whitney Port on The City.



He was sitting right next to my car so I got in and took a secret picture. Yay iPhone paparazzi!



Happy Birthday again DHong!