another pumpkin! October 31st, 2008

   
Here’s another one, courtesy of Pam and Rick. ~

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holy pumpkins! Happy Halloween!! October 31st, 2008

And the contestants are…  

  

   

And the winner is…. (drumroll)…. for it’s intricate detailing and great use of the letter M, is The Maryland Terrapin pumpkin!!! (middle) Great job winner, and thank you to everyone who entered!! (mostly JJ). Special awards go to Tiki and 2 pumpkins for general overall cuteness (bottom middle), and also Leonardo da Vinci for most realistic and random. HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!

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All Hallows Eve October 30th, 2008

   

Um, so… this may look like the setting for a murder mystery, but it’s actually just the side-alley entrance to one of our favorite bagel/coffee joints, Jolt N Bolt on 18th St NW. Usually we are there on Sunday mornings, enjoying the delicious breakfast options (especially the smoothies) and then sitting awhile to enjoy this cozy nook.

   

And yet in this photo, it looks like it’s taken on its Mr. Hyde personality… with the pumpkin lights and nobody there… and the door is mysteriously open = CREEPY!!

   
What is everyone dressing up as tomorrow? Also, send me your pumpkin and jack-o-lantern pictures to lori (at) juxtaexposed.com. The winner will be posted tomorrow!

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High Heel Race, 2008 October 29th, 2008

   
Every year, a few days before Halloween, there is an enormous Parade and High Heel Drag Race up 17th Street near Dupont Circle. As a now 3-time veteran of this event, I must say that every year the costumes get better, the street gets more crowded, and the race gets even funnier. Unfortunately, Matt’s camera ran out of juice just as we arrived last night, so this camera-phone picture is terrible and does not do the Coco Chanel costume any sort of justice. Definitely check out Flickr for some decent but indecent pictures taken by others last night.

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a purty sunrise October 28th, 2008

   
I wish I could paint a sunrise that gorgeous.

   
So far we have 10+ pumpkin contest submissions!! (see post below) keep those entries coming until Friday: lori (at) juxtaexposed.com

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Pumpkin of the Day, and a contest too. October 24th, 2008

   

Best carved pumpkin I’ve seen yet this season! I guess most people haven’t done theirs yet though.. (myself included). Juxtaexposed will be accepting picture submissions of your jack-o-lantern carving (yes you!) up until Halloween. We will post the best one on the 31st, assuming we get any entries – any entries at all…. The big winner will be featured on this great photo-blog and showered with all the love and affection that goes along with winning a blog contest. In the case of no entries, I will be the default winner. So come on, don’t be shy. Please email your pumpkin photos to lori(at)juxtaexposed.com

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my mom’s famous Pumpkin Cookies October 23rd, 2008

   

OMG, these cookies are always a hot commodity at my parents house. As soon as the end of September rolls around, we all start waiting for the making of the famous pumpkin cookies. It’s a sweet, sweet combination of pumpkin cookie bread, vanilla cake icing, and the ratio of 3 perfect candy corns. Yum.

   

Now please don’t accuse me of candy corn overload on this blog, there’s just no such thing. Unless of course, you are one of those crazy people who dislikes this Halloween staple. I was shocked to read this morning that candy corn makes the #3 spot on The Top Ten Worst Halloween Candies at seriouseats.com. WHAT!?! Blasphemy. (i’ll also disagree with dum-dum lollipops, but that is another story…) Is there anyone out there that does *not* like candy corn? …(is there anyone out there ??)

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now that is just AWWW October 22nd, 2008

   
Look at all the sidewalk chalk hearts! How cute. And with the pile of leaves that have blown over them… you know it really is the fall season, which is the best season and probably my favorite one too. Although spring is very close behind in awesomeness, fall is the best because of: no humidity! Halloween! and most importantly it is boot season!
   
What’s your favorite season and why?

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sam i am October 21st, 2008

 

   

Last night Uncle Sam was out on stroll around the fountain in DuPont

 

   

the sign on his back noted that he supports the candidate named Obama

 

   

he did a loop on the city stage on this fine October evening jaunt

 

   

then off to the north Sam headed towards the neighborhood of Kalorama

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Cole Field House, 6 years later… October 20th, 2008

   
While we were out on campus at the University of Maryland this weekend, we poked our heads into a dark Cole Field House just to see it again. It’s been six years (I think) since the Terps last played basketball there, and boy did it seem smaller than I remembered it. Maybe because the lights were out… but in any case, it was cool to sit in those seats again. Look how loved they are!

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tailgating really is an art, you know? October 19th, 2008

  
    
Our thanks to Mr. Zack Vogel (check out those sweet glasses) and his generous parents for putting together a delicious Mexican themed smorgasbord of a tailgate yesterday in preparation for the Terps v. Wake Forest football game.  We were unable to score tickets (thanks Jill) and watch Maryland stomp on Wake Forest in their 26-0 victory from Bryd Stadium.  This was okay though as opted to watch the game from the comforts of Lupos the Thirsty Turtle.  The game was a continuation of Maryland’s rollercoaster season that has had them shutting out ranked foes and getting shut out by teams they should have buried.   
   
Now it is Skins time.   
   
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!  HAIL VICTORY!  BRAVES ON THE WARPATH!  FIGHT FOR OLD DC!

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candy corn deformities October 17th, 2008

   

I just love Halloween season. It means so many good things. Costumes, pumpkin beer, hot cider, my mom’s famous pumpkin cookies (I’m still waiting on), an apparent zombie walk in Silver Spring !!!, and CANDY CORN. Oh how I love it. I saved all the reject/deformed pieces from the bag last night, because they are just funny. I just enjoy the fact that a candy that is yellow, orange, and white always turns my tongue pink

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Agent Orange October 16th, 2008

   
Another construction related photo today – only this one is screaming Halloween to me. Maybe it’s the orange color, or the triangular pieces that make me think of Jack-O-Lantern eye cutouts… or perhaps it’s the creeeepppyyy black fingerprints… hmmm did you notice those??

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centennial station October 15th, 2008

   
So, one of my favorite buildings in the city (and only viable lunch option for me right now) celebrated its 100th Birthday a couple weekends ago.  Unfortunately I missed all of the hoopla while in picking up my race packet for the Army Ten Miler in one of my least favorite place in the vicinity, Crystal City VA.  The Union Station centennial celebration sounds like it was pretty interesting event complete with classic locomotives that you could tour.
   
While this sounds nice it doesn’t really hold a candle to the way this lady in the UK celebrated her 100th birthday in Aug of ‘07, by smoking her 170,000th cigarette.  Talk about holding power.  Daniel Burnham would be so proud.

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U Street Metro October 14th, 2008

   
Mmmm who is suddenly hungry for a sandwich?

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In 1492… October 13th, 2008

   

It’s Columbus Day and all, and I’m at work when 95% of DC is still sleeping right now, so I thought I would make great use of my time to write a little history lesson: This is a statue of Isabella I of Castile, and it’s outside the Organization of American States building at 17th and Constitution, NW. Isabella was married to Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Spain was politically unified under Carlos I of Spain, their grandson. Christopher Columbus’s plan to sail west to the Indies was denied by Queen Isabella three times before she finally agreed to his terms. He and his crew departed on August 3rd and arrived in America on October 12. (Wikipedia.org)

   
All of that sailing and discovering, and still the parking garage is not free today. I don’t like these floating holidays! Let the parking be free!

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1st Street, NE October 11th, 2008

   

A tree and a street lamp and a wall. hooray!

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Construction! October 10th, 2008

   

Matt has been working on the construction site at Constitution Square (next to the New York Avenue metro in NoMA) for awhile now, and he takes all these realllllly cool pictures of the construction materials that make me go “whoa what *is* that!?!” There is so much color and texture and rhythm to be found in these not-yet-assembled pieces — eventually when put together it will go something like this. Or here is some time lapse photography. Since there are way too many pictures to post them individually, I threw them all together into a composition I would call blue, green, red: 3 circles, 3 squares, 3 lines

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Caption Contest October 9th, 2008

   
What is going on here? Give it your best caption in the comments…

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unintentional faces October 8th, 2008

 

   
If I was going to start another blog, I always thought it would be funny to post pictures of what I would call “unintentional faces of the world.” (Maybe this already exists? I don’t know…) I first thought of it last summer sometime, when Matt and I were eating delicious Rita’s Italian Ice… and I looked across the street and the side of the house that was in view had a giant face on the side of it. Not an intentional face, but it was a square shaped house-side, with two windows at the top, and a large garden hose strung across the bottom of it on a garden hose holder — shaped like a little smile. I wondered if the residents of that house even knew they had a giant smiley face on their house… but likely not. It was probably only noticeable from the other side of the road where we were.
   
Does anyone else notice these faces everywhere? Or is that just my creative side that I can’t turn off? I think they are everywhere. Especially the one pictured above. It’s a robot with a giant grill and a blinky eye.

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Chucktown by water October 6th, 2008

 

   
DC this is not, but we got back from our little jaunt down to Charleston, SC over a week ago and I had still not posted any of the pictures from this lovely city.  This shot is from a little sail boat cruise that we decided to take on our Saturday evening.  It was a “two-hour tour” but thankfully we did not get shipwrecked like Gilligan and  crew of the S.S. Minnow.
   
All things considered, Charleston would not be a bad place to get “shipwrecked” and have to stay for a while.  The historic core was beautiful and had more restaurants and bars than you could shake a stick at.  Tremendous efforts had clearly been made to maintain the size, scale, and character of the development, redevelopment, and growth in and about the downtown area.  This is great from a preservationist point of view but I felt that the area could really be re-energized by some new development and more progressive architecture.  Part of the charm of old European cities (much, much older than Charleston) is the way that the fabric of the city has been able to absorb new ideas and adapt to tasteful changes in architectural styles and forms.  This enriches the built environment in these regions and allows you to see them as living, growing, changing cities instead of ones that locked in to a certain time period and refuse to see beyond their own immediate horizon.  Judging by the number of permits that I saw in the windows for the most minor changes to the exteriors of the buildings I suspect that it would take a paradigm shift in the thinking of the Charleston Board of Architectural Review to see new development of this character.
   
As you get away from the historic area (which as far as I could tell only inhabited by tourists and which “locals” generally avoided) and closer to the University of Charleston the town started to feel a bit more real.  Throngs of people were out on King St. doing general life things, shopping, getting groceries, going to class, working out, etc, etc.  Marion Square had a lively farmers market that made the market downtown feel like a cheap flea market full of worthless chotskies and overpriced sweetgrass baskets.  Marion Square also supplied Charleston with a much needed open piece of green for residents and passer-bys to congregate in and partake in the oh-so-important activity of people watching.  The historic area had Waterfront park which was equipped with a few “wading” fountains and offered visitors some beautiful views but lacked a central focus and was too spread out to ever seem very populated.   It was a pleasant enough place to go and read if you could snag one of the swinging benches but the location and design of the park kept it somewhat isolated from any of the “action” happening in the city surrounding.
   
The scale and speed of Charleston was ideal for seeing on a nice beach cruiser style bicycle. We rented a couple of these from our hotel and perused the town.  As the city itself is not very large this allowed us to get a nice quick lay of the land within a couple hour time frame.  At the end of the day we enjoyed our time in Charleston very much and while the city seems to have a bunch of things to work on it I would be hard pressed to name a more “pleasant” town with seeming genuinely nicer people.  That being said I think I would start to get a bit claustrophobic if I was to spend an extended amount of time here, at this point in my life anyway….maybe I’ll work on getting that vacation home down there…

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Zero October 6th, 2008

   
If you had to name an emotion to associate with this photo, what would it be?

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bright reflections October 2nd, 2008

   

Matt took this photo a few weekends ago on a rainy night in Adams Morgan. We had just polished off an amazing amount of sushi and a round of saki bombs at Singapore Bistro along with 4 of our friends. When we left the restaurant, it started to pour, so we hopped in a cab and went to have a drink on 18th Street. Soon after, we walked home in the rain.

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tricycle minus two October 2nd, 2008

   
On my bicycle commute home last night I saw a guy going down the sidewalk on R St on a unicycle.  These are quite the funny mode of transportation, if you can call it that.  We used to have a unicycle in storage down in our basement.  I guess my Dad used to ride it for fun.  I think I saw him used it a time or two but never got the urge (or cajones)to try it myself.
   
Anyway, the point of all of this is that the image of the guy on R St. must have seeped into my subconscious because last night I dreamed that all of the bike messengers and hipsters in the city had turned in their fixed-gear bikes and switched to unicycles.  Picture bands of unicycle riders in tight girly jeans and those funny scarf things going down Connecticut Ave, a sight to be seen for sure.
   
When the trend starts to change and unicycles become in vogue, don’t forget where you heard it first!

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a grenade. awesome. October 1st, 2008

   

My commute was rather long this morning, and I just found out why. There was a grenade found in Rock Creek Park, just off 16th Street. Obviously this picture has nothing to do with it, because I couldn’t get anywhere close to the scene… and also it’s not that autumn-y here yet. But anyways, where does a grenade in the park come from???

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