ithinkyoureswell: the blog.

So, Labor Day weekend is just about upon us. The symbolic end of summer. A weekend of both rest and festivity. But, let’s be real, for many it’ll be the last time to throw on that perfectly tattered tank and put it all out there. Ya know, try that one last time to find summer romance before hibernation or, worse, the depression of the autunmal equinox begins. Or get over your summer fling which never quite materialized in the way you had hoped.

Hmm, Antwan Duncan. Over the last couple of weeks he has made both clear and blatant attempts to get someone to wipe him down. Examples include:

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Diplo : Way More Brazil

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chris

With the curtain dropping on summer, Real Estate has provided the perfect track to capture the end-of-summer malaise.

Real Estate : Out of Tune

chris

A couple of days ago, Chanel  released their new promo for Bleu de Chanel. The spot is directed by Scorsese and stars one of the only things I like about France, Gaspard Ulliel.  Mmm.

xx

Luvina

I’ve never looked forward to fall quite so much. This is beauty.

Mimicking Birds : The Loop

chris

I hate facebook mass messages. I hate the reply all feature that can’t be turned off.

I HATE IT.

And apparently I’m not the only one. Like, I mean, I think it’s great to be able to let all of the people that you know on facebook about something awesome that going on, or that you’re getting married, or that you need a place to stay because you just got dumped by somebody that didn’t love you, but like — YOU CAN’T OPT OUT OF BEING A PART OF THE MESSAGE ONCE YOU’VE ABSORBED IT ALL?! WTF!

And people get straight NASTY when you ask to be taken out of the message. WHY?! I asked to be taken off of a list once that was being sent around Facebook by TWIG THE WONDERKID or some shit and that motherfucker straight up told me NO! Are you serious dawg? NO? Like, what? RETARDED. And like he really didn’t remove me.

This has happened to me a few times and the shit GETS OLD. DO NOT PUT ME IN THESE MESSAGES, ever.

LOL. All of this came up when I saw this (picture below) on facebook today…

Funny as hell, but he is still on the list.

shit is fucked up.

later nerds,

A

I have always found myself somewhat drawn to keeping the images and pictures that I see on the ground. Some people think it’s weird and a few find the legitimacy in doing so, but no matter what anyone says, I think it’s awesome. It’s so cool to be able to get a sneak peek into the lives of people you’ve never met and experience their world through photographs they have left behind. Why would throw printed images out in the first place? Is it because they have duplicates somewhere? Because they’re too old to be kept? Are these memories painful? I don’t think I’ll ever understand.

Recently I came across a treasure chest of images and I will be sharing them with you from time to time on I Think You’re Swell from now until they are all digitized and online. None will be edited in anyway, you will get them as they are, as they were found. I hope you enjoy them.

This is part one.

I wonder where this was taken and why she was all gussied up…

Does anyone recognize anything? Hmm..

Haha, silly bear, you’re not a wolf! Howlin’ like that! — I guess even animals like to pretend.

Haha, this reminds me of how my mom used to dress my brother and I in outfits that matched…like, c’mon mom, we’re two years apart! These kids look to be at least 3 or 4 years apart!

Oh ok. Looks like Mom took it to the next next level and dressed Pops just like the youngest son! Go back up one image! See for yourself.

Oh man! Look at that deer! Sooo dope. And I pay good money for a nice pair of socks like that…

Hehe.

The rounded corners of these images are really incredible. They give the pictures such a homegrown feeling, almost like only family photos should be developed with rounded corners.

I wonder if they found some stranger who was wandering in the woods to take this for them…or did they use a self timer? Hmm.

This one is my favorite of the bunch. (well the first image too) It has this energy about it that I love. Freedom, oh such freedom. Ha. And that car is pretty bad ass. Makes me think of just driving away to somewhere really far with someone that I love and somebody that loves me back — sighs. I hope that day is too far away…

So after looking through these photos and making this post, I decided to google “Tweetsie” which is on the train and car in this set and I found out that it is a railroad amusement park in North Carolina. Have any of you ever been? Was it hella fun? Recently or when you were a kid? Hmm, it looks like a pretty good time.

Well if you decide to go, the contact info and address is below.

Tweetsie Railroad
300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
800-526-5740 / Fax 828-264-2234

Later nerds,

Antwan

i didn’t know who Kat Stacks was until today, but she def has the internet blowing up. it’s crazy!

so, i decided to hit the net and get some fly ass photos of her — and i found em. enjoy em.

If you don’t know, now you know ni99a. her twitter is : @ihatekatstacks

videos of this girl all over the net, her is mad cute. haha. and her ass is the fattest, cot damn!

later nerds,

antwan

[all images courtesy of a good ol GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH]

So, like we were just porchin’ in west philly. you know eatin’ tofu hoagies from the fuh wah. we wanted to swim, so jesse gave me the key to an eight passenger van, i still don’t know who it belonged to.

someone plzzz, wipe her down already.

kristin: “ohhh, oh! don’t follow us, we’ll be back, in like 5…”

???

Raniel opted for drinking whisky and peeing off the van roof…alone. his only request during the car ride: mayor hawthorne.

Washed Out : Feel It All Around

chris

I’m not exactly sure how I came across the flickr profile of Shannon Eva, but after viewing the image above, I found myself at the last image she had uploaded to flickr after about 20 minutes. Flickr Folk is a new series I’m doing on my site where I will feature the work of an artist that has a Flickr profile. Shannon is the first of many. Enjoy.

I love this image. The color palette…holy smokes, those colors would look so great on me, lol.

View more of the work of Shannon Eva here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannoneva/

Later nerds,
Antwan.

[all images are copyright of the original artist]

I see you, I see you.

-Jaycee.

So like remember that one time when Kanye said there was no rap music good enough to play in his apartment because it was “too nice”? My first thought was, damn way to bite the hand that feeds you Yeezy. But then I thought about it once more….and it occurred to me that I didn’t play rap in my apartment either. Now I know my apartment is nowhere near as kickass as Kanye’s, but hey what can I say? Considering I live in the hood Martha Stewart would feel right at home walking through my door. But I blasted rap whenever I was driving or on the subway but everytime I got home I just played the endless amount of tracks listed under “alternative” in my iPod. But rapper Rick Ross is an exception.  Needless to say Rick Ross’s last 2 albums were fucking sick- like play that shit in the background if I’m hosting a dinner party sick. The song above is fucking amazing. Production by Justice League, features by T.I., Jadakiss and Erykah Badu. Enjoy my lovely nerds and nerdettes.

-jaycee.

Frosilos, 2008, C-Print

Julian Faulhaber born in Würzburg, Germany in 1975 is possibly one of the most inspirational photographers I have come across in many years — at least of photographers that aren’t portrait/lifestyle photographers. Faulhaber’s photographs are flawless and his command of lighting and mood are a force to be reckoned with. I first came across his work while visiting the Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery (NYC) a few months ago where he is represented. He had a show running from the 6th of May to the 26th of June 2010 and I’m so glad I got to experience his work in person. I went to the reception for the artist, but I didn’t get to meet him, shucks. Below are a few of his images.

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Summer Camp : Ghost Train

Summer Camp : Montgomery Avenue 1984

Let’s pretend summer isn’t coming to an end, for just a bit longer.

chris

After the sleep over we all decided to go to the thrift store and find some stuff…

Of course this led to some foolery and actin’ out…

dis fool lookin’ just like Tyler Perry!!!

proof:

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Oh he showin’ out!

I do like this polo though. It’s Saville Row, they always use such good materials. If i didn’t always look like a fat fish in polo’s I would have been inclined to keep this find for myself…but Chris does need some new duds so…

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hahaha, bad as he wanna be! hahahaha. this shit was too funny! I was laughing my whole ass off! haha, and the patrons in the store didn’t know what was going on.

again, if i were just a little thinner, I would have gotten that t-shirt for myself; so fly. Volkan ended up getting it and it looks pretty good on him. Awesome actually.

YEEAH!

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Chris modeling.

Gee, sometimes there’s nothing better than just being lazy with your friends. I mean, damn. Such a great day to just goof off and act up.

Who am I hangin’ with next? Let’s go get stupid in somebody’s store.

Later nerds,

Antwan

Of Montreal debuted their new music video for the single ‘Coquet Coquette’ today and I have to say I’m already in love with the song. It’s off their highly anticipated ‘False Priest’ album and I am HELLA excited for it. The video takes place on the beach and there are mad savages and mad people getting beat over the head with clubs — YES! Sexy violence, that’s what this is. AND Kevin Barnes (lead singer) is actin’ crazy the whole time. Love that guy.

(no this isn’t Kevin, you plebeian)

Of Montreal was one of the first concerts I ever went to in NYC and I will never forget that show. It was at Irving Plaza, now called  The Fillmore, and the show was one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Haha, costumes, nudity, bangin’ ass tunes, and ME singing all the words from the front row. Geez, that night was surreal.

Anyway, enjoy the video.

Antwan.

Yesterday was a whirlwind of STUFF to do. Invoices, press releases, photo editing, emailing, photographing an event — too much. I should be asleep right now actually, it’s 4:13 AM, but for some reason I’m fighting sleep like I don’t have to be out ALL DAY in the morning.

Whatever.

I wanted to share my meal with you foolios. After leaving the SPD.org event last night I decided that I was too tired to go out and that I needed to just come home and eat shrimp. MMph. Such a good idea if I do say so myself. Here’s the recipe (below).

Spicy Shrimp and Avocado Salad (recipe)

1/2 pound of cleaned and deveined shrimp (hopefully not from the waters that BP fucked)
1/2 tablespoon of red pepper flakes (i wouldn’t recommend more than a full tablespoon, unless you don’t particularly mind if your bootyhole falls off)
3 to 4 dashes of your favorite seafood seasoning (i try to keep my food as sodium free as possible so I only did two dashes, but that’s me — do you.)
1 ripe avocado (if you don’t know what a good ripe avocado feels like, let the lady at your bodega tell you; a gross avocado will RUIN avocados for you FOREVER.)
mixed greens with arugula (Whole Foods sells a mixture like this, amazing, the arugula really enhances this salad.)
salad dressing (I would recommend a cream based dressing like “Ranch” or something, or a nice Lemon Dill dressing — nothing too vinegary though, this is supposed to be a comfort salad. )

Mix all that of that goodness up. Prepare a skillet with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, HOT. Once the pan is HOT drop the shrimp in the pan. Wait about 1.5 minutes to 2 minutes for the first side, then flip each shrimp and wait another 2 minutes. I never cook my shrimp longer than that because I like my shrimp succulent and moist; you should want yours this way. I hate rubbery dried out ass shrimp.

And BOOM. Now you have yourself a bangin’ ass salad that probably took you all of 15 minutes to make from start to finish. I only eat well, you should start.

Later nerds,

antwan

fucked up off dat sizzurp. ni99a was mad loose all night too.
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haha, i have no idea what Stephanie is laughing at but i love her for it! haha.
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Volkan: “fuck you lookin’ at?”
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oo i’m crazy, bitch! so crazzay!
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later nerds,

antwan