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If there is but one band that didn’t blow up over the past four years that should have, it would have to be the New York Howl.

Just take a listen for yourself.

If there’s one thing in life that we’ve learned is that you can never have too many doorbells.

Or rather, that’s what the people in this residential building across from Ground Zero have learned.

One of the things that cracks me up in life is that in Manhattan, millionaires have some crazy front doors.  Our guess is that they just try to hide their money in plain sight by having the distraction of a crappy front door to have people the assumption that nothing is inside.

Other millionaires simply have godbuns on their vent cover.

The idea of ‘godbuns’ is oddly appealing.

Over the weekend on our quick walk through Tribeca we found to our surprise that Rod Stuart is still loving the Hamptons.  It’s been more than a year since we first spotted the tag all over the place, but good things never die, or more appropriately, good people still think that this is funny to tag this all over the city.

For the record, we still wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this tag is all the work of a 50-something year old coke head with a double masters from Yale who has a massive trust fund life.

An Army of One devoured a little girl on this door.

Or perhaps Local 1 is behind the ghostly (dis)appearance?

The quiet, seemingly safe streets of Tribeca are hiding a trap that waits for one unsuspecting soul to fall into, or rather, get fallen on.

The picturesque awnings that line many of the streets in Tribeca have upwards of 20 inches of heavy snow on them and it’s sliding off towards the sidewalk below. 

Aside from several cubic feet of snow falling in a dump maneuver flat out ruining one’s day, it would probably hurt like a wiffle ball bat to the top of the head.  Oddly enough, some of the rich folks who live in Tribeca would normally pay someone to do this to them in private.

We stumbled across the DSNY snow melt set up along Park Place between Church and Broadway yesterday. 

Snow piles that reached two stories high were being melted down and sent into the sewers. 

According to the DSNY website they have 20 such snow melt machines that melt snow at a rate of 240 gallons per minute, or 60 tons of snow per hour.  This makes us wonder, since a decent rainstorm always causes the NYC sewers to flood the various DEP water treatment facilities with water runoff, which then causes the DEP to release untreated water that is full of poop & pee into the waterways that surround NYC, does 60 tons of snow per hour times 20 snow melt machines do the same thing?

We recently purchased a new 52mm super wide angle lens attachment from Amazon and thought it needed a user review.

With the list price of this lens attachment is $129.99 it is sold on Amazon for a mere $7.99.  We bought this lens through New Harbor and it arrived within a couple of days where we discovered that it screws easily onto our 18-55mm lens that we already had for our Nikon D60 — as an admitted idiot camera user, this thing is idiot proof.

While one user review on Amazon gave it a one out of five stars due to blurry edges; the fact that it cost $7.99 throws any and all expectations of a perfect lens out the window.  Thankfully we’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the lens attachment and the photo effects that it produces.

Here is a shot of the Verrazano Bridge without the 52mm super wide angle lens attachment.  This shot is merely our normal 18-55mm lens set to 18mm with our Nikon D60. 

From the very same spot we shot this next photo with the 52mm super wide angle lens attached to our normal 18-55mm lens using our D60.

As you can see, the lens attachment does give you much more of the horizon in the shot, however, it also creates a vignetting look at the corners and blurs the edges near the corners.  For some this might be a deal breaker, for us, it adds to some shots.  We wouldn’t want all of our shots to have this vignetting, but when used for certain shots we love it.

When we took another shot from the very same location with the 52mm super wide angle lens attached to our 18-55mm lens (again on the Nikon D60) and then set it to 35mm we got this next shot. 

As you can see the vignetting and blurred edges go away under this setting.  In fact, the only time vingetting or blurred images happen — aside from an unsteady hand — is when the lens attachment is set to the widest angle. 

Overall, for the low price of $7.99 we think that this lens attachment is a steal.  It creates effects on digital images that people would normally need to do via Photoshop.   It’s made in Japan with metal and glass components; plus it also comes with a macro lens that does not do any vignetting, although some blurring towards the edge has occurred. 

For a mere eight bucks it produces some stellar images, especially if you know what to expect with the vignetting.  Perfect to add to a bag for anyone with a photography hobby.

To see many other shots using this lens attachment at various settings click on any of the following links.

[Snow Snow Snow]  [Faux NYC Blizzard]  [Juicy Couture MKX]  [P.S. 264K]  [Old Man Winter Is A Zombie]  [Hash One Graffiti]  [Birds of the Verrazano Bridge]

Macro Shot [Matanzas Creek Cork]

While we are SO done with winter and despite the fact that we absolutely loathe the mere thought of being in boots, let alone actually having to wear them; we just can’t help but enjoy walking around in the quiet early morning of a snowstorm.

There is a car in front of the SUV.  It’s just buried under all that snow.  All that is visible is the mirror.

Old Man Winter is dead.  We saw and even photographed his headless corpse…

Despite being dead, Old Man Winter is BACK!!!!  Yes, he’s back as some sort of living-dead zombie that is here to terrorize us all forever, or maybe just another week with one last nor’easter that packs hurricane force winds. 

Either way, we really just wish he would go away and summer in Argentina already.

Thanks to the weather and decomposition, Mackay Place, a one way street in Bay Ridge, has become a two way death trap at the corner of Narrows Avenue.

It’s almost as if Mother Nature wants it to be a death trap!

It constantly amazes us that we can look at something a 1,000 times and not actually see what it is we just looked at; yet on the 1,001st time seeing the very same thing it finally registers with us.

We’ve seen Manhattan Mini Storage advertisements all over the place for as long as we can remember and only recently actually have the Manhattan logo register with us when we were sitting across from it on the subway.

The word ‘Manhattan’ has the Citigroup Building built into the letter ‘M.’  It has the Empire State Building built into the letter ‘H’ and the double t’s have the Twin Towers built into them, sans television antenna.  All of this adds up to an old view of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn and Queens.

How it is we made it this far without actually seeing this makes us wonder what else we have truly yet to see.