Animal print Vans

New animal print Vans sneakers.

Bathroom green Cube

70s bathroom green Nissan Cube van, car thing. Shame they aren't in production anymore.

Typical work day desk still life 2014

Morning 'long black' coffee from The J Walk Cafe, date and almond mix, Knog bicycle lights to recharge, and my favourite (70s bathroom green) pacer pencil. Typical morning for early 2014.

Gold Citroen DS

Orange cyclo-cross

My new Focus Mares cyclo-cross bike.

Fake red beard

Fake 'red' beard.

Best 'whatever-it-was-cause-I-didn't-even-look' dihrams spent in a while. Fake red beard from Choitrams.

Sony Nex with Asahi lens

Sony Nex 5 with Arax tilt-shift adapter and vintage Asahi Super-Takumar 85mm lens.

Latest hardware. Very new with very old. New Nex 5 with the m42 Asahi lens. Great combination, especially when using tripod and the rear flip-out screen. Feels like an old Lubitel.

Olympus Tough

The Pentax Optio WPi finally reached the end of the line. Replacement; Olympus Tough.

My Atlas Goldline

Have had my eye on an Atlas bicycle for years. 280aed from Satwa on Saturday night. Was tempted to keep the wrapping on it - a popular look with gardeners in Jumeriah. I will modify it, like those I've seen in Sri Lanka. Watch for updates.

Made in India (for export). Great painted headtube badge. Atlas was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens, but check out his little shoes.

The braking system is solid. Steel rods, no cables. Stainless steel hood detail on the fork. Functional?

Reflector. Digging the curves.

Frame number on the seat-tube matches the inspection chit. Even the printing is beautiful - block colours and gold ink. Atlas = superior quality, advanced technology. (1951 speak I believe)

Chain guard. The gold lines are actually hand painted. Atlas Goldline. Dubai. 

Ivory wingtips

Cole Hann Air Colton Wingtip Oxford in ivory nubuck. Cosmopolitan.

Green armchair

Wasted as prop in a fashion store at the mall. Deserves much better than that.

Green Hamilton

Art nouveau hands, furled fixed bezel, over-sized crown, green leather strap. Hamilton SSS automatic watch.

New bike

New hardware. Carbon this and that, blah, blah, blah.

Metallic green

Green sneakers are all the rage this season. Cheap plastic trimmed race and metallic green trail shoes from Saucony.

Hamilton automatic

My new Hamilton FNGF automatic watch. Note to self: get a lens to shoot marco pictures of watch faces. Detail and typefaces on the numerials.

Glass sailfish

Bikes of Kathmandu