Urban Puns

Urban Puns is an ongoing photography project by Gabriel Mendes, featuring random people on the streets of New York, Rio de Jainero, and Los Angeles (found the same day) and photographed in front of stunning graffiti murals.

Rauschenberg's Tropic cover

In 1979, the artist Robert Rauschenberg was commissioned to create the fold-out cover of The Miami Herald's Tropic magazine's end-of-decade issue. It was the first time an original work of art was created for a newspaper.Rauschenberg and his assistant created the piece of art in The Herald's editorial art department, where I was employed at the time, and I got a chance to see him create the cover

Watch your head!

The tour guides on the GrayLine double-decker buses constantly warn tourists not to stand while the bus is moving because of the low clearance of the traffic lights. Some still do.

At least the lock worked

Greenwich Village, NYC

Busted in El Salvador

In 1979, I went on my first trip to El Salvador. Since the early ’70s, we had heard stories from other traveling surfers about Punta Roca, a fabulous point break discovered by Miami surfer Bob Rotherham, who first stumbled upon this little speck of surfing nirvana while traveling through Central America in 1972. He totally fell in love with the country and the surf and married a local woman and

Metal sculptor produces fantasy bike

By OCTAVIO DIAZStaff WriterDaytona Beach News-JournalEver dream of soaring down the highway on the back of a giant metal eagle? Or getting by with a little help from your dragon friends?Key Largo metal sculptor Kim Brandell's motorcycle creations may help you do just that.Brandell is exhibiting his unique metal creations, the Screaming Eagle and the Dragon bike during Bike Week at an Easy Riders

Gregg Allman and Friends at Destination Daytona

Last Saturday night March 1, 2009, as part of Bike Week events, rock and blues musician Gregg Allman performed at Destination Daytona. Although not my kind of music, I went to check it out anyway, since he was originally from Daytona Beach and I wanted to see him play for a hometown crowd. Plus, the newspaper gave me a free ticket.He and his band Gregg Allman and Friends performed a solid,

Surfing Through the Years

From the 1968 high school yearbook, when I was a junior.South Beach sequence, 1978.Wilderness, Puerto Rico, 1987.Middles, Puerto Rico, 1988.Playa Jobos, Puerto Rico, 1990.Playa Negra, Costa Rica, 1993.

OD’s Birthday Party Invitation