I Love New Haven 2015 Calendars

Chris Randall is selling 2015 ILoveNewHaven calendars today on Broadway. Check it out!

ILNH: Portraits and One-Word Descriptions

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Jazmin, 25: "vamptress"  

On the iLoveNewHaven blog, Chris Randall posted some new photos of residents, and asked them to describe themselves in one word.  The entire set of photos can be seen on his site, in this article. Says Chris:  "It started out very slow and after being on the corner for over fifteen minutes, and asking over fifteen people, I didn't have a single portrait. After that I gave up and got on my bike to go to an easier location. Just as I was about to pedal away, a guy comes out of nowhere, sees my camera and say's 'Yo, take a picture of your boy!' After that I stuck around for another hour and a half and was able to get all of these portraits of great people."

Residents Talk About Regret on #ILNH

I Love New Haven, the pro-active social photography blog of Chris Randall and Jeffrey Kerekes, this week is featuring a series of interviews and audio with residents regarding a simple and perhaps personal question:  "What is your biggest regret?"

The responses vary from everything containing responses regarding not finishing college, getting involved in substance abuse, having children at an early age, or not meeting their spouses soon enough.  As a way of getting to know New Haven, this stands out as an excellent way of familiarizing residents of the city with one another in a public but personal way.

There are 7 total portraits and interviews and each one is less than a minute long.  Many of the answers are only a sentence long.  We'd like to hear Chris Randall ask a more upbeat question in the future; or to answer his own before inquiring of the broader community about it, since surely the subject matter itself was probably originated by some kind of introspective moment.

Here is the link to that full article.  You can also help send Chris and Jeffrey to Kentucky by contributing to their IndieGogo campaign.  They hope to attend a workshop there.

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Weekend in Review.

#NHV is a fun and interesting place.  Here are a few reasons why.  Take a journey on a great Saturday with us and check out what New Haven has to offer, in terms not just of activities but of communities.

New Haven isn't just a place on a map with a bunch of buildings.  It's a group of people all striving for the  same goal:  to make life interesting and better for each other.  This site documents how that's accomplished.

Here are some examples: