Brandon Stanton's Blog, page 481

"All I do is drink, smoke, and dance."

"All I do is drink, smoke, and dance."

Today in microfashion…

Today in microfashion…

"My daughter just left for college. Before this, the longest...

"My daughter just left for college. Before this, the longest we’d ever been apart was two weeks. It’s a real bitch."

“Are you still with her mother?”

“I am. But we were dealing with our kid for eighteen years. Now we’re trying to figure out how to deal with each other.”

"If you have a beard, it takes longer for people to notice that...

"If you have a beard, it takes longer for people to notice that you don’t have any teeth."

"My name is Armageddon. The world is fucked."

"My name is Armageddon. The world is fucked."

"In Korea, the culture is much more centered around doing what...

"In Korea, the culture is much more centered around doing what you’re told. Here, everyone wants to argue and discuss and figure things out together. But there’s a lot of pressure that comes with having that much freedom to make your own decisions."

Seen on Broadway.

Seen on Broadway.

"My mom’s going to buy me a drum!"

"My mom’s going to buy me a drum!"

"My sister taught me how to ask for money from my parents."...

"My sister taught me how to ask for money from my parents."

“Oh yeah? How’s that?”

“First you give them a compliment. Then you talk about your day. Then you tell them about your grades. Then you ask for money.”

"If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of...

"If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?"

“Let me tell you something. I’m a Sikh. And I lived in India back in 1984, when a Sikh assassinated Indira Gandhi. Mobs of people went door-to-door, using voter rolls to identify the Sikhs and kill them. They were chanting outside our door while we hid in the closet. The only reason I’m still alive is that our neighbor convinced them that we’d moved away. So I don’t have anything to say to a large group of people. I hate large groups of people.”