30 Days and 16 Years: A Pin Up History of Jake Gyllenhaal and Austin Nichols - Day 19

Aaaah, at first this picture seemed a sheer stroke of luck and one of those OOPS! captures.  I saw it first as a tweet and sent the picture via email to the girls (Special and M&M):

@dopeusername
11/8/12, 19:28

#casual  RT @AJMukamal: Oh you know, just riding the train with my buddy JAKE GYLLENHAAL  #NotF'inKidding  #edited http://instagr.am/p/RyYMWNm1Du/  

[edited]

Here was the Instagram:

 

And one of the first reactions was "The guy on the other side of the subway door looks like Austin in a hat" and I said, "I knowwwww".   So what followed on that day's Oh My Godot blogspot thread was a bit of analyzation and undecided verdicts.  Was Austin the tall man in denim jeans, jacket and beanie?

Looking kind of.......like this when he was in Israel?

 via GIPHY

When this photo op of Jake and Austin occurred the very next day we knew that had been Austin in the subway photo. At the time, it seemed like one of those "prompted" photo ops due to Austin having been caught by a fan's camera.

But now while researching again for the original source of the photo and studying the account more closely, it's been realized that the source of the Instagram account  is a fashion stylist by the name of Andrew Mukamal.  And Mr. Mukamal has traveled all over the world, behind the camera of numerous photo shoots.  He is quite talented and loves taking oodles of pictures of his dogs.  Oh!  And he's also been the stylist for Zoe Kravitz for the past two years.  Zoe has modeled for Calvin Klein.  Small, small world, isn't it? 

From 2015, Jake and Zoe Kravitz.

Coupled with both Jake and Austin being longtime, very good friends with director and fashion filmmaker Matthew Frost, could he have been the connection to Andrew Mukamal? 

Hmmm, it is looking more and more like the chances of that "subway slip" being an organic moment are evaporating pretty quickly.

NONEtheless, the subway train pic makes #19 in our 30 days.  ;-)


pic source:  wmagazine, Austin Nichols Fan
our playlist:  Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
                    It's a Mistake - Men at Work
                    Train in Vain - The Clash