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friends
Happy Birthday, Shannon
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travel
travel
I will travel. I have some money right now. I want to spend it on travel, before I spend it on something silly like bills or food. I can and will go anywhere in the world.* But… because I don’t relish the thought of a bus tour where you ride Continue Reading
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art
with a rubber hose
Two weekends ago, I got a lucky opportunity. A friend had to bow out of a scheduled photo shoot, and recommended me to fill her spot. (So I wasn’t the first choice, but I can forgive her for not realizing how wonderful I am…. this once.) We had a beautiful Continue Reading
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nature
natural bokeh
I was looking at the shadows as I walked back from getting lunch today. I noticed the difference in shadows between the tree leaves verses unnatural structures, like signs and buildings and stuff. It eventually occurred to me, the shapes of the light through the tree leaves amounted to a Continue Reading
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life worth living
look
I fell in love, last week. I was sitting in Starbucks over in Dupont on Tuesday afternoon, waiting for a client. I sat at the only space available, at a table across from a girl writing a paper on her laptop. She was cute in a geeky kind of way, Continue Reading
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photo
tilt
Taken walking home at 4:30 in the morning last night.
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boozing
second drink
To clear up an apparently common misconception regarding my recent post on drinking… I was: NOT complaining about people who ask me if I want a drink NOT bitching about … well.. anything NOT upset with… anyone NOT saying I would never drink Obviously the subject has come up a Continue Reading
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boozing
Drinking and Defining “Is”
People behave rather ridiculously if you say you aren’t drinking. They don’t care if you aren’t eating, or you aren’t dancing. But if you don’t have a drink, there must be something interesting happening. And if you’ve never had a drink, the information will travel. It will be spoken in Continue Reading
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art
The right image.
There are images that should be captured. Moments that feel like they exist to show you something. Beyond just “I wish I had my camera”, they have everything coming together, and you can see it all slipping into place, and you know something’s going to happen. That’s about what I Continue Reading
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news
Down with Xenu
Stupid little buggers. I went to take pictures at the Anonymous protest, yesterday. Anonymous — if you’re unaware — is a protest movement against the Church of Scientology. The movement’s organizers cloak themselves in anonymity to “protect” themselves from the Scientologist’s well-documented harassment of any critics. So the protests are Continue Reading
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photo
hard drive
to follow up… I ordered a hard drive today, for the photo back-up thing. I went with a 500 gig external firewire 400 drive. It also has USB 2, though I don’t intend on using it. When you’re dealing with long, large transfers of data, firewire easily outpaces USB 2, Continue Reading
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friends
Piggy Back
The picture’s a couple weeks old, but I still love it. It was a sort-of-miracle capture. I’m walking down the street, in the cold, while my friends are goofing around and walking at the same time. It’s dark, I don’t have a flash. Even shooting wide open on a 2.8 Continue Reading
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friends
Living in Sin
This was a pretty good weekend. I really didn’t get enough work done, but I did get to relax. After the stress of last week, and the likely stress of this coming week… After spending some time with Vail, Jessi, and the Boy down on the Mall, we all headed Continue Reading
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photo
big hard drive
I take a lot of photos. (duh). But they pile up on my computer for a month or so, and then get backed up to DVD. At which point, I don’t access them very much. Call it frustration with having to dig up the disk and look though it. Call Continue Reading
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photo
women wanted
I took this about a block from my apartment yesterday. I was getting out of the house for a mental break, and thinking that I needed to photograph something for my daily shot. I had just started literally looking around me, when I saw this sign. Some things never change, Continue Reading
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design
sketch
So here’s a bit of what I was working on. My sketchbook is a mess. It would probably mean nothing to another designer. But I just get enough down so I can remember what I was thinking. That way I can get the idea out of my head and make Continue Reading
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photo
The Pit
Most new buildings in this city actually go as far underground as they do above. Always disturbing to see these gaping holes in the earth, filled with little ant-sized men doing funny things. Of course they put parking down there. And I’m sure they offer generous storage space, since so Continue Reading
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design
Burning the Midnight Oil
It’s now a bit after 6:30 am, and I just sent off some art to the client. I promised them something by this morning, and unfortunately I seem to be better working on this particular project in the wee hours of the day. But I quite like the design, (*knock Continue Reading
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intangibles
death to debt
I feel better. I deposited a couple big checks today. And given that it’s also the first of the month, which is when I normally pay myself, I took the opportunity to pay off my credit card, which is the only real debt I have. For years I had kept Continue Reading