July 13, 2009
Weekend snaps
Got in a trip to the park before it rained today. Being able to shoot is always the mark of a good weekend.
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July 9, 2009
I’m TWITCH fine TWITCH why do you ask? TWITCH
For a couple days now, my left eyelid has been twitching. I’m sure you all have experienced this at one time or another. It’s not painful or anything, but it’s annoying as hell.
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July 8, 2009
An Independence Day nugget (late)
Outside of Zoe’s classroom, a piece of construction paper is tacked to the wall with the question, “How old is the United States of America?”
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July 7, 2009
Justaphone
The Blackberry has been dying a slow, painful death. It started having symptoms with handling data, crashing every time I connected to the Internet. I dropped the data package, and the phone retaliated by crashing during phone calls. Static, humming, then nothing. A battery re-boot wouldn’t even restore it; the only thing that would revive it was plugging it back into the wall charger. Which is a pain in the ass when you’re in your car where there’s no wall, no outlet, and no charger. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a mobile phone. Since it began to do this with every call, I took it to AT&T yesterday and confirmed that it was, indeed, terminal. Poor thing – it never even had a chance. Two years of faithful service ended in an ignonimous death.
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July 5, 2009
More Doors
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July 5, 2009
Grand Junction Door
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July 4, 2009
Miner’s Bean Kettle
I don’t remember really reading what was painted on the front of the little shack when I photographed it. M had pulled off because I saw green doors in an old stone building and I wanted to shoot it. We were driving from Yosemite to San Jose to return the rental car and hop a train to Emeryville, and thankfully had built in some “hey, pull over, there’s an image there” time. I made several exposures of the doors, and then spotted the shack. Popped off a few shots of it, too, while balancing on the edge of the road trying to avoid other rental cars zooming by.
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July 2, 2009
Before and After
Some people probably wonder how I can spend so much time playing around in Photoshop. It’s pretty easy to lose myself for hours on end, especially when I don’t have the specter of grad school peeking over my shoulder, whispering, “You should be working on your mid-term, asshole.” I’m very much looking forward to regaining my usual Photoshop hours, in case you didn’t know.
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July 1, 2009
Old Pass Gallery
Buildings are interesting to me, because of their inherent human qualities. Structures, after all, would not exist without human creativity, design, and construction. They wouldn’t change over the years and take on new meanings and uses. Buildings stir the imagination.
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July 1, 2009
My secret ambition
What I haven’t told anyone, even M, is that I’m only going to grad school so I can become a Trainmaster. I don’t know what a Trainmaster does, but it’s a cool title, it comes with a reserved parking space, and apparently earns enough for a bitchin’ bike.
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