Thursday, February 28, 2002
Yesterday was an amazing day. Weather conditions ranged from a light fog and heavy cloud cover, to clear skies and no breeze. There was just too much to contain in one horizon photo, I went a little shutter-happy and added an extra gallery.
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
To Marco Polo the world wasn’t round - it wasn’t even flat. The world was a straight line. After a fifteen-day journey you arrive in one city, then after six days in a southeastern direction you arrive in another city. The world is a list of cities and their qualities, seperated by [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Jeff Schuler thought Beans For Breakfast came from a line in Billy Madison (my old roommate Jon’s favorite movie). Google finds hundreds of other uses of the phrase, so to relieve tension and satisfy my vast readership, I’ll admit that I made the name up all by my own self.
It was the title of [...]
Monday, February 25, 2002
Apparently “Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast” is an alternate lyric for the line “Get up in the morning, slaving for bread sir” in The Israelites by Desmond Dekker, a reggae song. Either that or it’s a commonly misheard version of that lyric. To confuse matters further, it’s sometimes misheard [...]
Friday, February 22, 2002
Robert stopped me on Broadway and started digging around in the Nordstrom bag he’s been carrying his things in. “I finally got my camera out of storage and bought a roll of film. But I ruined the film when I tried to load it.”
He found the camera and handed it to me. [...]
Friday, February 22, 2002
Ingrid was proudly showing off the fantastic Viewmaster reel she’d made using a special double-lensed camera. The pictures were of a local band.
She claims that her Viewmaster shots are the only ones that turn out. She has trouble figuring out what to try to fit into a standard 2D shot. But when [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
My brother and his family surfaced in Seattle today, so I met them downtown for lunch. I walked them over to a cheap Chinese restaurant. I think we could all tell right away that it wasn’t going to be very satisfying. I considered herding everyone back outside and taking them to the [...]
Monday, February 18, 2002
I have a new little photo page going, I’m calling it Horizon Line for now. I’m having fun doing it. So far I’ve taken basically the same shot on ten different days and have gotten a pretty surprising range of color palettes and textures. That’s been exciting.
It’s funny that the antidote to [...]
Saturday, February 16, 2002
The city I live in is one where hobos and loners are thoroughly representative of the place, where superstition thrives, and where people often have to live by reading the signs and surfaces of their environment and interpreting them in terms of private, near-magical codes. Moreover, these people seem to me to be not [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
When I was a kid I thought that giving something up for lent and making a New Year’s resolution were the same thing. I couldn’t conceive that one might better one’s self by doing anything other than giving up some tangible bad quality or vice.
I can’t think of any time that I ever did [...]