I just got sucked into a Wikipedia vortex, and came across this painting called The Garden of Eden, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (a prayer book). It was painted in the early 1400s. (The Wikipedia page containing the Garden of Eden concerns the “international gothic” style of painting.)
I found [...]
Yesterday I was walking home after work and enjoying being out in the early evening. I took photos with my phone because I wanted to be able to remember my walk home on Election Day. The clouds and the dusk were so portentous and beautiful looking. (I kind of want to incorporate [...]
I’m cracking up at this book I just created, which contains photos of Jen. Jen is my long-time friend: my co-conspirator, confidant, and partner in crimes against normalcy.
I imported a set I created for this purpose from flickr into Qoop’s book-making engine. It’s pretty cool. But the book also costs $90.59 before [...]
I decided that I wanted to give some background on the photos that I’m offering in my pay-what-you-want print sale.
So, today:
Sad breakfast, 2007
I was sitting outside last summer, playing with seed pods from my Chilean glory vine (Eccremocarpus scaber). That vine grows like a mad thing in Seattle and produces the most beautiful brilliant [...]
Another book– I read We Disappear: A Novel by Scott Heim. My review is “kind of cool, but ho hum”.
Sometimes it seemed that everything she’d recently done–all her fraudulence, the hoaxes on the mourning families and friends, and now, her capture of Otis–was shameful, monstrous, vile. And I felt equally guilty; I’d allowed [...]
I’m so excited for one of my coworkers– his sister, Leila Josefowicz, just won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “Genius Award”) for her pioneering work in violin performance.
She’s just 30, and she’s already achieved so much! My god…
We talked about her this morning, and about some of the work she’s been doing, and it got [...]
Today is a special day, because Richard comes back from nearly a week-long absence. He’s been mountain biking with friends. I’ve missed him so much.
In celebration of his return, I would like to share a series of photos, so you may, perhaps, be able to sense, through the power of image, what [...]
I was just outside sitting in the cool evening, looking at the beautiful waxing moon. A song my mom used to sing to me when I was little floated into my head… “Buffalo Gals”. I looked it up, and it seems that it was a song sung a lot by blackface minstrels in [...]
Today is a special anniversary. Three years ago on this day, on September 10th, 2005, I attended a party with a bunch of close friends. The night of (and day after) this party, some crazy gossip spread, which ended up causing a giant shitstorm of drama between my closest friends and I. [...]
Today I’m laying in bed, sick as a dog, but I’m typing in this here bed. That’s because we got a new laptop. I have never had a nice laptop before, to use as my own. A 17″ Macbook purchased at a considerable, compelling discount from our university store. Holy crap. [...]