I’m reading “How To Wreck A Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop”. The author, Dave Tomkins, speaks in tongues: a highly caffeinated, over-educated, culture-at-the-margins, A.D.D. kind of language… He gets a gold medal for knowing cool stuff. With that in mind I’ve been in a Miami Bass state of mind. Start [...]
Nathan Harger at Hasted Kraetler
Dec 8, ’10
4:07 PM
I’m diggin’ this airplane shot from the Nathan Harger show which opens tomorrow (Dec 9 – Jan 29) at Hasted Kraeutler. The images are high contrast black and white, mostly architectural details, and prove you don’t have to go far from home as it looks like they were shot within a 10 mile radius from [...]
Feeling plum crazy?
Jul 24, ’10
2:34 PM
This color chart should help you figure it out. via LiveScience.
One speeding ticket later
Jul 13, ’10
11:38 PM
It was a road trip in the sense that Kerrilynn and I covered 450 miles… but not in the true sense as it was driven in less than 48 hours. I have a bad habit of shooting pictures while driving. The pictures are usually pretty bad but it looks so good whizzing by at 80 [...]
The Summer Light of Fireflies
Jun 19, ’10
6:58 PM
My wife pointed out the first firefly siting of the summer last night while eating in the garden at Franny’s. It is such a pleasure to see that light. It evokes strong childhood memories of Virginia summers and backyards full of them. Sadly I don’t see as many as I used to but I was [...]
Storytelling and Pink Noise
Mar 3, ’10
5:07 AM
Here’s something I should be thinking about as I try and put some pictures I took into story format: “…correlated enough to create a pattern but chaotic enough to be interesting.” That is what the Gilden Lab at UTexas Austin has to say about Fractal Structure and Attention. Their site was brought to my attention [...]