January 2010
26 posts
One noodle at a time in Tokyo →
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Vancouver, Part II
In September I had the privilege of working in Vancouver for a week and a half and met some really cool people. It was a growth experience doing something I hadn’t done before, in a place I hadn’t been before.
And now I’ve found out that I get to work in Vancouver during the Olympics.
I’m renting an apartment smack dab downtown, close to work as well as a lot of the...
Anonymous asked: Do you have a girlfriend/”significant other”? Funny you should ask. I’ll have to start at the beginning. In the fall of my senior year, I got in the habit of studying at the Radcliffe library. Not just to eye the cheese, though I admit I liked to look. The place was quiet, nobody knew me, and the reserve books were less in demand. The day before one of my history hour...
“An idea is gold only if you name it.”
– Austin Kleon, cf. Brian Eno: “Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important.” [via and] (via bobulate)
“Treated as an architectural premise, Die Hard becomes an exhilarating catalog of...”
– Geoff Manaugh (via You Might Find Yourself)
“The secret of the mountains is that they simply exist, as I do myself: the...”
– Peter Matthiessen
Delta
I’ve known about Daytum for a long time and I know a few people that use it so I guess it’s about time I started using it to track things that I want to change. It’s a wonderfully designed website (with a perfect mobile version) that I’m hoping will help me with some of my aspirations this year.
One of those numbers I want to go way up, and one I want to keep as low as...
Dear minimalmac,
Don’t go there.
-Brandon
Dream
In the middle of the night I drove out to a farmhouse snuggled up right next to the highway. I was supposed to be staying there for a day or so, but it had been abandoned just long enough to welcome in decay.
Cut to a bus ride.
It feels like a wonderfully sunny and hot day and we’re pulling in to what should be a station in 1960s West Coast America. There was a monorail track hanging up...
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Salvage
As usual, the rest are here.
Pushed Portra 160NC that I’m not sure got pushed, or my camera is not metering correctly, or I still don’t know how to do this stuff properly (probably this one). It was underexposed about three stops and looks terrible in color. I think I’ll just shoot monochrome from now on.
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One roll of Delta 3200 back, (still) waiting on two Portra 160NCs pushed to 400. Not sure how much I like the grain, I’ve got another roll sitting in the AE-1 to try. I’m getting better at bringing a camera with me where I go, and I end up getting more shots of people this way. Although, there’s this.
As always, see them all here.
“One cannot both experience and document something at the same time. This crisis,...”
– Eric William Carroll, ‘The Crisis Of Experience’, 2009
via Mull it Over
“The monotony is killing me,” he told me, en route to deliver some rebar....”
– I Miss Iraq. I Miss My Gun. I Miss My War. - Esquire
On Dreams
I’m not sure what exactly it is about them that makes them work. There is, in fact, an entire section of science devoted to them. So, you know, fair enough. But I love dreams. Like, the dreams that you wake up from a little bit drowsy and confused but a lot more relieved about life.
I just had a nap, that, apparently I needed more than I thought. So, that’s where this is coming from.
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