Cloudy day today, and a bit chilly walking around on my lunch break with the camera. Found some plants (perhaps baby trees?) growing in the gutter of a building that amused me. Day Three complete.
[ Day Four ]
04 November 2009
photo a day, day three
[ original assignment ]
Cloudy day today, and a bit chilly walking around on my lunch break with the camera. Found some plants (perhaps baby trees?) growing in the gutter of a building that amused me. Day Three complete.
[ Day Four ]
Cloudy day today, and a bit chilly walking around on my lunch break with the camera. Found some plants (perhaps baby trees?) growing in the gutter of a building that amused me. Day Three complete.
[ Day Four ]
03 November 2009
photo a day, day two
[ original assignment ]
Day Two.
Spent some time today walking around in parking lots during my lunch break. Some interesting found objects (notable: a skull candy bag left over from this weekend), but I ultimately decided I liked this line study best.
[ Day Three ]
Day Two.
Spent some time today walking around in parking lots during my lunch break. Some interesting found objects (notable: a skull candy bag left over from this weekend), but I ultimately decided I liked this line study best.
[ Day Three ]
02 November 2009
photo a day, day one
[ original assignment ]
Day One. This is in an alley a few blocks from my apartment; a spot I've had my eye on for a while.
As I suspected, the sun had already set by the time I got outside with my camera tonight, but I was early enough to catch the remaining light... and while my shots were much grainier (do we still call it grain if it's digital?) than they would otherwise be, I was still able to get some keepers.
[ Day Two ]
Day One. This is in an alley a few blocks from my apartment; a spot I've had my eye on for a while.
As I suspected, the sun had already set by the time I got outside with my camera tonight, but I was early enough to catch the remaining light... and while my shots were much grainier (do we still call it grain if it's digital?) than they would otherwise be, I was still able to get some keepers.
[ Day Two ]
project: photo a day
Hello, hello! It's Monday again already, and time for my next project announcement. Here 'tis: In an effort to be proactive about dusting my camera off, I am going to post a photo every day this week (including this coming Sunday, since this blog is apparently European in nature, and starts its weeks on Mondays instead of Sundays). Each photo I post will have been taken that day. I'm resolved not to cheat!
I'm setting myself up for a bit of a challenge with this one - most of the photos I like to take are outdoors in daylight, but since I have a full-time job and this is getting late in the year, my hours of daylit freetime are limited. So that means I'll either be going out early before work to get shots, or I'll be exploring night shots and indoor scenes.
Oh, and today's the first day, so look for the first photo tonight.
[ Day One ]
[ Day Two ]
[ Day Three ]
[ Day Four ]
[ Day Five ]
[ Day Five *bonus* ]
[ Day Six ]
[ Day Seven ]
I'm setting myself up for a bit of a challenge with this one - most of the photos I like to take are outdoors in daylight, but since I have a full-time job and this is getting late in the year, my hours of daylit freetime are limited. So that means I'll either be going out early before work to get shots, or I'll be exploring night shots and indoor scenes.
Oh, and today's the first day, so look for the first photo tonight.
[ Day One ]
[ Day Two ]
[ Day Three ]
[ Day Four ]
[ Day Five ]
[ Day Five *bonus* ]
[ Day Six ]
[ Day Seven ]
01 November 2009
completion: poem written, at long last
[ original assignment ]
It's late Sunday afternoon, and I'm only just getting around to posting my poem. I did write a rough poem as early as Tuesday (about the neighbor I've never met, incidentally), but have been tinkering with it ever since -- and not been able to come up with anything satisfactory out of it.
On Monday I thought, "Oh, I'll write a poem this week!" Riiiight. I most certainly didn't take into account just how hard it is to write something that's not corny or pointless.
Anyway, the poem I worked on all week wasn't working, and then today in desperation, I sat down and spat out a little quick thing just to get the juices flowing... and that little quick thing is better than anything I would be able to get out of the other thing. So here's my poem, composed in five minutes. It's untitled. (Hard enough to write the damn thing... I have to come up with a title, too?!)
Untitled, 11.1.09
I dreamt last night that I was in a coma
and you found out
and came back to sit by my bed
every day and all night
I woke from the coma and saw you there
you opened your mouth to say something
but I woke from the dream
my throat ached
so I kept my eyes closed
and even though I knew it was preposterous
and would never happen
you coming back I mean
although the coma part is unlikely too
I pretended I was still asleep
and finished the dream
It's late Sunday afternoon, and I'm only just getting around to posting my poem. I did write a rough poem as early as Tuesday (about the neighbor I've never met, incidentally), but have been tinkering with it ever since -- and not been able to come up with anything satisfactory out of it.
On Monday I thought, "Oh, I'll write a poem this week!" Riiiight. I most certainly didn't take into account just how hard it is to write something that's not corny or pointless.
Anyway, the poem I worked on all week wasn't working, and then today in desperation, I sat down and spat out a little quick thing just to get the juices flowing... and that little quick thing is better than anything I would be able to get out of the other thing. So here's my poem, composed in five minutes. It's untitled. (Hard enough to write the damn thing... I have to come up with a title, too?!)
Untitled, 11.1.09
I dreamt last night that I was in a coma
and you found out
and came back to sit by my bed
every day and all night
I woke from the coma and saw you there
you opened your mouth to say something
but I woke from the dream
my throat ached
so I kept my eyes closed
and even though I knew it was preposterous
and would never happen
you coming back I mean
although the coma part is unlikely too
I pretended I was still asleep
and finished the dream
26 October 2009
project: write a poem
Went to a local poetry reading this weekend, and am feeling inspired to try and write a poem.
I've always been more partial to (reading and writing) prose myself, but, as evidenced by my Frank O'Hara project a few weeks ago, I'm not adverse to poetry. The few (read: less than three) poems I've composed in the past have been more off-the-cuff (usually snarky) quips than poems (see below). This week I'll try and write something a bit more substantial.
A little ditty from this spring when I was... well, you'll see:
Ode to Wifi
oh why oh why you piece of crap
internet connection i would strangle
you if you had a neck
lucky for you you don't.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
[ completed project ]
I've always been more partial to (reading and writing) prose myself, but, as evidenced by my Frank O'Hara project a few weeks ago, I'm not adverse to poetry. The few (read: less than three) poems I've composed in the past have been more off-the-cuff (usually snarky) quips than poems (see below). This week I'll try and write something a bit more substantial.
A little ditty from this spring when I was... well, you'll see:
Ode to Wifi
oh why oh why you piece of crap
internet connection i would strangle
you if you had a neck
lucky for you you don't.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
[ completed project ]
22 October 2009
completion: font created
So far I've made two. (I was right about not being able to do only one... once you pop you just can't stop! What... just me? Oh.)
The whole process works pretty slick. There are a few snags yet (there's only one character for quotation marks, for example, so you have to draw a mark that can be used in both forward and backward instances), but on the whole it's pretty awesomeful.
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