Web Log 2010
In around 3 weeks, I am taking off on a 10,000 mile 7 week, cross country road trip. I recently sold my 645 setup to get Fuji’s sleek new retro rangefinder style digital the X100. It’s 12 megapixels with ISO up to 12800, and a tack sharp f2 fujinon lens. It takes some getting used to, but it produces some terrific files. Hope to keep the blog updated along the way.
His voice reminds me of the guy from Danielson Family. The album is pretty terrific.
I really like what this RSA is doing with animating illustrations of philosophers ideas from lectures. This one is from one of the great thinkers of our time Slavoj Žižek. You can see the entire, but admittedly less entertaining lecture in it’s original form here. He has a way of bringing a lot of important and complex ideas to life.
Just updated my project for the first time after retrieving a roll of film shot over the summer that I thought I lost. I now have 9 pieces that I am fairly happy with, which I am going to pair in contrast with images of affluence that I plan on taking on the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday). Here are a few from the project so far. I really like the first one taken of the Restaurant RumpSpankers in Portland after it closed. The writing on the chalk board at the bottom is so ominous in its implications.
Just saw this guy last night at Paper Tiger’s Annual party “Culture Control.” He’s an eccentric looking guy, spends most of his time on the stage turning nobs, and some of his songs are pretty terrific, reminiscent of Of Montreal, and on his opening song of the show he broke out a singing voice almost completely identical to Dan Bejar from Destroyer and The New Pornographers. His name is Jon Timm and you can download his album for free here. Check out “Drawing Snails” below, track 10 from his debut album “Pareidoli-A-Matic”
Not totally sure where this guy is headed, but he makes some pretty good points. Pablo Picasso said “All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?” Wish it didn’t end with an iPhone endorsement.
