Here’s looking at you, projectors.
If I had to pick two things to only eat for the rest of my life, they would be frozen yogurt and pho.
Editorial is in a room where they also hold a Drawing Concepts class. This is a snake.
Blood.
Brains.
Kelsey drew this picture of my cat in a coffee cup in another late night Winchell’s expedition.
When Kelsey and I stay up late working, we occasionally make midnight donut runs to the Winchell’s near her house.
And donuts displays fit into modular dreams very well.
These are my birthday shoes from Angeline Tournier in London.
I call this one “floral bag, out of focus”
Sean teaches the chillins about oldstyle numerals and when to use them.
A riveting Communication Design 4 critique. Obviously the TA’s job is to look for photo-ops.
Sometimes you find broccoli in the weirdest places.
More adventures, more pictures. Today Lila and I went to Port Townsend where it was cold and touristy.
One of the things I’ve noticed about Western Washington this time of year, is that the light is always really gorgeous (when it’s sunny, like it has been). This is wonderful and annoying, in equal parts. Let me explain. From 8:30ish (when it gets light) to 1:00, the light says “Hi, I’m early morning.” From 1:00 to 4:00 (when it sadly gets dark) it says “Hi, I’m evening.” Basically, the sun is too lazy to get very high up in the sky this far north. This is confusing because if you wake up sometime in the very late morning (as I admittedly have been known to do from time to time), and the sun says to you, “Hi, I’m early morning,” as we just discussed, it easy to become severely disoriented. And then by 4:00 you feel like getting back in bed again. All I’m saying is I never seem to be able to pinpoint the time of day, even within a six-hour range. Combined with the right lens, however, it can really make nice photography a no-brainer. Consider:
Yesterday my beautiful wonderful family dragged me sailing on our boat. I hate sailing, and I tried really hard not to go. But when all my attempts to avoid the adventure failed miserably, I decided to just make the best of it and play with my new lens.
Here is another little dose of my hometown for you.
Harley and Wylie walking to the boat
This boat is obviously sinking
Kingston Marina
This is our sailboat
This is also our sailboat
This is Lila Burns
Mount Rainier
Looking back at the Kingston Marina from the boat
This is the ferry that I have to take whenever I want to go anywhere / get anything
Burt Dow, Deep Water Man
View of the mountains from Katie’s house
These are some pictures I took around the homestead when I was playing with my new lens. Welcome to the farm!
Clooney in utter shock.
Cinnamon Stix airing out.
One of my new favorite things is taking pictures with my Zumi, a teeny tiny Japanese digital camera. I found it on Photojojo, a fun photography blog / resource that proclaims to have “the best photo tips, DIY projects, and gear in the whole wide world.” Their sense of humor is my favorite part. Just read their description of this little bundle of (camera) joy:
Missed connection: you and your creativity
It’s time you realize that there are other cameras in the sea — like the Zumi Digital. True, she’s no megapixel marvel. She has no interest in aperture or telephoto zoom. She doesn’t even have a legitimate viewfinder …
But if you were to take the Zumi on a date to the movies, she’d pick a documentary over a romcom. Then she’d bring her own snacks, laugh at your dumb jokes, and make all the first moves.
You see, the Zumi has been carefully crafted to take digital images and videos that have the look and feel of vintage film (lens flare, vignetting and all). Her “perfectly flawed” processing chip combined with a macro setting makes digital 8MM magic — so your everyday life look like an art house flick.
The Zumi is unusual, unpredictable, oh-so inspiring and fits in the palm of your hand. So it’s probably about time you and your DSLR had a “talk”.
You’ve seen my Zumi pictures whether you know it or not. Many of my photo-a-day shots (also on flickr here) can be attributed to my “spy camera” (as many of my friends call it), which comes everywhere with me. With my big/fancy DSLR I can get perfect high-res pictures whenever I feel like lugging around a giant piece of metal (more on that later), so it’s extra fun to have this tiny pocket pal for when I just want snapshots with a little pizazz.
After such great Zumi luck, I decided to follow Photojojo’s advice again, when they advertised a new SLR adapter for the Diana+ lenses by lomography:
You’ve got libraries full of flawless, uber professional, kick-ass magazine worthy photographs.
But despite the hundreds of dollars spent on whotzits and whatzits galore you’ve hit an artistic dead end.
Don’t fret photo friend! Even Thomas Kinkade gets tired of glowy lamp posts and elfish villages. You’re in a rut! And unlike Kinkade, you’ve got no mass produced art revenue to fall back on.
You do, however, have something far more reputable, The Dreamy Diana lens!
It’s a lovely plastic lens that transforms your beloved hunk of metal and glass into a digital toy camera. Yesiree you can now get that lovable Lo-fi “technology” on your digi cam from Lomography’s series of Diana plastic cameras.
Dianas are known for their low saturation, soft surreal blurs, and unpredictable colors.
Simply attach the plastic lens and its adapter directly onto your SLR’s body (Nikon or Canon) and shoot away. With one part Diana camera (old school lo-fi plastic) and one part modern DSLR you’ve got yourself one mighty fine recipe for unconventionally amazing photographs.
Finally! A way re-invent your style while kicking it digital with the hip kids and their plastic cams. (And for future reference, Thomas Kinkade = not hip).
But alas, my pictures look NOTHING like the examples they have on their site (below). I guess I’ve got a lot of experimenting to do.
Clouds over the Kingston marina
Today we cut our Christmas tree out of the back pasture. It was kind of hardcore.
Ok, so this should catch us up on the last few weeks. Now I’ll be able to post guilt-free, right?
Weird things I found on the table in our Communication Design 1 classroom.
Dark clouds from the roof of the parking structure in Old Town Pasadena.
Late-night taco extravaganzas with Kelsey
The underside of the bridge at school.
My good friend Strahan graduated this term, so I took him to Houston’s for good ol’ fashioned American food.
This is the facade of Milk, a fun little cafe on Beverly that we went to for Jo’s birthday last week.
This is the sun setting across the street.
This is the sun setting in Pasadena.
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