Every Day the Same Dream
Unhappy at work? Maybe your job is just a game. Like this game from La Molle Industria. It’s billed as, “A short existential game about alienation and refusal of labour. Or, if you prefer, a playable music video.” Read More
Perspective
This is a poem I wrote about how inspired to write I feel whenever I’m out running at night. Usually I think of a lot of things to write, but then I start to forget everything as fatigue sets in. Quick, run inside The words will hide Cuz’ words don’t fear Tip of the spear The dream’s not real Dreamers don’t feel So run tonight And see the flight Of angels high Above the sky Calm wings do glide And match my stride Look down with hope Look down... Read More
Auditorium Seats – YMCA
Oh what drama the auditorium seats have seen. So passive in their demeanour, yet always watching with a soulless intensity eclipsed only by their occasional occupants. I took these shots at the Evanston YMCA’s ancient auditorium. Read More Read More
San Diego 2009
I shot these photos when I went to visit my sister in sunny San Diego. Perfectly, I was there at the same exact time as the Red Bull Air Races. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery("#gallery-e99d5878... Read More
Technostalgia
You know that feeling when you look at older technology and marvel at the intricacies of their jeweled engineering? I have named this feeling technostalgia. Today, I was playing with a very old lens, an 85mm f/2 AI-S Nikkor lens which has no motors, no chips, no auto-focus, no communication with the camera, nothing. But what it does have is all metal construction, super smooth focusing, buttery soft bokeh, incredible sharpness and a nice compact body. It’s also... Read More
Hooked up
Funny how things work in the Corporate World. After 5 years of being blocked, Flickr was recently freed from the shackles of Big Brother’s proxy at my work. All it took was a single phone call from someone obviously much more important than I. Now, instead of having to bring images home on a jumpdrive and maybe uploading them to Flickr from my personal computer, if I’m not too tired from a long day, I can upload photos directly to my account as soon as I’m... Read More
Evolve
I had to shoot an annual meeting for a women’s group the other day. The client wasn’t asking for anything special, just some images to put on a newsletter, in a website or wherever they could find space. So I took the requisite pairings and crowd shots but then later concentrated on the very pretty country club setting where the event was being held. But after I captured some nice architectural shots, I was faced with a room full of people starting to sit down... Read More
The Red Doorway
The red door dustily banged open temporarily scrubbing the dirty grout of the men’s conversation. She paused there in the opening, a sudden wind taking its cue to wrap around her silken form the particles of the failing daylight. Her swollen pout threw daggers at the men, her final words a Read More Read More
The Allure of Garbage Food
Some of you will simply not be with me during this post. But today I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone and she mentioned that she was going into a Costco to buy some food in good ol’ American portions. So I excitedly asked her to look and see if they had Pepperoni Pita Stuffs. See, for those of you who know me well, you know of the existence of my Unicorn Food (that’s the food that you loved, but which is no longer available to you). The Pita Stuffs... Read More
Fortune’s Fool
Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but at the end of the work day today, the cleaning woman showed up and started speaking with such prophetic wisdom that I found myself listening intently to every sentence in her half-Haitian-half-English tongue. She’s just like an oracle in the old Greek style. She almost never shows up when you expect her, she’s so hard to understand that you almost pull a muscle listening and much of what she has to say is so simple as... Read More
