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Accidental typography / wanna-be G-clef.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:02:03 -0800

Accidental typography / wanna-be G-clef.

Left behind is such a shitty feeling. And now that I’ve acknowledged it, it can just piss off.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:21:14 -0800

Left behind is such a shitty feeling.

And now that I’ve acknowledged it, it can just piss off.

I’ve never lived anywhere with stairs inside. I still...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:22:00 -0800

I’ve never lived anywhere with stairs inside. I still don’t, really, but my building does have 100-year-old (oak?) staircases and my 8-year-old self drags her hand down the banister every time we go in or out. (:

I do this a lot, shoot a frame completely out of focus. Here...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:06:55 -0800

I do this a lot, shoot a frame completely out of focus. Here because I like the colours in the Japanese Garden so well.

Later, Sunday morning, November. Nerdily excited about the 2...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:11:00 -0800

Later, Sunday morning, November.

Nerdily excited about the 2 rolls from Portland, I walked around my neighbourhood (and apartment) and blew through a roll of Kodak’s BW400CN. (:

"It’s always tricky for filmmakers who have earned their reputations in fantasy and horror to go..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:10:00 -0800

“It’s always tricky for filmmakers who have earned their reputations in fantasy and horror to go respectable without losing the disreputable vigor that made their work worth paying attention to in the first place.”

- Peter Jackson’s ‘Lovely Bones’ - Not His Typical Ghost Story, Terrance Rafferty, NYTimes

While I take Mr Rafferty’s implied point to be that fantasy and horror aren’t, by and large, “respectable” (and that he, Rafferty, doesn’t necessarily agree that they aren’t) by industry? cultural? standards, it’s a little irksome he’s using it as shorthand anyway.

Sunday morning, November.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:54:00 -0800

Sunday morning, November.

click. whirrr.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:06:39 -0800

2009 New Year’s Resolution(s): no new gear (cameras, lenses); shoot more with film.

10 months in…

Okay, I bought the Polaroid 330. (Everyone says it doesn’t count since it was $15. :P)
I just dropped off 2 rolls out of the F5 which brings the ‘09 total to 21 rolls of film (F5, Vivtar Wide & Slim, and Holga)

2 months to go! (:

Japanese Garden, Washington Park Portland, OR

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:20:50 -0800

Japanese Garden, Washington Park Portland, OR

My organization is a combination of muscle memory (it feels wrong to not have iPod upper right) and...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:45:00 -0700

My organization is a combination of muscle memory (it feels wrong to not have iPod upper right) and color-matching (like the way ESPN Fantasy Football’s split background matches the app on either side…). (:

(The yellow border around Centipede makes me a little crazy.)

jimray: “I think something I joke about with Adam is his, and You Look Nice Today’s fanbase, is...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:05:00 -0700

jimray:

“I think something I joke about with Adam is his, and You Look Nice Today’s fanbase, is largely composed of a particular kind of person who really cares about fonts.”

— Jesse Thorn, on the type of people who need a little help dressing like a grownup. As someone who cares about both fonts and looking dapper, I’m pretty excited about Put This On.

Sweet.

Related: A Continuous Lean. It’s by boys for boys, but I love it anyway (and wish I could buy the Hamilton Oxfords for every boy I know).

Camouflage!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:25:14 -0700

Camouflage!

We do not know his name.

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:47:00 -0700

At the Vancouver Art Museum on Sunday, I came across this Stan Douglas installation, Klatsassin. It’s a mixed media (does that sound like 1991 calling to your ears, too?) sort of thing and I found the portraits before the video.

The portraits are fantastic (Constable, Prisoner, Thief, Deputy — there are 8[?] more in the museum) and quite large, which suits me just fine. I like to get eye-crossing-close to photographs to see what’s within the plane of focus and to let them overwhelm my field of vision.

Klatsassin Portraits (Constable) 2006

I found my way into the video presentation smack in the middle of the Prisoner speaking Tsîlhqot’in to the Frenchman who’s translating it to French for the Constable whose Scottish brogue relays it all to us. Then they reverse the process, all the while looking at the camera — though at one point, the Prisoner is clearly irritated and turns as best he can in his chair to speak directly to the Frenchman.

Turns out there are, get this, 890 variations of the 5-minute film. !! …I watched just the 1. (:

I think what I like so well about the whole thing is that Douglas pulled an historical event from local history, but one that’s not been done to death (e.g., Custer’s Last Stand) and thus has ground to give in the way of interpretations. I dug it (and spent the bulk of my art museum time there).

Vancouver Art Museum, clandestinely.

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:00 -0700

Vancouver Art Museum, clandestinely.

"We changed our style several years ago on plurals like this. Here’s what the current “plurals” entry..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:00 -0700

“

We changed our style several years ago on plurals like this. Here’s what the current “plurals” entry in The Times’s stylebook says:

But do not use apostrophes for plurals of abbreviations without periods, or for plurals formed from figures: TVs, PCs, DVDs; 1990s, 747s, size 7s.

”

- “Words We Love Too Much”, Philip B. Corbett, NYT

To which I say: it’s about damn time.

“Sweet Disposition” The Temper Trap A year ago, John...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:41:17 -0700

“Sweet Disposition” The Temper Trap

A year ago, John sent this and there was much rejoicing. There’s something very…cruising up PCH about that opening guitar. I’m pretty sure I was the only person in the theater who clapped (quietly! to myself!) when it popped up in (500) Days of Summer.

Lunch of champions! (Yesterday in Vancouver. No poutine. ): )

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:33:00 -0700

Lunch of champions! (Yesterday in Vancouver. No poutine. ): )

Rocking my HBC toque. (: (yes, I’m a dork.)

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:06:58 -0700

Rocking my HBC toque. (: (yes, I’m a dork.)

Lunch with Oscar.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:34:00 -0700

Lunch with Oscar.

Snapped— captured? the Emigre homepage for the blockiness...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:51:52 -0700

Snapped— captured? the Emigre homepage for the blockiness and the colour combination. Also: Mr Eaves is aces! Look at that Q!

(It’s a Britishism to drop the period after Mr, Ms, Mrs, etc. right? Anyway, I like it.)