Archive for January 2008

when you work near chinatown…

24 January 2008     Photos, Polaroid 366     3 Comments

Beautiful Showgirls, Market Street

Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim

23 January 2008     Photos     Comments Off

Kitty, Frederick Street

Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim

22 January 2008     Photos     5 Comments

Fabulous Elsewhere

• German Villegas Gonzalez, #12 in my 100 Strangers Project, kristyk.org
  (tags: photography project newmexico)
• Recreating Eden Episodes, You Grow Girl
  “When Toronto-based gardener and graphic designer, Gayla Trail started her website YouGrowGirl.com, she had no idea it would become the web destination for young, urban apartment dwellers desperate to create green spaces in their own homes.”
  (tags: television tv gaylatrail yougrowgirl)
• Inside a Female-Circumcision Ceremony
  (tags: photography nytimes)
• Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie
  “Ms. Nakamachi…has spent more than six years trying to establish the Japanese origin of the fortune cookie…”
  (tags: food nytimes fortunecookie)

21 January 2008     Fabulous     Comments Off

bacon-wrapped hot dogs

bacon-wrapped hot dogs from mmmishu on Vimeo.

21 January 2008     Video     1 Comment

020 (ochre)

Polaroid 600/SX-70

20 January 2008     Photos, Polaroid 366     2 Comments

Fabulous Elsewhere

• Everything’s Better with Bacon slide show
  (tags: bacon photos recipes)
• One Man’s Trash
  “Tim Nobel and Sue Webster take piles of trash and make art into them…”
  (tags: art discardia)
• Land Arts of the American West
  “an interdisciplinary, studio-based, field study program that investigates the overlay of land arts practices from pre-contact times to the contemporary era.”
  (tags: art landart education newmexico)
• The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Common Errors
  “Christo never had the pleasure of talking to their tax accountant.”
  (tags: art errors corrections christo jeanne-claude)

20 January 2008     Fabulous     Comments Off

Sunbeam

Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim

20 January 2008     Photos     1 Comment

Mojo

I’m that annoying person who’s sitting at the gate when you think you’re “early” at the airport. I don’t know what precedes early, but whatever it is, that’s how I roll. Since forever.

You would then be surprised as I was by the fact that I made the check in cut off by 4 minutes last Wednesday. 4 minutes! That’s not early — that’s stupid. I found myself in this circumstance after waiting 15 minutes for the N and Bart for another 18. When the train arrived at SFO at 7:16 AM, I had 9 minutes to hoof it to the Alaska counter in Terminal 1. Doable, but so very wrong.

I don’t want to point fingers, but I have a feeling that our adventure with the sunglasses last November might have something to do with my fall from the travel god’s grace. Their plastic arms have wrapped themselves around the pristine surface of my travel mojo with a hearty squeeze.

You can rest assured that I’ll be hauling out the smudge stick prior to my next date with a flying tin can.

20 January 2008     Words     Comments Off

Popular Photography

A quick note that one of my all-time favourite photographs appears in the February issue of Popular Photography (page 46) in an article about Lensbabies. On news stands now!

20 January 2008     Words, glory     1 Comment