leaky ball
ugh. ben - this is what happens when you squeeze your ball! ...
January 8, 2004 @ 2:39 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
vacation, in brief
so i promised some sort of trip update and...it's not going to happen. at least not in the multimedia-photo-and-laser-show sort of way i had hoped. later i'll maybe post some pics of the most beautiful sunset ever and me in...
January 12, 2004 @ 11:18 PM | 4 comments | 0 trackbacks
eat me
OMG! on the NE corner of randolph and franklin! a guy dressed as a sandwich!!! his shoes! his SHOES!! ...
March 11, 2004 @ 12:13 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
MWCF is back in black + Photos are up
i have reposted 'the men and women of collegiate film' for all to see. oogle your favorite film student and be sure to tip your waitress on the way out. also please note that the mwcf site is licensed, so...
August 3, 2004 @ 12:42 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
home/stefapalooza!
photos available!!! Relay for Life, Stefapalooza! thursday night i caught the train home. mom made one of my favorite dinners (maple sausages with fried potatoes and peppers). friday i had lunch with g&g, met with an investment planner and sat...
August 16, 2004 @ 11:36 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
photos: wedding, birthday
new photos are up! just a few this time - the ones that weren't too badly out of focus or dark. check the photos page my flickr account for pics from Ozzie & Jesse's wedding, DDR at my birthday...
October 4, 2004 @ 2:31 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
Europe photos
check out the 'photographs' section for all the photos from the trip, captions and all. in the meantime, enjoy these delicious meat pies....
November 18, 2004 @ 4:26 PM | 5 comments | 0 trackbacks
los angeles/photos
check out the 'photographs' tab for photos from LA, primarily the Getty. los angeles was awesome. i had a great time and got to hang out with some people i hadn't seen in awhile. friday eric picked me up at...
December 6, 2004 @ 3:22 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
photo update: vegas, xmas, matt & trevor's bday
now available for viewing: las vegas photos and a few new snapshots from earlier this year and this past christmas. also, pics from matt and trevor's birthday party this past saturday....
April 4, 2005 @ 5:07 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
4 new photo albums
at last, i have processed all the photos i promised you weeks ago. Office Party Mom's Retirement Party STA Hamilton Wood Type Museum Workshop Maria & Nicole's Visit alas, while organizing the photo backup on my firewire drive i discovered...
June 21, 2005 @ 1:06 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
ben & sara are in town!
this weekend ben and sara are in chicago for a baptism and they're crashing at my place. they had yesterday to hang out so sara when downtown to visit some of her old co-workers and ben and i drove up...
July 16, 2005 @ 12:35 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
photos of searle
i've posted a handful of new photos to flickr - some photos from an assignment during winter 2001 and a few more snapshots from college....
July 17, 2005 @ 6:11 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
the zoo and the picnic
new photos! see a few shots from lombard's lovely lilacia park - lindsay's picnic last friday. also, today i spent the day with eric's family in the western suburbs. we spent the whole day at the brookfield zoo.* afterwards there...
July 31, 2005 @ 1:31 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
1001 = 9
i just noticed that i've hit 1001 photos posted to flickr. for those of you that aren't quite as hopeless as me, let me point out that 1001 is all ones and zeros. it's binary. converted to the decimal system...
August 9, 2005 @ 3:42 PM | 3 comments | 0 trackbacks
letterpress workshop weekend
view workshop photos. the first weekend of august i was in two rivers, WI for the letterpress workshop taught by david wolske. in contrast to the first workshop i attended in may, which was more of a dive-in-and-print-throwing-caution-to-the-wind sort of...
August 16, 2005 @ 8:47 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
photos up on STA website
andy wrote a great piece for STA's website about the spring workshop at hamilton. there is a great photo gallery attached to the article where you can see the group's prints and a lot of photographs from the weekend, some...
August 30, 2005 @ 4:33 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
earthquake! + lindsay's art show
talk of earthquakes over at meghan's weblog - oddly, i've experienced two and my first was...in illinois. tonight was the reception for the alumni art exhibition at elmhurst. lindsay's photographs were selected and they were awesome! all of the work...
October 23, 2005 @ 12:14 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
dan flavin & tropicália
today eric and i went to the museum of conteporary art (mca) to see the dan flavin retrospective. i was going to be good and not take any photos (since they are only allowed in the lobby areas) but...
October 23, 2005 @ 9:16 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
transparent concrete
last year i pointed hyperbolation readers to an article about light transmitting concrete. today i was looking at luxist and saw a little blurb about the new litracon lamp. pretty cool! now where is that $600 i had laying around......
November 1, 2005 @ 1:28 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
photos...slowly but surely
i'm only about halfway through the california photos, but you can see LA through the arrival in SF in my flickr set. still to come: the musée mechanique, monterey bay aquarium and alcatraz....
November 7, 2005 @ 10:26 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
musée mécanique
new san francisco photos up from the musée mécanique, a museum of vintage mechanical amusements like kinetoscopes, mechanical dioramas and orchestrions. it's a really cool place and it was fun to see what sort of entertainments were available at...
November 20, 2005 @ 6:09 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
"carla was the prom queen"
all of the alcatraz pics are up from the trip to california that i took uh...almost two months ago...yeah. anyway, only a handful of pics left, then i have to go through all of the photos since then, and...
December 1, 2005 @ 12:43 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
finally! california trip photos are completed!
see all of the photos from October's trip all over california here, finally, for the love of god. now i have to process photos from my aunt's birthday and the trip i took to CA this past weekend (which...
December 5, 2005 @ 11:29 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
oakland photos posted in record time!
i'm caught up - all photos posted to flickr! i am the champion! the above photo is from my trip this past weekend to oakland. also posted are the photos from my aunt's birthday/impromptu family reunion. there's an awesome...
December 7, 2005 @ 9:35 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
party on, garth
i took a few photos at the office holiday party. most of them came out kinda blurry because i didn't bother to reset the iso, but whatevs! the party was great - a lot of people came, there was an...
December 17, 2005 @ 1:37 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
st. louis!
update: all photos from the weekend are posted! update: i can't help but notice that pat's photo is getting far more hits than any of my other photos. either this is from one person visiting many times (you know...
January 8, 2006 @ 9:07 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
bay area photos
all posted and ready to go!...
February 15, 2006 @ 4:17 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
get well travis!
posted: photos from visiting travis in the hospital, and a few snapshots from cecile's oscar party. this get well card was drawn by antonio - look how cute we all look!...
March 12, 2006 @ 3:47 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
a day of good food
today is antonio's last day as the big cheese, so we're all cooking stuff. antonio is making smoothies and cracker barrel hash brown casserole and i'm making strawberry shortcake. the strawberries charlie bought at whole foods looked like strawberries...
March 23, 2006 @ 11:14 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i am famous photojournalist!
this was published a bit ago, but here is an article at new media caucas which features a photo i took of the tropicália exhibit at the mca last year....
June 22, 2006 @ 3:13 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
canadian thanksgiving, devin davis, dvd release party, etc
wednesday devin is/was on tour with tilly and the wall, so on wednesday jon, cecile and i went and saw them play at the abbey pub. conrad was there too (but no erik). good show - particularly the part...
October 18, 2006 @ 4:49 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
galileo's grave premieres! halloween hijinks!
update:photos from the after party and brunch last night was the premiere of 'galileo's grave' at the ifp summit. the film was well received and looked beautiful. afterwards some of us went to the ifp after party at the chicago...
October 29, 2006 @ 9:35 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
flickr benchmark
amy quit & there was much rejoicing, new snapshots and zombies. also - i've passed 2000 photos on flickr. i hereby mark this occasion with a hearty swig of tap water and a little jig that is for me...
November 8, 2006 @ 11:39 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
137 films, renegade craft fair
last night i volunteered at the 137 films fundraiser. the found films were great and the music was insane. the experimental instrument orchestra was amazing! they make instruments out of objects they find in the trash or abandoned. a...
December 10, 2006 @ 7:34 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
teuben makes it better - or - it's better with teuben
ah, hot doug's - you make everything ok. hooray for the teuben - a corned beef sausage with russian dressing, sauerkraut and swiss. i met cecile, elizabeth and brian up there for lunch today. i took drew, since he'd...
December 11, 2006 @ 5:19 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
4 years of hyperbolation, holidays, a new year
the holidays were a lot of running around and everything, but it was nice to see everyone. i was home for almost a week so i got to fully enjoy the break. good food, nice hot showers, movies and...
January 1, 2007 @ 4:46 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
paying for the weekend via my sinuses
feeling sick, and only at work because we're interviewing our grant applicants today. there will be no shaking of hands. i totally overdid it this weekend and stayed out too late both nights and drank more than would be advisable...
January 8, 2007 @ 10:29 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
this is why she's my best friend
what meghan sent me for christmas: delicious green tea kitty ceramic teacup adorable puffy animal stickers - including a PIRATE MONKEY 'talk nerdy to me' tshirt which i'm totally wearing tomorrow; i'm not even washing it first this girl is...
January 8, 2007 @ 6:05 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
bus to nowhere
most likely a #49...
January 11, 2007 @ 8:21 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
testing this slideshow thing
update: this thing is awesome. i'm totally using it forever. the end....
February 19, 2007 @ 11:58 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
as a youngster
age 3, carving pumpkins with grandma 18-24 mos, wearing grandpa's hat i haven't worked up the nerve to post the embarassing photos of me with giant sally jessy raphael glasses and The Perm. maybe later this week. i bought...
April 16, 2007 @ 10:08 AM | 3 comments | 0 trackbacks
clapham
see my photo of the clapham common tube station on last rounds....
April 24, 2007 @ 4:51 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
lasalle window
long overdue, here is a gallery showing the production of the lasalle bank sustainability window that firebelly designed. see these photos on flickr....
May 20, 2007 @ 6:09 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
photos from april: brookfield zoo, architectural artifacts
brookfield zoo architectural artifacts ...
June 4, 2007 @ 10:21 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
published photographer!
you can see this photo in xun zhou's book, karaoke: a global phenomenon....
June 13, 2007 @ 7:20 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
melons and oysters
on july 20th my parents and i drove out to muscatine, ia. my dad was born and spent some of his childhood there, so he showed us his family's houses and his grandparents' farm. we also spent some time...
August 9, 2007 @ 12:08 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
griffith observatory
see the whole set at flickr...
September 19, 2007 @ 7:58 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
LA county fair
the LA county fair was fantastic, but remind me next year to space out the fried foods a little better. in all, i had 7, meghan had 8 and josh had 9: beer-battered french fries fried onion rings fried zucchini...
September 28, 2007 @ 6:13 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
alpine countries vacation, day 1-2: transatlantic flight
flight from chicago to frankfurt germany and some margaritas at chili's beforehand. complete trip itinerary...
October 1, 2007 @ 8:47 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
alpine countries vacation, day 2: frankfurt
We arrived in Frankfurt at midday. As the day wore on we desperately tried to stay awake until after the tour's welcome dinner. After checking in at the hotel we took the tram to the oldest part of the...
October 2, 2007 @ 12:20 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
alpine countries vacation, day 3: frankfurt, rothenburg, munich
We left Frankfurt early in the morning and set out on our Alpine adventure. Roberto, our bus driver, took us down the Romantic Road to Rothenburg. We spent most of the day walking around the medieval city's streets and...
October 13, 2007 @ 10:26 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
alpine countries vacation, day 4: munich, linderhof palace, oberammergau
We started day 4 at Nymphenburg Palace then took our city tour. Munich is a great city - a lot of museums and beautiful architecture. I'd totally live here. After the tour we had free time at Marienplatz. We...
November 4, 2007 @ 11:36 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
meghan's bachelorette party wine-tasting
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November 28, 2007 @ 9:33 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
a two-turkey thanksgiving
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December 2, 2007 @ 3:17 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
it's december!
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December 2, 2007 @ 6:25 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
holidays in illinois
I spent a few days in Chicago before I went back to the Quad Cities for Christmas. I took a cab from Midway to Cecile's, where she, Jon and Matt we waiting with delicious BBQ brisket sandwiches from Fat...
January 1, 2008 @ 1:06 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
january photos
...are finally available! i'll be uploading them in spurts over the next few days. for now, see shots from new year's eve and the stone soup party - start here and go forward. there are also some really cute photos...
January 25, 2008 @ 10:31 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
hulk just needs a hug
new photos posted including this one of a stuffed hulk i saw at the gallery 1988 "tribute to stan lee" show last week. i love him....
February 4, 2008 @ 4:43 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
meghan & josh's official wedding photos!
view them here....
February 11, 2008 @ 9:43 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
abbot kinney, bar marmont, boulevard 3
updated 3/2 this weekend lindsay is in town! yesterday we drove down to venice to abbot kinney - ate at jin and walked around the shops. we went to the beach and walked around the boardwalk and meghan took us...
March 1, 2008 @ 12:14 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
la brea, meghan's birthday, square one tv, the getty
sunday after i drove meghan home and we'd laid around a bit, lindsay and i were ready to go downtown again. it was hazy and a bit chilly and drizzly, but still probably a treat compared to chicago weather....
March 2, 2008 @ 6:48 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
let's see your heat vision get you out of THIS one
cecile is telling me the story of how her neighbor's car got totaled: cecile: trent are i were taking pics of my superman action figure on my porch and we saw this van going like 60 down cortland, turn onto...
March 3, 2008 @ 10:10 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
mom & dad visit LA
the getty, mullholland drive, sunset, beverly hills, rodeo drive, nate 'n al's, malibu, point dume, neptune's net, lala's grill, golden apple, project: gallery, beer brewing, in-n-out, warner bros. studio tour, old town pasadena...
April 22, 2008 @ 5:46 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
more photos, including will's poor car
at the end of the snapshots 2008 set....
April 23, 2008 @ 11:50 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
can someone recommend a good archival framing place?
click for notes on the art....
May 6, 2008 @ 5:33 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
on laist!
my photo was featured today on laist!...
May 6, 2008 @ 6:37 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
alpine countries vacation, day 5: salzburg, vienna
Finally, I'm starting to post photos from the Alpine trip again. My goal is to be done by the time the one-year anniversary rolls around. Only four months to go (oh crap only four months until i'm 27.) and...
May 18, 2008 @ 10:19 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i've become one of those SoCal wussies that can't take the cold
update: photos it's cold in san francisco. like, real cold. wasn't it just unbearably hot here? wha happen'd? when i got to this coffee shop (no free wifi at hotel) i was sweating from hauling my huge work laptop...
May 20, 2008 @ 10:48 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
hiking at angeleno
meghan, watson and i went hiking and saw some cool trees, pretty waterfalls and a lot of people with soft spots for super-wiggly blond pups....
May 31, 2008 @ 10:13 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
alpine countries vacation, day 6: vienna
We started our first full day in Vienna with a trip to Schönbrunn Palace, the Habsburg's summer residence. The rooms were very beautiful and the tour was really interesting. We learned a lot about Maria Theresa and Franz Joseph...
June 7, 2008 @ 7:16 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
the orpheum
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