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 was great btw. too bad the weather in chicago did not make me happy to be back). please enjoy these lovely photos from the monterey bay aquarium, including the one above of starfish trying to hold hands! super cute!
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 all the photos i’ll inevitably take in sf this weekend. enjoy the alcatraz pics though, and that beautiful bay sunset.
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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 the turn of the century
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.
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…
photos from cali are trickling in.
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 then i saw a guy blatantly taking shots of everything with his cellphone, so i got this shot of eric standing in front of one of the light sculptures. it’s basically the same shot that everyone gets when they see the flavin exhibit because this little room is back around the corner from a tunnel and there are no obvious cameras surveilling you.
the big exhibit at the mca is tropicália, a look at post-WWII brazilian culture. it is pret-ty wild. there is a whole room of stuff to interact with – sensory masks with mirrors in front of the eye-holes or scent sachets in the cloth, sandy paths to walk down, a pare of macaws in a giant cage, clothes to try on, interactive books and ‘poemobiles’. there’s also this cool a/v sculpture, some completely insane sculptures and giant framed swaths of fabric with huge zippers. tropicália – you have to see it to believe it; made me want to go to brazil.
see all photos from today’s trip to the mca here.
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 was pretty cool, even if some of it really creeped me out. the exhibition is installed at the accelerator artspace, which is the first floor of the little physics building that houses an actual particle accelerator – a kevatron first built in the 1940s for the university of chicago, then moved to elmhurst in 1973. on the refreshment table was a little cake with digital numbers (very cool – eric wants some for his next birthday) flashing ’32’ for the accelerator’s 32nd year at elmhurst. you can see the accelerator – it sits right there in the middle of the room and is giant and silver and red and very futuristic looking. i took some photos which i’ll post soon (i know i know. i swear i’ll post photos soon) you can see here.
also, what a sweet car. corresponding back-story here (title: thirty is the new thirty).
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 of them mine! woo! i’m a (web-)published photographer!
from STA’s homepage (the news & announcements tab), scroll down to ‘8-2-05 The Wood Type Workshop just keeps getting better!’
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 affair, this was a step-by-step look at proper letterpress process and etiquette.
about half of the people who attended may’s workshop came back to two rivers for this workshop – jan, chris and jen came up too. it was good to see so many familiar faces and have more time to get to know everyone. early friday morning david and andy picked me up and we started the long (ok, not really) journey north. the drive was filled with good music and interesting conversation. i got the chance to get to know andy a little better and he is – for lack of a better phrase – good people.
we arrived in two rivers just after noon and went directly to the museum. david began setting up for the workshop, andy had his last hurrah printing the soon-to-be-old devil-may-care way and i took photographs. i borrowed mark’s digital SLR and lenses for the trip and managed to get off about 130 shots that afternoon alone. paul brown, david’s friend and professor from IU, was printing that day too. a lot of tourists came through the museum and a couple of them bought prints paul and david had produced.
after that, david let me observe/help him set up the manual inking SP15. i learned:
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 it equals ‘9’.
nerd, party of one?
p.s. – i like how the title of this entry is all numbers and if you have the proper font for my h3 tags, the numbers are slightly shorter and the tail on the 9 descends below the baseline. hm, if only i knew of some typography nerds who read this website and could tell me the proper terms for all of this…