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need to look this over
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August 27, 2005
August 26, 2005
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August 25, 2005
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more six feet under ending goodness
August 24, 2005
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my css needs have kept me on the hunt for good resources. I hate searching for hacks and crap for different browsers.
August 23, 2005
Young Man walking past blackboard
This photo that I found in the apartment above my grandpa's place makes me think of bill callahan from smog. Something about the boy's posture and the way his jaw is set just sends smog songs through my brain.
August 22, 2005
this must be the place
I love to read about artists. The experience is very inspiring. After the rush of inspiration, of identification and of attempting to transport myself into the space of that artist, i inevitably reach a single conclusion.
I don't give a shit who fucked whom, what drugs someone did, who fought over credits with whom, or even who is nice to grandmas and kittens. I don't know these people, and won't. I have this [music|photograph|film] and in my experience with it, my history with it, i add it to my life. Nothing else matters, except in an academic sense, so not at all.
I am currently reading "this must be the place: the adventures of talking heads in the 20th century" by David Bowman. The writing is pretty terrible. Like a lot of music bios i have ready, there is a big mixture of "this happened, followed by this, while the country was experience x y and z." In this book, all of that is combined with dreck such as:
Then there was Adrian Belew. He belew everyone away with his rhino guitar.
Oh man. That is a terrible, terrible pun. Not that it will stop me from devouring the rest of this bio tomorrow, but still. ick.
links for 2005-08-22
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i am digging on django pretty hard, but this looks interesting as well...
August 20, 2005
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nice machinima(sp??) game
August 18, 2005
Jason's Haircut 2005-08-18
The beard and moustache are gone. That is sad.
Actually, my beard and moustache were sad.
The fuzz attached to my face changed the shape of my head in a very nice way, i thought. Moving back to the clean-shaven look makes my head look tiny. teehee
links for 2005-08-18
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nice intro on the options for testing databases.
August 13, 2005
Photo Experimentation Ideas
I picked up a new Manfrotto head for my first tripod. Why did i need a new head you might ask? Well, freshman year of college i knocked it over, twice, snapping off the handles. This did not mean that I stopped using the tripod. Heavens no! I just suffered as the jagged shards of plastic that used to be my handles tore up my hands while adjusting shot setup.
At the moment I am also drooling over the lensbaby. Only minutes after browsing through the lensbaby site i found this thread in the Canon DSLR user group from flickr on Body Cap Pinhole photographs. I do have a teeeeeny-tiiiiny drill bit and a body cap, so woohoo! Let's give it a shot! I will post my results when I have them.
housework
Tracey quipped today that it is funny how the thought of selling our place has motivated us to do a bunch of improvements lately:
- Patching up nail holes in the trim
- Touching up the paint where the new berber carpet is lower than our old plush stuff.
- Installing a new light fixture in the kitchen (let there be light!)
- Taking out the old table in the basement.
- Organizing the basement and throwing out a tooooon of junk.
- Patch up lots of little drywall dings and touch up a bunch of paint.
Note: Most of that list was done by the lovely tracey. :)
August 12, 2005
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Ed sent this to me. This guy makes some pretty nice artwork....
August 9, 2005
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August 8, 2005
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This site is a really great resource for digital photography work. This tip is on exposing, "developing" and "printing" b&w images from DSLRs.