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My attempt at Lunar Photography

Last night; incase you were sleeping, there was a Lunar Eclipse.
I wanted to check it out, so I woke at 2:20 to see if I could catch any bit of it.

Armed with my trusty little camera I attempted to capture the moment.

Not exactly zine worthy, but considering I had a beast of a street light 50ft away and no other special equipment, I think it came out OK. I’m actually pretty proud I was able to pull this out of my lil camera, and it gave me a deeper understanding of what my little camera can actually accomplish.

And this is the challenge I had to get around to achieve my hazy little picture. (damn the street lights!)

Self Portrait

I Found this about 5 inches above the side walk, next to a yummy Mexican food place near my work. Looks to me like this was made with lipstick.

In my imagination the creation scene for this one played out like this.

Its was about 3:30 on a Saturday night, Mystery lady and friends were drunk and stumbling down the street to their car after a night out at the clubs. Reaching for her keys she drops the contents of her purse out onto the sidewalk. As she tries to stop her stuff from falling she slips on her three inch heels and falls ass first to the ground. Laughing hysterically she sees her lipstick has broken. Still laughing she draws this little face on the wall near the ground where she fell and continues to laugh hysterically as she brings herself up off the ground.

-fin

They all don't have stories but I got to thinking as I waited for my yummy burrito the other day. :)

JFK

John F Kennedy Not much more to say there, as far as Presidents go he was the Shizzle'. Too bad no one has come close since.

a rose by any other name

I love me some Urban Art.

Standard tags bore me; I mean what’s so great about scratching your name all over town? How can you “claim” something that you obviously can’t defend? Plastering your name all over town is like a dog pissing on a fire hydrant. It’s a weak and temporary attempt to exert dominion over other people or things. It reveals the authors insecurity and weakness. Not my thing.

But throwing up a character, symbol, or spontaneous mural is much more creative and has much more of an ancient feel to me. Man has been drawing pictograms of his surroundings for hundreds of thousands of years, and to me Urban Art like this is just the continuation of this eternal human need.

Besides its public art, in a much more Marxist way and I appreciate the simple rebellion of it all. It makes the world like a giant people’s gallery; free to all. Whoo Hoo!

So, yeah you’ll probably be seeing a lot of this kind of stuff being posted here, I just love it.

btw

--I found this little guy on a newspaper box on Market Street in the Castro District in SF.

--=d

Engage!

Whatz-it? Its a model of the Starship Enterprise that I made out of office supplies. Now you know what I do with eternity.

Inspired by my Sister, Ive started a Photo-Blog.

Im often shooting things that are weird or that interest me, and this is a place for me to post/examine/explore/track/ponder/feel/wonder/massage/taste/and log all ofthose things.

So it is written, so it shall be done.