Things that make me happy...

Yesterday I had the most exciting time mowing the grass. You know, normally I hate it, it's boring drudgery in the hot sun, but I got home about half an hour before storms were coming in. So I decided to race the storms to get the front yard mowed. there was distant lightening and darkening skies and me, running to try and get done. I made it, just as the first drops came down.

I was all tired after that, and I wasn't going to go out, but then KW texted me (I have a feeling he bulk texted a bunch of people). But anyway, knowing people were out was enough to get me out. Beers and interesting times and new friends. I got home and I was totally exhausted, so I went to bed.

I slept 11 hours. I was asleep for 11 hours. All at one time. I never sleep that long. I'm so used to four or five hours and exhaustion, I've go it down to an art. I feel so much better today. It's awesome.

There will be photos eventually. As soon as I get off my lazy ass and download the card that's been in the camera since I came back from santa fe.

Now: welding, car repair and fun times.

on the good news list

I still have a working pair of headphones. The new ones got ripped apart today. got dad his birthday gift, he liked it. What else? on the bad news list, I'm out of money, bills are due, and I'm back in oklahoma. So what else is new?

hey, I remembered that name

and other stuff, too. Arianna, and I have no idea why I got such a block about it. Actually, it could have to do with the emotional stress of the week and the madness therein. What else? I've been thinking about things to say on here and lots will occur when I'm out and about, but not a lot comes to me now.

Definitely going to Egypt and Gaza in January. Actually, I'm only definitely going to Egypt, getting into Gaza is a matter of getting to know the right people once I'm on the ground, fining the right border guard to bribe, or a small row boat to row a few miles trough the blockade. Or any combination of the three above things.

All of my backups are stale by a week now. If you don't know, this is a terrible thing. Although it's better than none at all, I need to run a full backup tonight.

I bought new headphones today, both ears work, so that's good. Not much else to report. Money's low. more later if I get inspired of crazy or something.

santa fe dreams

Still here. Had a really excellent dinner with Mike and Tina and their lovely daughter who's name I'm drawing a complete blank on. It'll come back to me. Really good food though, I've never had a bad meal there, and the company is extraordinary. It's always a treat. Then, I had a nice talk with (insert youngest daughter's name here, which I now have a major mental block around, even though we've known each other for a few years now) after Mike and Tina went to bed. It's really rare to find someone who I can really talk to, who has interesting things to say, etc.


So, in other news, I got kicked out of Alex's place the other night. Well, first I did a semi-pornographic shoot with Kit, which the roommates didn't like. I can't fathom what a bunch of hetero bachelors would find objectionable about a naked woman in the house, but that's just me. The shoot itself went really well, Kit is happy with the pictures, and you should be able to see them eventually on suicidegirls.com. Yeah, that classy porn site. If such an oxymoron is beyond your ken, sorry. (As an aside, this is the only way I'll do certain kinds of photography: nudes, weddings, and a few others, you have to be my friend first, and ask nicely. I'm likely to do it for free, though).



What else? Mad drama which is now solved and not worth talking about; staying in andrew's house; and the internet in the hospital is down, so I'm posting tethered to my phone. We blinged alex's walker. Chilled on the plaza. Lots of drinking in small portions, a beer here, a glass of wine there. I haven't been really drunk for several days, though. Now, Photos!

in santa fe again...

And it looks like I'll be here until Sunday next, chilling and helping out where I can. Alex is doing really well, considering the extent of his injury; broken pelvis and a cracked rib to boot would lay anybody up for a few days. Kit on the other hand, is just phenomenal. First of all, she seems about ten times hotter than when I last saw her, is taking care of Alex's every need, setting up a place for him to live and a way to get there and dealing with all the details of wrapping up his Santa Fe life.





I'm doing little things, like driving, and craigs-listing the truck, but mostly I think I'm here to help everyone keep their shit together and lose it under the stress. I don't know how many times I've told Kit to breathe and "It'll be ok, we'll get it sorted," etc. And then there are the secret missions that i can't really talk about because they're secret and Alex reads this sometimes. You'll enjoy it Al, I swear.


That's about it here so far. Catch you all later.

going away a little

So I'm headed home today, and I get a call from Kit, and Alex is in the hospital. Broken pelvis. So I'm going to Santa Fe. Tomorrow I'll go out and see what I can do to help them, Alex and Kit, because they're some of my closest friends and really I'd be a terrible person if I didn't go do what I can.

So for all of you OKC people, that's where I'll be for the next couple days/possibly a week or two. Catch you all when I get back. there might/should be updates here as things go; I'll have plenty of time for blogging.

the b-boy sequence

thanks to F.A.T. for the beats, IAO for the show, and the b-boys, MC's, and other artists that made it happen.

so anyway, if you want to do any javascript in blogger, you've gotta put in in your template, in the header, to make it work. as far as I can figure. could be I needed ADATA tags, but anyway, there's source now to embed a javascript gallery into blogger in the post below and the header of the blog. This is for people that have their own server space. All the functions are in the header, and the stuff in the post is function calls and definitions, how many photos and where to get them. File names go in the array, and if you name your photos 0001.jpg, 0002.jpg, etc, then you won't have to even change that.

I had an awesome weekend though. Crazy coincidences, party, artshow/b-boys. 950 pictures saturday night/sunday morning. I danced! I talked to pretty girls, ran towards a fight, slept on a couch, and had brunch in style on sunday. shitty javascript too, fixed monday in 15 minutes of fresh coding on lunch. also some shitty food sometime before sunday evening made me miss soccer, not the brunch though, that was too soon.

Some of the photos below are real keepers, as in they're going in my portfolio. Into the edit I'm doing now at least. I decided that I need the D700 beacuse let's face it, I would have a lot less blurries at ISO 25000. and the focusing screen! so much better. It won't make me a better photographer, but it's one hell of a lot sharper knife to cut with, if you can dig it.

Video of the sequence of b-boys coming whenever I get my shit together, maybe tomorrow. If it were my job I would have done it sunday. But my job is boring, dull, and unimaginative. Fuck it, I'm going to go do that now. Video before I sleep if it kills me tomorrow.

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fuck it all

the photos I was going to put here are here. maybe it'll work now?

edit: it's all good, blogger hates javascript is all I can figure out.

and I thought I hadn't shot anything good.

Turns out I wasn't shooting much, but i did do a few good things in the last interminable period between dumping cards.

Matt Mills makes with the manic

so, I'm bored. Not just a little bored, but epically madly stuck in a rut bored. Normally what I do when this happens is, well, something crazy, I take a trip or cut off my hair or have some brilliant idea and go off after it for a while. All of my options right now fall into two categories: the "I don't want to" and the "I really shouldn't."

What I should do is edit the 7000 pictures I've shot since coming back here into some kind of portfolio. That's what I call a good start.

from the iPod touch

because I can. Strange there's an app for lots of stuff, but none for blogger. Oh well, typing on this thing sucks anyway.