There isn’t too much to do back home in upstate NY besides visiting with family and watching films. I think a good band comes around once a decade. On New Year’s Day and between the holidays, I went out in the snow and took some pictures. Here are a few of the closeups. Click the [...]
Bush came to visit on Friday not without his own welcoming committee. Okay, so people weren’t really welcoming him. I took more pictures than I have in the past at other protests. This time, instead of focusing on capturing how many people were there (around 500-1,000 which is a great deal considering his coming here [...]
You can not dive here. I would not advise it at all. (now playing: José González: Veneer)
(now playing: Final Fantasy: Has a Good Home)
Okay so not really that many feet…I live in Chicago now not Buffalo. But can you believe it isn’t officially winter yet? Well, anyways, I have to remember that in some parts in the world, there are those who long for snow and enjoy even seeing pictures of it. In some ways, us North Americans [...]
The Tropicália movement emcompasses the artistic cultural revolution of Brazil between the years of 1968-1972. It covers everything from the odd art meets psychology philosophy of Lygia Clark to fashion of the time period to rare footage of musicians Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes especially. It features album covers with their original artwork and a [...]
Yes, I do realize that the Day of the Dead has passed but this weekend I was able to go to the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Pilsen (a neighborhood of Chicago) to see their Day of the Dead exhibit that runs until Dec.10th. The exhibit was an homage to celebrate the lives of [...]
Most of these pictures have to do with the concept of waiting because I think people do spend a significant amount of time doing this and, because we’re taught time is precious and that we could die at any moment, we struggle as humans during the waiting periods. So we fill them by reading or [...]
After my recent Canada dream, I’ve been looking through all of my pictures of mountains from San Fransisco and Seattle. I have a few I took on the bus from Seattle to Tacoma of Mount Rainier and I have a few of San Fransisco that I retook as they were originally non digital photos (I [...]
PJ Harvey, Grandaddy, and CSNY references abound.