Entries from May 2008

May 29, 2008

Dulwich.

So this is what it made me think of.
It was an English day, which is to say that it rained and then was sunny and then it rained again and was sunny again and so on, each trying to catch the other like in a game of tag. Only succeeding when there were rainbows, [...]

May 27, 2008

Sketch

There are certain things I can recall with piercing perfection. One summer afternoon when I was four, for example, and we were visiting my grandparents; I had wandered unattended from the baking black asphalt of their driveway and was going back when I overshot by a couple of houses. I thought I was [...]

May 20, 2008

Vintage ham.

I’m taking a break from screaming at my printer to demonstrate to you, gentle reader, myself nearly ten years ago. I was at home last week; my sister and I managed to fill five garbage bags with stuff, just stuff, just things that should have been thrown out, oh, I don’t know, maybe fifteen [...]

May 13, 2008

Adventures in cross processing.

Before

After

Rather prefer the “after.”

May 5, 2008

It’s such a permanent feeling.

Open Letters used my photo from Death Valley this month. This one was about my favorite photo that I’ve ever taken; the colors and perspective just work, somehow. At least for me they do.
Here is what I remember: Driving back from the Huntington Library, to Echo Park. Driving along the 210, [...]