Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Photos, usually taken by me. May be mirrored or imported from other services.
90’s rock group Soul Asylum gave a free show at the Pike Place market on Thursday morning, and Prairie and I headed down to see them. While we were waiting for the show to start I took a few random people shots around the gathering crowd. This shot is by far my favorite of the morning (the rest are here).
“Comfortably Numb (ATOC Extended Edit)” by Scissor Sisters from the album Comfortably Numb, Pts. 1 & 2 – Single (2003, 5:39).
“Limo Wreck” by Soundgarden from the album Superunknown (1994, 5:47).
We noticed this (not so) lil’ guy crawling along the counter at work today. Having a mild case of arachnophobia and being a camera buff, my reaction was pretty predictable: “Ugh! Eww! (cringe) … Where’s the macro lens?”
“Take the Skinheads Bowling” by Camper Van Beethoven from the album Telephone Free Landslide Victory (2004, 2:32).
“Glory (Exploitation Dub)” by K.M.F.D.M. from the album Glory (1993, 4:01).
Taken at Gas Works Park on the fourth of July. Completely randomly, someone brought out and set up a trampoline, then started letting kids play, three at a time.
“I’ll Fall With Your Knife” by Murphy, Peter from the album Wild Birds 1985-1995 (2000, 4:26).
This is my current desktop background, too. Could be sharper, but not bad for being handheld using my old $40 all-manual zoom lens.
“Sweetmeat” by Pigface from the album Easy Listening… (2002, 3:10).
The two best forms of candy in the world (or, at least, in my world) are candy corn and M&Ms. Candy Corn is more often becoming available year-round, with the addition of various holiday themes other than Halloween (Reindeer Corn for Christmas, Cupid Corn for Valentine’s Day, and Bunny Corn for Easter), but they’re still primarily a holiday treat, lacking the year-round goodness of M&Ms.
Not long after we started dating, Prairie picked up on my M&Ms fixation, and got me a silly little M&Ms character. Since then, we’ve gotten into the habit of keeping an eye out for cute M&M goodies, from the seasonal figures to plush toys to…well, whatever looks fun. I’ve been meaning to document the growing collection for some time now, and finally got around to it today, after spending a few minutes and fifty cents assembling a DIY lightbox (inspired by this post on Strobist).
Click on this lil’ guy to see the M&M Army as it stands to date.
I’m really impressed with how well the lightbox setup works. It’s incredibly simple: just a cardboard box with three sides cut out and covered with white tissue paper. Slip posterboard into the box for a backdrop, set a flash unit (or lamps of some sort) outside the sides of the box, and fire away. Simple, effective — and at $0.50 for the posterboard, with the rest of the supplies scrounged from around the house, much more cost effective than a pre-assembled $100 kit that does the same thing!
“Rules” by K.M.F.D.M. from the album XTORT (1996, 4:07).
“Tomorrow, Wendy (Live)” by Concrete Blonde from the album Still in Hollywood (1990, 4:28).
I’m still here. Just working on playing catchup after a very eventful (but very fun) few days. I’ll get more up here soon…in the meantime, keep an eye on my Flickr stream. ;)
Me, Feb. 2005:
Dad, early ’70s’:
Me, Oct. 2004:
Dad, early ’70’s:
Me, Aug. 2003:
Dad, early 70’s:
The more I see of my dad’s photography as he scans in old slides and posts them to his Flickr pages, the more it becomes clear to me where my eye for photography came from. Few exact matches, but lots of similarities in the compositions and subjects that we like.
Thanks, Dad!
“Oh, Lady Be Good! (From the musical “Lady Be Good”)” by Finck, David/Previn, André from the album Panorama: George Gershwin (1998, 4:20).