Photography
I’ve been an amateur shutterbug for a long time. This tag is primarily for posts about photography and the associated tech.
The Clothesline Project
The Clothesline Project is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women.
There’s been a CLP display on the NSCC campus for the past few days. I stopped by yesterday after class and took a few photos. Every time I see this, I’m struck by the heartbreaking and uplifting power of the stories represented by these shirts. Incredible things to see.
I’ve also created a Flickr CLP Project group, as a tag search led me to quite a few other photos of CLP displays around the country.
Entropy and Breakthrough
I’ve submitted two photos to JPG Magazine for possible inclusion in their next issue, one each for their themes of Entropy and Breakthrough. If you’re a JPG member, click through and toss a vote my way!
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Well, the fancy little Javascript boxes are fighting with the CSS in my WordPress theme. This post is just going to look goofy, at best.
That’s also why I’ve got a bunch of silly extra lines put in here to open space up.
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If you can’t even see the fancy little Javascript boxes (which might be the case on LiveJournal), try just clicking here and here…
Blarch Badness: Me!
Put your voting shoes on! Er…that doesn’t even make sense. Moving on…
Metroblogging Seattle is kicking off Blarch Badness today. Um, what? Blarch Badness!
As I was writing my last post, I was thinking if there were a way we could figure out what the important, meaningful, and wonderful blogs in this city were. Maybe a tournament. You know, like March Madness. Only with blogs.
Sadly, the best I could do for a name was Blorch Badness. Or Super Fantastic Mega Blogger Ultimate Supremacy Championship. I need to work on names.
But a tournament! And it will be just like March Madness, with regionals. You will get to vote on matchups between the 32 highest rated, most popular, possibly best blogs the Seattle metro area has to offer. Even the Slog (if they behave themselves). And there might even be a prize at the end. (Hey! Anyone out there want to donate a prize?)
Surprisingly enough, I made it into the opening round!
3 Seattle Daily Photo vs #6 Michael Hanscom
And finally, a battle of photographers — Kim’s daily shots of Seattle vs. the most famous camera store employee to ever be fired by Microsoft.
Admittedly, I’m not quite sure how I ended up in the West Seattle round (will I have to move if I win?) — truth to tell, I think I’ve been to West Seattle once or twice, and have only lived on First Hill and up here in Northgate — but hey, no complaints!
I should also probably make sure that I actually have a photo up here somewhere, seeing as how I’m matched up against Seattle Daily Photo (some pretty stiff competition…I might not even vote for myself!). Sure, I’ve got lots of photos in various places, but with nothing on the main page…hrm.
I know! I’ll shamelessly stoop to using a photo of Jessica Rabbit kissing Betty Boop (from last Halloween at The Vogue) to court a few votes! I’m sure that’ll work!
In any case — check out todays round, and vote! Vote early! Vote often!
(Vote for me?)
Christmas in Alaska
It took a few days, but the photos from our trip up to Anchorage to visit my parents are finally up.
I’ve also added three of the shots from the trip to the header image rotation. At this rate, I’m going to be very winter and snow biased…I’ll have to add some more spring and summertime shots in a few months!
Snowy Evening
A small selection of photos from an evening walk last night, after Seattle got an unusually heavy snowfall.
Header Images
I’d like to get further into customizing my site later on down the line, but for the moment, I think most of my tweaks will be pretty simple. I have had fun grabbing a selection of images to use for the randomized header image at the top of the page, however. Theoretically, you should see a different image each time the page is loaded.
More may be added to this as time goes by, but for now, here’s a rundown of what you might see (unless you’d prefer to be surprised, in which case, ignore what follows…):