Tag Archives: Photography

Dinosaur Plea

More Thing-a-day: We have a little hole in the wall in our back stairwell, and for a while, it had a plastic mouse in it. Eventually it was replaced by a plastic dinosaur, and later the dinosaur got an angry sun beating down on it. Today I decided to give the dinosaur a voice:

The plea reads:

We don’t need manned missions into space! That is mere vanity! For now, we are getting better information from probes and rovers! Let NASA focus on cataloguing, tracking, and developing strategies to deflect meteors that are heading for Earth! Learn from our experience! Quickly! Before it is too late!

A Heartfelt Catnip Toy

So far so good on www.thing-a-day.com this year. Mr Bun is not thrilled about my new sewing machine, so today’s thing is for him.

This particular thing is made of silly Valentine’s Day fabric from the remnants bin (I know, hard to believe!), stuffed with batting with a fragrant catnip center. I felt a bit bad about my sloppy hemming – I have a lot to learn about sewing (machine and manual) on a curve. Did he like it anyway?

Oh yeah.

Catsnake

I’m doing Thing-a-day this year. Here my first thing cowers as Mr Bun peeks out the window.

This particular thing is made of felt, buttons, and polyester batting, and is inspired by this: www.geist.com/comix – Thanks, Eve Corbel!

Darkrooms

There are still a (vanishing) few left.

This project, shot on 4x5 film, documents London's remaining professional darkrooms.

Bush’s Image

Don’t miss this article by Errol Morris, in which he discusses press images of George W Bush from his terms as President.

U.S. President George W. Bush walks back to the Oval Office after making remarks on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at the White House in Washington March 13, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

“We’re All Gonna Die”

“100 meters of existence”

Part of a stream of photographs, stitched together, depicting 178 people that walked past the same spot over the course of 20 days. At the site, a ribbon invites you to scroll through time, sometimes making eye contact, mostly not.

I am pretty sure the appeal of this series has nothing to do with my recently having a birthday!

Contemplating the Future

At the Copper Vine, on Capitol Hill in Seattle.

Happy New Year!

Poulterer’s Dozen

My stepfather started raising chickens and ducks in the yard a few years ago, and now he has a lively and growing poultry operation offsite. He added turkeys this year – we ate 2 at Thanksgiving, also a duck. (They were delicious!) My stepfather has always loved eggs as aesthetic objects, and he’s been entranced by the variety of eggs he gets from his birds. He’s taken to crossing some of them in an effort to get different egg colors (particularly smooth, olive colors). They’re all beautiful.

Getting Back to Normal

Snow in Seattle is fun and everything, but not if you have to go anywhere or do anything.