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Weekend

Friday: Extract 1 pint of blood. Park for soccer in rain (play with ducks instead). Replace blood with Southern Tier Pumking spicy pumpkin ale.

Saturday: Rain, soccer, mud, 4yr-old meltdown (all three at once) and basement windows.

Sunday: More soccer, this time in the sun, basement windows.

Outcomes: One good soccer game. One bad. Two new basement windows. iPhone photos of the Turkey Duck of the Whetstone Casting Pond and my rigged-up arm (courtesy of TiltShift Generator and Best Camera, respectively). The Crew clinch a playoff berth. Celtic at the top of the table.

Finally!!

The MLS is going to take a two-week break next summer for the World Cup!! This way I can still execute on my plan to win the lottery and go to South Africa next summer. Sepp Blatter shouldn't get any ideas though, we aren't going to play through the winter.

iPhone 3G_S

It can focus close, but I still had to rest it on Joey's nose to keep him still.

We closed the pool

This Sunday's poolcnic, although sparsely attended, was fun, smoking people and their jackass kids aside. The water wasn't ice cold, and we got to be the last ones out.

See you all next Sunday.

Yesterday

I forgot to upload a picture.

In 1786, Buddhists settled in Richmond, IN

In 1786, Buddhists settled in Richmond, IN, originally uploaded by bob.os.

...and today I drove through Richmond and took a walk at the County Historical Society.

Helga filter courtesy of the Camera Bag application for the iPhone.

res ipsa loquitur

Christina's World, 1948. In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

RIP, Andrew Wyeth.

Yep

Joey says "the only difference is that I look cooler."

Toy cameras, who needs 'em?

New tree on Piedmont -- 1/4/2009

So, as far back as when I was in Art School, learning the Zone System, checking out the Hasselblad (for studio use only!) and blowing hundreds of dollars on paper learning to print perfect color prints I've been a bit of a perfectionist with the technical end of my photography.

2008

It was a rebuilding year, one of goals half accomplished and postponed goals achieved. We are all a year older, a wee bit wiser and about the same measure more jaded.

I resist the mad, end of year rush to revamp things, create unreachable goals and devise further ways of torturing myself, but having the past two weeks away from the structure of work and school, along with a New Year's marathon of documentaries on the morbidly obese on TLC has me thinking.

In 2009 I need to be far less passive with my creativity and intellect. Rather than simply consuming, I need to rediscover my ability and need to create. Just like physical exercise, it takes quite a bit to get the endorphins flowing, but the work becomes the reward, and routines become habits.