Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown

My car is very popular in Portland

This happens all the time.

Where I fit in

This week I am reviewing some art history to come up with an answer for where I fit in along the continuum of white male artists. Because that question will come up in my thesis oral.
So here's Chris Burden being an idiot standing on a ladder in a room full of electrified water, getting shot in the arm (that's the still above), crawling over broken glass, and almost setting his studio on fire.
Art!!

Camera Troubles

I dropped my point and shoot and now it makes this crazy whirring sound. The lens must be vibrating or something because it gets crazy motion blur at slow shutter speeds. It still is ok at fast shutter speeds, but it's pretty broken. And I used to work in a camera store, so I know it's cheaper to just buy a new one. Three years was a good run.

This is a picture taken by my point and shoot at a slow shutter speed. It's really nice to have a point and shoot since my camera phone is only 1 megapixel. And I'm too shy to carry around an SLR and be seen taking pictures with it. I also really, really need a camera that will shoot HD video for school and after graduation. So I might buy one of the Canon SLRs that does HD video, then sell my current SLR for a new point and shoot. I guess that makes sense. Maybe I should just get a smart phone to eliminate the need for a point and shoot.
Great blog post, huh!?!?

Art Institute

I helped this girl from class with a video. She was using the studio at the Art Institute, where she used to go to school. It may be a stuffy chain of for-profit vocational schools, but they've got some nice space and equipment.

Mike Daisey - The Agony and the Ecstacy of Steve Jobs at TBA

I wasn't able to sneak a picture during the performance, so that's actually a screen grab from this video of a different performance of the same show.
This is his two-hour monologue about his love of Apple products, the company's history, and the horrible conditions of the workers in China who make the products. I don't know if he's touring doing this, but if you hear about him coming to your town, you should see him. He's a captivating story teller and the show goes from being hilarious to heartbreaking and back again. It's like stand-up except every 20 minutes or so the audience goes from laughing to complete silence as they suddenly feel very guilty for owning computers.

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown

Time Based Art Festival time again

Christopher Miner floated endlessly in space.

Caleb Belden perfectly captured the artistic style of a 13-year old with drawings and videos about Metallica and Cannibal Corpse... or he might be a 13-year old.

John Smith pretended to direct a street scene in London in the 70s.

My pictures in the scholarship show at school

The scholarship show essay and show card

You can click on the essay to enlarge and read it.


I got a scholarship at school, so I'm in a show there this month with the other scholarship winners: Finn Paul and Michael O'Malley. They're calling it "Personified" because all three of us work in self-portraiture. Chas Bowie, a teacher at the school, wrote up this essay and made this show card.

How to get to Tiny's

See the problem with my apartment is that I have to go over a bridge to get to a decent coffee shop. That has got to be some sort of zoning crime in Portland. At least they make it easy to get over the bridges here.

But I'm such an idiot - I forgot to roll up my pants leg and I got a chain grease stain. What's wrong with me? I never forget to do that!

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown
Found by Michael Lease

The Protomen fight for Portland

They blew a fuse a couple times and had to finish the show in the dark.

I should have come back from San Francisco a little earlier

I was flying back when this happened and didn't find out about it until later! My fictional future Portland friends that I keep wishing would appear were at this.

San Francisco!!!

iPhone vs Android

Packing

The inspiration for the walkers in Empire Strikes Back

In California, they protest to raise the taxes.

San Francisco!!!

Bus pictures.

Dan getting to third base at the Musee Mecanique.

The Sex Appeal Meter said I was an "Ice Box." Nobody was surprised.

Dancing to a player piano.

Changing Dan's desktop to a tiled picture of Steve.

A poster in the BART warning against inter-species child-swapping.

Edmund Welles, the metal bass clarinet quartet.

All Matt Ladd needs is a girl and a train... and maybe an obscure 60s soul record.

San Francisco!!!

I was too sick so I only took these two pictures - of the Culinary Institute of America and some chocolates.

San Francisco!!!

Lombard Street, the curviest street in the world - and the ever-present crowd of tourists that apparently lives at its base.


Kendall's a tourist!!

Gigantic redwoods. Normal-sized friends.

This bridge will be a lot cooler in about 200 years when Starfleet Academy is at the end of it.

Messing with frames

I got a scholarship at school so I get to be in a show. But that also means I've got to frame some pictures. And I'm sick and really don't want to mess with it.

Alberta Street Fair

It's street fair season in Portland. I met up with Kent and his girlfriend and looked at the handmade hippie jewelry, the reused twisted metal lawn ornaments, and we got some vegi dogs.

Jack Lews singing a song about David Koresh

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown

Kent South opens his big mouth and the only words that do come out are "hey, I've moved to Portland"

How to get to the post office

Next time I'm going to figure out how to mount the camera to something other than the handlebars. Sorry if this makes you throw up - it was an experiment.

Portland: where you can leave your apartment and car unattended for three months and nobody will mess with them

The car battery is totally dead, but that's another story.

Goodbye East Coast

Dad drove down from DC to tow the Neon back

Michael Lease and Kimberly Wolfe on Main Street