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Was in DC on a gig the last two weeks and got to check in with some family. Here’s the view from where I stayed. Not bad. While that was happening, my interview piece on Khoi Vinh finally went live. Even got a write-up. Onwards towards winter.
When people ask me what it was like in the press section, I tell them it was cold. But if cold can be glorious, it was that too.
Though not exactly a clean slate, most of us heading to DC for Tuesday’s festivities are excited by the prospect of a fresh start for this country.
re: writing. On another tack: a wide angle lens can overly dramatize a photograph. Sometimes the effect is desirable; often it is distracting. In the second version of the shot, I backed up and zoomed in a little resulting in a more classical composition — straighter lines on the extreme edges of the frame. Which […]
It has been 13 months since I innocently walked into the co-writing process. The illusory object, a screenplay. My writing partner, Gabriel — another technophile — and I have employed all the tools in the arsenal in service of that goal: not-quite note cards, Word documents, a wiki, a cmap, fulsome amounts of Night and […]
It’s not too difficult to tell from this photograph who’s posing and who isn’t. There was a time when we’d take pictures like this before going out someplace. But once the march of toddler steps is audible even in the rec room, then Sundays are when you show off the new wares, and the soundtrack […]
To say that Life is anything less than mostly chance and surprise would be to shortchange the rangy bastard. He’s got a presence, ever, that inspires, provokes, and constipates sometimes too. More than that, he thrives at every moment with the impatience of an electron, the memory of a pulled tooth, and the permanence of […]
More than one of the plants in my father’s apartment are older than me.
From my favorite bar in DC last week. How many of us can say we have been to a bar where a twenty-something serves drinks to a sixty-something? Or several of them? Sure the jukebox pumps out the white stripes et al on a weekend evening, but saturday afternoon is for the true vets.
Thinking about the word yes this morning. It is early. The birds chirp. Should there be more sky in this picture, or more of that thinking green? It is only so often that the morning calls for this hazy contemplation – for me at least. Each breath of smoke only carries the lift of the […]