Friday, January 21, 2011

78 days

Some people get all high and mighty and resolve to do all sorts of things in the New Year: more exercise, less junk food,  yadda, yadda, yadda.

I decided to give myself a present instead. I gave myself 78 days to just, well... do. To work on projects just for fun, to make little movies, to take pictures and to do all of the things I never have time to do. So to clean the slate, I'm plowing through a to-do list of stuff that has been hanging over my head - from paperwork nonsense to the practical, the list has to be whittled down to almost nothing by the end of the weekend. And then? Well, dunno. But I'm pretty excited about it.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Lo-Fi Photo

So there is this whole thing about embracing the simple old school low tech approach to photography. The people over at Lomography seem to be making some good cash with their cameras that take really good bad pictures. I like the look, but I don't really like the price. So I dug through my stuff and found an old  a vintage Sparta 35F camera, which was originally manufactured between 1946 and 1952. A little further digging revealed some Kodak film (with a process by date of Feb. 2007) and voilá! Lomography on the cheap!

Here is a photo I took at a nearby park. For some reason the camera felt that the snow should be blue. And you know what? I kinda like it!




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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Snow Day

Yesterday was a (sort of) snow day. Snowpocalypse Part 3: the Revenge - at least that is what the news made everyone think. Instead, it was a moderate snowfall that anyone with roots in a more, um, snow-y place just went "pshah!"

Yet, I can't help myself and I have to run outside, so off to midtown I went (under the pretense I had to buy a book). Yeah. Um. True. But really? I just wanted to see more snow. While walking by the Flatiron searching for the Cupcake Stop truck which wasn't there, I couldn't help but notice that the line at the Shake Shack was basically non-existant.

Yes it was cold.

Yes the squirrels were perplexed there were actually people outside.

And yes, oh YES, a black and white shake tastes just as good as it does on a hot summer day (plus you don't get a brain freeze if you drink it too fast!)

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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Wish List

While the title "homeowner" is but a pinprick in the horizon, I know with absolute certainty what my first post-house purchase is going to be - and no, it's not a cleaning product. I will purchase an olive boat. Yup, that's right. A complete useless and food specific dish  requiring a full size kitchen with proper storage for such a frivolous item.

And yes. I do love olives.

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