The veil is thin. The portals are open. x It’s the day after All Hallows and before All Souls, and we went to Pike Place to see a friend at a wine bar. He’s the new manager there. You should check it out. x It was nice to take my Fuji back out for a walk. x
Altogether ooky. x ليه زعلان ليه؟ أنا مش زعلانه ليه خيفان ليه؟ أنا مش خيفانه و ليه، وليه منك رجال و ليه؟ منك رجال و ليه؟ منك رجال و ليه؟ x Violent Are the streets in town And your words and your thoughts Hopelessly drown. (Soap Kills – Violence) x
I guess I wasn’t really actively thinking about it much last year, but the reality is, spooky season will always coincide with my father’s dying days and final demise from now on. That puts a different spin on every memento mori of this time. It was actually my dad’s birthday on Sunday, but I didn’t know what to think of that. All I can think about is that we never really made much of thing of it while he was alive. So, now what? x Soon, it will be 1 year since, in just less than 1 month. And soon … Continue reading “Spooky Season and My Father’s Dying Days” →
‘Tis the season. A couple of captures with my Canon Rebel SL1 from this morning. x A very friendly neighborhood fella. It’s their season too. x It’s the season of the witch. x Georgetown 10.11.25 part 1 x Georgetown 10.11.25 part 2 x Georgetown 10.11.25 part 3 x
So I got myself my first DSLR. Nothing fancy. Just an old 2013-era Canon Rebel off of eBay. I wanted something small and light that had a line-in jack and a good range of lenses with a sensor size that’s decent enough to dedicate to work projects without any extra bells and whistles. I’m happy with what I got. I paired it with a dirt cheap Yongnuo 50mm lens that I used here; I think I’m good to go. I’ve been keeping a firewall between my photography hobby and what I do at work for the last couple of years; … Continue reading “My First DSLR (and a Cat in Raw Format)” →
We went out to see the formidable Arundhati Roy speak at the opening night of @seattleartsandlectures yesterday. This was thanks to a generous gift of two tickets and two books from a dear friend and colleague whom we only realized once we walked in is an SAL patron. So, the seats were pretty good. She’d offered me the tickets after hearing me wax passionately about how Roy’s famous speech on “the other 9/11” had become a pillar I built my worldview on since I first read it in college. I think I’ve paraphrased her comments about Palestine in that piece … Continue reading “Two Wolves at the Arundhati Roy Lecture” →
I saw this Reel the other day of a guy getting in and out of bed on loop as the voices of anxiety and the fear of starvation take turns convincing him to stay put and/or get up and at ’em, and I couldn’t think of a better synecdoche of my energy since settling back into the flow of things here. There’s so much to do and so little motivation to do it, and yet we must, we must — muss es sein? es muss sein! — infinitely recurring, forever. x It feels like the avenues for maneuvering are narrowing … Continue reading “The Mundane Places We Have Left” →
“We’ll hype you up.” That’s what Erica told us when we called it a night and left the Madison Park Art Walk where @christine.bingham.art’s showing her “Pacific Lore” at Sotheby’s Realty. Hype, you say? Oh I’ve got plenty of hype… Thanks @friendsofmadisonpark.seattle for putting this together. Our second year attending; Christine’s first year showing ✨ so proud! x
People waiting to be let into the mall to see that poop-shaped whatever store I mentioned earlier, while others mill in and around the nearby Symbol Promenade Park. That long golden teardrop you see in the last slide is the “Flame of Freedom,” a gift from the French government. x “Waiting Room” x “Tokyo Dream Park.” More views of what remains of the K-Museum building and the very last of the roll of my last roll in Tokyo. x This whole area is reclaimed land like Hiroshima and meant to be a showcase of Tokyo’s dreams of the nineties, with … Continue reading “Japan Trip: Tokyo Dream Park, and Coming Home” →
One of the last things we did in Tokyo was to try and tie together our Expo experience by looking for this remnant of one that never happened. The K-Museum, designed by Makoto Sei Watanabe and completed in 1996 on the Odaiba waterfront, was conceived as part of World City Expo ’96 which aimed to showcase Tokyo’s hidden infrastructure through futuristic architecture and educational exhibits. But that mega-event was abruptly canceled in 1995 by the newly elected Governor Yukio Aoshima, who opposed its massive costs, leaving projects like the K-Museum without their intended context. This upset a lot of countries … Continue reading “Japan Trip: The Expo That Never Happened” →