Roy's

An old picture with a new texture layer. Charlie sent me a box of stuff the other day and in it was a really great old camera he got from my grandmothers things after she passed away. So now I've got it to add to the collection of my grandfathers other cameras. The shutter doesn't work but the ground glass is nice and big and has some hand drawn crop marks on it for either cut film sheets or roll film. There was also an attachment with a mirror, I guess to use as a waist level finder. Both made good photoshop layer textures. You can check out the rest of the set and download them if you want from here.

No name...

Just the other day I set up bootcamp on my iMac to run Windows. I need it to run a database program for a class I'm going to take, and they have all the good games. Now, I don't want to be one of those "Oh, macs are so good for this reason and that, blah, blah blah" because let's face it, such truths typically don't need to be harped on. It's a simple fact of life. I'm having a really hard time using it though. It's counter intuitive, difficult to navigate and worst of all plain ugly. It's an assault on everything I hold dear. The best part is the partition I had to make to run it shows up on my mac desktop as a separate disk simply called NO NAME. I thought about changing it but it seems sort of appropriate.

Philip-Lorca deCorcia

T and I ran over to LACMA today to see the Philip-Lorca deCorcia exhibition. The blurb on the website will say more about him than I can but I will say it was a really good show. HIs work has become a template of sorts for a lot of the current hip fashion / editorial work you see now. I guess it's the lighting and the staged non-stagey-ness about it that makes it perfect for depicting vacuous movie star / models shilling the latest fashions or bottled water. My favorite part of the show was the installation of part of his "Thousand Polaroids". They were a wonderful sketchbook-y look into his aesthetic. Even Thom dug deep and found the patience to sit through it.

Pencil Sharpener

I have a pencil sharpener. A really nice stainless one with two sharpening cones (?) that I've been carrying with me since college. And I seem to have misplaced it. It's driving me nuts, it has to be around here somewhere, I even remember the last time I used it. I hate, hate HATE when I lose things.

A few new things.

I've been messing around with PS, just honing my skills I guess. Playing with layers and brushes here to get sort of an ages, victorian feel. That's why I chose these pix from the field museum in Chicago. I'm out now though so I may have to go to the natural history museum here to get some more.

Foodie.

I like to cook. My favorite thing to do is braise meat. It takes all day and fills the whole apartment with the smell of cooking food. Best done during the winter of course because it also heats up the apartment. I think the rarity of the occasion to braise adds to the appeal, it's an event.

I couldn't do it without this though:


It may be the best investment in cookware we've ever made. It's heavy and easy to clean and it goes from stovetop to oven without blinking. And it's bright orange. How can you not love it? This is a picture making pulled pork a few weeks ago. J is kind of particular when it comes to BBQ, having been raised in KS and all. It just comes with the territory. And believe it or not we've yet to find a BBQ place in LA that passes muster. So we do it here, sort of. No actual grill but we can do the pulled pork, more of a South Carolina thing I guess. Here's a pic of it done:



The salad was a cucumber and onions concoction. Pretty decent. And all from a Martha Stewart magazine. Not bad.

a few more from Montrose.

These are a couple shots I took on the trip to Montrose. Just some interesting details.

New from T.

A few new pix of T.

A nice bw in his room.


These are from a trip to Montrose.


Doing some gardening.


Eating some rocks.


Hanging with mom.