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February 17, 2007

Driving across Florida

I was stuck on the I-4 Westbound today crawling at about 15 mph and looked up and saw this in the sky:

I'm not sure what it was for or if it had something to do with why the traffic was so ridiculously slow but I had to whip out my camera and grab a shot of it...

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February 10, 2007

Midwestern Landscape

Driving through Illinois I recalled how flat the terrain in the Midwest is. Tonight I was driving by and saw all these lights and smoke coming off the smokestacks and decided to pull over and take a shot. It was freezing though and super windy so it was tough to get a nice clear shot - then an Illinois State Trooper pulled up to check after I took this so I couldn't take any more shots after this one...

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February 09, 2007

Virgin Eyes and the decisive moment

I listened to Henry Wessel speak about photography and composition. It was fascinating since it reaffirmed something that I've noticed on my own. One of his statements was: "Once you recognize something, you are less aware."

He gave an example of how once you know that a telephone pole exisits, you don't really see it in regular life. Most of us walk by telephone poles all the time, and don't notice them at all. It also has something to do with the pure mind and what it perceives and that's often evident in shots where I end up loving my first shot more than the subsequent 'more composed' images. It also reminds me of how babies have that certain look in their eyes when they look around.

Check out the full podcast here on the SFMOMA website or grab it here.

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February 05, 2007

Live music week - Of Montreal

So two nights ago I was cruising around SF taking a walk and saw that Of Montreal was playing at the GAMH. I thought it was just on Sat night so didn't think much of it. My sister had put one of their songs on a mix a while back which I liked so I sent her a photo of that and then realized that they were playing on Sunday night so I decided to check them out.

Well, the show was much different than I thought since the rest of their music was definitely different in style from what I had expected. Oh well. I didn't even stay the whole show and ended up cruising over to Route 101 to finally check that dive bar out. A random evening to say the least...

Earlier in the week I saw Moving Units with my friend Julie at Cafe du Nord and that was a fun show. I hadn't heard them or the opening band and both had good energy and appealed more to my current aural aesthetic. I also love how small DuNord is and although the show was sold out it wasn't bad.

Plus being all-ages meant the bar line was short as was the bathroom lines - yes!

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