Perseids Letdown

We drove out from the city lights, or at least it felt like we did, but I guess we only made it out to Darien. Lots of clouds and a light-polluted sky made for disappointing viewing. I think I saw one meteor but it could have been my eyes fooling me. There was almost nothing to see.

Tonight made me miss Oberlin's dark skies. I'm moving away from O'Hare to be next to the Manhattan skyline. When is the next time I'll see the Milky Way?

Future Primitive

I was just talking to my friend Eric out in Colorado and he was telling me about breaking his wrist skateboarding downhill. To illustrate the type of skating he was doing, he linked me to a great video from 1985 with a lot of big names. I don't think skateboarding will ever really be a thing for me but there're so many appealing things about the culture.

Edit: another good one from Eric  (PS 100 posts!)

The Story of My Name

Part of a project I worked on last semester that precedes the site-specific work I posted earlier. 

The theme is similar, though the execution needed more time. I think the process I used to make the work (manipulated digital photos transferred to a salt-paper print) didn't give me enough steps to really work out the problematic elements. The whole thing took place pretty much all at once. Issues with the work's success aside, I did enjoy making these images and I still think they look pretty nice (maybe I'll scan some of the salt prints and add them later).

I thought that by visiting a nearby wetlands I could sort of recreate my swampy inheritance, but I don't think I dealt well with the strangeness of that idea, and a couple ideas that were going through my head conflicted and nothing was really brought to completion. Oh well.

Jean Jullien

Been looking at Jean Jullien's portfolio - a really nice photographer, illustrator, and designer. I'm really attracted to the work, especially the moleskine sketches collection. I've been trying to start up daily sketching again - I have to get a nice pocket book first I guess.