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12-13-04, 12:06 AM
Walter, just stand
outside so Chief can translate my
Iraqi ass map, okay?
Music:
A-Ha - The Living Daylights
If I
had known the photo lab at Webster
had changed their hours for finals
week I would've left home earlier, but I
just got back from spending a couple
hours there. I was one of four people there,
and I was the only one using the
black and white darkroom. The other
three were using the individual
color darkrooms, coming out once in
a while to compare shots and ask
each other for advice, I ambled out
once in a while to put a print in
the washer or run it through the
dryer and caught snippets of
conversation. The oddest part of the
night came when two female students
were talking to each other about
participating in anal sex. I don't
know how close these two people
were, if they're even really friends
at all, but how does that just pop
up into casual conversation? I know
there aren't a lot of people around,
but is that the sort of thing to
discuss in a public place? Given the
location and the urgency of final
week approaching I was expecting
communication to be about one
subject, so that was somewhat of a
shock. I spent a lot of the night
running scenarios through my head
how such a topic is raised.
Student #1 (holding up print):
Does this look too dark?
Student #2 (examining):
No, the contrast is good, I
think it's alright. You did take
this while it was overcast, after
all.
Student #1: Yeah, I
guess it works.
Student #2: But you
should keep in mind that the
instructor thought all my prints
were too dark, you might want to get
a second opinion.
Student #1: Eh, I'm
sure it's fine, thanks, though.
Student #2: You're
welcome.
Student #1: (silent for
several seconds) ...Hey, you
ever take it in the ass?
Though I did work out another
scenario with myself involved that I
think is better, and however
unlikely it is for me to bring it up
for fear of being hit, is something
more akin to what I would say:
Me: Hey, you ever see
that one episode of this show, I'm
pretty sure it was animated, where there's some
politician standing at a podium and
he says, "Abortions for all!" Then
the crowd boos so he says, "No
abortions for anyone!" Then they boo
again and he says, "Very well,
abortions for some, miniture
american flags for others!" Then
they all cheer? What show was that?
Female Student: Oh
yeah, yeah, that's the one episode
of The Simpsons where the
two alien guys take over Bill
Clinton's and Bob Dole's bodies.
That was funny.
Me: Oh, that's right!
For some reason I thought it was
Family Guy.
Female Student: I
think it was one of the Halloween
episodes.
Me: Yeah, that's
right, I remember now... So, you an
all-entry gal?
Unfortunately I'll never know how
the conversation really started, but
I will always carry the quote "Hey,
buddy, I've got another hole that's
just as good" in my heart forever.
-K.
exit only
12-12-04, 3:24 AM
Evil
spelled backwards is live!
Music:
Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
Updated the front page.
I
got my scanner working again, so I
figured I'd share some of my
incredible, groundbreaking
photography:
Look Out,
Ladies! -
Pete + brick wall + camera shake =
something not worth posting.
One Night At
Gingham's -
Fond memories are just a click
away... And if you figure out where
exactly to click I'd like to know.
This is What a
Stalker Does
- So I went to the top of the
parking garage on Delmar and took
this shot, which is supposed to be
part of my Street Photography roll,
the goal of which is to illustrate
daily life in a particular
neighborhood. And I got about as far
away from people as possible. I'm
smart.
Kitties!
- Part of my Motion & Action roll. I
took this shot with my wide angle
lens, because I guess I figured they
let you walk right up to the animals
to take their pictures and I
wouldn't need my zoom. Staying
truthful to the actual print, this
is actually as big as the enlarger
could make it.
A Grand
Morning -
Also part of the Street Photography
roll. Took this on Grand at around
10 AM. This is about as close as I
got to someone, and I did follow
this old woman for quite some time,
thankful she didn't turn around
while I was taking the shot. I like
the print, though, even if some
people think it's too dark.
Big
Balls, Get It?
- Pretty
self-explanatory. Let's move on.
A Man and His
Paper - I'm
timid and afraid to get up close to
people, especially given my body
shape and ungainly movements,
coupled together with me holding a
camera tends to lead to an air of
suspicion and that always causes
trouble. So it should be no surprise
that I took this almost a block away
with my zoom lens fully extended.
A Hugerous
Building! -
Because I just want to make an
anti-climactic ending I chose this
shot to close out with. Part of
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, part of my
Architecture roll. Apparently I
print everything too dark, so I'm
told.
I
was going to make a game related
update and rant, but I wouldn't want to
piggyback it on top of this.
-K.
bears walk up
to this shit
12-11-04, 4:37 AM
You
should have let me in on this. We
could have planned it, prepared it,
pre-sold the movie rights!
Music:
U2 - Vertigo
It's
been a while. Projects have been
kicking my ass.
If I
make it through the next and final
week in one piece maybe I'll have
time to get around to planning this
year's Holiday Holocaust again. Get
ahold of everyone you can... Again.
Let's hammer out a solid date soon.
More
later.
-K.
you blood-suckin' bastard
12-1-04,
10:48 AM
There's
nothing wrong with you... except
your hair.
Music:
Half-Life 2 OST - Track 5
I'd like to impart a little
advice if I may, knowledge gained
through recent experience. Never
under any circumstances put yourself
in a position where you will be on
your feet for upwards of ten hours
at a time. I got up at midnight on
Monday, used the time before the
photo lab at Webster opened to
finish off my object roll for
Photography I. I then went up to
Webster at 8 AM to process two rolls
of film, which took a little over an
hour itself, and then spent until 3
in the afternoon printing, and I
didn't even finish. I decided that I
should probably go home and at least
shower and change clothes, I also
thought I could get a nap in, but
since I had to be out the door again
in just a little over an hour all I
really had time to do was lie down
and think about sleep. At 5:30 I was
back in the lab for class, where my
instructor spent near an hour
explaining the matte process, and
then I had to go back to printing.
An hour later I thought I might get
a chance to relax when I had run out
of photo paper, but during my
attempt to appear that I sincerely
wanted to keep working by asking if
there was any place open late enough
that I could go pick some paper up a
fellow student told me that the
media center down the hall sold
paper. Indeed, they had some and did
sell a pack to me, and when I
returned to my enlarger I muttered
"Damn, foiled by convenience." None
of the prints really came out very
well, adding in the fact there's a
considerable amount of camera shake
to some of them because of the low
light when I shot them, but I'll
scan what I printed when I get them
back. I was very thankful when I got
home and could finally sleep, even
though it actually hurt my feet to
put pressure on the gas pedal in my
car on the way home. I was surprised
the things were still attached when
I woke up the next morning.
I have to shoot a street photography
roll, involving a series of five
prints showing people going about
daily business, which I don't know
exactly what I'm going to do with it
yet, but I need to have it finished
by Monday. I also need to have my
final case study paper in Ethics in
the Media class for next Tuesday. I
also only have eight days to put
together my final project for
Cultural Diversity in the Media, and
I'm not even sure what I'm going to
do for it yet, though I could try to
put together a DVD presentation or a
20-page paper. And in two weeks I'm
going to need to turn in my final
Video Production project, which
needs to be at least three minutes
long. I imagine sleep is going to
become rare in the next couple days.
Yes, I know what I just typed was
very much of the standard blog-style,
"I had a sandwich today" variety of
posts. I apologize.
In other news Valve has decided
to spare the teams trying to make
their own pathetic attempts (One I
couldn't get to work, the other
barely works) at a deathmatch mod
for Half-Life 2 by creating
their own, released earlier today.
I've been playing it for most of
this morning and it is very, very
fun. Some servers do take a hit from
all the objects flying around, but
on a halfway decent server you can
cram 14 people in it with very
little lag. Physics battles are
quite fun, especially since there's
so much you can use just lying
around. Some very memorable moments
come from a duel of gravity guns
shooting items back and forth, and
nothing is more satisfying than
catching someone's flung object and
shooting it right back at them. I
imagine this could be a big hit on a
LAN.
-K.
i'm just a
quantum physicist looking to get
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