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A day of house painting, today. Then servicing the community by being Boo's pillow. Recently, Rob and I finally chilled.

Robot Nakai

We stopped by the gas station which we are watching dissintigrate little by little. Amidst the shattered glass and foul excrement, we found some dead roses.

emologist

Then we went back to the Tewa Moulding Co. It was Rob's first time there, I was honored to take him. It's growing on me a bit. Every time I go there, I like it a little more. This time, though, I have to say it was creepy as heck. I'm glad Rob and I were using the buddy system. The wind was making all those steel bay-doors creak against each other as if there were someone there with us. Behind every pitch corner, someone waited.

Golden Hour Begets Purple

Back at the Tewa Moulding Co, there's broken glass all over the floor but the place hasn't been trashed in the same way that gas station has. Homeless people could still stay there. When I become homeless, I'll probably stay there. And I will keep a sharpened stick so all the things that kill cats out there will stay away from Boo and me.

KK Swirls

Solo tags it up. I wonder what to make of the spray paintery in abandoned places. Is it always just practice? Who is it meant to be seen by? Other practitioners? The bigger pieces make sense, but the smaller written things, I particularly do not understand. But I don't think it's bad.

Solo in White

Holy Grany Album Resides Beside Conveyor Belta

The Box- I watched it, I am watching it. How odd it is. It's not what I was expecting at all, I mean that as a compliment. I just hope it's not gonna go all the way over the good-movie line into they-messed-this-up territory.

Each piece of media reflects the particular woes and paranoias of our group consciousness. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", the original, can be interpreted as fear of Communism among one's neighbors. The remake reflects fear of the establishment (the government agents have been body snatched, after all), and the third remake reflects something else still. Lately I've been wondering- what do the movies of today reflect about us?

Fear that our souls are eroding?
That we're on the brink of utter collapse?
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I just said this:

"Maybe the owl was his spirit animal."

annnnnnnd I was being serious. The things you never think you'll say.

Anyway, at this restaurant, they gave me a kid's menu.

Coastal Kitchen Kid's Menu

The Perfect Flight
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I went to the library, which was the main place I wanted to go while here in Seattle. That place is wonderful! I'm now considering moving here so I can be a library bum. I will sketch all day and read all night. I could have gone there every day and done nothing else on this trip and been perfectly content.

The Natural

Thirteen other pictures of the library, architecture, a cool tattoo. )
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You wanna know what I'm doing in Seattle! Because you do, that's why.

The Roll

Sixteen other impressions of the Emerald City )

Photo Dump

Feb. 14th, 2010 03:13 pm
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FIRST, MY TRIP BACK TO SCHOOL

I ran into an Australian guy called Lucien who excels at being a jerk. I mean it. I don't know how he does it, but he does it so, so well. He insisted his friend (front) be in the picture, and I believe my photographic instructions were, "K that's great guys. Please look as gay as possible, too."

Please look as homosexual as possible

Then I was pleased to see that there were some underwear outside Dane Smith Hall. I was all, "College. Ur doing it wrong."

College- Ur Doin It Wrong

Also, turns out if you were trying to go to the Maxwell museum on Monday to sketch the australopithecus model they have there, you failed, because that museum is closed Monday. Stupid Mondays and their stupid effect on libraries and museums.

SECOND, VALENTINE STUFF

I mailed off batch one of Valentine's, and they probably won't be there on time as today is Valentine's Day sometimes. I ran out of stamps, so the rest of you people will receive yours more laterer. Hell, maybe the first batch won't even arrive. I didn't bother to check weights or correct postage or anything of that sort.

X Ray

AND LASTLY, THINGS AND PEOPLE WHICH ARE OF THE YAY PERSUASION

I could put this behind a cut and I don't. I'm sorry. Lindsay and I went on a walk in her neighborhood and she told me to take this pictures and I did. Mmmmm, dirty sensor. I could clean that before I go to Seattle. Ostensibly.

Fishes in the Sky

Boo likes to use this butterfly pillow to rest his head. Hilarious young man like he is.

Boo and his butterfly pillow
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Meghann and Grace and I rocked the house. If my hair had still been red, we would have made the best red-head trilogy ever. Instead what happened is that we drank white wine and fake Irish coffees.

This new invasive species could navigate through space

Lighting's pretty hideous but OH THE HECK WELL.

Redheads taking over the world


In other news, Boo is a pib.
In still other news, it's been snowing and raining here a lot. Or rather, it passes for "a lot" in these parts. I took a video of it snowing downtown and the funniest part is that you can barely see the flakes of snow. Carly stuck her tongue out. We were walking quickly because there was club soda waiting for us.



Left over from NYC Nick's going away- I'm having a hard time editing that video because I took an awful lot. I'm including this part, though, cos I think it shows just how much Lindsay HATES that I have a flip now. She thinks I'm going to use it for evil instead of good, which is probably true. (I love you Linds).

Fat Finch!

Feb. 6th, 2010 08:55 am
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Dad hates vegetarian food. He was a wet mop yesterday but I think he's good now (sorry dad, you know it's true).

He got her

We went across the street to a store called Fat Finch where everything relates to birds. I liked it. One of these lil birds came home with me.

Little coop is ready for the future

While I was processing this shot I was hearing about the life of Michael Jackson so now it reminds me of that.

Mine someday

Some points for the future:

1. I love little Boo
2. Seattle is in 12 days
3. Club Soda = wonderful
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I went from 360 to 0 just now because I am an idiot.

[EDIT: I brought up payment with her and she was willing to pay after all. I guess I misread the situation and I feel so much better about everything now. Feel free not to read the whining.]

The short version is, I'm a bit tired of friends of friends assuming I will work for free. Maybe I will, but maybe I won't. I just booked a shoot, yet another boudoir enterprise (is it something in the air??) for a woman whose wedding I did.

My normal rate for this type of shoot covers my rent.

Sidebar- it's the fourth and I still have no idea how I'm going to pay my rent this month.

I realized towards the end of the conversation with this woman she was thinking I'd do it for free- she didn't even ask or anything because it was a foregone conclusion to her, I guess. I did her wedding for free (long story) and I don't think she understood that that is sort of a big deal in wedding photo land... it's kind of like I gave her a gift worth over a grand.

He was of death, one letter away from of love

23 lizard brains all gathered in my place

I will do her boudoir shoot cos I have nothing else on the books, but something in me really wants to make sure she knows I usually charge for this- that I'm not in the habit of shooting for free.

Her mom and my mom are best friends, so maybe she will even read this. That is okay with me. I'm not trying to be bitter or anything, but I do feel a little.... sad?

I am sure all you other photographers think I'm a complete pushover.
Which I am.

*sigh*
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Chillin with the Superkids, and they decide to show me one of their many many faces.

I recorded lots of video of them with my flip, and here's 13 seconds of it.

Archer Supergirl

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I reclaimed Indian food with a vengeance. After not having had it for about a year, I said, cuss this nonsense! (Thanks Fantastic Mr. Fox for teaching me that one). Lindsay and I went. Malai Kofta. A million things.

Hither comes Valentine's day, for which I am sufficiently excited. The brief interlude (read: last two years or so) when I hated Valentine's day are thankfully over. So I decided, since I'm mailing stuff to people anyway, I'll also mail... Valentine's!

I wish everyone (or anyone) would read The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. Jaci recommended it to me and now I can't even call her and talk about it with her because damnit she's in Japan. And it's definitely one of those books you wanna talk about. Tomorrow when the library opens I'm gonna go get The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball, at least I think that's what it's called but I don't remember because it's a very blah title.

My flickr pro account expires on the 14th of this month. I guess I have to cowgirl up and renew it, because I have 1,310 photos on there and unless I have a pro account, I can only access like I think 100 or 200 of them. Maybe I'll also finally get a paid livejournal account. :) It's about time for that, I think.

High ISO; care not I. These pictures are almost the same but fwuah!

Every moment we were almost sniped

They noticed there were five moons
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It now seems fairly official that I've been having the flu. Which is lame. By official, I mean to say it's not official in the least.


Kidnapped

Lindsay, Nick, a very cool hat, Venga, and not being able to get out of the car. )

Other Goings On

1. Sorry I have not mailed out anything. To anyone. Ever. Soon I will be feeling 1000% and I will.
2. I totally caved in to hilarious marketing and bought a Flip. Now I will hit you all over the head with videos of Boo as he runs around/snores/chews my running shoes.
3. Seattle is in three weeks.
4. My roof is leaking (it is snowing)
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A little more than a mile away from where I live, there's a shut-down moulding factory. I never went there or cared about it until NYC Nick and three of his friends went; I tagged along.

Words Will Levitate

Life is boring but at least these shots aren't from a bar; also if you want me to mail you something, click and scroll to the bottom. )
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I don't want to be a bar fly, but lo and behold, all my pictures are from bars. This must end. I have too much heart to carry on this way.

Regulars

In direct opposition to these photos, I do have a life, a brain, and a heart. Right now I'm researching ways to go to Haiti. So far I've found a couple church groups going, but I don't belong to a church so that might be a stretch.

The other photos that make me know I must go out and do something. )
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My dad's cousin's daughter's daughter. If anyone cares to calculate the word for that relationship, feel free. Or make up a word, if you're so inclined.

Superstar Blue Eyes

If anyone has noticed my absence, I'm sorry. I've been taking lousy pictures, that's why. As soon as I upload some of them, I'll show you just for proof.

Also new in my life; I'm going to Seattle February 18th-23rd and plan to go to the main library there so I can see that Matisse-like red room.
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I went to Lindsay's for the New Year, and so did Boo. Lindsay is a really good cook. I ate THREE WHOLE MEALS IN A ROW while at her house- lunch, dinner, then breakfast.

My parents call Lindsay "Linseed" sometimes. Other times she's "Leaping Lindsay". My New Year's was the best one ever, even if it was a struggle for some of us *cough* to stay up until midnight.

Linseed Oil

Nik's gone back to Seattle. I realized that a lot of people live in the greater Seattle area these days- a photography couple I used to know, the female half of which is a heart surgeon, John B., Nicole from days of eald, and Nik (obviously). It was great to have him visit, we get along so well. He's thinking of taking up photography.

Nik

The more I look at pictures of places like the main library in Seattle, which has an entire room devoted to the color red just like a Matisse painting, the more I feel like I've got to visit. Maybe it goes back to some conversations Rob and I have been having about needing a locality infusion. We've both been here for years and years. I love my city, don't get it twisted, but there's only so many times you can take a picture of cow sculls glued onto hot rods before you'd like to see something new for a minute. There's only so many times you can run down the same ditch bank you've run along for years before you'd like to try running by some different trees, different dogs, different power lines, different noises, different bugs.

My mother insisted on making some beer margaritas last night. We went out for maybe three hours just to amass all the alcoholic ingredients necessary for her recipe. And finally, she walked out of a liquor store, all, "Did you know Triple-Sec has alcohol in it?" Haha. I took this one at the gas station where she got the tequila. A little heavy handed with the split toning, I spose; so it goes.

Ocean Slab

By the time we started home again it had been dark for a long time.

Multiple Personalities Revealed

Today I supposedly have a fashion shoot- I'm gonna guerilla up to the roof of my studio. The model's supposed to call me any minute, and when we get on the roof I'll be able to get the Kimo theater behind her, is the idea. I'm super excited about it. I got up at 6:52 a.m., that's about two and half hours earlier than usual, and so far this has been a smile-worthy day for sure.
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Some day, I'm going to convince my dad that he will never actually rebuild this car and that it must be moved. Three cars in any back yard is both trashy and funny to me. I wish it were more like this today, blue and clear. Instead it's on the verge of snow just grey and nothing. And cold, too cold. I must go for a run but damnation, when it looks so grey, my body doesn't want it and my head doesn't either.

The 50 Ford that Won't Die

In other news, I went to Blackbird's holiday party. Carly rockstarred some candy canes out of thin air, a process that involves a lightbulb like this one.

Unrelated: this guy made a pinhole camera... out of his mouth. I wanna try it. I think that's rad.

How To Force An Idea

Wanna know how to make candy canes? Plus, ramble on social anxiety. )

Annie's prints came in the mail yesterday. Damn but that metallic paper looks so good on high key black and whites. There are plenty of situations where metallic doesn't cut it- this photo shoot wasn't one of them, however.

And speaking of pictures taken against my brick wall, here's one of Nik.

Who Isn't There

It's funny how the raw file isn't nearly so gloomy; I injected all that based on my own mental reflections. And they say photography is objective.

Nik's visiting from Seattle. Some people (read: Jaclyn) may remember him for dating Kendra for two weeks. He went on to get married and now he's going on to get divorced. I've been thinking about him the past few days, wondering about this divorce situation, wondering why people get married and how it only takes one person to fuck it up beyond all repair.

Anyway. We chilled yesterday, it was nice to talk again. He went with me to the camera store while I tried to determine what is wrong with my D80. We drank hot mochas and talked about the olden days when we both worked at Relay and were always getting into hijinks of one sort or another. It was good to get another friend back, and if I can find a cheap ticket I think I might go visit in Seattle- if only to see that NEATO public library they have.
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Hey, so it's Christmas. What up Christmas land.

Anyway, here lemme show you the digitals from the other day. My friend and I went to old town. The next day it snowed (rare around here).

Outer Revlimit

Many other photos from old town, potentially the most touristy place in Albuquerque. Uh... after the Balloon Fiesta Museum and the Tram. I'm hungry and I wish I had a burrito... yum. With salsa. Salsa with green chile. OR OR OR. Green bean casserole. )
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