the world looks better macro

Huge fan of photography, especially macro photography. Getting real close to see every last detail.

adding this lens to my christmas list





http://vimeo.com/9152451

heaven from a toy machine

"Full of love full of wonder," amazing bouncy ball piece.

wish it would come to a city near me until then I will deal with it from the interweb.

look at more pictures

http://fondalashay.com/blog/massive-bouncy-ball-installation

I fly with guns

....or at least I am going to start flying with a gun.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/24/secure-your-checked-.html

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what has happened in a year

dang. I am lame. almost a year without a post. I have some catching up to do, I will make it short as to get on with it.

last summer = the best summer of my life thus far. it will take a lot to measure up, but I know I will try.

I started at Miami Ad School- Minneapolis. Now in my 3rd quarter getting ready to apply to go away for a while. yesssss.

work: same.
friends: tons of new, all the old.
physical: i just tried on my senior year prom dress, it still fits. ha!

alright- I love rodents best when they are dead.

http://www.youmightlikethis.com/2010/01/once-more-with-feeling-rpencore/

oh hello

It has been a while, but in that while I finished another quarter at school- it went well...i think.  then went to denver for a quick weekend and drove back.  I took notes of things I wanted to write out loud about:

It's rare you meet someone who has never been on a plane.  I actually feel bad that they have not experienced this social norm for so many other people.  There was a guy in front of me at the security checkpoint and everything about him was nervous.  He even said, "this is my first time flying."  Like Joey from Blossom- woah!  I don't know where he was going but he beeped through security and the Service Agent told him to take off his watch, so he did and threw it, literally threw it through the x-ray machine.  Tossed it on the belt and didn't put it in a bin.  Then he almost forgot it because I saw it coming out nearing a fall through the cracks.  Maybe it's not so weird that someone hasn't been on a plane.  I guess I've never driven a stick shift? not the same.

Secondly, I had a pair of scissors in my bag.   Not your 5 year old cousins scissors, these things could cut off an arm, or at least cause severe damage.  The agent took my bag, found the scissors I forgot about, and then shrugged and said they were acceptable size.  WHAT? I can kill someone with these, but I can't bring a bottle of water through? whack.

In world news,  Pirates took hostage of some ship- I wasn't really listening to the rest of the story or the facts because when I heard that pirates REALLY DO EXIST I laughed to myself and then replayed Pirates of the Caribbean in my head.  oh captain jack sparrow- he is definitely a mean hot.  

a bike is born

I BUILT A BIKE!

not really, my new friend Noah built this bike.  He is a master bike builder, self taught with help from google and a few of his friends.  We got together and went to the bike shop, picked up the needed items to finish it and I now have a bike.  He was almost done but was having difficulty putting on the back wheel so he went out for a smoke break and I joined him.  His neighbors across the ally were outside too.  Let me just paint you this picture:

Two guys, mid to late twenties totally bike enthusiasts with long hair and leaf tobacco.  Their backyard where they were building these bikes was amazing.  First of all, there was a plastic horse in a tree.  Their "shed" was made up of old wooden signs and billboards and strewn across the whole place were bikes.  Every color size shape that you have ever seen.  It was a bike chop shop.  We were having trouble with my bike so I suggested we go over and ask for help, MN nice right? Noah, kind of shy, said he didn't know them.  So me, not that shy, walked over and asked them.  They are now Noah's new best friends.  

These two guys live in this house and their landlord is pretty famous on the west bank for painting all these signs.  He does them everywhere and then when the signs are taken down he puts them in his backyard.  Some of his work was in the Mighty Ducks- if you remember which was filmed here.  Also, the newest Cohen brothers movie that is due out this summer has an old Rambler in it, which is in this backyard.  Crazy stuff.  

Later on this evening I opened a fortune cookie, it said that a stranger who I meet today will have a big impact.

Point of the story:

I met Noah on craigslist, he built me a bike, bike had issues, we met his neighbors, neighbors have a famous backyard.  This is how it goes.  You need to meet people to get somewhere to learn something and find what you are looking for.  The connection I made today might end today, but it also might go somewhere else.  It's interesting to meet people who have no idea who you are but help you out.  Our commonality was a bike, a bike that led to a conversation to find out about someone else's life.  I'm nosy and look where it gets me.