TONIGHT!

If you're in the LA area tonight, you should definitely go check out these amazing ladies, I promise you won't be disappointed, I wish I was there!

Jam Session!

Sarah (pretty lady from the blog before last) also loves to take pictures, so I've been teaching her a bit of what I learned in my four years of education...yaow! She took these snaps at the house for fun, just messin around. Patrick, Tommy, and Johnny (the other roommate extraordinaire) were having a jam session, and Bruce was a bit under the weather so he was reading. I was making faces.

Expressions

Garage Voice played music for Clean Slate Improv last weekend and afterwords, a few of us got together to eat some late night nastiness at Beth's Diner, one of Seattle's few restaurants open 24 hrs. Being such a large group afforded us the wonderful pleasure of having to wait outside for 30 min to get a table, so in order to help the time pass, we took turns telling stories, and making up games. I pulled out my camera and took snaps. The expressions are priceless! Good times :D

sarah

I've been learning to work in digital since moving to Seattle, although I have to say it is just so that I know how, I will probably always stick to film in some aspect and am looking to purchase another good film camera sometime in the next few months I hope! But I thought that by switching to digital I would be able to output my images more quickly than I did with film, but I have found that the problem is with me and not the format. As often as I have had unscanned film, or scanned files sitting around unfinished, I have just as many digital files doing the same. I shoot all the time, but do nothing with the images, unless I have a deadline. I think I've just been making editing seem harder to me than it is.

So the other day I did a photoshoot with my roommate Sarah, and forced myself to edit them right away. It was refreshing. So hopefully that will start to become a more regular occurance for me. Here are a few of the results...feel free to give me constructive critique, I'm always looking to grow!

05.06.09

Amazing people. Dad. Blueberry pie. Seals. Rain. Thai food. Cameras. Rain. Tea. Walks. Libraries. Public Transportation. Friends. Rain. Icecream. Uno. Laughter. Dave Brubeck. Homemade cards. Otters. Sea life. Tears. Good conversation. Phone calls. Texts. Comments. Music. Hugs. Chemistry. Wind. Umbrellas. Stars. the number 25. and of course Rain.

This is the turn of the quarter century.

Thanks everyone! I treasure you.

(pictures to follow)

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there are times where
i begin to wonder where you
are anymore in my day to days.
where i've left you.
where you're waiting for me
to notice you.

have i slowly become comfortable
living away from you altogether.
giving up life in exchange for
control of it.

living the way i've always been
not looking for what's needed.

do i know you well enough
to know what you are up to.

having a form of godliness but denying the power there in