Light and paper
While rebooting a few minutes ago, I noticed the winter sun lighting up the samples of Benton Sans I had taped to my whiteboard earlier this morning. Is that a message? It is a beautiful typeface (I'm particularly fond of the light compressed and extra compressed).
A little something for you
I was trying out some techniques for an entirely unrelated project here at work, and this weird little scene showed up.
Odd how the origins of these strange things can be something as mundane as fussing with compositing methods in Photoshop.
A lovely fruitbasket... sort of.
Shot out back of the Yakima Fruit Market -- which, strangely, is in Bothell, not Yakima.
Edgar's holiday card
Edgar and I have been working day and night on the photo for the holiday card he's going to send out to everyone on his mailing list. We think we've got a winner:
Of course, it wasn't until after I had spent hours and hours working with him on this shoot that he told me the truth: He doesn't have a mailing list. He just wanted a cheap excuse to roll around and show his sexy belly to the camera.
Whadda freak.
Another Circus photo
No, no naked clowns for you. But here's an old favorite that I came across while doing some new scans for the Circus folks:
Digging up old portraits
In preparation for a shoot tomorrow night with the ladies of Circus Contraption, I've dug up some negs* from a shoot in April of 2002. I'm particularly fond of this one of Kari:
* How long before we never hear anyone say that again? "Negs? What are those? Is that an old file format?"
And now, a little color
Becky and I went to Bainbridge Island in mid-October for a little one day field trip. We rode the ferry over, had breakfast, went to a nursery Becky likes there, and bought pumpkins. And I used it as an opportunity to continue in my quest for a film that works really well for scanning with the intention of going to both black and white and color.
Results are mixed for my quest, but at least some of the photos turned out well:
Work in progress
Part of the massive negative sorting and scanning project I've been engaged in for the last few days has been towards the goal of seeing what kind of work I've been doing on the street for the past year, edit it towards a show, and to inspire me to spend more time shooting on the street.
It's not that I don't love photographing on the street, it's just that, well, inertia is a powerful force, innit?
Anyway, here's a small selection of what I made work prints of today. And what you're seeing is definitely a work in progress -- aside from doing the most basic tonal adjustments on these images, they're basically untouched -- there are dust spots, and most of them aren't printed the way I'd want them for a final show. Some of them probably won't make a next cut. I'll probably look at some others and think "why did they even make a first cut?"
Think of this as a glimpse into my artistic process, as horrifyingly pretentious as that sounds.
Pascal van Heesch, on Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 5:27 PM:
Dear Edgar,
Nice work, specialy the bit more itimate work. I am not completly sure of the bit over- blurred pictures, may be the blur make the picture stronger may be weaker.
Thanks for sharing these pictures,
Pascal
Edgar looks better back-lit than I do
Can you tell that I'm using my time off this week to go through about a year's worth of back-logged negatives?
A pair of much-photographed dogs
I was at Nancy's house in early October and took a few photos of her incredibly personable and much-photographed dogs, Maxie and Lulu:
Not my brightest look
Your author demonstrates why he's not so different from Edgar while experimenting with lighting setups for a shoot with the Circus next week.
For the photographers in the crowd: I'm sitting in front of a softbox, in a low-ceilinged room that acts as a big ol' bounce card above my head. The effect would probably be a little less extreme in a proper studio. Aperture of f/5.6.
J's birthday
Although it's not actually Jacqueline's birthday until the 26th, she's going to be in an airplane heading to Amsterdam then. In celebration, then, and in honor of Amsterdam, we decided to mark the occasion in true libertine fashion: Drinks and tapas at Fandango, then off to the glorious Cinerama to see Master and Commander, and then to the Palace Kitchen for the afterparty.
(Master and Commander, by the way, was a HOOT. I've been reading the novels, and Peter Weir did a great job of capturing the feeling of them without getting too bogged down in the naval jargon.)
Joshua Edelstein, on Monday, November 24, 2003 at 10:00 AM:
Cinerama's a chain? Whoa. Just seeing the logo on the Web site brought back a flood of memories of King Street in 1977. And of hiding under the seat when Darth Vader rolled into the rebel ship.
rfkj, on Monday, November 24, 2003 at 2:54 PM:
I don't think that Cinerama is a chain, the way Loew's or AMC is. I think the Cinerama theaters are so named because they are or used to be equipped to show Cinerama movies--kind of like if they called theaters that showed Technicolor movies "Technicolor theaters". Cinerama was an attempt at showing panoramic movies. It had a curved screen and multiple cameras, I think.
Does the Seattle Cinerama show real Cinerama films?
And I saw Star Wars at the Cinerama, too! (What is it now, a two-plex? Three? Is it even still there? That's definitely a childhood landmark.)
David Adam Edelstein, on Monday, November 24, 2003 at 5:02 PM:
Cinerama was more of a "new technology" -- so instead of a regular boring old movie theater, they were CINERAMAS!
Unfortunately, the film wasn't compatible with regular movie theaters, so movie producers had to decide to target their movies for a very limited market, or (in the rather remarkable case of Oklahoma) shoot the entire movie twice, once in regular format, once in Cinerama format.
There's a bit of history on the Seattle Cinerama site: http://www.cinerama.com/cinerama_tech1_tech.html
Michelle, on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 12:34 AM:
I saw Star Wars there too - maybe that was the only theater that showed it. Hate to tell you, but it's a Checker Auto Parts as of a couple of years ago. My office was across the street and over a block, so I got to witness the sad event.
Chicks dig guys with big digital cameras
How else do you explain the babes interrogating me about the enormous Nikon D100 (with accessory kung fu grip) I had rented to use at WEC's 35th anniversary event?
Miz Becky, of course, thinks that it's a fascination with pathos.
As a side note, using the D100 reminded me why I prefer my Leica -- it was so big, and heavy, and had so many buttons and menus and crap getting in the way of shooting.
Well, isn't that loverly
Jacqueline, already at work, alerted me to this morning's weather phenomenon:
Who knows if it'll stick around at all. One thing's for sure, NOA'A didn't see this coming at all:
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
415 AM PST WED NOV 19 2003.SYNOPSIS...THE FRONT THAT HAS BEEN OVER THE REGION HAS MOVED EAST WITH COOL TEMPERATURES OVERSPREADING THE AREA AND SNOW LEVELS IN THE MOUNTAINS DROPPING. PRECIPITATION WILL WIND DOWN TODAY AS THE FRONT MOVES FURTHER EAST. COLD AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL SETTLE IN THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT FOR SHOWERS...LOW SNOW LEVELS AND COOL TEMPERATURES. IT WILL REMAIN COOL BUT DRY INTO SATURDAY...THEN A SERIES OF SYSTEMS WILL BEGIN AFFECTING THE NORTHWEST SUNDAY. &&
TODAY...PERIODS OF RAIN...MAINLY THIS MORNING... HIGHS IN THE 40S SOUTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH SOUTH PART AND NORTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH NORTH PART.
rfkj, on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 7:21 AM:
Not too far to the north of Madison, there have already been school closings because of snow. I know that Chicago has seen some snow already. And yet we haven't seen a lick of it. It's like there's a little bubble around Madison that repels the stuff. I want my snow, darn it! Everyone gets snow but me! Whine!
As good as fall color gets here
The general consensus is that the colors hit their true magnificence only in the last couple of days.
Ordinarily we don't get fall color this good, but this year is special because of our historically rare long, cold, relatively dry fall and early winter.
Rich's freedom party
Yes, Rich has finally left the building, leaving behind the steaming morass his job had become for whatever the future is going to bring him. Naturally we had to celebrate, and send him off in style.
Joshua Edelstein, on Monday, November 10, 2003 at 3:14 PM:
"Hi, Josh, this is Janel Wockleby, a friend of Mr. David Adam Edelstein. And . . . we're at Rich Beers' house at his party, and we're looking at this mahjong set and shit. And I'm looking at a tile and Dave doesn't know what the fuck it means. I've stumped him on a mahjong tile and he says that YOU KNOW. Anyway, there's a little flower, and there's some green little petal-like things, and then, then a little -- a character thingy with some swishes, and some lines, and so we were -- we were wondering if you could identify that. With the swishes and the lines and the flower and stuff? And it has a "3" on it. And we were wondering . . . if you could help us out. Anyways, ah . . . you know, it's late, but whatever, call, whenever, ah . . . uh . . . you kn -- you know my number? Because I'm calling you, probably! But, nonetheless, it's 425-xxx-xxxx, or you could call your brother who, um, he--has high esteem and all that shit and stuff for you and loves you dearly and -- la la la la la . . . Becky says hi! Buh-bye."
No idea.
rfkj, on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 9:46 AM:
Reaching way, way back into the dim recesses of playing Mah Jong at the beach with all my aunties, isn't the third flower the autumn season?
The ritual of voting
One of the peripheral compatibilities between me and Miz Becky is that we both love the ritual of voting. Despite the siren song of the absentee ballot (increasingly popular for people in Seattle), we both enjoy heading over to the basement of the Methodist church and chatting with the elections officials. They're almost always the same few people, although I'm afraid that attrition has struck a few of the older ones.
It's clear that voting that way can hardly be cost-effective; Becky and I voted at 7:45 on Tuesday, 15 minutes before the close of voting, and my ballot was #46 that day.
Mea culpa, mea vertabrae
"There he is, sherriff! There's the varmint what done it!"
Blogging has been interrupted for the last couple of days while I have been recuperating from foolishly re-irritating an old back injury. How? I stacked half a cord of beautiful, but very heavy, apple firewood. I have only myself to blame.
I stayed home for a couple of days because I could barely move. The most frustrating part was that even though I'm not sick, so I'm as lucid as I ever am, I can't sit long enough to work on any projects -- work or personal. Mostly I lay on my belly and read. Yesterday I dragged myself down to the basement to watch The Hidden Fortress, which improved my rather whiny and self-pitying mood considerably. That, plus abdominal/lower back exercises and a tasty NSAID my doctor was kind enough to prescribe over the phone have helped considerably.
Today I'm back at work, slogging through a ton of stuff that piled up while I was gone, but at least I have a standing workstation here so I can actually work.
There's a bunch of other topics I want to talk about (Steinbeck, voting, and digital cameras: compare and contrast!) but it's going to have to wait until I get some of this annoying work stuff out of the way.
Strong medicine
Miz Becky has been enduring the tail end of a nasty cold for the last few days, so I (as her doctor) prescribed some hot broth in the form of some tasty pho from Than Brothers:
A little window shopping at the Old Technology Shop next door:
Unfortunately, Than Brothers were out of their signature cream puffs -- a key part of the treatment -- so we were forced to pay a visit to these guys:
Then it was back to the house for a movie.
No, I won't force you to guess this one. It's And Then There Were None. And despite the startling resemblance that guy bears to Tom Skerritt throughout the movie, it's actually John Huston's dad.
Some hallowe'en festivities
Unfortunately I don't seem to have a photo of OUR costume; perhaps Miz Becky and I will have to restage it today to give you the full visual effect. Nevertheless, here are some shots from work and last night's party.
Chandu gets into the spirit of things at work.
A couple of fashionistas: Debra shows us that the new job at UW has opened up her fashion sense; Vince responds to his recent birthday by breaking out of the nursing home for the night.
Later, Janel gets ready to settle down in her kitty-themed slumber party gear while a motley crew looks on.
It's that time of year
Although Vince feels compelled to give a tease of his costume for tonight, I'm staying mum.
However, I did come to work in a portable costume... the one designed to cause the maximum peeing-in-costumes by small children wandering the hallways later today:
The final clue
OK, for those of you who are going to get this, it's going to piss you off that you didn't pick up on some of the other clues... for those of you who don't, well, follow the link after the image.
Who is this strange character? Why, it's E.K., of course. Miz Becky bought me a collection of his work for my birthday, and I've been stealing time to work through it ever since.
Further clues
OK, as promised in the first "guess this show" entry, here are a couple more clues. Surely one of you will recognize these.
If that doesn't do it, then I'll post the final "clue" in a couple of days -- although clue isn't really the right word, since it's also the answer.
Live from the California fires
Jim Ward showed me some photos his Dad took in his neighborhood in San Diego, and kindly let me share them here.
They're apparently on evacuation watch, and looking at the photos, I'm not surprised:
Both images © Harry E. Ward.
Vince also pointed me to an excellent slide show (free registration) in the New York Times today. Those Santa Ana winds are really fanning the flames...
Joshua Edelstein, on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 7:51 AM:
Sometimes it's nice to work at a media organization. After seeing the NYTimes slide show, I went up on the AP photo site and browsed images--yikes. Beautiful and terrible.
Name that show
Inspired by Vince's movie quiz (itself inspired by the fiendish Dan's Screen Shot Movie Quiz) I'm posting the following two images for your consideration.
I know for a fact that some of you watching should know what these are from. If there are no right guesses, I have two progressively more blatant sets of images that will surely provoke the right guess.
Vince Houmes, on Monday, October 27, 2003 at 8:30 AM:
No clue, cap'n. But I'll keep a sharp eye out for any dangerous Gnarfs, anyway, just to be safe.
Fall color
Putting that new cross-processing filter through its paces:
It's true, sometimes I'm too painfully formalist. Whatever. It's my damn blog. :-)
Hey, kids!
It's "New IM self-portrait time!"
Joshua Edelstein, on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 6:30 AM:
Dude, IM self-portrait? E-mail me your handle! I mean seriously.
It's a little damp here today
It's really pouring -- 1/2" deep rivers flowing down the fire truck access ramps by our building, splashing up over my shoes, cleaning the spiderwebs from roof drains that are usually just moistened by the gentle mist that normally passes for rain here. And it's warm, too, nearly 70°F (20°C).
It's almost a tropical rain, reminding me of storms in Hawai‘i -- like the one that trapped my former girlfriend in Hawai‘i Kai one winter break. She saw me off at the airport, drove home, and it rained something like 24 inches in the next 12 hours. She called me the next day, very grumpy. "I'm fucking trapped in the corner of the island." I of course had returned to the Eugene Mist and wasn't terribly sympathetic.
Those of you familiar with my opinion on the Eugene Mist and other northwestern weather phenomena (this is the only part of the country where "occasional sun breaks" are a regular feature of the weather forecast) will probably be surprised to hear that I really love hard rain like this. Partly it's because the weather is actually doing something instead of just dithering ineffectually like a whiny city council member.
The other reason I like this weather is because it's tied to an important moment in my emotional growth -- the moment I realized that my mother is a human being, not just The Mom.
It was when we were living in China, probably 1981 or so -- I was 10 or 11. We were spending a few days at Beidaihe, a resort town on the coast. It was stormy, and I was grouchy and annoyed because I wanted to go outside but I was sure that Mom wouldn't want us to go out and get all wet and muddy.
She surprised me, though, actually suggesting that we go for a walk on the beach. "But, uh... we'll get wet... are you sure?"
"Yeah! I've always loved to walk outside when it's stormy."
My young mind was blown wide open. Moms like to do messy things? They enjoy weather?
I never saw her quite the same way after that.
Again with the office plants
What can I say, the light was beautiful Monday.
So if I shot these on Monday, why am I posting them now?
Because today, it looks like this outside:
Oh. It's you. I remember you.
Vince Houmes, on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 11:07 PM:
It will be easier if you don't struggle. Don't think "nasty grey clouds", think "comforting blanket of life-giving moisture".
rfkj, on Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 9:16 AM:
ALAS...YET ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL BEGIN AFFECTING THE COAST LATE TONIGHT...
:)
David Adam Edelstein, on Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 10:05 AM:
You know, I got plenty of whoop-ass over here for the both of you. Don't make me open up a couple of cans.
Timothy, on Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 8:34 PM:
..... Just saw the Weather report on the news .... The lastest system in our area will adventually pass by, bring nicer weather in behind it .... in April that is
scottran, on Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 11:36 PM:
I was waiting all that long hot summer for my 55 - 65 degree gray days to return! I'm so much more productive this way .
An october gift to you
In honor of the approaching holiday, here's a bit of desktop art for you:
Download full-size image (225kb JPEG, 1600 x 1200 pixels).
He was so cute then
While going through some things, I found an old photo of the brother-thing, probably an early example of my portraiture work from when we were in China in the 80's.
My God, it's full of stars!
Vince Houmes, on Friday, October 10, 2003 at 10:48 AM:
Where did you take this photo? It's super cool.
David Adam Edelstein, on Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 7:08 AM:
Somewhere mysterious! :-)
Caught!
Rusty is not at all pleased that I caught her in the Edgar is a dork pose.
The hostas are giving up the ghost
It must really be fall now.
Guest cute cat
Lucy, resplendent among stuffed animals, does her best Olympia imitation.
Bellevue Botanical Garden
A beautiful summer afternoon -- in, uh, late September -- at the Bellevue Botanical Garden with Miz Becky and her parents.
Fall sunset
Yes, the ugly reality is becoming unavoidable: we're in the death of the year.
The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and Miz Becky and I are trying to nail down our plans for our annual trip to visit my parents in Honolulu.
Our schedules are a little more constraining than usual this year, which means that the only time we're going to be able to go is around the "high season" between that goyishe holiday and the end of the year.
But who am I to complain? I don't have to go visit my parents in Pierre, or Denver, or Columbus...
E.C. Manning Provincial Park, BC
Well, we're back from our Sekrit Mission... did you miss us? Of course you did. And now I can 'fess up that we weren't on a particularly Sekrit Mission, just a few days of a Fresh Air Experience at Manning Park with some friends. You know the drill: Hiking, canoeing, reading, eating, and sleeping. Along with a bit of tennis and darts.
Somewhere in all of that I managed to take a few photos. Imagine!
Preview of the past
I'm nearly done editing and scanning and working on the photos from my cousin's wedding, from way back in June.
Here's a preview of the madness to come, with the brother-thing showing his true colors whilst being completely ignored by my mom and Miz Becky:
Last night's walk home
Tin King, on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 at 2:29 PM:
Come on, man...burn up some bandwidth and make those pictures BIGGER.
Mmmm, that *does* look good.
As Miz Becky said, "when even the food stylist can't make it look good for the photo, you've got a problem."
Amanda, on Monday, September 15, 2003 at 12:42 PM:
Hi I stumbled upon your site an dI found some really great stuff. That never happens on your first try. i was curious if you wouldnt mind if I used some of your photos for our powerpoint images to add to our bands creative side. Thankyou so much and I would like to know what kind of camera you use. Thank you for replying
A couple of big-head-Edgar photos
It's nice to see him enjoying the new cat tree. He wasn't using it for a while after we got it — preferring to hang out on the back of the wingback chair and leave his hair there.
Last weekend, though, I took care of Janel's cats while she and Vince were in Vancouver. Part of her instructions involved giving Tio "as much catnip as he wants". When I brought the jar over to where he was sitting by the window, he ran back to where the jar had been sitting on the floor and rolled over on his back, looking for all the world like a catnip ho waiting for a fix.
As I rode the bus home, I realized that he had run back to where he had been getting the catnip — maybe that would make Edgar use the cat tree!
One good dusting of catnip later, and he started interacting with it... playing on it... finally last night he decided that he'd rather sleep in the cat tree than with us in the bed.
Sometimes the little furry bastards give us the illusion that we're in control.
Hey, kids!
The lab guys are giving away free masks!
Is it a CLM to let people know about the free masks in a meeting?
Chad's response: "Dave has fun at work. None of the rest of us have fun at work."
rfkj, on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 7:28 AM:
Dude, you could be the next Chaim Witz!
David Adam Edelstein, on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 12:08 PM:
I AM SO EMBARRASSED that I needed google to remember who Chaim is.
Miz Becky at work
... sending "just one more e-mail" from her comically tilted, butter-yellow office.
timmy, on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 8:09 PM:
Does Miz B's legs get tired from having to roll her chair up hill everytime she gets up from her desk?
How much is that dolly in the window?
The one with the creepy eyes?
More photos from Tim and Heather's wedding
Fast film, an f/2 Summicron lens, and cool lighting. What more could I ask for?
Heather Harding, on Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 11:04 PM:
Way cool Dave! I'm liking Dave and his Healing Hand. And the one with me and Shaun, our ring bearer. He was so adorable. But so eager to get outta that tux! Glad we got such a cute photo of him in it :-)
You shall not pass
Heather's phone sasses her.
A wedding photo
I'm going to post other photos from Tim and Heather's wedding soon, but this one is so dang cute I couldn't resist posting it tonight.
The cats just don't get along
They're so happy when they don't know they're on opposite sides of the wall.
Not a flower
rusto, on Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 6:25 AM:
Some kinda spot-weld? It looks sorta like a metal belly-button.
David Adam Edelstein, on Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 10:04 AM:
Nope. Although you're on the right track -- it was very warm when it was created.
A WELL brunch
This morning we had a small gathering of Seattle-area WELL members and a couple of esteemed guests from further south, in Nancy's garden. It was a beautiful Seattle summer day, with good food and good conversation.
More slobbercat
Guess who was waiting for me outside our house Wednesday? That's right, it was friendly drooling neighborhood cat.
Oh yes -- and the rumor that it drools when skritched? True.
An ending and a beginning
Yesterday was the end of an era in the design world at MS: Our beloved design training manager, Scott Berkun, gave his last talk. He'll be cleaning out his office over the next week, but he's effectively gone.
There had been other talented people in that job, but none of them took to it with the same energy that Scott did. He was always excited about the possibilities of getting Design deeper into the product cycle, and he helped us get excited about it when we felt like we were faced with impossible odds. (And the odds ain't good, folks -- 50,000+ employees worldwide... roughly 200 designers... and you wonder why some of our products don't make any damn sense to human beings)
As a last lecture, it was a doozy. It had a classic Berkun title: "Ten Golden Rules: Thoughts on Software from Voltaire, Willy Wonka, and Microsoft Postmortem archives." It was also clearly a "whaddya gonna do, fire me?" talk: He had a beer, he said f*ck a couple of times, he sang a song about the product cycle, and he (jokingly) yelled at the training coordinator who asked him to repeat questions for the tape.
If you're involved in UI design at all, I'd check out the essays on his site, and bookmark it. He's going to do as little as possible for a couple of months, and then is planning to do a bunch of writing. I'm looking forward to it.
Niiiice kitty
There's a Maine Coon in the neighborhood that as near as we can tell was abandoned by some people renting a house a few doors down. He's ostensibly being taken care of by Larry, across the street and north from us, but I'm pretty sure he's also mooching off of the rest of the neighborhood.
Unlike most Maine Coons I've met, which seem to bond with one person and are a little standoffish, this guy is one of the most affectionate cats I've ever met. And one of the most drooling -- man, does this cat slobber when it gets some lovin'.
A couple of weeks ago, he took advantage of Miz Becky and her sister while they were sitting on the lanai:
I wanna make a film noir
I discovered last night that the G3 can shoot short bits of video in black and white, which I of course had to try out. Now I want to make a film noir in crappy low-res digital video!
Here's my proof of concept.
I put it together with the very easy Windows Movie Maker. (Sorry, Windows Media Player format only... there is a player at that download site for those of you on macs.)
Tin King, on Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 11:48 AM:
A little thin on plot...but it looks good.
Poor Mr. Edgar
He can't help looking like a doof.
Lest you think this is an isolated look and that I'm giving false impressions... here are some more moments from the same shoot:
Tin King, on Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 9:45 AM:
Start calling him "Buddha".
Joshua Edelstein, on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11:04 AM:
Best. Photos. Ever.
Ah, Cletus, I love you so. Das ist zuber!
Light in the stairwell
This is probably a sign that I'm truly a photographer at the bone: when I saw the light in the stairwell yesterday afternoon, I risked missing my bus to take photos.
"To hell with meeting my friends for dinner! I must worship this light!"
Rustifer, on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 7:39 AM:
I thought it was a sign that you're truly a denizen of Seattle ... (laugh)
David Adam Edelstein, on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 8:05 AM:
Smartass. Perish the thought!
What's that on your face?
Tonight we had dinner with Janel and Vince, and then went to see Spellbound (which was excellent). But things got a little, well, ugly, early in the evening.
Janel shows off her blackberry-encrusted lips, first coy, then bold:
Later, in the car, Janel and Vince seemed to still be pretty lip-focused.
Not water
Any guesses?
rustifer, on Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 6:32 PM:
A nice shiny table, with a hard slat chair behind it?
David Adam Edelstein, on Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 8:29 AM:
And the young man in the corner gets it in one!
I can see you
Fun and games with a nalgene bottle and a quickcam:
Catching up on some older photos of Kaua'i
The combination of me resolving to clean up my desk by finishing projects that have been on hold, and my recent purchase of a slide feeder for my scanner, means that a few of my older photo projects that never made it to an electronic form will probably show up here in the next few weeks.
This batch is a set of photos shot on Kaua'i in November of 2001. First, we start with a walk through Kapa'a at dawn:
