noise to signal:
Photos 2006

J.M.W. Turner lives! :)

I enjoyed looking at all of your photos. They are wonderful!!

I especially like the grainyness in this one, and the dark dark and the light light. My favorite so far, in the night drive series.

I like how it echoes the columns and curves of the Roman Colessium. With aliens.

It was aliens! I seen 'em!

I'm with Laura - these look like UFO encounters :-)

what the hell that is a spot light stupid!!!!!!!!!!^^that is no UFO baka

I see your point on this one. It *is* abstract. And very interesting. I like it.

Noir, slighty "alien-abduction" abstract noir?

Dude, I know what it is. Not that abstract.

Great... just what the world needs, another literalist poet.

It is the *attitude* that makes it abstract.

(Heather from Tim's computer). Then what does ejuana's attitude make her? :-)

miss me?

oh, weird! it almost looks like light projected on a surface instead of looking out of a window.

Say, have ya installed that outdoor (like a drive-thru) theater in the back yard yet?

(Heather from Tim's computer) - actually, I thought it was a reflection too...

Hello, David, my name is Dylan Hintz and I'm a young college filmmaker. I'm currently working in a studio television production class, and I found your photos and was wondering if I could use them for a green screen project I am trying to do. It's a simple commercial for an energy drink (or it might end up being something else, I still have a few days to prep), and I needed some scary alley ways to do a "vampire" scene (sorta spoofing Blade). Google search returned your pictures and I was immediately struck with interest. You've caught a new reader. Anyways, please feel free to email me at strikeaposefilm@gmail.com if you're cool with this. Thanks!

Watch your language, please! This is a family blog.

Bobbin would go NUTS! She loves Hello Kitty (or "Meow", as she calls her :-))

I have never got the fascination that people hold for Hello Kitty. I just don't get it, but the Japanese are crazy for it.

Is it just me, or is Hello Kitty looiking at little different in the second one in from the bottom right?

Video-taped myself taking a picture of a video camera in the store...

HAH. OK, that would have been even more recursive and awesome.

Fantastic! I love it.

oh sweet.

Faubulous.

Did you shoot it like this or did you 'blur' during processing?

Thanks! No, it was done it post using the technique here:

http://www.noise-to-signal.com/2006/02/fake_real_model.html

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that nobody in the Pachinko parlor was actually as buff as this guy.

Shiny glistening anime manboobs!

Second image down -

You futzed with these didn't you?
(The toothbrush is upside down, very sloppy by Japanese standards.)

thank you very much for making me hungry I have to stay at work for 3 hours more

I want sushi :(

This is very peaceful and calm.

I agree.

I'd like this blown up really big and hung on a wall in a room that is completely empty except for a comfy yet understated chair centered in front of it, facing it. I bet I'd sit there for hours quite happily :-)

The maps do look lovely! It was interesting zooming out, and out, and out, and realizing just how densely populated that area is.

"Geography of Resistance" sounds like a great title for a book...

In an ideal world, a fluffy, powdery snow would arrive sometime in mid-December, accompanied by a temperature of no less than –5°C. It would hang on until Christmas without turning grey or slushy, and then disappear without fuss by the New Year. It would never get crunchy in –45°C wind chill, and would most certainly not outstay its welcome by sticking around until late April.

In *my* ideal world, it would never get colder than 65F. But point taken :-)

That is a wonderful picture!!!

jejeje
"no vayas hacia la luuuuz!"
;)

I like the patterns and shapes here and could see it one of several different ways - birds in the sky near phone wires or just long strands of yarn in "cat's cradle" with some birds caught up in it. I also like the contrast of the dark, straight lines against the fluffy muted cloud background.

that's spooky.

spooky cool!

That's weird.

It's the eloquence of your response that really makes me appreciate the two-way communication possible in this medium.

DUDE!

There. I have used this medium to it's fullest extent possible. What more do you want you noir freak? :-P

yeah, what he said.

way, elegant... eloquent, whatever.

This scene could go either way - classic noir, or baby noir.

One minute Billy was spinning joyously around, staring at the sky twirling above him, laughing in glee, and the next minute silence... except for the eerie squeak of the merry-go-round as it slowly creaked to a stop. Empty.

And the gritty! I like the gritty texture you gave the sky here.

Add a comment below if you think DAE should start an all-kitten photo blog.

Well, this is kind of arty (and stripey, although not too mopey) in its own way...:-)

Kitten blog!

Klog!

kitties forever! kitties unite!

SQUEAL!

Oh no! Does this mean the week of kittens has come to an end? I want MORE! More Kittens. More!

More! More! More!

I love kittens. This photo illustrates why.

The cuteness is almost too much!

These pictures remind me of this picture from my favorite news source: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51603

OOOOOOOOOOH! You're right! I can't handle the cute! Bring on the cute! More cute! Must have more cute! All Hail to the King of Photographic Cuteness!

Fuzzy goodness!!

More kittens, less bandsaws!

Sweet! This is going to be your best series ever!

el título de tu foto me ha recordado a los simpson, a homero diciendo "¿quieres la verdad?, ¿quieres la verdad? tú no puedes manejar la verdad!! [you can't handle the truth]"
me agrada cómo se filtra la luz en el pelaje de tus gatos, hace que cada pelito tenga relevancia y eso, eso es suave y bello =)

Question: why did you choose color rather than black and white for this one? Just curious, not being mean. :-)

You're never "just" curious. :P

In this case, I like the relationship between the yellow gloves and the yellow tray in the background, which I lost when I tried it in black and white.

There was a relationship your honor, but it was never inappropriate.

I love how brilliant the red is, particularly in contrast to the more muted colors in the background.

Santa's workshop. All red and green.

this really triggers my imagination.. love your film noir narratives as well.

Not to mention the tree, which looks like it is already reaching out to grab something (or someone!).

Not to mention the photographer! Buggin?

...and not to mention the need to start running and screaming blindly through the night ....

Actually, I viewed this as sort of romantic...hmmm...not sure what that says...

It's always about death with you, isn't it?

Well, even without being able to see the rain, the different shades of grayness, and also the shape they make between the lights, treeline, and sky (and the barrier) are wonderful.

I'm so excited about these results, and I'm not even American. But we have our Deputy Sheriff Prime Minister John Howard, who has slavishly followed Bush's every move over the past few years. I'm hoping that he suffers the same fate in our elections next year.

I wish I could squash myself up like that...

This is my favorite Rusty photo so far.

Ah, the curse of pre-loading posts: this is exactly what we don't see this morning. A gentle kiss of warm wet air from Hawai'i is continuing to hang around, causing rivers to flood and small towns in river valleys to be evacuated.

It's soooooo rainy now. Who likes rain again? I forget, but I'm pretty sure it's not me.

Damn that gentle kiss of warm wet air from Hawai'i.

What's on fire in the background?

I'm pretty sure it's an airplane contrail.

Pretty patterns!

¿sabes qué parece?
un zapato, uno delgado y viejo
con agujetas y personalidad

It must be said: totally tubular, like, ohmigaw!

Code monkey get up, get coffee...

You are a very messy boy and should be taken in hand.

This is such a great photo! It's like a poem that's captured and enchanced the different facets of coffee, without using any outside references. The liquid and the crunchy, the light-weight grounds and the heavy mug, the strong dark color. And the whole image is striking.

Now what are you going to say when you take a photo of an actual rivet?

I think she recognized it! She liked the picture, to be sure.

Yeah, but I've got 4 skulls, with meticulous labels dating from thousands of years ago!

http://www.bugginyou.org/

COLORS! Real colors? or Photoshopped? And why do I never see skies like this?

that is a great image! wonderful!

I like this one!

Definitely the happiest and cutest noir photo I've seen :-)

She looks so wise.
She gets it from her mom, eh?

That's too funny - you've started a whole new genre! :-)

I really like your pictures. What camera you use? Are you like an photografer? I'm doing a paper about Film Noir. Me and my partner having a photoshoot, with just the pictures you are showing here. Can I use some of you pics to show our teachers what we are going to do? I would be very greatfull. Thank you in advance!!

Pun'kin pie. How symbolic a choice for your first official day on paternity leave :-) How is the little zed-kin doing?!

Pun'kin pie. How symbolic a choice for your first official day on paternity leave :-) How is the little zed-kin doing?!

Have a great time, David! As you know, I'm more than just a little jealous.

[And do you really think spending all your time with an infant will really be all that different from what you do at work? ;-) ]

May the Force be with y'all! Hopefully you and she will have loads o' fun! :-)

Are you kidding? He would have loved it. Dirty the guy up, fuzzy his edges, put him in one of those Northern Renaissance jackets, and you've got a perfect tavern eccentric or circus clown or street madman.

I never took art history, and am probably illustrating almost complete ignorance with this comment, but for some reason this one makes me think "Picasso". Not the cubism stuff, but definitely something Picasso-esque.

Interesting. I never took art history either, although have always had an interest in it. And when I saw this picture I immediately thought of a harlequin.

When I read Sarah's comment above, I decided to do an image search on the internet for "Picasso Harlequin". Little did I realize he did a number of harlequin paintings. Or maybe I did know that, but had forgotten it was Picasso :-)

Nonetheless, there is some likeness in the above picture to some of these. If not in actual physical resemblence, definitely in the feeling conveyed. At least for me :-)

http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=Picasso+Harlequin&FORM=MSNH&mkt=en-US

Perhaps the one I find most similar are these two:

http://www.chess-theory.com/images1/01611_pablo_picasso.jpg

http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=Picasso+Harlequin&FORM=MSNH&mkt=en-US

Ah yes, but the art historian and I are speaking specifically of the light, which has nothing to do with Pablo. I can't seem to find one of the tavern eccentrics online, although I can see them in my head, but here's a self-portrait of the man himself that perfectly illustrates what I'm talking about:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/self/rembrandt.1669.jpg

You could possibly make an argument for this one of Pablo's, but the light doesn't have the enveloping, blanketing quality that I was going for with the photo:

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/-Posters_i143051_.htm

For me, this picture primarily represents the classic Edelstein family value of dumbassness.

Ah yes, and the poet comes in, as usual, with perfectly chosen words, that raise the discourse to an entirely new level. Thbtttt.

I was referring purely to the subject. I leave the light discussion to the experts.

I thought you were going to say something like, "It probably will give you insight into our family to know that the blur is my Uncle Stan."
:-)

You didn't post the photo of me with the chocolate smeared all over my face and homemade marshmallow in the corners of my mouth. Perhaps it's for the best.

WOW! Yes, I've seen "... thousands of other photos of the Bean..." but this one is something else.

This photo rocks! It has to be my all time favourite of all of your photos. Way cool. And very escheresque. Which, of course, makes me think of one of my favourite movies, Labyrinth. Which of course, starred one of my favourite performers - David Bowie.

From Bean to Bowie. There ya go.

The difference between sisters (and eras): Heather watched "Labyrinth" for the aging rock star, I watched it for the way-cool muppets.

Marvelously surreal.

Would love to see this one blown up very large.

Nice, David. Good light. Very warm photo. It makes me want to make a pear tart.

*Wow*. I love it. Stunningly dramatic and gorgeous.

If you sucked more as a photographer, it would be easier to pick a favorite. I'm just saying.

That is *beautiful*!

This makes me think of a stained glass window. I love it.

It's great to see some colour, I love the blue.

For some reason the light quality and visual in this image make me want to use this as the backdrop for some opera - a huge scrim of it - yeah! That's the ticket!

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

A few incisive mornings,
A few ascetic eves,--
Gone Mr. Bryant's golden-rod,
And Mr. Thomson's sheaves.

Still is the bustle in the brook,
Sealed are the spicy valves;
Mesmeric fingers softly touch
The eyes of many elves.

Perhaps a squirrel may remain,
My sentiments to share.
Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind,
Thy windy will to bear!

--Emily Dickinson

Gorgeous! I love this one--the depth, the light, the composition.

...or those of us who haven't dusted in while...geesh...

Noise to Signal: Forcing you to clean house more regularly since 2003.

My eyes saw this one in inverse at first - cool, but weird! I like the multi layers of stripes going on.

Ooooh!

The word that comes to mind when I look at this is:

"D'oh!"

One of the many reasons I refuse to cheer for Toronto: their hockey team should, by all rights, be called the Maple Leaves.
Go Sens Go!

I'm no expert, but that is some weird-ass bokeh, eh?

I think the sword ferns in the background make it look weirder than it actually is.

That lens (Canon 85mm f/1.8) actually has lovely bokeh (like in this agave for example).

That's a good description. Beautiful and vaguely eerie at the same time.

Which, in turn, is a pretty good description of Miz Becky.

This one is great; I love the way you've captured the maple leaf.

And I'm not just sayin' that because I'm a Canadian :-)

Yeah... too much like "blowout"

There looks to be a whole lotta hopin' going around in the household there... Rusty's looking pretty interested too :-)

You'd think Ms B was slurping from a bowl of milk! I presume it's soup though :-)

First guess was right! Milk, it does a kitty good.

Of course, they would be doing the same thing for anything in a bowl.

Hehe - I love it!

Poor Edgar!

jeje, esperando y esperando, así se nos va la vida
al menos él podrá ver aquello que desea ;)

Aaaaaah :-)

I really like the little bit of pink/fuschia in the upper left too!

Looks like he's about to take that gum out of his mouth and stick it on the car!

today i find ur fotos in net,
for me it's very good, i like this
colors and compositions.

I love this one. I'd like to see more of the details, too: what's going on in that window to the right? what else is on the porch with the sign? A very intriguing photo!

Crystal could have an easier time reading the sign if Richard, the man who loves her so much, had hung it outside of the bars of the balcony.

David, you are the Lee Friedlander of our generation. Only much more versatile. Please publish a book of your beguiling street pics one day.

Dude, this one's wacked, yet compelling.

What she said.

But I can't figure out why.

Way way way back in a whole other existence, when I was an art history TA, I developed my First Rule of Formal Analysis: When confused ("can't figure out why"), start there. Why can't you figure it out? Or, if looking at a Picasso or something, What about the image confuses you? The answer to those questions is the beginning of your formal analysis and hence your understanding of the piece.

oh, man! that's such a TA response.

Can'tcha just tells us answer.

this reminds me of Roy DeCarava's work.
Very nicely done, I love the tonality.

what a totally cool picture! I wonder what was just said, or what was about to be said; where they are going, where they came from...

i love this so much...though it's aching sad...it's like all the hope has been squeezed out of them and all they have is on this bus, and where is it taking them?

david how did you take this without losing that moment...maybe that's a secret?

I was sitting there reading my book, idly snooping on them across the aisle, when the clouds shifted and the sun hit them.

Muttering "oh my god oh my god" to myself, I dug for my camera, and got one shot off before the light changed.

Part of the credit for them not seeing me has to go to the sun in their eyes. And partly, you know, I'm as invisible as a big guy can be.

Yeah, David, this is a great one.

Sounds like a decisive momnent there. I really love this picture, the light, the way they seem lost with each other. Lovely shot ...

Marvelous. Harry Palmer or perhaps The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

These are so pretty! I love the light and colour. I hope there are more! I might have to buy copies to hang in Robyn's room :-))

Hey!

Happy!

The way you have captured both the translucency and detail in the petals here is amazing.

A wonderful land of sunflowers ! Fantastic !

Oh wow! I love the shadow.

Again and again, I'm coming across photos that are good enough for any exhibition by a 20th century 'master'. Somehow you've bequeathed the high glamour of Horst, the graphic power of Moholy-Nagy and the dark, intimate poetry of Brandt... to a moggy. On a carpet.

I take it you shoot everything on film. I still enjoy using my Fuji S3, but I've finally mustered the bravery to return to film and dug my Canon AE-1 from under the dust. Those deep, weighty blacks and smooth and creamy tonal transitions are looking better than ever and I want back in on all that.

So are you more of a "plate half full" or "plate half empty" kinda guy?

[...basket joke here...]

Are they both male cats? I am not sure about male animals, but female animals seem to have an instinctive nanny aspect. It can be quite uncanny.

Nope, Rusty is a former girl, and she has no interest in the baby.

I always cry when I see new babies and I'm starting to do that right now.
This little girl is gonna change your life in so many fabulous ways and you'll do the same for her.

A baby, any baby, reminds me to stay hopeful, to keep working to make the world a better place and to remember that there is more to the mystery than we'll ever understand.

What a great team you'll be, the three of you!

What a wonderful photo!

Oh, wow. What Stacy said. The tears are starting. Congratulations. Welcome, Little One.

And, uh...DAE, you have some *serious* competition in the photography department from the Miz.

AWESOME picture!!! You folks are going to make a great family. Oh hell, you already are!

Mazel tov!

All I can say is "Wuuuuuu!" She is way cute! She just seems to be saying "Hello, world!" Great picture Mz. B! :-)

all these photos are posted at EXACTLY 6:00 AM in the morning. is something on autopilot here?

I'm very regular.

...I on the other hand, am regular in a totally different way (and time of day)....

BUT you didn't want to know that/

God, that is beautiful!

"Holy smoke!" comes to mind.

Am I the only one that sees the face of Mary Magdeline in those clouds?

Geez David, between you and Ted Orland, my webstats are going to finally see some action.

But I love the image anyway.

ps. Please, please, please update your website with your new street images. I want them all in one place the next time I visit the gallery.

I think this one is my favourite of all of them.

How did you get this photo to look so "gritty"?

Coffee!

I like the "motion" in this picture (kind of evokes a whole "moving through the time-space continuum" feeling) as well as the next picture - it feels kind of "gritty" to me, for lack of a better word. I could say that you appear to embrace both "crunch" and "creamy", but I can hear photographers everywhere (including yourself) groaning...:-)

Cue baby, stage right...:-) It is a happy thing to have a baby coming into the world to two parents who are willing to dedicate themselves to the experience. May the Force be with you these final weeks!

We're so happy and excited for you! Baby Girl gets a new playmate, and your lives will forever be changed in the most wonderful and amazing and incredible and awe inspiring way!

What? 4 Weeks? You'll be fine. You two are gonna make one little baby a lucky little baby.
I better get to sewing on that baby quilt!
happy infanticipating!

I wish you all the very best for all that is to come. A new addition to the family is VERY exciting!

Miz B, I am sorry to hear about the Nausea Award. That truly stinks. But good luck, congratulations, and you and DAE are indeed going to make a little baby a lucky baby.

When I was a youngster, a friend of my Dad's gave me a round wooden coin, one side of which was labeled "TUIT". The other side said, "Now that you've got a round TUIT, you can do those things you've been putting off!"

Ah, here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_tuit

I love this so much!

Could she be any cuter? I think NOT! :-)

That's what I think, every week! And each week she surpases my expectations.

She's an angel!

I love it: you kept her EARS in focus, though her eyes are not! They are the cutest ears in the universe, if I do say so myself.

--Kendra's mom

hmmmm. Maybe something "graphically strong?"

Like Edgar? :-)

...and your breakthrough in B & W technique is...???

Dude, you totally got dumb ass focusing. "However, the Ee-S focusing screen is not recommended for slower lenses because it's not very bright."

Nice pic. Buggin.

this is the camera you need. check out http://shop.lomography.com/shop/main.php?cat=&pro=wp1

If a big head falls, does it hear the noise it makes?

i love your photos..they are amazing and you truly inspire me in many ways...this is one of my favorites and I love to see the new things you come up with...great job!
<3 hillary

i love your photos..they are amazing and you truly inspire me in many ways...this is one of my favorites and I love to see the new things you come up with...great job!
<3 hillary

what a beautiful child!

fa fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa fa fa

I believe!

we keel bananas

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/179218736/

You're thinking of these kit kat clocks that supposedly are based on felix the cat... but their pupils are more vertical than the cartoons you linked to

http://www.kit-cat.com/

That's probably it.

I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure that the Little Orphan Annie strip used vertical-line pupils on Annie.

Could have been this photo of Tio Pepsi:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/175174192/in/set-1513763/

Great picture! The pupils look so familiar, but I can't figure it out...

Hey look, I'm not the only one who's confused:

Fur flies in Felix flap

Killer Vampire Kitty coming at you! I like Edgar as subject, but this has to be one of my favorites so far.

Oh yeah? My kitty is an alien. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/92030518/in/set-1513763/

You just can't ask for a better subject. I love your edgar photos! Looking forward to the rest of the week now! :-)

Cat Fight! See http://www.bugginyou.org/2006/06/cat_fight.html

He is pretty cute!

And BabyGirl likes him too! She smiled and reached out to him as I was scrolling by.

Mark and I stopped there when we were in Vancouver for the marathon. It was a serious trek out there, but worth it! Mark is currently working with a carving teacher (Haida) and has several projects in the works - bear mask (almost complete), moon with corona (currently getting the most time), and a mantle for the fireplace.

Beautiful forms.

oh my, oh my, a real beauty.

This makes me feel so very...fruity! :-)

Wow. Purdy!

That's a neat lens!

Lovely bokeh-aji, according to a section in mike johnstons blog i found today.
http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/

This is a beautiful picture, just love the colour saturation, the texture, the droplets... Great stuff!

My, that is lovely.

I think it works well in black and white. Good decision.

It's gonna be a whole new ballgame, Mr. Edgar. Get on your helmet and pads!

Lemme know what he thinks of the swing ;-)

I just love Edgar. I think he's your best subject.

... hey is that a big knife on the wall or are you just happy to see me? ....

*rim shot here*

So, so good to see Edgar still hanging in there as a design element and a housecat.

Such a great photo! Good old Edgar.

Shadowcat!

Awesome picture!

I wish I had the talent to "see" this kind of stuff!

It's not talent, it's OCD. :-)

Waaaaay cute! Both of them! And I'm not even biased about Becky! ;-)

If there is one thing I do regret it is that I didn't allow more photos of me to be taken while I was pregnant. At least I do have a couple though.

I don't have a single picture of me pregnant...unless the wedding photo counts. oops!
; )

I just had one boyfriend named Bubba and that was a long time ago...

At the risk of being crude and offensive, does this look like a pair of butt cheeks to anybody else besides me?

Before I scrolled all the way down to read the comment, I was thinking to myself "This looks like a pair of butt cheeks".

So, yeah. It does ;-)

You guys. What's with the butt focus?

David, you're kidding, right? *Look* at the picture. Out of darkness, a pale surface with a crack running down it appears (due to the square of light) to swell forward as the eye travels down.

All I see is people bringing what they want to an abstraction. And you people want bootie.

I saw bootie.

"And with this, we leave beautiful Montreal." Tee hee hee!

A shapely pooper at that!

My friends are pervs.

My thought was "how did he get such good light on the butt"?

One more tally in the "first thought was butt" column.

Butt cheeks with a post-it slapped right between 'em? I'm British... does 'Montreal' have a second meaning?...

I lived right across the street from the parc - on Avenue des Pins (Pine avenue, not Avenue of Pins ;-)) And used to walk up to the top of the "mountain" almost every day in the spring and summer. In the winter we'd walk up there with our skates and go skating on the outdoor pond.

I thought this type of light only fell in England...

Definitely some nice light there.

It makes me want to curl up in it and read a book.

Look like a warp coil from one of the Enterprise's warp nacelles. </geek>

you've probably explained this already, but how do you get the softness?
and of course I think it's just beautiful..

There is so much sadness--almost despair--in this photo. Remarkable. I keep seeing a tired and lonely old man when I look at it. ("What does that mean, doctor?")

Yes you are! What colour was it?

Duh... Gray!

Mz. Becky came out again to play, didn't she?...:-) All will, I am sure, be revealed, when the garden suddenly appears to be more "foliaged" as it were...:-)

I used to take the metro to this stop, get and from here a bus to my summer job every day :-)

What a great picture!

"Scuse me Jane, but when you're done with that transitive verb, I'd like to stick it into my grad student's thesis."

It is touristy but it is still one of my favourite places in the world, and the restaurants are REALLY good!

I love the "Secrets we will never reveal"/"We will" photo - that rocks ;-)

Strangely, it is these "mean streets" photos that make me want to visit the city more than any of the other photos. What does that say about me? Or Montreal?

You obviously didn't stick to the Old Town tourist track, because these photos reveal actual dust and human palimpsest -- shocking!

AWESOME pictures. Can only imagine how many more you have that will just never get posted :-) I love the ones involving the coloured windows.

WOW - talk about color!

Ummm... did you actually try the pigs head? And what part of a pigs head does one eat exactly? And how?

Well, for example, there's Thomas Keller's Braised Stuffed Pig's Head with Sauce Gribiche.

There are also all kinds of Chinese recipes for roasted pig's head (that particular one includes the beautiful phrase If ears begin to brown too quickly during cooking period, wrap them with foil.).

I'm not looking...

I should try that next time I run out of sunscreen.

Now, that's some sexiness...

Mmmmm.... fromage!

Wow. You guys did some serious eating! Making me hungry :-)

Quebecois cheese is pretty special, but you neglected to mention the finest example of them all: the delectable squeaky cheese curd, accented perfectly by crispy chip-truck fries and steaming hot brown sauce. Ahhh...poutine. Not to be confused with putain, which is an entirely different kind of Quebecois "delicacy"...

Stunning!

ummm.... what's a bread razor for?

You know the cuts in the tops of loaves of bread? That's how they get there.

That, plus carving the pastry chef when he gets too big for his toque.

Cool! So now that you are inspired will we be the happy beneficiaries of much Quebecian-inspired cuisine? :-D (she said, hopefully...)

Love the vegetable market photo and the one of fiddleheads!

My dad and I used to go and pick fiddleheads from the swamp next to the farmhouse I lived in when I was little :-)

Nice one. The way you framed it, it's like the lights are there to create darkness. Your picture is about that which is excluded from (and by) the light, turning the glare into the opposite of what it's meant to be. Well done. Your first true noir of the series.

Like hammers ready to fall.

Or like really big, metal stroopwafels (:-D - check http://www.stroopwafelshop.com/ to see what I mean; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel for more info)

I like you photos very much, and not just the ones of wet streets and manholes!

I used this one, with a link here, on my latest post.

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Which is good, cause if they were dry there wouldn't be a whole lot we'd be able to see!

What about if a noir film were set in the desert? Then it would necessarily be dry. I challenge those of you out there who can visualize such things to ponder this question - would a film noir film in a desert setting work or not? And what about a dessert setting?

Certainly one can look at Insomnia as a Film Blanc, where it's never dark, and there's too much light.

I was looking for an answer to why the streets are always wet in film noir, and stumbled across this discussion.

" I challenge those of you out there who can visualize such things to ponder this question - would a film noir film in a desert setting work or not? And what about a dessert setting?"

Sure it could work. The first example that comes to mind it "The Hitch-Hiker" (1953) starring Frank Lovejoy (the radio drama NIGHTBEAT) and Edmond O'Brien (star of noir classic DOA). William Talman plays the psycho-killer who forces them into the desert during a state-wide manhunt.

Excel, err... Word!

Dude, it's 9:30 your time. Where's the photo of the day, eh?

Wow, David. You've done light-effects before, and even light-effects in water, but this overtly painterly, smeared, abstract approach is unusual for you. I like it. A lot. Is there more where this came from?

Hey, we should go there one of these times we are in Seattle...:-D

What a beautiful Seder! Looks like it was fun. I love the pictures of your friend telling his stories...:-)

Maybe y'all should give a little tutorial on setting up our monitors, or give us a link to your favorite tuning site?

It's really a hardware solution -- our eyes are designed to adapt and adjust, so we can't judge properly.

The good news is that there is a range of choices. On the low end I like the $89 Pantone Huey; on the higher end I like their $249 Eye-One Display 2.

That Huey is a....suggestive lookin' device, ain't it!

But the colors are nice.

awesome! sweet color!
i hear a little william eggleston echo.

Beautiful shot, and such sharpness!

So beautiful and smooth and delicate...

I love this and I'm not sure why. I just do. It reminds me a bit of the house in a picture, in the family photo album, of a home my parents lived in when they first got married. It must be one of those starter homes, that someone took really good care of. While it's a bit scary, it's also oddly comforting. But then, I'm from Texas and we're a bit used to bunkers, here.

Hehehe... awesome picture. He does look like a kitty snake :-)

I love it!

Oh, David, why did you have rune such a nice photo with such a bad pun?

I'm just following my script...

Puns like these really chisel away at your respectability. Beware, the writing is on the wall. You're "engrave" danger.

I've had it with you characters.

i know this is juvenile, but "what kinda dog is Frog?"
(it's my birthday!) (no, really!)

Looks like a Boston Terrier-Chihuahua mix. Is it a contest? Do I win ?

He's my boy ;) full Boston - the photo makes him look small but he's 22/24 pounds of pure dog fun.

Great shot, DAE!!

If Frog is ever in the Ottawa Valley, I know an absolutely adorable Border Collie who would LOVE to play a round with him.

cute as a button!
might get a little frustrating when i play golf.
i was just in bean-town though, and i didn't see any of these things around.

man, i need a dog!?!

Beautiful!

Very succulent! If I turn up the heat I can almost feel like I am in Hawaii...:-)

I wish I could turn up the heat and feel like I'm in Hawai`i too! (Trying for irony here, I am in Hawai`i) It's been raining for about 5 weeks now with a few hours of little patches of sun here and there to torture us. I don't know how anyone survives in Seattle!!!

.... because it doesn't rain that much here - but don't tell anyone!

OK I did a little research and crunched some data (through 2004) and take a look -

http://www.crappymusic.com/rainfall.htm

To me, it looks more like a straight-jacket that he just got out of, than a bag.

Oh my baby pussy cat ….i can carry him in that bag all my life

Baby Girl loved the hockey game; watching the players whiz by on their skates and watching the crowd. I can't wait to take her to a roller derby!

Update: Joe has a whole bunch of great roller derby photos on his site.

awww! thanks for the bee-yoo-ti-ful pic of me and my baby from last years championship! its posted in my journal now! and thanks for being a derby fan!

mommacherry 350 degrees
derby liberation front

HEY! We have one of those too!

Cute wee baby butt :-)

Risky maneuver though...

Not to take anything away from our dear photographer -- who now produces beauty with regularity -- but I wonder what it is about plants? They do so much of the work for those who photograph, paint, or draw them. Any part of them is whole, and so to bring just a visual slice of a plant organism into our compositions is to borrow from what is already composed, balanced, and in possession of integrity. A man I study t'ai chi from told me, "It's good to look upon living things." These two thoughts seem fitted to each other.

Maybe it's to balance himself so he doesn't go (further) over the edge with the whole noir thing? :-P

It looks like your thumb got in the way :-)

I'm embarrassed to say it took me a few minutes of looking to have any clue about what you meant.

A true gardner's thumb, smeared in clay, caught on a root hair.

This one makes me think of Zanzibar.

You've got to love faux-wood grain laminex.

No, no, this is real plastic, not that synthetic stuff you see in cheaper joints.

I really love it. Mind sharing a trick on cross-processing? Thanks in advance.

So it's safe to say it's not one of the 2001 monoliths, hanging out for the first sentient diner-goer that's up to snuff.

Great shot!! Got a question I have beeen running into some weird things with a new lens. See the color shift on the wall? Various kinda rainbow colors. Any idea on why its happening so much on white backgrounds? Changing how much I compressed the photo helped somewhat but it's still there. :(