Bathroom Perspective
It’s funny how some ordinary everyday objects take on a new life of their own depending on how you look at them. Of course, for someone like me who has -5.5 vision correction in both eyes, this is how...
View ArticleMother and Daughter
I’m sure there’s some sort of life lesson to learn from the massive striped spider which has been constantly making a web on the side of my car door. But I really don’t care because the damn thing...
View ArticleMedium Sized
After college, I lived in Kankakee County in a small town called Momence for a while. There were only a few hundred people living there with a main street no longer than 10 or 15 blocks long, and...
View ArticleUniversal Tooth
Debating the details of someone’s core beliefs is an entertaining yet usually pointless endeavour; but let slip the dogs of war, I say. I once argued with a girl for what felt like two hours about...
View ArticleCracking Open the Omniverse
Today I experienced a cranial disaster resulting from a singularity in all space and time. It all started way back when my parents decided not to have any more children after the birth of my older...
View ArticleEt maintenant au Congo
Often when I am photographing wealthy socialites partying or buying art on the north shore of Chicago, I think of a friend of mine, Amy Ernst, who is in the Congo right now taking amazing photos of...
View ArticleThoughts on Thoughts
I am Captain Insomnia. My super power is the ability to stay awake forever. Sometimes I just can’t get my brain to shut the hell up. It’s probably clinical and can be treated with a pill which will...
View ArticleMetrics
Some people I work with don’t care about anything other than successful numbers. As someone involved in creating artwork for a living, it’s difficult to mesh with that metrics-based world. But I do...
View ArticleAll these things that I’ve done
Tomorrow is my birthday. Thirty-six. Alla, the girl who cuts my hair, says I’m just a baby though an increasing percentage of the clipped hair falling from her scissors is silver. She’s getting married...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Exploding Girl
I can’t think of anything to write about tonight so I am just going to start writing and see if anything comes out of my head in opposition to my writer’s block. Maybe I should simply describe the...
View ArticleAdaptive Preference Formation
You can’t reach the grapes so they are probably not ripe anyway, right? This attitude is known as Adaptive Preference Formation. It’s what we do, as humans, to justify our failures. The other day, I...
View ArticleSmashed Android
Hey blog. It’s like 3am. I am obviously not going to fall asleep any time soon despite a killer-busy day today which ended at 10:30pm. I don’t know what PM stands for but it feels like post mortem...
View ArticleInelastic
I’ve spent the last few nights watching The Pacific on Blu-Ray with an air-sick bag close by. Television programming is so repetitive with rehashed themery that it has become a blister on the minds of...
View ArticleMemento
Sometimes when I sit introspectively and review the conversations of the day in my head, I think, “Why didn’t I acknowledge when Sally told me that she was in love with Jack? I just sat there and then...
View ArticleCar Show Girl
The Chicago Auto Show is coming up again soon and that means there’s a chance I’ll see her again. Wait, who? The girl from the car show! More on her later. Silly, I know. The statistics for...
View ArticleChildren of an Idle Brain
It’s sad that in the past five years of blogging, despite my roller coaster love life, I’ve only posted once on Valentine’s Day. In 2009, I wrote about saving your old emails and how it paid off in a...
View ArticleSupplies!
I don’t squeeze my toothpaste tube up from the bottom the way everyone else does because I like there to be some surprises in my life. Like, “Hey, there’s a whole ‘nother glob of extra toothpaste over...
View ArticleMy Version of Inception
So, after typing my last post which was about the recent increase in surprises in my life, and after proofing and publishing it, SURPRISE!, only half of the post was published. Everything I added...
View ArticlePhotography Workflow
This may initially look complicated but this is the photography workflow that I currently use including the route from initial captured image, through ingestion and processing, distribution and...
View ArticleYou are now pregnant with oil
Listening to Moulin Rouge’s final scene on YouTube while editing pregnancy test photos is a great multitasking combination. Earlier during the photo shoot, we didn’t have any urine to drop into the...
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