deadlines.

today marks the completion of one of the hardest deadlines i've had to meet in the last year and a half at this job. sans creative director, sans real direction at all, i was faced with a massive website with completely non traditional navigation and aimed at 15-20 year old alaskan native youth about sexual health. Once the the navigation and concept were nailed down (4 days) I had 5 days to complete the site. i've been working longggg days/night all week, and have gotten to know the cleaning people here all too well. i've also found if you need a little inspiratation late night at the office, download a banging 90s hip hop mix. wont disapoint. back when diddy was puff daddy. images shown are place holders, ba photo and fish photo.
in the midst of the we're doing photoshoots for content and i'm looking forward to getting out to the alaska native heritage center today.
my film is sitting idle in it's cameras, sad and somewhat neglected, but i managed to get a few shots off yesterday with the leica out at westchester lagoon when i allowed myself a 10 minute break. so monday. off to kellers and the gym. tomorrow. getting outside with my shred stick. and today.... please no snafoos. please please. and then i need to unwind and eat something because i'm pretty sure i've lost 5 lbs this week.

fin.

fin.
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this week the things i miss are my dog, and being able to land on the ground. i got to play with two really cool dogs this week, ferdinand and dozer. they were both so small and cute and cuddly. awwww. finally wasn't so smal and cute and cuddly, more kind of a spaz that you had to get really worn out in order to be cuddly. hopefully the oscar/ferdinand photos come out....silly rollei. silly me.
i've been snowboarding what feels like a lot lately and it's been super awesome for the first hour or so, then struggling to ignore the pain the second hour. followed by a few hours of stiffening pain and swelling. all the little mini natural airs at aly are the equivalent of dropping 20ft cliffs in stead of two feet, because my leg just cant take the compression. and i fould some weird little lumps in there yesterday that i hope have nothing to do with anything...ew.... even just bouldering, dropping down from the top of the wall... eventually it will come back. eventually. and eventually i will get a dog of my own and stop being creepy and preying on others... eventually.

how often can a person get sick?

kswanson
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pretty often it seems. *cough cough*
I picked this photo today since kswanson in starring all dejectedly at his feet. which is what i'd be doing today if i weren't starring at this silly screen all day. he was probably just thinking gee what's taking her so long to focus.
aside from that moment of self-pity, i got film back from the canon canonet QL17 GIII. Kind of a mouth full for such a small simple camera, but i'm loving her in black and white, and i have two more rolls to drop off today. mostly people sitting in restaurants, or people eating things. I'm pretty sure it's time for me to pick a focus unrelated to convenience.
The Zoe Strauss lecture was cool. She's a super rad person, and I enjoyed her first friday portrait session. Funnnny.

how it works.

ba + marian
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thanks to ba, marian and colin for letting me tag along on the shoot the other weekend. sorry i wasn't a very good light stand, i was distracted by taking photos as well. whoops. here's what came of it.
it's been so great to be surrounded by others with cameras and i'm completely obsessed. my first roll from the canon was sweet. though i have a feeling i may need to hang out with more people, so i dont have 1,000 photos of kris and brian. :(
for those interested, no, the volcano has not erupted. but i wish it would. people + ash + snow = great photos. flipping great. tonight i'm going to see Zoe Strauss speak at the museum. should be really cool. too bad patrick's car battery couldn't take the fairbanks cold to come down for it. would have been neat.

here's a comparison for funsies. brian took both pictures, top - his hasselblad with portra 400 NC film, bottom, my rolleiflex with portra 400 VC film.... interesting. i think my camera wins, he thinks he does. guess that's why we use different film.