10-21-2010

My house is currently in the shambles of on going "Friend Hotel" mode since last weekend. Rooms are reserved though Sunday, but feel free to book reservations as soon as we have vacancies. We accept AAA.

10-20-2010

Look, this is a fun date today. I also have a fun new shirt all the way from England. Mine mine mine.

Speaking of fun, I took Joel and Chris all day adventuring throughout Cleveland chaos today to see stuff in the daytime, and eat Cleveland food. You'll have to wait until Chris edits the video though since we mostly did that instead of me taking pictures...it will be worth the wait. We also scored a bunch of antiques that Chris can't get back in England.

Bartenders love (fancy cocktails)/hate (too much free liquor tasting) us. Dustin, may also be out to kill me (p.s. daydrinking is o.k. on my day off...I promise...don't tell). It makes me do exciting things for no reason.

Family reunion with Tony and Jesse. Dinner was too delicious and dark to document tonight, but Crave gets an A+ in my book.

p.s. I hope I'm not as obnoxious as this creeper.

p.p.s. I want your camera, creeper.

10-19-2010

This giant praying mantis watched me the whole time I took pictures of it. I don't think it liked me very much. I wonder who it was praying to.

Creole dinner at Battiste & Dupree with Nicole, Joel and my friend Chris from England. Junior the owner/host/chef gave us all gifts. Then I gave a tour of Cleveland to show places to Chris. We ended the night here at the Velvet Tango Room for fancy cocktails.

10-18-2010

Nicole got glow in the dark candy.

I'm not usually into awe-pretty-picture landscape photos, but autumn in the midwest is like Natalie Portman pretty. One, two, and three.

It's kind of hard to exactly explain the nature of Nicole and my relationship when no one else is around, but it involves activities like me encouraging her to do stuff like this so I can take pictures. Needless to say, things are pretty much perfect in our relationship.

10-17-2010

I have this now. No apologies.

My beloved taco stand. I could literally live in this chair right here for my whole life and be happy. She would cook fresh tortillas for me every day (this is by far my favorite picture I've taken from the day, and probably the past few months...but I'm having black and white month).

Speaking of pictures I've taken in the past few months, I've been considering putting together a zine/site/collection of all the portraity shots of friends that I've taken with film (if you've hung out with me at all, you know I'm always good to stick a camera in your face, so I have tons of shots like that). I don't know if anyone would be interested in this at all other than me though since they're my friends. I think the people in the pictures might like to look at it too just to see themselves, but I don't know. In anycase, here are some more.

Doug.
Victor and Dave.
Danny.
Baby Mike.
Marshall.
Adam.
Lou Dobkins.
Russell.

Not really portraity, but Nicole found wild grapes and got super excited. She loves wild grapes like I love tacos.

10-16-2010

So I've been (recently failing at) not eating meat for ten and a half months now. Generally I do a good job unless I'm traveling where there's special food I can't get locally, or if I'm with people and don't want to be a baby about only eating vegetables and tofu. It's become a weird OCD thing now where I feel like I'm cheating on my girlfriend if I eat meat...even though said girlfriend doesn't exist. Well, once a year I end up in a far away suburb for a weekend doing stuff with friends. Down the street, there's a super authentic Mexican grocery that cooks super authentic mexican food on flat top outside of the store. This is very much what I imagine heaven will smell like. That being said, I took a weekend get away from caring about my body and ate as much delicous grilled meat as I possibly could. I don't think I like any food in the whole world more than street-food tacos with corn tortillas, cilantro and onions. They also have a full bar of salsas and other toppings that I'm pretty sure are home made.

If you know the story behind this picture, it's pretty funny. If not, it's pretty lame.

10-15-2010

Apparently this is how Cleveland preserves its Natural History.

This is a $90,000 VCR. I will never possesse this amount of money at any point in my entire life.

Night Moves.

10-14-2010

10-13-2010

My desk is like watching cartoons made out of paper.

The weird evil pod thing from 10-4 has dried out and gotten more weird/evil/pod thing-like. It's starting to split open too...which makes me suspect that it is beginning to hatch and will unleash something evil into the world on halloween.

10-12-2010

Jared on Jared violence.

10-11-2010

Adventure Time is one of my favorite shows on tv rightnow, and Marceline the Vampire Queen is my favorite character on the show. Tonight was start of season two and I got really excited when I read that it was going to have her in it...too bad the episode wasn't very good. Hopefully the rest of the season will be better. To make up for it, I made a bag of popcorn and watched my #1 favorite show on tv.

10-10-2010

Nicole and I decided that today would be a good day to take pictures with film. But first, every good Sunday starts with brunch. Then we went to go look for colorful leaves, but they weren't quite colorful enough for us to really get excited about. Speaking of color, her new hair kind of makes her look a little mid-90's emo now. So since the leaves weren't photogenic, we attempted to take more exciting multiple exposure ghost pictures instead, but that didn't work out so well either.

Since Nicole was feeling rich, she decided to go pumpkin shopping again even though she got one last Sunday (10-3). This time, she selected an even huger pumpkin than the one she got last weekend.

Later that night, we got hungry and decided to go to the Happy Dog (this is a pretty common occurance). But apparently it has the potential to frequently become a very uncommon occurance. One time when we went (6-23) we were supprised by a random performance by the Cleveland Orchestra. This time, in addition to a concert, we randomly stumbled into a friend's wedding-post reception-after party by accident. Additionally, college friends from out of town, and friends I hadn't hung out with since college were there.

P.s. It's incredibly dark in the Happy Dog, which makes it very difficult to focus/not shake. As a matter of fact, I think this was the only picture I took all night that wasn't totally blurry/out of focus. So I'm going to go ahead and blame the dark for all the blurry pictures, and not because I had too many of what Nicole is holding. You believe me right? So, sorry if my pictures suck...I still like them anyway.

10-9-2010

Today we went for a fourteen mile bike ride on a path that goes under big bridges. Yay! Bridge! On the way, I may or may not have had a small accident involving a tree stump, my front brake, flying like a lead bird, and the gross black swamp that runs next to the path. Luckly there are no pictures of what may or may not have happened, but let's just say that it was far worse than the 3-21 Swamp of Sorrows incident.

The day quickly improved when I recieved unsolicited bribe money in the mail from some survey company. Then we had a "say farewell to summer weather" (probably) last dinner on a patio for the year at Momocho.

This picture of a classy gal shopping for 40s is my favorite picture of the day, but it doesn't count for black and white month.

10-8-2010

Light and shadow patterns this morning.

These are pretty much bricks of drugs to boys. Then my morning consisted of this, this, and this. Sometimes my job is pretty much amazing. And it all happed a few feet from this.

The end of the day inspires fun with high energy high contrast photography (i.e. standing on the desk to be right by the overhead light). It seemed like a good idea at the time...

High contrast badassery.
High contrast gigantism.
High contrast I don't even like Redbull.

Film things:
...that Ryan is the best.
* gallery is exiting the Cleveland art scene.
Nicole only window shops in windows that match her outfits.
I like this one.
Owl eyes.
Bear eyes.