10-25-2010

The drug store by my house has been running a deal where you get free prints with film development on Mondays. This has only been accelerating the growth of my already massive negatives pile.

10-24-2010

Today was total camera nerd nerd out! I had the ultimate Craigslist come up and bought myself an early Thanksgiving+Christmas+birthday present. I can't wait to actually start using it.

Before that though, I took this stuff out for the day.

We went here and here.

Lighthouse.
Flying eyeball.
Sunbeams.
Clouds.
Clicker.
Steelhead.
Spraypaint fish.
Lake glass.

10-23-2010

I woke up this morning glad that I wasn't dead. Then we went to the fine Akron establishment of Goodlife tattoo to visit with friends. I was excited that Victor was using his new rotary tattoo machine since I had never been tattooed by one before. I tipped in Michaels.

10-22-2010

The start of the day was pretty normal. Dinner was even supposed to bring me good luck...but there was a full moon that was out to get me. I saw new moustache aspirations, raging arrivals, and people trying not to hurt themselves.

The moral of the story is that it's dangerous to make friends with bartenders. Additionally, it's even more dangerous when your bartender friends let your friends who aren't bartenders behind the bar to play bartender. Dangerous (especially when the moon is full).

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.