Gravity's Lens

Still working on The Big Updates but in the meantime, trillian_stars and I got to spend some time with the lovely and talented and extremely tall Imogen Heap this week. She's one of the easiest people to photograph I've ever worked with though for me it's odd to be looking up at someone. Then Trill and I went to see her (sold out) show at the TLA, had a terrific time, met lots of people from the Intharwebz (hello!) and then went off to XIX to wrap up the evening.



Here's her new video for First Train Home from the album Ellipse which just came out. I got it on iTunes.



Oh, and through some MAGIC indeSCEAN was able to score me @kylecassidy at twitter. How I do not know (possibly by killing the Kyle Cassidy who'd already got it), but I am no longer @finallykyle I am now, finally, @kylecassidy, if you're on there, you can often see the goodies as they happen, though not as carefully thought out.




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Caption: Activist group sued for charging architect with racism.

Real Change,
Vol. 16 No. 52
Dec. 2-8, 2009 

(  Heron  )

©2009 Ed Book

Had a lot of anger and dysfunction between us until we actually got to the hospital. I let her know I was upset enough to not want to talk about it, and left it at that. Don't want to go into it. I understand why.. or why I THINK why.. but cannot live with the relationship this way.

Sorry about this guys, but it turns out I really REALLY need to vent.. or I will dissolve into tears of frustration that I can't physically handle right now.

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I was going to post some Cool Photo Stuff, but my web host is down (which means you'll probably see lots of broken links in mah blog) -- and this gives me the opportunity to mention a Very Important Thing. Novelist jaylake has been battling cancer for a year or so now with very articulate, frank, and sometimes terrifying blog posts. I've admired his honesty and willingness to share what his fight has been like. Last week I got the solemn opportunity to photograph him upon his return home from lung surgery.

He's posted one of the photos here. It's a story of Determination and Will, put down by a gifted writer. Your lives wouldn't be made the worse by adding him to your friends page. It'll throw a measure of Resolute Determination in the Face of Great Odds in with the daily dose of complaints about jobs and dirty dishes so common on LJ. He's also @jaylake on Twitter. (I should also mention that you can buy his books on amazon.)






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So Don and I bought matching yellow clothes to wear out. We did so, and our friend, Abigail, showed up in a yellow dress. We were all yellow. Whoa! That's a real thing! I never knew what it was like! A few days late, Don and our friend, Andria, were wearing orange and grey stripes. I feel like we're all water from different rivers, or like we're clown loaches looking for other clown loaches to school with.


Observe the extraverted clown loaches flocking toward a hiding place. Clown loach photo not mine.

My first time posting here. I and the husband like to get out exploring. Have plans to visit the SCU close to here and spend some time in the library with their grace researching the ground's history. Here are some pictures of our explorations today.

Taggers have unfortunately found the place...many times. Rumors of violent night time activity, not sure to truth, but judging by art work....and location day trips recommend.

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I came across a photo of Roswell as a wee babe this morning. (That's the one on the left.)



You might ask ... "how did before turn into after?"

There was a lot of in between....



While she sits here on my leg a wobbly bowling ball, I find myself thinking back to one bleak evening three years ago in the emergency room of the vet hospital. A doctor said to me "There's a good chance this kitten won't live until tomorrow, the treatment's expensive, but if it were me, I'd try it."

And we did.

I'm left with the realization that sometimes the odds beat you out, and sometimes you win, but the more you try, the more you win. I'm sure Yogi Berra said it better somewhere, but it's true.



(p.s. thanks to everyone who said "hi" at Imogen Heap last night.)

It might just be the way that my LJ reading is shifting, but I think it's the best place for posting and talking about photography or other visual arts. And I've been intentionally adding photographers to my LJ reading list for some time now.

So: I invite everyone reading this to post a photo (or other visual work -- collage, drawing, whatever) or two of yours in the comments here. So we can all see what we're up to, and perhaps meet (aetherially) other visual artists/photographers.

Thanks in advance!

The parade wasn't even in our plans. By a stroke of good luck, the parade
route had changed this year and would be passing right by the hotel where
we were staying. Nobody told me that though...

On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up early and since the rest of our group
wasn't awake yet, decided to go across the street, to get a Starbucks Latte.
While crossing the street, I noticed that there was a weird and very loud
hellicopter hovering sound above head. I looked down the street, to see what
was going on and saw a large group of people gathered. At first I thought...no
way that's the parade...it must be an accident or something, so I started walking
towards the people and pulled my camera out of my purse. That's when I saw
Spiderman and clicked this pic. :-)




How lucky and super cool is that? Having no idea that the parade was near
me, but happening to walk across the street, right when it was begining to
pass on by...and having my camera with me? Double Lucky!





More parade pics are posted at my Flickr...just click on the photo links here.

Here's our hotel room at Le Meridien. Love those shiny copper bedspreads! :-)



I wish we had a setup for our flatscreen like this- it looks so clean and
modern. It even swivels from side to side. Not sure if we could even
buy something like this...probably would have to make it. Maybe Conner
will take it on as a spring project...? ;-)



Pretty city view from the Penthouse top level. Took the pic from the pool room.