napa: a lush’s paradise (fall 2006)
ken’s parents took us wine tasting in napa when they came out to visit. it’s a pretty impressive area with some pretty impressive wine. although heck if i can back that up, i was drunk by noon.
i think this batch of wine might have been bad.
outside of v. sattui.
inside of v. sattui.
i kind of wonder what i must look like sometimes, always electing to take photographs of the ground in such a picturesque place.
in the gondola, going to sterling vineyardz.
this was one of the prettiest wineries we went to.
(taken by ken)
i think this is one of my favorite pictures of myself. ever. (taken by ken)
my view. 😀
napa from the car!
new fanvid: can we stop?
oh, here’s the x-men fanvid i’ve been working on For Over a Year. not sure why it took me so long.* it’s about jean grey and mental instability and succumbing to the shadow self etc etc, yeah, you all hated x3 but you should watch it because i put it to the nine inch nails song, “me, i’m not.” so that automatically makes it pretty entertaining.
i also reuploaded that one youtube made me take down, after becoming emboldened by a bunch of links suggesting that a turn of the tide may eventually be in order for vidders vs copyright infringement laws foisted by whiny-ass companies that like to use other people’s work to make themselves rich but somehow can’t afford to let the fucking fans of said work pay tribute to it through, at times, some pretty damned neat transformative art.
if youtube deletes my account, i’m not going to be too fussed, because youtube makes everything look crappy. and srsly, that’s sort of my point. it’s like, grow up music and film industries: youtube is not a source for quality media so you should stop pretending it is. it is not losing you money. rather it’s exposing people To Your Product.
anyway, if you haven’t seen my vids at all you should check them out before youtube cans me, or something: my youtube channel.
but
you
can
also
download
them
off
my
non-existent
site.
as a bonus, better quality!
* other than that making fanvids out of only six or so hours total of potential footage, especially if the vids focus on one character in an ensemble cast, means one often runs out of footage. also, it was definitely a different editing style than i was used to, because trying to put clips to a nine inch nails song means one has to get a little more creative than usual if an attempt is made to follow the song as closely as possible. i mean, how do you visualize an eggbeater hooked up to an amp or whatever when all you have is a few minutes here and there of storm hugging people. it gets difficult.
a preponderance of trains: old sac 2006
a long, long time ago ken’s parents dragged us to the train museum in old sac. so i took a bunch of low quality pictures of things that amused me.
bathroom mirror myspace picture– On A Train
ken’s all “lol what’s for dinner” and the chef’s all “get out of my face, i can’t move”
this bear card is innocuously frightening. i’d expect it to show up in a stephen king novel.
this always happens to me. i go to a train museum and i end up taking dramatic pictures of a can of pork and beans. i just can’t stay focused.
next page: more train museum and assorted city non-life
srsly. don’t try using it. you’ll be sorry.
guess the homage! (taken by ken)
santa just looks totally pissed that that fat lazy elf isn’t pulling its weight, and is in fact spitefully making it even more difficult to push the little train cart along.
i couldn’t decide which one i liked better.
this is, what, the sac river? i’m not even sure. they do riverboat rides along it though.
we went to some restaurant afterwards with really gaudy ceiling lamps.
not sure quite how i feel about these last two yet. i do like how haunted the city seems at night.
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two i forgot to post
i’m not pleased with the way this one turned out. this is even the second attempt. it just comes out too graphic-novelly for my taste and you can’t easily tell it’s thom yorke. or at least i can’t.
i liked her gnarly toe. my scanner wasn’t big enough to handle the whole picture so i had to stitch two scans together with photoshop 😛
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just finished last night
i found a great technique that works for subtle gradations in soft textures, and that’s to take an HB pencil and lightly crosshatch over. it fills in the cracks left by darker pencils and fuzzes the transitions between light and dark a little.
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i think i play the slowest version of “christmas time is here” in history
i took piano lessons from age 9-18, and while living at home my playing apparently became a great source of entertainment for my mother, because every year she without fail asks me to send her cds of this stuff. occasionally i even fulfill her requests. last, last christmas (2007, ok, how would you say it) i made her this collection of covers. although it’s not my best work (e.g. you can hear pages turning, the mix is a little bassy, i only gave myself a few weeks to do this, and i sang while i played so both elements are somewhat compromised), i’ve been letting the mp3s play in rotation on my computer for a few months now and i’m kind of oddly proud of them. so i’ve put them up in case you cared.
except under unusual circumstances here and there where i just gave up, i believe these songs are one-off recordings. you’d have to ask ken.
never is a promise (fiona apple)
i don’t know how to let you go (sarah mclachlan)
christmastime is here (vince guaraldi)(instrumental)
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laura’s birthday, 2006
yes, so here is laura’s birthday dinner and after-events, of which i took like twenty pictures and pared down to less than half. most of these are not particularly good, but at least this is photographic evidence that, yes, laura does have birthdays. speaking of laura, i really need to call her.
the remains of the dinner
claire + jack = OTP
laura knows how to make booze happen
says it all, really
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cool hike fall 2006
current lag time of photographs= more than two years. this is no longer even edging on pathetic, it’s flung itself clear over the cliff.
this is a hike we did in a little town called cool, near auburn, ca. we were promised a swimming hole at the end of this trail, and it did not disappoint. half the pictures were processed before i got my new monitor, so the colors aren’t quite as awesome. but most of them aren’t worth going back and fixing, to be honest, so you’ll just have to suffer a little.
most of the hikes in auburn start out like this, all dry and dusty and intermittently shady.
ken likes rocks.
eating lunch at a convenient stream
(taken by ken)
nature’s graffiti
here is what we were really after. it’s like some sort of natural coliseum.
it comes with its own waterfall! (taken by ken)
it was too cold to do much swimming
so we mostly harassed frogs instead.
man vs nature: the epic cowering
welcome to cool!
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