Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
goals	5	3 m run	7 m run	3 m run	35 Tem	rest	7 m run	14
actual	5	3 m run	7 m run	3 m run	35 Tem	rest	7 m run	14

Another good week. I’m going to go ahead and give myself another A. It was tough convincing myself to run on the 4th of July, as well as both Saturday and Sunday, being that we were staying in eastern Long Island for a wedding. But, I still managed to knock out the mileage. I am really starting to enjoy running again, which is exactly the feeling that I was working so hard to get back. I still have a long way to go pace-wise and trim wise. But, I’m really glad to be enjoying the process again. Also– Helen, thanks for pointing out the oversight. I will make sure to affix the “nerdy stuff” tag this week

Weekly totals:

Count: 6 Activities
Distance: 39.69 mi
Time: 05:19:36 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 1,749 ft
Avg Speed: 7.5 mph
Calories: 5,755 C

On tap for this week:

 

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
6	3 m run	7 m run	3 m run	5 x 800	rest	7 m pace	10

I saw this on Curated, which led me to Core77.  I was dying over this quote from the Core 77 post–

When a tip about Project Aura arrived in my inbox last week, I suspected that it was just another hipster bike lighting system and the electropop soundtrack of the Vimeo teaser initially confirmed my intuition.

Hahahaha. Anyway, isn’t this an awesome idea? It would look lame on my current bike. But my friend has been talking about letting me take over his SE single speed when he moves to Italy in July. I’m pretty sure that this system would look very dope on that setup. It’s like Tron meets Williamsburg. Also, is that the young Michael Diamond riding the bike in the photo? I don’t want to start any rumors.

Here is a vid of it in action. Pay attention because it could very well be the coolest thing you see today–

On a completely unrelated note. We bounce for Europe a week from today.

My friend Dan emailed me this awesome link the other day to a page on the NASA website where there are links to all of the images that the Apollo 17 astronauts took while documenting the mission. After clicking through about 300 links, I immediately agreed with his statement that “It would be nice to have a viewer of sorts to browse through these.” The images are so amazing, and they are just kind of buried there on the NASA site. So, I thought it would be a good idea to put them all in a site where they could be appreciated for their artistic value. So, since then I have been working on a site that I’m calling “Photographic Art from the Apollo 17 Mission.” It is very far from done. In fact, I have only been able to download about 1/4 of the images, so far. But feel free to take a look. The photography is pretty mind blowing stuff.

Fashion week starts tomorrow. So, I’m going to be pretty slammed for the next week. But hopefully we can meet up again next week (if not before) with some fun images to show for it.

And anxiously awaiting the return of their lovely bride from far off lands.

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They take a photo of themselves in a mirror, or even a small series of them. Apparently they also grow their beards back. I just want to say that I think that it’s kind of cool the way that either one eye, or the other is in focus in these shots. I guess that I also want to say that I really hope Reagan makes it home. Finally, happy Friday.

So, yeah. These images are from a new series that I’m working on called “nerdp*rn.” That’s not really what I shot them for. But, until reading the previous sentence, the first sentence is pretty believable, right?

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In other news, I bought a book from Hare a Krnsa monk in the subway, today. The dude was so mellow and nice, I couldn’t say no. I read half of the book on the way home. I can’t say that I have reached enlightenment, yet. But, I definitely think that I better milk it while my soul is in human form. What if I come back as a shrub or something?

I recently finished reading the latest issue of GQ. Toward the end of the mag, they had this little editorial previewing stuff for spring. One of the first images was the one above, that I grabbed from the GQ website. It is a photo of Arnie Hammer, apparently about to knock someone’s teeth out with an early 90′s-style skateboard. I don’t know if their inspiration here was the movie “Kids” or what. I mean, I get the styling. Skateboarding is now very “in.” But we don’t want to seem too trendy, so we are going to throw in a old-school wide deck and give a nod to.. blah blah blah.

All of that crap is peripheral. Do you notice the particular model of deck that Hammer is holding? That’s right, it is a Vision “Gator” pro-model. And where is Gator (AKA Mark Rogowski) these days? That’s right, he is serving time in a Federal prison. What was the crime again? Correct, again! He murdered his ex-girlfriend by bludgeoning her to death after raping her.

So my question to you, Mr. prop stylist, is:  Are you completely oblivious to this apparent faux pas, or is there some sort of hidden meaning in this image?

Shooting from the hip, flying by night, whatever you want to call it. That’s what I have been up to. Actually it would have been nice if there would have been a little more flying by night going on over the past few days. We have been trying to get Reagan on a plane so that she can go visit some family before she starts her new job. Unfortunately, snow happened. Because of all of the craziness, I have been canceling, rescheduling, then canceling just about everything on my calendar, since Monday. Reagan is booked again for a flight leaving tomorrow afternoon. Let’s hope that the stars align for this one, because I’m not sure if either of our nerves could handle a repeat of yesterday.

A few things that I did manage to accomplish:

1. I bought Reagan a new camera in anticipation of her voyage. It is a compact. She likes ones that she can take around with her in her purse. It is a pretty good one. I was tempted to just get her a G12, because I’m so loyal to Canon. Instead, I ultimately ended up going with a Samsung TL500, which also shoots RAW, was $100 more affordable, and has a Shneidler lens (that opens to f/1:1.8). I hope it works out for her.

2. I updated my Linux operating system. About a year ago I put together a little Linux box running on Ubuntu, so that I could back up all of my images. After I got all of the drives installed and setup the OS, I haven’t even had it hooked up to a monitor. The only times I have had to restart it, is when the power went out (when Reagan blew a breaker with her blowdryer). Everything is running swimmingly. I just unloaded about 300 GBs of images onto a brand new virgin drive on the Linux machine overnight. So, that is my plug for open source everything.

That’s about it. The image at the top is just a cropped screenshot of myGMail inbox. Do you ever have those moments where there is so much going on in your brain simlutaneously, that you just kind of short circuit and everything becomes abstract? I was having one of those moments when I made the screengrab.

(photo I posted it because I was archiving last year’s stuff, and I came across it. It has nothing to do with this post, except for the fact that breakdancing is still awesome in 2011)

I have been thinking pretty long and hard about some resolutions for this year. The only ones that were coming quickly to mind were jokes. Like: Resolved, I’m going to get as fat as possible in 2011. That way, if I don’t achieve my goal, I’m stoked, because I won’t be fat. If I do get as fat as possible, I could say that I finally kept my resolution.

Then I started coming up with things like “demonstrate more patience.” How in the world can something like that be quantified, though? I mean, do I keep tally marks from month to month for each time I catch myself groaning about someone’s (possibly my own)  incompetence– then if December has less tally marks than January, I succeeded? What if I encounter more incompetence in January than in December?

Finally, it dawned on me. I have fallen out of some pretty good habits, and into some less than good ones. Reversing those items will be a win-win. Instead of grinding away with the tally marks all year long, I can knock out all of the hard work in just a few months, while I force myself to get back on track. After that I can coast through the rest of the year by just doing maintenance while I reap the benefits. So, down to brass tacks:

1. Get more rest. During the winter it is so easy to just get sucked into all night projects. I mean, it is dark for more than half of the time that I’m awake each day. I have fallen into the habit of burning away the night working on projects that I invent for myself. Then I wake up feeling like crap. After a few days, my productivity starts to wane and I eventually just have to waste half of a weekend catching up on sleep. This is not only totally unproductive, but it also pisses off Reagan.. bad.
2. Stop eating just to break up the monotony. Even when I was burning through 90000000 calories a day by running, I only ate one meal per day. Partly because it was all I had time for. Partly because that was the only time that I was really hungry. In reality, I’m still only hungry once per day. But I have fallen into a stupid habit of eating just for an excuse to get away from my desk. I find myself eating second dinner at times.
3. Stop spreading myself too thin. Sometimes I will overbook myself, because I have a hard time saying no. Sometimes I can pull it off. Most of the time, at least one job ends up suffering. I think that if I slow down enough to devote my whole attention to whatever I’m working on, the results will definitely reflect it.
4. Start running again. Hi, I used to be a runner. Then the temperature dropped and it was dark a lot, so I stopped. Completely. Reagan got me a Garmin 410 for Christmas that is still sitting safely in it’s packaging. Starting this week, I’m going to run at least once per week until I can catch the fever again and dive back in headlong (probably when the temps start getting above 50, again).
5. Start shaving. I just threw that one in because it will be so easy, hahahaha. Sorry Mr. Beardo (and Reagan). It’s the end of the beard as we know it.

And, that is kind of a lot to tackle. But, here we go. Hold me accountable, amigos.

Reagan had this fancy idea to pass along some of her clothing via her blob. So, on Sunday night we had a little shoot with her modeling the clothes. I couldn’t help but make this little video compiling all of the frames (including outtakes with Reagan walking out of the frame, and shots where the strobe didn’t fire). Watch it, if you want.

Try to solve the puzzle below. You can mouse over the image at the bottom left to see what the finished image should look like. Click “play again” to re-shuffle the pieces. To move a tile, click (don’t drag) the tile, and it will slide into the blank space.

Factory Fresh Block Party sliding puzzle game » make sliding puzzle

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