2008

Aug

This really does say a lot about our contemporary lifestyle,...
Aug 18th
Well, it was free, so I shouldn’t complain.  But I was...
Aug 17th
We call it the Helvetica House.
Aug 16th
secretcorndog: Some crazy driver is taking pictures of me from his car on the highway…
Aug 15th
Kayleigh and I were briefly driving buddies this morning.
Aug 15th
Loyal lil’ cowdog.
Aug 14th
Gearheads Don't Get It
Aug 14th
“These paintings, these poems and these demonstrations which...”
— Francis Schaeffer, The God Who...
Aug 14th
Just one short step away from the Failbus.
Aug 13th
I know I have mentioned Tycho a whole bunch of times at this...
Aug 12th

So

Not only should I have started out as a graphic artist, but I should have started my journey into...
Aug 12th

101 More Things I Have Come To...

102 I always get myself into more than I should, but am always better for it.103 A life...
Aug 11th
And speaking of things I want but will likely never...
Aug 9th
I really, really need to live here.  Anybody want to be my...
Aug 9th
Pat Robertson And Al Sharpton Have "Come...
Aug 9th
Modern Alchemy Candles by D.L. & Co. are possibly the...
Aug 9th
Warch Watch
Yves Saint Laurent’s Autumn/Winter 2008 collection in motion.  Truly brilliant film.
Aug 7th
Zaha Hadid: The First Great Female Architect
Aug 7th
Satellite Tracking In Visual Form
Aug 4th
“Every honest question must be given an honest answer. It is...”
— Francis Schaeffer, The God Who...
Aug 4th
This is what happens to the places we leave behind.
Aug 4th

Photographer's Lament #4

When you are a photographer, and that fact is well known, everyone wants you to photograph something...
Aug 3rd
This is the second or third of these I’ve caught, so I...
Aug 3rd
“Frankly, I don’t want that version of America to survive —...”
— James Howard Kunstler
Aug 1st

Jul

Lightroom 2 Released
Jul 30th
Studio shoot today!
Jul 29th
“Out at sea for seven years I got your letter in Tangier I...”
— Josh Ritter,...
Jul 29th
“The current style sets a high but not impossible standard...”
— Henry-Russell Hitchcock and...
Jul 29th
Warch Watch
TR2N!  It’s not only officially happening, but now we have a teaser that debuted at Comic-Con...
Jul 27th
Photographer's Assistant Guidelines
Jul 27th
IBM shows us the future, according to 1975, in this series...
Jul 26th
Smart vs. Aptera
Jul 25th

101 Things I Have Come To Understand

001 Most of the time, when someone asks me to do something, my initial reaction is to complain...
Jul 25th
This what the image is really telling us.  It relates back...
Jul 24th

Why, You Hipsters, Why?

So there have been some trends amongst the hipster crowd that have become very noticeable in the...
Jul 24th
Ghostly Swim
Jul 23rd
Warch Watch
I’ve seen some bad driving.  I’ve done some bad driving.  And it’s true, I can...
Jul 23rd

And That Is Why There Are 600 Starbucks...

Amanda, with whom I am collaborating for a fashion shoot: Starbucks?
Me: Yes.
Amanda: Sounds good, I'll meet you there. Wait, the one on I-45, right?
Me: Um, yeah.
Amanda: Okay, just making sure there wasn't, like, another one.
Me: Yeah, there are 601 Starbucks stores in Huntsville. That's why they have announced the closing of 600 stores. The company decided one was enough.
Amanda: Hey, don't be mean. On my street at home there are two that face each other.
Jul 23rd

Photographer's Lament #3

You know what?  Photography is expensive.  It’s very hard to get good equipment for cheap. ...
Jul 23rd
“Comfort is not a function of beauty.”
— Philip Johnson
Jul 23rd
The Five Minute Chocolate Cake
Jul 23rd
I’ve gotten a lot of comments in the past few months...
Jul 22nd
The Best Possible Information?
Jul 21st
“My plans are to retire on my one-hundredth birthday. Then I...”
— Philip Johnson in 1987, at age...
Jul 21st
Tycho
Jul 21st

Photographer's Lament #2

Everyone seems think that they are a photographer these days, but very few truly are.  Especially...
Jul 21st
“He loved his [heart] operation, judging from the many times...”
— Philip Johnson in 1976, after...
Jul 21st
This woman has the biggest hair I’ve ever seen on a...
Jul 21st
“Perpetually restless, utterly mysterious and so very...”
— Monica Hesse, “Baby...
Jul 20th
The Modern House Estate Agents
Jul 20th
As opposed to energy-deficient calories?  Honestly!  Why...
Jul 20th

Photographer's Lament #1

So I have discovered that I have three semi-realistic options when it comes to fashion models: Find...
Jul 17th
“But please don’t mistake miles traveled, and money earned,...”
— Patton Oswalt, surprisingly,...
Jul 17th
Warch Watch
Amazingly, the organizers of the TED Conference had Billy Graham to speak back in 1998.
Jul 17th
“The idea of permanence has always been associated with...”
— Henry-Russell Hitchcock and...
Jul 17th
Warch Watch
A short video about Gregory Crewdson, a brilliant photographer and one of my major influences. ...
Jul 16th
Iconic Logo Designers
Jul 16th

Free Coffee

I just realized that amidst all the usual commotion of my local Starbucks, in conjunction with a...
Jul 15th
“In 1776, the entirety of the United States had a population...”
— Jason Smith And in response to...
Jul 15th
In Soviet Russia, shark jump you!
Jul 14th
Mark Cuban Buys Sports
Jul 14th

Dog

One of the best things about having a dog has to be the lack of cleaning up after food spills. ...
Jul 12th
Warch Watch
Too good not to show.  This is the growth of Wal-Mart over time since 1962.  Unpleasant, to say the...
Jul 11th
For some reason, I keep telling myself that mountains will...
Jul 10th
If Michael Bay Had Written "The Dark Knight"
Jul 10th
New Twin Towers?
Jul 9th
What happens when you try, but not hard enough?  You get the...
Jul 9th

Kayleigh's Guide To Job Hunting In...

This evening, Kayleigh set out for me the steps to her job hunting process. I search job...
Jul 6th
Why it was ever acceptable to produce professional equipment...
Jul 5th
Self-Replicating Machines
Jul 3rd

Hancock

I really don’t care what the majority of critics and (certain) friends say: I enjoyed Hancock...
Jul 3rd
This really does represent everything wrong with...
Jul 1st
The Oldest Companies
Jul 1st

Jun

Warch Watch
Now I know what I’ll be doing the evening of November sixth.
Jun 30th
Warch Watch
Not only are we all going to die, but the genocide will now be set to music.
Jun 29th
They forgot the “no fun” sign.  Fun causes...
Jun 27th
Lil’ cowdog.
Jun 25th
The Best Wikipedia Entry Of All Time
Jun 24th
The New Nation Of Forvik
Jun 23rd
For those of you who think you’re okay with your poor...
Jun 23rd

Living Life On Sleepless Nights

Before I post my potentially incoherent and likely ridiculous rambling session, I want to apologize...
Jun 23rd
Jun 23rd
How To Nap
Jun 21st
TaylorMade must mean solid platinum.
Jun 19th
Warch Watch
The new Weezer video to “Pork and Beans” is basically YouTube: The Movie.  I am in awe.
Jun 18th
Power And Politics
Jun 18th
“The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity...”
— Paul O’Neil, “The...
Jun 18th
Whoa!  Hands!  I have a hip, too!
Jun 17th
Good ol’ summer school.
Jun 16th
The new twenty dollar bills?
Jun 15th
“I like hippies. Hippies are awesome, except they invented a...”
— A little girl at a Texas camp,...
Jun 14th
I’ve got this tree growing along the back of my house,...
Jun 10th
The Return Of Zeppelins
Jun 9th
Undoubtedly my favorite moments in any photoshoot.  One of...
Jun 8th

Checkout

As per the usual, I chose the slowest lane at the store.  That’s what I get for going against...
Jun 8th
Refacing Government Tender
Jun 7th
Excuses for my house to be as dirty as it is: 1.
Jun 7th
Mr. Clean now cleans sidewalks!
Jun 7th

Chi Alpha Tonight

Eric: Did you go to Chi Alpha tonight?
Me: Sure did.
Eric: How was it?
Me: Awesome. You should have been there.
Eric: Prove it.
Me: Three people ascended into Heaven and we all become apostles. You missed out.
Eric: Any levitations?
Me: Only with the ascensions.
Jun 6th
Jun 5th
A night at the all-new Casa de Jackson!
Jun 2nd

May

This is where I’m going to work someday.  And...
May 31st
The Old Starbucks Logo
May 31st
Warch Watch
Think you had an awkward childhood? Just remember, it could have been worse.
May 30th
From the studio art building at James Madison University.  I...
May 30th
“Happy Birthday Plywood”
— Marquee Sign in Lyndhurst,...
May 28th
They won’t just save your life, they’ll freshen...
May 28th
Warch Watch
If you aren’t as pissed off as I am by the end of this, you clearly weren’t paying...
May 28th

The Emperor Has No Clothes

squashed: The circulating 60 minutes segment on “millenials” has drawn a host of negative...
May 28th

Doing What I Do Best

Mom: You could not do a better job of irritating me right now.
Me: You mean I'm succeeding at something?!
May 28th
If only this product were what it sounds like.
May 25th
One of the world’s only two acceptable cats.  Mostly...
May 24th
International Style Parents.
May 24th

Canada Dry

It occured to me as I drank my ginger ale on the plane today that planes are the only place that I...
May 23rd
Not surprisingly, he came back out of the theater...
May 22nd
Jason with his favorite doll.
May 21st
Currently my least favorite new building in Houston.  Not...
May 20th
It’s one of my illusions!
May 20th
Oh mandolin, soon you will be mine.
May 18th
Who wouldn’t want this puzzle?  It goes great with...
May 18th
Here’s Michael unleashing mind-blowing muscle growth.
May 17th
“Expressways ruin everyone’s life along the way and...”
— Philip Johnson
May 15th
This is a photograph that sums up all things ten in the...
May 15th
“My favorite Roman emperor, Augustus, used to boast that he...”
— Philip Johnson, in a...
May 15th
Warch Watch
Stephen Colbert debates Lucifer with Dr. Philip Zimbardo.  An interesting clip, to say the least.
May 15th
“Art has nothing to do with intellectual pursuit - it...”
— Philip Johnson, in an address...
May 15th
“Why yes, I do have a lion in my sidecar while driving...
May 15th

On Nikon And Houston

Michael: You fag. Your camera brand is endorsed by Ashton Kutcher.
Me: Well, the city you are moving to is built by oil companies. Why don't you head on over to the country club, Karl?
May 12th
Warch Watch
It shouldn’t be this funny, but somehow, it is.
May 12th
An excerpt from a piece by a fellow art student here at Sam...
May 11th
“I could put my burgers on your street!”
— Jake Berry, after seeing...
May 10th

On Jawsh Pumping The Gas

Me: Awesome, full service!
Jawsh: Wait, what is "full service?"
Me: You are.
May 10th
May 10th
It has been too long.
May 9th
I want this on a shirt.  Badly.
May 8th
I don’t really care to explain why this is so funny. ...
May 8th
Newspaper Blackout Poetry
May 8th

Mark Shockley's Small Group

Me: I'm going to go to Starbucks in a little bit.
Mark: I was thinking about going there but I have small group in a little while. And then I thought about inviting my small group there, but none of them drink coffee.
Me: They don't drink coffee? What are you teaching them?!
Mark: I'm sorry. They just haven't...accepted the gospel yet.
May 7th