Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Saturday Night Radio Programs

When I went away to college, I had this device that hooked up to my stereo. Inside the 12 by 12 clear box was an 8 inch bar with two LCD strips on it. One lit up red for bass and one lit up red for treble. They responded to the music or speech of the stereo and gave one a display of lights that was intoxicating to watch. My friends and I used to put on my Bill Cosby albums and listen to and watch them for hours. One weekend I returned from a visit home and my roommate told me he and some others tried to watch Pink Floyd's The Wall on it, but that it was just too trippy for them.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Spring's Coming

Because I am in the mood for something vibrant, something living, and a sight of what is to come in the next few months. This makes me think of those in my life who have brought beauty to the world and cared for it and looked after it.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Vanishing Horizon

It's all disappearing. The hood ornaments because they're too dangerous. Really, it's the drivers plowing through populated crosswalks...and pedestrians jaywalking while gabbing on their cell phones unconcerned about the world around them -- these are the people responsible for the damage being inflicted...not a chrome hood ornament. You think the rest of the front end of that car isn't dishing out some damage? Before that it was the big chrome bumpers, and before that wood paneling. How much character remains after all the refining for aerodynamics and the attempts to people-proof motorized means of transport? Those in the wrong are not held responsible -- it is the rest that must pay the price.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hitch up the Wagon


Another one from what we'll refer to as The Millersville Files. An example of finding the optimal point at which refinement of an idea, set-up, camera position, and lighting comes together. There is always the possibility of continuing on and starting to get away from that image. Thanks to some help from my friends and Tom's sound judgment I was able to realize when it was not working and see that I had indeed captured the image I was striving to achieve.