noon: mar28

didnt get out of bed until like 1 pm... i dont really mind being in bed so long. i really needed to catch up on some rest.

so i guess i should explain this noon thing...

this is not some "i am going to take a photograph EXACTLY at noon every day" kind of thing. i just think it will be interesting to document where i am around midday everyday. so if you look at the metadata for these, some of them are not really taken anywhere near 12. but i think of these as more of a documentation of what what happening, not where i am only if i have a camera. plus its nice to have an excuse to take at least one photo a day :)

noon: mar27

went to get sushi again with brooke. is there a medical condition where the infected eat too much sushi? if so i think it must be spread through the spicy sauce cause it way too freakin good to pass on.

i kind of feel like a sushi version of a zombie.... except for the whole eating brains part



maybe SOME brains, if it had spicy sauce on it

sushistash

oh wait!!!! I found her never mind. you can all stop looking in found the one for me!

macro wedding?

so i recently decided that i need to get married, so i bought a ring. (and started taking macro photos. i just got a reverser ring. what a crazy invention!) so if you know of anyone let me know. or if you want to talk about cheap macro photography you know that too.

noon: mar26

sitting at my computer today editing a small portfolio for a studio visit that i have today with oriana fox. she was supposed to run through a small portion of my work and give me some feed back. it ended up being much different than it was supposed to be. we just went to the traverse city pie company and got a free veggie sandwich, then to a german movie called the wave

noon: mar25

ben.... ran into my friend ben while eating sushi with brooke. ben made us follow him around campus searching for a man that does not exist. that ended up being a flash mob of sorts. we walked into the cafe and all dropped something at the same time and spent 5 mins in slo-mo picking it up. we all snapped out of it at the same time and got up and left

(spicy tofu and seaweed sushi is great!)

sexist maintenance man you say?

so I am at work right now, hanging out waiting for people to need help in the darkroom/lighting studio, I was just sitting here minding my own business when all of the sudden I heard a BANG BANG BANG. now, the heater always makes some kind of noise when its warming this frigid classroom but this was ridiculous. it seriously sounded like someone was on top smashing something to pieces with a sledgehammer. so I went and talked to the office and they called school maintenance.

enter 30 mins later, a nice middle-aged man walks into the room in setup in and asked me a few questions about the sound. the only problem is that it stopped like 20 mins ago. no problem this happens all the time. and all is going great until he starts talking about other places that have problems that they can never seem to reproduce while he is there... and I quote:

"epically the women over in [some other building, cant remember]. I go over there all the time and there is never any sound"

COMEON man, this is 2009! I am pretty sure that you dont need to be a sexist in order to fix broken/loud heat pipes... but I could be wrong






im not

noon: mar24

Here is where I was at noon today. I was walking into my apartment after a run at the sac (gym). basically its just a door

strange times.....

I feel weird. I am sitting at my childhood dinner table studying an art theories that is known for being incomprehensible. the guy actually leaves large sections of page blank for reasons I dont care to understand. it is 2am and I am in traverse city, I have to be back in mount pleasant to be to work by 9am. I have too many chemicals running through my body at the moment to feel tired. but exhaustion always floats just beneath the surface of a chemical induced awareness.

I have spent the last 3 hours reading terribly boring work and playing sega.... plus I have had too many sunchips so I feel kinda sick. I think we should leave pretty soon, but I really dont want to drive...... oh well, one more day without sleep could not hurt

and the hunt continues...

news on the search. I ran into old benny at the coffee again shop today (only this time he didnt know). he seemed to have a new friend along for the ride. I have no idea who this new guy is but he seems to shop at the same sunglasses hut.

This seems to be the only clue that I have. Maybe I should check around town see if I can pull up any dirt on either of these two creatures....

as for me? I feel GREAT! I went to for a run and then yoga yesterday. I feel SO relaxed. My stress load is much less now. I finished the Lomenez account last week and ever since I feel the great burden lifting. Just hope that these sickos dont bring me down into the gutters too much....

new post

I wanted to make a new post.... so here it is

NEW POST

with a photo about laughing

benjamin the felon

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Originally uploaded by Trefur

on a recent trip back home I was innocently enjoying a cup of coffee at a local book store when I noticed this man. now understand, I am an open-minded person I have friends from all walks of life. but when I met this man I was hit by the most horrible feeling I have ever felt. I am SURE this man is a convicted felon of some sorts. I tried to speak with him, but he was very reserved. all I got from him was his name... benjamin. it is just a matter of time before I discover who this man is.

"shuffle" conspiracy

I am concerned... I have a feeling that the itunes/ipod "shuffle" is not so random. I have had a growing feeling deep inside myself that my ipod knows me and plays songs that it knows will make me happy. I went for a run tonight and for some reason two white strips songs from the same album came on, this is NOT the first time this has happened. now I dont understand numbers often, but I feel like it is pretty uncommon for that to happen on an ipod with 10,000 songs...


something must be up

PMU: photo mediation unit

I have a sculpture on display at the cmu art gallery right now. It is a very heavy backpack that has a head brace and a camera mount attached to it. The camera is forced to sit directly in front of my face as I try to document the areas around me. I wanted something that would make documenting a situation much more difficult than it should be, showing off how a camera can make a situation much more awkward.

Here are some pictures from the gallery:
























The pictures were really hard to focus and compose. But I liked how a lot of them turned out. If you want to see the rest of them check out the PMU set on my flickr

The backpack is still at the gallery so Ill make sure to get some pictures when I get it back.

New Blog what what?

To anyone who may be interested... I am starting this blog as a personal space to store and exhibit my artwork. 

I am a photographer living (for now) smack in the middle of Michigan. Going to school to earn a degree in art... I spend my time riding bikes (when its nice) taking pictures and making thing.

I am about to start puttin stuff up.....