Most of these pictures are from our adventures in the subway.
More random New York City images next Wednesday.
Jesse and I knew that we weren’t spending a ton of time in New York and we were given a few suggestions by Sarah and Steph on places to visit. We both decided to choose one place we had to go see.
Jesse chose Central Park.
I chose the Statue of Liberty. In the 3.5 days that we were in New York City, I took approximately 800 photos. Close to half of those were on our Statue of Liberty adventure.
So here are more pictures from the Self Evident Truth Series:
There will be more pictures from the Self Evident Truth Series tomorrow.
“In the end, everything is a gag.”
– Charlie Chaplin
When it comes to college basketball prognostication, 2011 will be remembered as the Year of the Woman.
Not only did the Roundball Oracles crown our first ever champion from the fairer of the two sexes, three out of the top four finishers were also members of the female persuasion.
It was certainly a chaotic NCAA Tournament this year. Consider these facts:
So who is the new Queen of College Basketball Divination?
The Final Standings
Name – Bracket Name – Points – Correct Games – Last Year
If I were giving an award for the best bracket name, it would clearly go to Andree, but I am not. Perhaps next year.
Carrie’s name now sits in the Hall of Champions with the past greats:
Past Champions
2011 – Carrie Baier
2010 – Mark Wolfram
2009 – Mark Wolfram
2008 – Mark Wolfram
2007 – Tim Peterson
2006 – William McAlpine
2005 – William McAlpine
I already can’t wait for the next college basketball season to start and not only because I expect the Cyclones to return to greatness next year. At least I have the Spring Game to look forward to in a couple of weeks. It is football, but it is something.
Jesse’s take on the 9 emotions. If you have forgotten, these are the 9 emotions. Left to right. Top to bottom.
1. Joy
2. Sadness
3. Anger
4. Amusement
5. Fear
6. Jealousy
7. Surprise
8. Sympathy
9. Boredom
A closer look at Jesse’s interpretation of these 9 emotions:
The next person to pose for the 9 Emotions Project was Jay.
A closer look at Jay’s characterizations of the 9 emotions.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project of the Week will involve the Statue of Liberty.
Here are some random New York City images from the Second Day of the trip. These were taken at and around Ground Zero and at St. Paul’s Chapel, which is across the street from Ground Zero.
Regrettably, some of these pictures were taken through a window, leading to a regrettable reflection.
More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday.
There were two points to this project. My first point was that I wanted to scan a negative. In this day and age, it is a borderline revolutionary act to use film. Unfortunately I have let too much time and space get between me and my film camera(s). This is an injustice that I hope to remedy this year.
My first point was to make sure the viewer knew that this picture was taken with film. However, initially I felt that just scanning a negative so you knew it was a negative wouldn’t be enough. This lead to my 2nd point.
I was going to hit these negatives with a hammer. This is somewhat loosely based on something I did a long time ago when I printed a picture and then crumpled it up and then rescanned the picture.
However, this photo project lead me down several different avenues and in the end hitting the negatives with a hammer didn’t really produce the result I was looking to produce.
Here are some of the other images and other avenues I ventured down.
I did point out to everybody that I photographed that I would be hitting their picture with a hammer and not to be offended by that fact. Amazingly none of them were.
Next week I’ll return to publishing pictures from the 9 Emotions Project. Jesse and Jay are next up in the hopper.
Even though I only recently started the tradition of posting movie reviews on Wednesdays, I’m already walking away from that tradition. I want to keep this website about photography as much as possible, so I’m going to start posting my movie reviews on my collective blog:
If you were to follow that link, you would not find any movie reviews. You will find an explanation of why I do my movie reviews the way I do. You will also find a posting the 10 Things I Learned in NYC. In the near future, I should have a review of Cedar Rapids up.
Wednesdays now will be more of a random photography day. This way I get more photography on the photography website and more writing on the writing website.
Here are some random pictures from my trip to New York City:
The Melo – That is what I am talking about!
Maybe the best cheesecake of my life.
Manhattan Skyline from Central Park
David Letterman does not amuse me, but this was still kind of cool.
“Don’t want to be an American Idiot. Don’t want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind (fudge) America….”
Want to know what 72 dollars worth of alcohol looks like in NYC? Sarah and Tim are showing it off.
Steph and I after American Idiot
Jesse and I after American Idiot
Amy’s Bread’s Red Velvet Cake. Tim said this would be the best red velvet cake of my life. Shhh…. My Mom’s is better!
More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday and don’t forget to check out the other website for my list of 10 things I learned in NYC.
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Cruise Vacation – 2004 – December/PICTURES
These pictures were mostly taken by Kelly on the Howard’s new digital camera, probably purchased on the Home Shopping Network.
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Hot cup of tea always hits the spot on vacation.
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Much ado about nothing.
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Leaving Miami
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Miami
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Leaving Miami
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Titanic
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On the dance floor.
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Haiti
Next week’s folder will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Deg-Porter Wedding