Month: August 2009

during our visit to solvang we passes by a fair and decided to stop and check it out. It was a fiesta held at the mission. i didn’t even know there was a mission here.

spending a couple hours at the beach at UC Santa Barbara. it’s pretty chilly here, but not too bad.

even though we’re camping, it doesn’t mean we don’t eat well. steak for lunch people!

This is the view from my tent. Everyone is up except me. I’m happily lying in my oh so warm sleeping bag.

Dang! My iPhone map is so accurate!! The blue dot is exactly where I’m at. I’m lying in a tent under that very tree.

it’s nearly midnight and we’re on the road on our way to the campground at cachuma lake. we got a late start and yes, it’s my fault. i had stuff to do before we left and I didn’t get done until it was pretty late. we ended up leaving the house at 9:45pm, but it’s…

one day while searching for people to follow on twitter i came across david pouge, the personal technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy Award-winning tech correspondent for CBS news. he’s also one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors, with titles in the for dummies series and his own line of “missing…

while grocery shopping for the photo house meeting vergil and i came across the beer room at the supermarket. how kick ass is this? a walk in refrigerator full of beer!

nong nang made me some pat thai for me tonight. she even showed me how to cook it. it always kicks ass to watch your food being prepared, although i doubt i’ll be able to make it taste as good as hers… yet. thanks so much for dinner!

max s. gerber’s take on photographic history: camera obscura – niepce – talbot – daguerrotypes – stereoscopes, man – matthew brady – muybridge wins a bet – kodak beings – stieglitz – f64 – man ray invents photoshop/practice of having hot female assistants – lee miller (see previous) – kertesz figures out that if he…