Hotter than Hell

Last weekend I went to Stanford and back and it was exactly 66.6 miles. I knew it! I went there to see the Walker Evans show. It's the hottest thing around.

F Line

I think I'm in the wrong line of work. The other day I saw a MUNI bus driver walking to his car. It was a BMW SUV.

Guilty Pleasures

Last night I took a bath in Dead Sea sea salts and washed my hair with Brazilian rain forest shampoo. All things that are disappearing. At least they were gifts and I didn't purchase them myself. Now all I need are some conflict diamonds and an iPhone.

Framed

I just had a show in Sacramento and I think I spent more time framing the show than I did making the work.

Everything has already been done

I am working on a landscape project so I had to go to Yosemite. I had only been there once in the middle of winter on a high school trip and we drove into the valley, got out of the van, got back in and drove out. This time I went there with my gay boyfriend, Kurt. If you ever go camping bring a gay boyfriend. The menu was fabulous. On the first night we had wild mushroom stuffed quail with wild rice and butternut squash. Remember, we were camping. The first night it rained till dawn and it was one of the best nights sleep I've ever had. On the second morning after the fog had cleared we realized that we had a view of Yosemite Falls. Kurt asked me if I though that when the light hit the mist just right it might create a rainbow. "Probably," I said. Seconds later I heard him making noise with a mouth full of turkey, bacon, tomato, and avocado sandwich. I turned and he was pointing at the falls. There was the rainbow. I'd wanted to go to Yosemite, in part, to photograph a waterfall in black and white so I could add a rainbow with paint over the top of it. But nature did it for me. My friend, Joel, said if Disney made a national park it would look like Yosemite. I think he's right.

It's All The Same

I saw this photo in the paper yesterday. It is an image of all the men working to solve the European Union's debt crisis. It says they are four different men but to me it looks like they are all the same man.

Thoughts

I'm sitting here waiting for my new digital camera to arrive so I can go out and take pictures. I'm waiting for my new technology so I can get back to nature. Something to ponder. I'm working on a landscape project and as I am doing it two doctors have told me that I shouldn't be living in the city. That I should go live in the country. Does art copy life or life copy art? I've said this once and I'll say it again, "Usually my photographs are smarter than I am."