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A quick vid I put together with some stock footage.

song: Derek B - Bad young brother

I’ve found that in my attempts at landscape photography I sometimes try too hard to center, or find symmetry in, whatever I hope to capture. But this habit I’ve noticed corresponds to one of my goals for photography: I love to reduce the elements (distractions) in every image. 

I’ve collected a few of these centered landscapes below, though there are more in this set. The last photo is my tribute to Andreas Gursky taken in a grocery store in southern Baja (starring my sis).

Please excuse the lack of posts, but my laptop was pilfered and I’m without keyboards or hope. For now, I’d like to share with you a recent email:

It’s not often that you get an email as personal as this…

This post is one in a long series of nonsense spam-o-matic spam emails: nonsense that sells nothing.

A July 27th op-ed by Frank Rich re: Obamamania and Mccain sleepiness is a must read…

It’s a sad testament to the political process in the U.S. that I anticipate the November general election like I anticipate the release of a film. Anyone with enough time on their hands to read a paragraph a day should be aware of the shit show in which John McCain performs and the diva frenzy that surrounds Obama. This really is the greatest show on earth any way you look at it: There’s nothing more serious or humorous as the idea and execution of a presidential race. I think we can safely refer to Douglas Adams for some wisdom.

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

And now for some dreamy Op-Ed food from the NYtimes.

While drama-queen commentators on television last week were busy building up false suspense about the Obama trip — will he make a world-class gaffe? will he have too large an audience in Germany? — few focused on the alarms that Mr. McCain’s behavior at home raise about his fitness to be president.

Once again the candidate was making factual errors about the only subject he cares about, imagining an Iraq-Pakistan border and garbling the chronology of the Anbar Awakening. Once again he displayed a tantrum-prone temperament ill-suited to a high-pressure 21st-century presidency. His grim-faced crusade to brand his opponent as a traitor who wants to “lose a war” isn’t even a competent impersonation of Joe McCarthy. Mr. McCain comes off instead like the ineffectual Mr. Wilson, the retired neighbor perpetually busting a gasket at the antics of pesky little Dennis the Menace.

The week’s most revealing incident occurred on Wednesday when the new, supposedly improved McCain campaign management finalized its grand plan to counter Mr. Obama’s Berlin speech with a “Mission Accomplished”-like helicopter landing on an oil rig off Louisiana’s coast. The announcement was posted on politico.com even as any American with a television could see that Hurricane Dolly was imminent.

FFFFOUND!

Let me know what you think…

I know the spinning banana is pretty odd at the beginning, but I like how the gallery system works.

Glow - Santa Monica July 19th - 20th from moneydick on Vimeo.

The largest crowd I’ve ever seen in Los Angeles (not counting one time I saw a dodger game when I was 7 and thought they were cool).

'Winston Visits the Stool'

‘Type is art‘ lets you arrange parts of a serif typeface (Stern, released by the type foundry p22) into whatever shapes you choose. The above image was made by resizing and moving these shapes:

I’ve always liked ingenious uses for interactive flash programs–I’m still waiting for a flash version of ‘Crayon Physics Deluxe‘ to hit the net. But Type is Art is a philanthropic typographer’s dream: give the masses a way to get a feel for the typeface elements and perhaps if you learn them good, it will earn the typographers more respect in the designosphere. It’s a hell of a lot easier than putting out a documentary.