1.23.2007

Dior Homme Summer 07 Campaigns. Yeah. Um. Whoa, I'll try and get something accomplished today but I'm just a bit distracted.

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1.16.2007



For this one night only I am breaking both my No Labyrinth Rule *and* my No Going Out Ever Again in Detroit Rule all at once.

SAT JAN 20, 2007

THE HACKER (live + dj)
PERSPECTS (live)
BMG of ECTOMORPH (dj)

THE LABYRINTH
Installations by Infinite Dimensions
1703 Cass at Bagley | 10 PM til you go home

$10 presale tickets: online and at SPY

Stop on down to SPY - Miss Vidosh has lots of great new things in, including one of my new hot off the presses designs:

Victorian Pattern - Poppies and ginkgo leaves are grafted together to construct an inkblot-like pattern. Some see a cross-section of a skull, some see moths - what can you find? Tons of color choices, as this pattern looks good on everything...



And I finally bit the bullet and have SKINNY ties in stock...




Sweat Shop Boys

David, who is getting mauled by the sewing machine (and lord knows what is happening behind him, tsk tsk) is wearing the new Victorian Skinny tie - silver on black.

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Abandoned House in Detroit

Abandoned house near John R and I-75. This old terra cotta house has been photographed to death, but I was particularly enamored by the roof covered in ice. And the doom clouds.

I haven't been feeling very wordy lately, hopefully this will pass.

Last Monday my new Canon 30D arrived, so if there is no wordy content, at least there will be some pictures. Up until now, I never really understood what all the fuss was about RAW mode. My friends, I have rethought that, much to the horror of my immanent lack of hard drive space. Hi, 16 bit 50mb tiffs! The image quality is amazing, I just started screwing around with the EOS software for the first time last night. I never gave much thought to using bundled camera software, it seemed pretty unnecessary with strong Photoshop skills, but Canon has done some nice things with it. Their after-the-fact white balance is truly something else.

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1.09.2007

An exciting special program related to Shrinking Cities at Cranbrook:

Friday, February 23, 7-8 pm
Sound Effects: Music Builds Community in Shrinking Cities
Gallery talk and music presentation by Walter Wasacz

Journalist-photographer Walter Wasacz produces The Subterraneans, a column in Detroit's MetroTimes devoted to international electronic music culture. He is also a founding member of the DJ collective Paris '68. Walter will talk about the contemporary music scene and will play samples from Detroit and the European cities featured in the Shrinking Cities exhibition.

The presentation will be followed by live music at MOCAD from 9 to 11 pm, featuring World Class Detroit Jazz Improvisation: Raw Truth Ensemble with Michael Carey; Skeeter C. R. Shelton; Ali Allen Colding; Timothy Caldwell; Jiles Rosbury; and DJ Brad Hales. A bus will travel from MOCAD to Cranbrook at 6:15 pm and from Cranbrook to MOCAD at 8:15 pm; the bus will leave MOCAD at 10:50 pm to return to Cranbrook at 11:30 pm.

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1.04.2007

Happy New Year.

Hopefully there will be even more photos to come this year - I just invested in a Canon 30D (my first digital SLR, yay!) and I have a Holga that desperately needs use.

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