Author: pixellogia

Spent the day on the bike today. It is hard to believe that LOTOJA is only two weeks away. I still wish Matt could ride it with me.

After I got home and started looking for ideas, I pulled a few things from the box of stuff I can use for this project and started mucking about with them. I filled the pot with Nerds and then wondered what would grow if you planted it among a bunch of nerds. It turns out that this is the answer.

It has been a day. I don’t know why some days seem so long and others seem to fly by. Today was the former and it is only 6 o’clock.

I just ran across these penguins that I made at the beginning of the project and decided that a lonely penguin wandering in the snow would be a good picture to use. It gave me a chance to break out the macro lens and get a close up of the penguin in his bird tuxedo.

Since Summer is coming to an end and all the kids have to go back to school, I decided that this would be a good picture. To all of those people out there who had to write sentences on the blackboard, here’s a little bit of nostalgia.

Also, cancer sucks!

Down to the last 30 pictures. Just one more month and I will have to start a new project. I’m not sure what it will be, but it definitely won’t be another 300 pictures in a year. I think that it has been good for me to do this, but if I had it to do over again I think I should have started out with a less lofty goal as far as quantity goes.

I thought about actually using a full moon for this picture, but they only come around once a month and I often late at night. Instead I went with this. I went with the crescent moon, even though the howling is associated with the full moon, because I felt that would make it more obvious that the light was meant to be the moon.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit that sometimes this project has made me feel a bit like this tree. I put some constraints that have felt like working inside of a bottle and, while I realize that the lid isn’t on tight and so there is still room to grow, at times it has felt pretty confining.

But I constrained the project on purpose. Partly I just wanted to prove that a project could be undertaken pretty much by anyone. Even though I have a DSLR and some lights, I could have done this with a smart phone and a lamp.

It did force me to think differently about how and what to photograph. Admittedly, I took a lot of pictures that were similar but I liked that I couldn’t just run to the store anytime I had an idea. It would have been easier if I had allowed myself to use stuff I had lying around, and maybe I should allowed that.

Anyway, if anyone is feeling like a tree in a bottle, you can do some pretty cool things if you just use what you’ve got.

Rode the Ultimate Challenge today. The only way to appropriately describe it is, “Ow! Ow! Ow! Will someone make the bad man stop!” The ride started at 10:30 this morning and I don’t get home until 9:30. Obviously, something isn’t working right in my brain today so you get a Bob Ross in a pot. Think of it as a way-better-than-a-Chia-Pet or maybe just block this one from your mind. Either way, I’m too tired to do anything else today.

I guess I’ve been on a painting thing the last few days. But instead of just showing the pictures, I decided I needed to make good use of the Bob Ross finger puppet.

Today I painted a little rainy forest scene.

I decided to make a little painting. I started drawing little landscapes like these in squares in the margins of lab books. They were less than a 1/4″ on a side, so they necessarily had little detail. I just scaled them up to a canvas of a whopping 2.5″ on a side. Most people can’t imagine working on such a grandiose scale, but I’m living on the edge.

I thought it was kind of a fun little painting, and I felt Bob Ross should be the one to present it.

I know that this picture has nothing to do with squirrels, but I was going to post it yesterday. I edited it and was all ready and then I don’t know what happened. But I got up this morning and realized that I didn’t post a picture yesterday.

Yesterday, I was thinking about how people are so different. Even though most of us have the same amount of fingers and eyes and everything else, there is such a variety among us. Some of us have it easy, some have it hard, but ultimately we are all in this together. That is what these smiley stickers reminded me of. We are all part of the battle against cancer. We should all be part of the solution to just being nicer to each other, to be a little more caring for those around us who are struggling.

That being said, go make someone’s day today.