new photos up at flickr. we had some fun yesterday.

portland is good. missing nyc... can't imagine going back at this juncture. still waiting to begin the next chapter.

new photos are up. check 'em.

addendum:

Neal tears it up:



Hollye tears it up (and brings it down):

"Everyone in the boat held they're breath as he slipped on the velcro wakeskating shoes, the anticipation was palpable. "  - anonymous witness

...

(pre-exhibition)

(calm-cool-collected)

(pure concentration)

(physical prowess)

(unmatched athleticism)

(northkoreatrick)

(brian boytano?)

(chisled from stone)

new photos up at flickr.

Jason brought me a dead cicada the other day wrapped in a paper towel, sort of like how in hunt and gather societies a male might bring a prospective mate a dead dear, I was excited put it on my desk and planned to have a photo shoot a little later. Five or so hours passed and I returned to the desk but dead cicada was gone, hmm where did dead cicada go?  It didn't fall off the paper towel and it wasn't anywhere on the desk.  I was certain that thing was dead so I began to ponder how else it may have disappeared.  I thought back to the time when ants carried a dead cockroach away in my hostel in C. Rica and I thought it was possible that something similar happened only this time the house centipedes were more likely to be the culprit as I do not have an ant problem (well I take that back there have been a few rather large carpenter ants popping up lately but those are few and far between).  After a long search I decided to stay at Jason's house last night for fear if the cicada was alive and not "dead cicada" after all ,that it might decide to start its high pitch scream at 2am or if it was in fact "dead cicada" then I didn't really feel comfortable in my home anymore knowing that there was an unidentified "tenant" in my apartment.  After work I came home and the cicada was found on the floor on the other side of the room from my desk, it was not moving so I picked it up and decided to get my pictures of it before releasing it into the wild.  I used a copy of my resume to scoop it up and carry it into the kitchen for some natural lighting, (I like how it looks like the cicada is applying for a job and at the tip of his wings you can see the word "pesticide" because I use to apply these nasty things at the greenhouses but as you can see I normally live in harmony with my crusty bug friends, sigh, it was just sort of moving for me maybe you had to be there or maybe the heat really is getting to my brain)  anyway, there was no movement from dead cicada at all so I continued to work through the shoot taking various posses with cicada and resume, cicada from the front with big letter "D" for dukovcic and finally dead cicada under a glass, well dead cicada was very compliant up until this last pose, as soon as i put that glass over it, it suddenly came to life, kid you not, dead cicada no more!   it scared the crap out of me, these things are dieing right now so they are everywhere and their metabolisms must be really slow so it must have mustered up enough energy to sort of roll over onto its side and give me the middle leg.  I guess I deserved it.

 

howdy ya'll

just thought i'd drop a quick line to letcha all know what the dillee-o is.

my options (work-wise) have been narrowed to an amazing job in CA and a brilliant job in PDX with a big (but not the biggest) company. unfortunately we're all probably going to have to wait til september to hear what the next step may be. of course if neither of those two pan out i'll be back squarely in square one.

how are you alex?

well, it's been awhile since i regaled you with details of my personal/professional situation. this post is an effort to remedy that. i am very very unemployed... still. i have had a lot of things seem to happen, but upon closer inspection it is clear that nothing has happened. i recently thought i was going to get a sweet offer from a pdx company for a rad position that would have probably paid a kings ransom... every second. unfortunately for everyone involved (according to the official story) upper level management put the position on hold until september (booooo). also, and concurrently, i've been in talks (and interviewed) with two other california companies. one of these companies would probably be my dream job, one would be hell on earth. so i guess we'll see what happens with those things.

my emotional state (i know you are all wondering) is about 17 on a sliding logarithmic scale that is only monotonic in an arbitrarily random riemann space.

what's more (is that appropriate usage?) i've got a super-secret project (that all the indo's know about) that should be coming to fruition soon and will probably shake the internets right off their pylons.

regardless, i solemnly swear that should something of note happen, i will post about it and in that way ya'll will be able to glimpse into this model (read:lie) that is the reality i perceive.