On the way to work
This wasn't my original idea, but on zooming in to a pic I took, I found this dizzying series of lines intersectiing one another. Early morning meeting. [read more...]
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February 1, 2006
This is only meaningful to about 5 people
But I'm posting it anyways. This gets no explanation. It's more of a marker, commemorating the birth of an idea. Only time will tell if I get to look back on this day and explain it all to you. [read more...]
February 2, 2006
Spontenaeity
Got a call from Dave about an hour ago, letting me know that Jason B (of Found Magazine fame) is back in town. He's rented a room at the Hotel Monaca that's known as "The Party Like You're a Rock and Roll Star Room." Or something like that. I thought [read more...]
Party Like a Rock Star: Monaco Hotel
Met up with Gretchen and `Dave at the Division stop, each of us with a six-pack in tow. So it begins. We get off downtown, and walk abit to the Hotel Monaco - where the room is. As a brief flashback I think this was the hotel where my [read more...]
February 3, 2006
ZZZZZZZZ
Sadly? All I did tonight was sleep. I started to do a bit of work on the computer, and then got incredibly drowsy. Circa 8:30 PM, I was sprawled in bed taking a nap. Which then turned into a full night's sleep. This is how Felix spends his Friday nights. [read more...]
February 4, 2006
All day
I bought a copy of Final Cut Express yesterday, after work. So far today, I've gotten a good deal completed. I've purchased a domain name. I got the ball rolling on a domain pointer via my current host. I've finalized the page layout and I installed Final Cut Express [read more...]
February 5, 2006
American Life in Poetry: Sign up!
Ted Kooser, who happens to be one of my favorite poets is heading an initiative called American Life in Poetry - a free weekly column for newspapers. But here's the bonus - anyone can sign up. Publishers of blogs count, but it's also open to individuals as well. Free [read more...]
Wendy and Celia
A friend of mine from way, WAY back contacted me through MySpace last week. Wendy and I went to high school together, and spent a year singing in the school's show choir (aka "Counterpoints"). That's right. Insert jazz hands here. We exchanged a few emails and set up a lunch [read more...]
Alleyway
I had my camera out today for the first time in what feels like a long time. As I was walking home, I looked up and spotted a few errant balloons, caught in some wires. I was reminded of the many photos I took of old or lost balloons, [read more...]
Open Source Video: Help Contribute!
My friend Matt is looking for contributors to his Open Source Video project. You can grab still images from the movie, or submit new ones of your own. And best of all? This project will be appearing at a gallery at the end of March! For those of you [read more...]
February 6, 2006
4:17 PM
Huge Progress, Launch imminent
I made some great progress tonight. Exported I don't know how many versions of the movie, and got a lower quality copy that I'm comfortable with displaying. I've got some more work to do in terms of text/content, but I'm really, really close. Some research into making this thing available [read more...]
February 7, 2006
Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the [read more...]
Free Poster: National Poetry Month 2006
As is the annual tradition for National Poetry Month, the Academy of American Poets is giving out free posters. Go and place your order before they run out! I was delighted to see that, right near the center, they cited the closing lines of Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays, [read more...]
Audioplayer Updated
Today, during work, I heard a few songs coming from Ben's computer that made me perk up my ears. He had been surfing around a few mp3 blogs, and was listening to some of the stuff he had found. Before the day was out, I had two songs that I [read more...]
February 8, 2006
Updates soon
Tomorrow will be a big day. I've got a lot of updates that I didn't have time for tonight. But hopefully tomorrow night will be eventful. I know I keep saying this, but big stuff soon. I promise. [read more...]
On the way to work
I got little sleep last night. But this morning, on the walk to the train, the sun was out, the air was crisp, and I had Page France looping on my iPod. I was smiling like an idiot, looking up at the sky and feeling pretty fantastic. The clouds [read more...]
February 9, 2006
Oldboy, Silly boy
The universe is trying to tell me something
Last Sunday, I met up with my friend Wendy, who I hadn't seen in like 14 years. She had been on MySpace, found my Profile, and that's how she contacted me. Earlier this week? On Tuesday? My friend Blakely, who I also haven't seen or talked to in about 14 [read more...]
Delicious Monster
I was talking to Jamie (aka rypunked) yesterday, and we were talking about loaning books out to friends. She was trying to find some bookmark system that allowed you to record who you loaned out a particular book to. A simplified library checkout/tracking system, if you will. We both did [read more...]
February 10, 2006
Dang
The actual lottery numbers: 24, 39, 40, 43, 46 | Mega Ball = 2 I guess the universe wasn't trying to tell me something, after all. Hmm. I should probably cancel that Conference Bike I ordered. [read more...]
Done and done!
And I mean done! [read more...]
February 11, 2006
Waiting
Puttering around the house a lot today. Cleaned some, doing some laundry. This is weird but, I'm actually looking forward to the weekend being over. I want Monday to get here. Sunday night, I'm launching the new site I've been working on these past few weeks. Lots of emails to [read more...]
Puzzle Road
February 12, 2006
3 Years, 3 Minutes
Woohoo! :) Well, it's finally up. This is the side project that's kept me occupied these past few weeks. Suffice it to say, I'm pretty excited right now to be launching this thing. The project is called 3 Years 3 Minutes. I've taken every photograph from the past three [read more...]
Dan Launches his site!
As we intended, www.danfrickmusic.com launches tonight as well! The song that I used in my movie is called "Pain in the Elbow." The song is played by Scott Fox, and appears on Dan's album. As you may recall, I got to hear Dan play about a year and a [read more...]
February 13, 2006
Happy (early) birthday, Mike!
Mike's birthday isn't until later on this month, but due to scheduling... we decided to have the celebratory lunch a bit early. Tricia was in from NY and Deb was in town, so we held the event a little early. We showed up at Portillo's to find noisemakers and [read more...]
On the various definitions of Flirting, Boys vs. Girls
Had a really long and interesting conversation with Gretchen earlier tonight. Suffice it to say that I'm looking forward to the day when we meet up in person, throw down a few drinks, and spend the subsequent hours arguing/debating the differences between the sexes. :) [read more...]
What's Up?
What's Up - a great combination of RSS Feeds and Flash. Simply stellar. Link via Ektopia. [read more...]
February 14, 2006
The Atomic Theory of Valentines
by Felix Jung We're given paper, scissors, glue, as if these tools can make or mend our little hearts. Each February teaches us that red means love, despite the world's request to stop, to see our anger like a film, to hear an ambulance's shrill and vacant wail. Democritus believed [read more...]
On the way to work
Hello Gapers Block!
Got the nod from Gapers Block today, a Chicago-centric, group-edited blog that I visit daily. In fact, I've even had one or two photographs make their way to the site. The blurb that got written about the project was simply amazing. But you know what really made my day? [read more...]
Twospace redesign!
I was surfing around a bit tonight, and happened to discover that twospace had a complete redesign! And damn, check out those photographs! For those who don't know, twospace is actually Kent and Christine, two fabulously talented friends of mine who are clothing/jewelry designers. When I first came across [read more...]
February 15, 2006
On the way home
Wells Street Bridge, 6:30 PM. [read more...]
Notes
Katrovas opens the poem with details, almost as though it were an article in a newspaper. We don't simply get the friend's name, we get the friend's FULL name. We get the name of the city, the name of the state, how old he was. From the details, we go [read more...]
A Dog and a Boy
by Richard Katrovas Joe Brickhouse saw his dog get smashed by a garbage truck in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He was twelve and smoked Luckies and had a glass eye. I won't tell you about the games of marbles or how he fucked his sister, nor shall I discuss in [read more...]
Contentless
Well, I don't really have much for tonight. At work, we're slowly entering crunch mode, and everyone has their heads down, coding or designing with headphones on. By the time I'm home, I find myself fairly tired and unmotivated to do much more than surf absently. I cracked open a [read more...]
February 16, 2006
Rodan
Met up with Justin, post-work, for a few drinks at Rodan. Before leaving work, Ben and I swapped cameras. He was looking to take some higher-res photos, and so we traded. This shot I took right when I arrived at Rodan. I messed around a bit, snapping a few [read more...]
Spontaneous Photoshoot
This morning, while Jane and Bryan were out getting their morning coffee/smoke, Holly used them to pass a hand-written note to me. Turns out, she was looking to get a few photographs of a cheese tray she was making. My guess is that she's just looking for some documentation of [read more...]
February 17, 2006
Listening to my inner extrovert
When I got home today, I felt like staying in and just doing the hermit thing. I recently rented a poker DVD by Annie Duke, and was watching a bit of it when Justin called me up. He mentioned going out to Clubfoot, and I declined, saying I felt like [read more...]
Ektopia!
Got an email today and found out I made it to Ektopia. Awesome! It's kind of cool to see the project make its way to sites that I frequent daily. [read more...]