opportunistic body language

bulls

2009-08-27T19:21:00.002-04:00

prairie

2009-08-27T07:05:00.002-04:00

junk

2009-08-27T07:02:00.002-04:00

Louie Update (beach bum edition)

2009-07-28T18:11:00.002-04:00

hello, kitty

2009-07-28T18:08:00.000-04:00

detail (public sculpture, Lakeland, FL)

2009-07-28T18:07:00.000-04:00

Old Florida

2009-07-27T14:31:00.002-04:00

sunflower

2009-07-27T14:29:00.003-04:00

magnolia

2009-07-27T14:29:00.001-04:00

cows

2009-07-27T14:27:00.004-04:00

live oak

2009-07-27T14:27:00.001-04:00

exploration

2009-07-24T17:45:00.000-04:00

random

2009-07-24T17:44:00.002-04:00

Bok Tower Gardens

2009-07-24T17:40:00.003-04:00

lady in the window

2009-07-24T17:38:00.002-04:00

This tablet

2009-07-07T17:43:00.002-04:00

crikey

2009-05-09T22:22:00.002-04:00

big drop

2009-05-06T00:03:00.000-04:00

where to?

2009-05-05T21:19:00.000-04:00

furniture city

2009-05-03T23:41:00.002-04:00

Ex

2009-05-03T23:37:00.002-04:00

walking

2009-05-03T23:35:00.002-04:00

bike

2009-05-02T13:32:00.002-04:00

dance

2009-04-28T19:40:00.002-04:00

balance

2009-04-27T19:59:00.002-04:00

liberty

2009-04-16T14:17:00.000-04:00

masked

2009-04-11T10:08:00.002-04:00

end quote

2009-04-10T15:44:00.002-04:00

cassette tape

2009-04-10T11:31:00.002-04:00

we all have our various hangups

2009-04-09T20:26:00.001-04:00

hand of Jose Marti

2009-04-09T12:26:00.002-04:00

green

2009-04-04T11:41:00.002-04:00

just because

2009-03-30T10:38:00.002-04:00

soviet entrance

2009-03-30T10:36:00.001-04:00

head

2009-03-13T14:38:00.002-04:00

pier (folly beach)

2009-03-13T14:33:00.001-04:00

untitled

2009-03-13T14:30:00.000-04:00

top shelf

2009-03-11T00:37:00.002-04:00

seen in Charleston, SC.

Stalin's Mother/Go Back to Atlanta/Jacksonville in July

2009-03-04T14:13:00.003-05:00

rogue ant

2009-03-03T07:13:00.002-05:00

deck

2009-03-03T07:11:00.002-05:00

Taken with my iPhone! Not too bad.

the heart of the matter

2009-03-02T08:30:00.002-05:00

Tolstoy once said that there are only two stories in literature: Person goes on a quest or Stranger comes to town.

I've been wondering if every genre can be reduced to two messages. For example, it seems that the love letter has only one of two messages: Be mine or We're not done. Likewise, it seems that every blog post, status update or tweet has only one of two messages: Look at me or Thinking of you.

seventeen 'o one

2009-03-02T08:22:00.002-05:00

RBOC: sleep edition

2009-02-26T07:16:00.003-05:00

--> I always sleep really well the first night with fresh sheets. So why don't I put on fresh sheets every night?

--> I envy people who get intense joy out of sleep. Some of them even dream about sleeping while they are sleeping.

--> My favorite thing about sleeping with someone else is waking up to shared warmth and recharged energy.

--> Waking up always includes a little epiphany of wonder: wow, I made it to a new day.

--> "Transatlanticism" by Death Cab for Cutie is a great song to fall asleep to.

--> The iPhone is the best alarm clock.

--> Nothing is more irritating than being woken up an hour early (usually by the noise of dogs or sanitation workers).

--> I've always thought there is something deeply wrong about having to get up when it is still dark outside.

healed and finished (for now)

2009-02-20T10:35:00.001-05:00

base

2009-02-16T09:34:00.002-05:00

my first stencil; or, stencil event context (calling all lit crit and philosophy geeks)

2009-02-11T17:47:00.003-05:00

amacher (with leaf)

2009-02-10T08:52:00.002-05:00

property of the city

2009-02-10T08:50:00.002-05:00

Gasparilla transportation (rolling invasion)

2009-02-09T08:16:00.001-05:00

leafy

2009-02-03T07:54:00.001-05:00

show me your pep!

2009-02-03T07:53:00.002-05:00

Abiel Hyde

2009-02-03T07:51:00.002-05:00

cuesta-rey

2009-02-03T07:49:00.000-05:00

turns out this is a gym

2009-01-29T07:23:00.004-05:00

Otherwise, it seemed a little bold to mark it this way. And it still seems strange to market it this way.

hands

2009-01-28T19:10:00.001-05:00

palimpsest

2009-01-27T06:50:00.001-05:00

lilies

2009-01-26T07:32:00.002-05:00

final session

2009-01-24T18:33:00.003-05:00

I had the final main session today. This was taken at the studio right before the bandage was put on.

Skatepark of Tampa

2009-01-24T09:58:00.003-05:00

the ubiquitous and identificatory Ybor City street lamp

2009-01-21T19:39:00.003-05:00

F! you

2009-01-19T11:18:00.003-05:00

falling (for you)

2009-01-19T11:16:00.002-05:00

ineffective signs ahead

2009-01-14T06:49:00.002-05:00

fleshy mechanical thingamajig

2009-01-13T08:58:00.002-05:00

the sleeve work continues

2009-01-13T08:20:00.001-05:00

the answer to today's lesson is 131

2009-01-13T08:19:00.002-05:00

where you slanggin'?

2009-01-11T07:31:00.001-05:00

secret plans, small and large

2009-01-09T07:40:00.002-05:00

left over, yet tidy, wishes for the new year

2009-01-08T08:26:00.002-05:00

it's always the innocent bystanders who suffer the most

2009-01-04T07:55:00.002-05:00

the history of all hitherto existing warfare is the history of déclassé warfare

2009-01-03T19:37:00.002-05:00

for effort (including a set of resolutions for the new year and beyond)

2009-01-03T09:09:00.001-05:00

I usually resolve to make no resolutions, so this year, instead, I resolve to do the following:

1. To swear more, and to do it better--with drollery, repartee, and aplomb.
2. To be naked more often.
3. To be as good of a guest as I am a host.
4. To realize that it's not always about me.
5. To eat out more often.
6. To sing, laugh, dance, make art, and write--joyfully and without being self-conscious.
7. To move.
8. To chill.

birdy

2009-01-02T16:49:00.002-05:00

Saw this bird this morning sitting on the no dumping sign with its head all backwards.

2 self-portraits from the new year

2009-01-01T13:49:00.002-05:00

favorites from 2008: October-December

2009-01-01T13:27:00.002-05:00

favorites from 2008: July-September

2009-01-01T13:25:00.002-05:00

favorites from 2008: April-June

2009-01-01T13:22:00.003-05:00

favorites from 2008: January-March

2009-01-01T00:55:00.002-05:00

last day of the year: a brief photo essay

2008-12-31T08:33:00.003-05:00

366/366: "Empty eyeballs knew that knowledge increases unreality, that mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show"

2008-12-31T08:25:00.004-05:00

365/366: three studies on texture: skate writing, ode to high modernism, dangerous masonry

2008-12-30T08:45:00.003-05:00

364/366: still life with needles, leaves, and a simple man

2008-12-29T17:04:00.001-05:00

363/366: road closed to

2008-12-28T08:14:00.000-05:00

362/366: a frayed (of) memory

2008-12-27T08:12:00.002-05:00

361/366: escapism

2008-12-26T00:09:00.002-05:00

360/366: season's greetings from the bloated belly of anomie; or, three studies on neoliberalism

2008-12-25T10:37:00.003-05:00

359/366: fun time is over; or, prohibitions study; or, kelly will kick yo ass

2008-12-24T08:28:00.002-05:00

Debbie Downer presents . . . home for the holidays.

2008-12-24T08:23:00.002-05:00

358/366: official certified goon

2008-12-23T08:38:00.002-05:00

interlude: "That must have been highly diverting, said he. I see. He see. He drank. With faraway mourning mountain eye. Set down his glass."

2008-12-23T08:08:00.002-05:00

357/366: is it a house? an apartment? a motel? is it white? does it have a vacancy? who knows? who could know!

2008-12-22T08:35:00.003-05:00

356/366: case studies in rebranding: uncle ben

2008-12-21T11:59:00.001-05:00

355/366: our lady of the control panel

2008-12-20T11:58:00.000-05:00

354/366: country kitsch meets ghetto fabulous

2008-12-19T11:57:00.000-05:00

353/366: ybor city

2008-12-18T19:18:00.002-05:00

352/366: dragon of steel and spanish moss

2008-12-17T22:19:00.002-05:00

351/366: gears, almost

2008-12-16T19:20:00.001-05:00

350/366: topographical design

2008-12-15T13:17:00.003-05:00

349/366: six twenty-nine

2008-12-14T14:53:00.004-05:00

For no good reason, I decided to quote from the Apocrypha:

1. Sirach 6:29
Then her fetters will become for
you a strong protection,
and her collar a glorious robe.

2. second Maccabees 6:29
And those who a little before had acted toward him with good will now changed to ill will, because the words he had uttered were in their opinion sheer madness.