I took this photo a little while ago. Just something ironic about it. Though I certainly feel bad for whoever owned it. But as I understand it the house has now been torn down.
Lets get a little political for a moment. I’m not a supporter of the George W. Bush administration. I feel that as a result of his presidency we entered into a sort of dark ages in this country. During most of this presidency we’ve been at war, we’ve been attacked at home to an extent not seen since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor back in World War 2, and US citizens have lived in fear of terrorism because it’s how our government told us to act. Fear is a method of control. You can see it in our movies, hear it in our music and watch it every day on our news. We’ve been consumed by this.
But I’m hopeful. To look on the positive side of things it has given us something to aspire to, a better peaceful tomorrow. It has given us material to talk, write songs and shoot films about for years. It is the bad that must come every so often in order for the good to look better. The contrast. Lets just hope the end of this presidency brings a brighter future for this country.
And while it’s true America must get it’s hands dirty in the mud every so often in order to maintain it’s stance, these last seven years were more like blatantly shitting on our own hands and smearing it around in some retarded defiance of ourselves. When its all over is there any way we can just pretend we were drunk for the last eight years and forget about it? Somehow I don’t think so. But still, lets look at the bright side, it’s the only way to overcome the darkness.
Last night I had a dream of a grand parade. There were sand colored roman columns nearly six stories tall that lined a mall that was easily a half a mile long. Think of the visuals from the film “300″ because that’s what this dream was like, probably inspired by seeing a trailer for the film earlier in the day.
At one point I was riding on a chariot being pulled by an elaborately decorated elephant. The guy holding the reins had a bald head that was covered in a tattoo. Face and all. The blue ink of the tattoo however was somehow controlled by him. He was able to make it fade in and out and control the design on his head. As he waved to the thousands of parade watchers we passed by he would make his ink swirl around and create strange designs, even simulating hair and a beard at one point. Then he did the most amazing thing, he made his entire head disappear. Thinking about the logic of this after I had awoken from the dream, it occurred to me that perhaps the ink was also some type of light receptor, like a camera lens. What it saw on one side it could display on the other and vice versa in a 360 degree manner so as to make it appear his head was missing when in fact it was an illusion created by his tattoo ink.
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The other day I was listening to National Public Radio on my way home from work and they had a commentary piece on from Philosopher Alain de Botton about how the worlds architecture today is all the same no matter where you go. It really made me think, he’s right. Sure you have your staple “landmark” architecture that has existed for years because it was built in an old world where there was more variety between one location and another. Back then the buildings were a reflection of the people and the society they were built in. Today, like so many things that exist in the industrialized cookie cutter world we no live in, architecture has also taken a hit, especially in America where one city looks the same as another.
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I live in the Detroit area and the only real benefit to that has been the North American Auto Show that happens once a year in January. At one poiont it was the biggest auto show in the world and may still be, I’m not really up on my car knowledge that much. But every year or two I’d make the trek there to see what was out, coming out and drool over the concept cars that were put on display.
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It’s been just over two years since I first wrote about my thoughts on digital cameras. I figured I’d update that a little bit as a lot can happen in two years time, and has. For a year and a half now I’ve owned a Canon D300 digital SLR camera I bought used off ebay. It’s been a great camera for me and in that time I haven’t touched film. I’ve picked up my Nikon FE just to hold it in my hands for old times sake, but the poor thing I’m afraid won’t see any more action from me. I’m converted.
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Earlier this month Apple Inc. announced the iPhone at their 2007 Macworld keynote. This has been a long rumored product and after its announcement every tech site seemed to gravitate around it for the following week. Since then however many peoples heads have seemed to shrink back down to size and really weigh out the products advantages and disadvantages. I want to talk a little bit about the iPhone because it clearly marks a certain shift in the possibilities of the American cell phone market. Lately Apple has been hot on the lips of people in the tech industry because the company represents not only innovative ideas but also fashionable electronics. There is a certain amount of lust factor that Apple products carry with them that more people then just mac fan’s are starting to take notice of.
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Tonight I was browsing google (don’t remember what for)and I came across this article
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
which deals with the possiblity of robots eliminating 50% of American jobs by 2055. I have to admit I agree with the guy to some extent. This is not a new subject by any means. It’s been talked about for years and years. But I think it’s only within the last 20 years that people have come to accept it is actually possible within our lifetime.
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I started shooting photography back when I was in tenth grade. Previous to that I never really shot a still camera. I could probably count on my hands the number of times I took photos in my life before then. Some parents give their kids cameras and some kids just grabs peoples to use. I never was interested. I did however use a video camera from age 10. Just goofing around.
When I hit tenth grade I knew by then I wanted to be a filmmaker. But my high school didn’t offer any video classes so I decided the next best thing was to take a photography class.
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Typically I use this weblog as a way to present some new or different ideas. Or at least I have for the last so many entires. However for anyone who does check this site they’ll notice that I have changed the format in the last couple of days. Instead of being just a site about “Ideas for a New World” I’ve blended it with my personal website. I needed a better way to get to my personal website and well these “ideas” are personally mine. So it all works out. In trying to blend the two sites together I had a figure out a way to do it.
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