May 17

Our backyard (and parts of our neighbors' yards) was very verdant today.

May 16

Dad's books.

May 15

Ronin, big and beautiful.

An old photo

I don't remember where I took this photo. I suppose I could find out, but that would require looking back through thousands and thousands of photos to find the original and figure out the context from surrounding photographs. Until such a desire and the required free time increase, I'm just going to enjoy this edited version. As you may have noticed from the high percentage of nature photos in the last month, I don't usually do architecture, and bold primary colors aren't really my style. But I find this photo is striking and visually interesting for some reason I couldn't explain, beyond perhaps its clear focal point.

Catch up!

As the casual observer may notice, I've missed several days of photos here in the last week. I owe this to the complete and utter lack of routine in my life since completing my last few days of finals and moving out of my dorm and back home. So, to make up for the missing photos from the last few days, I'll post some things that weren't necessarily taken recently but I think are interesting.

These are photos I took four years ago for a research project. It was categorized as a physics project, which is ironic, since I never have taken a physics course. The pictures were taken with a microscope and are of different sizes of glass microbeads; the smallest size looks like a super fine white powder (handled with care so as not to be inhaled), while the largest size is big enough to use for crafts. See May 9 for one way I've used these outside of research.

May 10

You know it's finals week when....you eat veggie ritz and what's left of the peanut butter and nutella (all together) as you write the final art analysis paper. It's actually not bad, contrary to how it might look. On my pretty $1 plate - yay thrift store!

May 9

A texture/collage project based on Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of a waterfall.

This was pretty fun, I used a lot of different fabrics, as well as layers of masking tape and newspaper and tissue paper. And lots and lots of hot glue. My favorite part of this is the bottom of the waterfall; it's not visible in this picture but the white parts are covered in a layer of glass microbeads left over from a science fair project.