Month: January 2011

  • January 7, 2011

    Assignment: CLASSIFIED, then canceled .:. Jury Duty: canceled .:. Got five discs from Netflix today. Three of them. .:. Went to see Black Swan with friends G&H, or H&G. It’s weird, G&H sounds better with the initials but if you are saying their names it’s better as H&G. Two rows ahead of me was one…

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  • January 6, 2011

    A fascinating story in Vanity Fair on Julian Assange and Wikileaks and the Guardian and ethics in journalism. Here’s the gist: Assange’s position was rife with ironies. An unwavering advocate of full, unfettered disclosure of primary-source material, Assange was now seeking to keep highly sensitive information from reaching a broader audience. He had become the…

  • January 5, 2011

    I’ve spent most of the day editing photos. Flood, football, rodeo, more football. Lots of catching up to do so I can put everything from 2010 together for contests. .:. Today’s media: No time really. A little bit of Crackdown 2. And I almost started The Ricky Gervais Show. Karl Pilkington: amazing. And you know…

  • January 4, 2011

    Assignment – shooting. According to the cops, they’re chasing a guy who drives into a ditch, runs, and pulls a gun. They shoot and kill him. It’s the first time I’ve taken a photograph in Hooper, Utah. Assignment – barn fire. .:. Finished the film A Single Man. Great. Started watching Jersey Shore Season 2.…

  • January 3, 2011

    Morning came way too early today. I was exhausted getting everyone off to school. Maybe exhaustion is the perfect mental state for editing photos, because you don’t have any patience for the mediocre images that crowd your archive. When you’re exhausted you just want one thing: Sleep. Can’t. Soon everyone has left except me and…

  • January 2, 2011

    We were trying to think of a way to deface the church program. I said, “We could draw that famous photo of Bigfoot in the background.” “What famous photo of Bigfoot?” my son asked. “You know, the one that turned out to be a fake,” I said. “Of course it’s a fake,” he said. It…

  • January 1, 2011

    I’m just sitting here looking at the dashboard of a website that is supposed to be finished in a matter of hours. It’s basically done but I’m not sure. It’s going to be used by journalists all over the state and some will be computer illiterate. That’s the challenge. And like many projects I seem…