LOR

Wow, this is impressive. And its said to be produced for under $5000. The lighting is incredible, the costumes spot on and the cinematography inspiring. IF you have a spare half hour its worth a look.

Inertia

inertia
noun
1) a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged

Bay bridge development panorama

The west side of the bay bridge is slowly getting replaced. here is the development so far. You can see the new bridge part being built parallel to the existing bridge. On memorial day they will close the old part and begin work on part of the transfer. It will be a while before the new part comes on line but its lookin good so far. I cant even begin to imagine what the costs are involved with a project of this magnatude. It will probably stand for the next 50-100 years.

Seen from above via Google Maps ( please dont bust me! )

This way please.

A few new long exposures combined with a full moon. Check em out over at flickr.
JUMP

Shot from Treasure Island, Marin Headlands and the hills near Livermore.

Something new to read…

There is something more going on, in my humble opinion, then this everyday awakeness we all live and breathe through. Its my experience so far that its not enough to just live everyday without question or wonder. This feeling comes and goes for me with varying strengths each time. More recently I have been left with a lot of time to think and wonder, which in general leads me in circles and sometimes more then not it is downward tending.

Today while preparing to head to library for another day of sitting in front of the computer I recieved a message from friend to head out for coffee. Not one to pass up on such an opportunity (and who doesnt like to procrastinate every once in a while), we headed to Coles Coffee, a local berkeley coffee house, and proceded to sit and watch the world sail on by. The people watching here is especially good as its situationed on a corner and there is a lot of foot traffic in the area.

After sitting for an hour or two we decided to do what we normally do after sipping coffee and shooting the shit for a while, and we headed to a local used book store. Its here where instead of heading to the usual sections of photography or magazines, I instead headed to the area covering buddism, feeling the need to have more substance in my next book. At this stage my eye caught this book and I figured what the heck. Ive heard about Deepak and feel his presence on such shows like oprah makes him a little too new age for my liking but flicking through the book quickly it felt right.

Its a fictional account of the life of the Buddha and as I struggle with reading just the lessons of buddism I figure this will be a way to absorb some of the messages while following a story line that keeps me interested.

Will see…

On the edge of a cliff…

I’m really okay, thanks,
there’s nothing to witness
I said as I looked back from the edge of a cliff
The old man looking down lent over the ridge struck with a grin as if a blessing had hit him.

I slumped on the jut of the cliff
Just leave me alone, this is none of your business
I will, said the old man, but just one thing,
And what he said was so lovely it stunned me.

He said: I lay right there once at the edge of the rock.
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost,
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot

For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad’s side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

And then the old man walked away and out of sight
Til the sound of him hiking turned to the sound of silence.
I just froze in a profound surprise and from down on my pride I found a smile to my eyes.

And for many days again I’ve been passing the same cliff and on many occasions I’d chance on the same thing.

Laying in the moss, in the same way I was would be another man looking like he needed a change of luck.

So I’d say: I lay right there once at the edge of the rock.
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost,
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot

- The Streets “On the edge of a cliff”

What is it…

So going through what seems like endless job hunting. Looking at listing after listing after listing after listing. Something that popped out this morning is that they are all so hopeful of getting the person that wants to make their life based around this position.

The advertisement asks for the person to be perfect at this that and the other thing, like they should have just spent much of their waking life preparing themselves for this one opportunity to work at a retail store selling whatever. The advertiser tries to dictate what they want from the person and we ,as the potential employees, try and reorganize our resume for the billionth time in order to show that yes we are quite capable of working a cash register and talking to people on a professional level.

Its just frustrating that we have to go through this somewhat fake interaction to get a job that is in the end just a job. I guess im just not cut out for applying for job listings.

So anyone hiring???

Its about time…

That start up sound on my mac i could definately live without. There is no immediate switch for this other then to turn off your sound everytime you power down. Someone came up with a add on which now makes my time at the library so much more quite.

http://www.hacktheday.com/mac-tips-turn-off-your-macs-startup-sound/

whoop whoop

ah i see…

http://newage-directory.com/saturn.html

Could make for a sweet stencil