Monthly Archive for January, 2010

buster remains resolute

so on sunday, i loaded up buster into the jetta and drove to my sister & brandon’s mansion near the hills.

because it was “championship sunday” brandon & i knew it would be socially acceptable to spend the day with copious amounts of food, beer and laughs. you see, brandon and i watch a lot of football together—not on a weekly basis—but definitely when the game is important enough that the local market adorns its aisles with celebrity-cardboard-cut-outs and cases of “supplies” stacked to the ceiling.

yes, on these hallowed-of-days we hangout for 10-12 hrs just being awesome.

Buster loves Football

so buster loves going over to the mansion b/c they’ve got this elevated bbq/lounge area in the backyard that looks out to the surrounding mountains and stands almost 6ft above us grounded mortals. give buster 5-10mins and he’ll sneak up there until someone goes out and coaxes him from his lofty heights.

Buster loves Football

so we watched as the ny jets blew a 1st half-lead to the machine that is peyton manning and that really bummed buster out bc he had $50 bucks riding on the jets-to-win. You can buy a lot of science diet for fifty-bucks.

soon, we hit hour number 10 of being rad and reality set in; brandon remembered that he’s a grown-up attorney who had important things to do the next day in LA and I had to do…well, pretty much more of the same thing i do everyday on campus.

Buster loves Football

buster remained resolute but would spend the next 36hrs sleeping off the fun.

all i could find were these mountains

so remember yesterday when i got all dressed up in my junior-photographer-snow-gear and drove up to the SoCal mountains? and then it started to rain and I got frustrated? and all i took a photo of was that one yellow fire hydrant?

well, this morning the skies were blue after a week’s worth of storms dissipated. i took advantage of 50F temperatures and sunny skies to inspect the storm’s fallout.

this time i had more luck but all i found were these snow-covered mountains. here’s the best of a few hours of shooting and the rest can be found in this flickr set.

Snow Day

Snow Day

Snow Day

Snow Day

Snow Day

Snow Day

more and more i’m finding that getting away from everything for a few hours and snapping a few photos is very therapeutic.

all i could find was a fire hydrant

so this week’s worth of storms dropped tons of rain and eventually snow in SoCal. i took advantage of a short day at lab and drove 20mi east to snow-drenched mountains in hopes of photo ops.

the roads up the mountains were closed off—even with chains—so I had to resort to parking in the riteaid parking lot and trekking around in my bad ass sorel boots while protecting my camera gear from the elements.

Snow Day

so even though i was decked out in my snow jacket, and was super-excited, the photography conditions were subpar. Everything was grey, washed out and then the freezing rain started and frankly i just didnt care enough to stand out in freezing rain.

so you get a photo of a yellow fire hydrant. sorry.

TWiT at CES 2010 in VEGAS

so re-posting mobile photos from a week ago seem so dreadful that I can barely stand to look at them more less subject you to such dread.

jesus.

while I was there the kids from TWiT were broadcasting live and I brought out my stupid long lens and shot these photos.

if you’re still reading you can choose to view the whole set here or just scroll until your head explodes.

TWiT at CES 2010

TWiT at CES 2010

TWiT at CES 2010

TWiT at CES 2010

TWiT at CES 2010

TWiT at CES 2010

right on.

Autopost Blows Balls

so last weekend, I was in Las Vegas for CES and I presumed that you would enjoy all sorts of awesome content via posterous.com and their autopost feature. Turns out I was wrong and the lesson learned is that if you want to do something right…well you know. Standbye for NEWS!

CES 2010 in Vegas

Buster the Dog is looking forward to the holidays being over.

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