Journal Entries

I try to do or make interesting things on a regular basis. Here are some words and photos about my exploits.

New Straitsville, Ohio

I accompanied my friend Rebecca to New Straitsville, Ohio, for a look-see and some tasty diner food. Rebecca is covering the village for her current photojournalism class and wanted to take some photographs with my...

First shots from the 4×5

Towards the end of the fall quarter I got to thinking about using a large format camera over the break, just for fun mainly. While I was in Wyoming I saw several photographers working with...

Day trip to the Hocking Hills

Friend and fellow grad student Rebecca Miller and I went headed to the hills to get some fresh air and photos. Got a late start, so only really had time to walk around Ash Cave...

Out of Focus

About midway through the quarter I changed some settings on my camera so that focusing and tripping the shutter are assigned to two separate buttons. This requires one first to push the focus button (with...

Dawn to Dusk 2010

My Dawn2Dusk 2010: Intro Piece. Once again 6am on the morning of Viscom’s Dawn2Dusk project found me sitting on the corner of Court and State Streets in Athens, Ohio, shooting timelapse photos. This time, though...

Jackson Peak, 10741ft

Start location: Curtis Canyon trailhead End location: Summit, Jackson Peak Min altitude: Max altitude: 10,741ft (3274m) Min temp: Max temp: Jackson Peak Hike Notes 12-Jul-10, 16:45 – Start at Curtis Canyon trailhead. Met woman part...

Mark and Scott go to the Cabin

Over Spring Break my friend and commercial photography grad school classmate Scott Marx and I headed up to the cabin for a few days of good food, wine, and shootin’ stuff. Fortunately Scott took care...

Pumpkin Show, iMac guts, and more fashion drama

AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Re-assembling a lab iMac and it didn’t go “bloop!” and let off a small cloud of smoke. Current main project: One Minute of Video and FASHION: glamour Had a...

Tryin’ to get from A to B can be tough

AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Today was as good as yesterday was cruddy – tough to pick. Current main project: Publication Design, Fashion shoot, and picking final project ideas. Had a pretty great evening...

Yahoo’s sense of humor (?), setting up camp, grades

AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Umm… still waiting for it. Current main project: First video shoot, publication design project Aside from the ad Yahoo served up this morning with my email (see below), today...

Assignments Round 3: featuring Gary the Luthier

AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Finishing the biggest project of the year (so far) Current main project: Getting home and getting more than 4 hours sleep. As usual it’s late and I’m not done...

Grad Student Evicted!

HALLMARK ATHENS STUDENT HOUSING, LLC, PLAINTIFF: I’ve been served with an eviction notice for failure to pay rent. I don’t have time to fully explain how pissed off I am, but here’s a summary: rent...