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Fort Mason time!

The Nocturnes - night photography collective - fort mason

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Mark Jaremko

Deborah Rourke

Roxanne Worthington

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After today's blackout-induced non-rehearsal hanging-out beerness with BSM, I drove home, took care of some stuff, then grabbed my camera and a jacket and headed towards the water.

I missed sunset and it got very very veryvery dark. I went for long exposure times and stayed aware of my surroundings... and decided I'd keep going until I felt I couldn't walk anymore.

I ended up taking a 4+ hour photo walk... I'd guess over 10 miles. I'm a bit sore and the cabs passing me looked better and better after I found the Exploratorium and stopped taking photos... but managed to walk all the way back home to Loft Ness. I think that made up for a few too many days of not exercising.

Requisite pic of Coit Tower

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Current Mood: sore but good
Current Location: loft ness
Current Music: slave unit - the battle for last place

I went to see The Fountain last night.

Trailers: Curse of the Golden Flower (the new Zhang Yimou flick) and Pan's Labyrinth have my attention. Perfume could be really good or really disappointing. I'll go see it.
(Hostel II: I'm not a fan of Eli Roth's at all, but I may end up watching this in the theaters anyway =P ... The fact that Letters From Iwo Jima was filmed back-to-back with Flags of Our Fathers makes both of them more interesting to me. Not sure if/when I'll watch though.)

[the rain starts falling harder outside and my mind sidesteps for a moment as i marvel at my capacity for being self-absorbed. meta-self-absorbed, even. i'd consider it a failing if it weren't such a defining part of me (..., i think to myself, pondering the inner workings of my self-absorption).]

[[if a sponge were self-absorbent, would it only absorb itself, or would it absorb other sponges? would it grow larger and take on the memories and abilities of the sponges it absorbed? would it be a cannibal sponge or a highlander sponge? would we end up with a huge there-can-be-only-one sponge that can both clean your kitchen and act as a contraceptive? and would that sponge be my father? (never!!!)]]

Evidently my mind has snapped somewhere. Perhaps while viewing The Fountain and its interweaving, era-spanning storylines. Though I have my theories about that.
Did I mention it was very good? Beautiful. Parts of it seemed more like a dance than a movie. Or a play. Or a visual piece of music, but that all got woven back into the story. A scene close to the end got a little "Oh no, this is getting a little too 2001" but I think it recovered.

on the way home.
blurry b/c i hadn't stepped up to iso 1600 yet, but i like this.

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san francisco, ca

Current Mood: thankful

This no ins/outs in my parking lot between 7pm and 6am Sunday through Thursday is one thing. The 4am-6am street cleaning is another. Once I get settled in and get comfy with my bike and it stops raining I'll be good =)

But after tracking down a cheapish overnight parking spot, I decided to do my very first, uber short (3 or 4 blocks?) photo walk here. S'fun. First of many I think. Total tourist. S'weird how different it looks, like turning an abstract painting upside down and seeing something completely new and fascinating.