About a month ago I started what’s known as Project 365. Simply, you take a self portrait each day for 365 days.
I’ve done it for twenty-eight days so far. I’m not totally excited about each and every photo — a lot of days I’m getting ready for bed and think “oh shit, I need to take a photo,” but the important thing is that I haven’t skipped a day yet. Only 337 more to go.
Clicking on the image above will bring you to the set. I’ll be adding one photo to it each day so keep checking back (on Flickr, I won’t be updating here often).
So for some reason I decided to outline my method of eating candy here, where everyone can read it and finally get hard proof that I’m nuts.
This really only applies to small bits of multi-colored or multi-flavored candy (M&Ms, Skittles, etc) — I have a separate system to eat candy that comes in bar form.
For this example I’m eating Yogos…
Dump out the candy onto your table or desk. Try not to make too much noise if you are at work, or else your coworkers will notice what you’re doing and come over to make fun of you.
Sort candy into piles, by color.
Count the number of candies in each of the single-color groups.
Even out the single-color groups so that each group has the same number of candies as the group with the smallest number. So if you have groups of 9-8-7-6, you would even them out to groups of six.
Put these equal-numbered groups together into a new, multi-colored group. You’ll come back to this group later.
Keep narrowing down the remaining candy into multi-colored groups as you did above, until you (possibly) have one color left. You may get lucky and have an even number, but I’ve never had that happen.
Now, sort each of the new multi-colored groups into smaller groups of one of each color, organized by color from the most popular color to least. See the photo below.
The hard work is now done and you can start eating. But you need to eat the candy in a particular method as well. Start eating from the smallest groups up to the largest, one color at a time, by popularity. Using the photo as an example, I’d eat the all-blue group first. Then I’d eat the middle group, blue-dark blue-pink-blue-dark blue-pink. When those are gone, I’d move on to the largest group, eating blue-dark blue-pink-purple, and so on until they’re all gone.
Confused? Ready to commit me? .:sigh:. I guess I brought this upon myself…
I was driving into work this morning when the license plate holder on the car in front of me made me think… why is it that all the memorable jingles from television commercials are either car dealerships and services or carpet places?
Seriously.
Seven Seven Three, Two Oh Two, be-boo-boo-be, Looon-aaahh (carpet)
Five Eight Eight, Two Three Hundred, Empiiirree (carpet)
Celozzi-Ettleson Cheverolet, in Elmhurst at York and Roosevelt Roads… where you always save more money! (car dealer)
Today was Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, a day when — as indicated by the name — people all over the world go out with a pinhole camera and shoot photos.
The original plan was to go to Six Flags (it’s opening weekend) to shoot since the subject matter is a lot more interesting than stuff around the house or the scummy retention pond out back. But we had a late night — we made it home sometime after 3am from the Halo party at Kevin’s house — so we got a late start on the day. Justin actually didn’t get to sleep until almost 5:30am because he had to drive his parents to the airport at 4:30am. Then I check and the park closed at 5pm … so we decided to skip it. Instead we went to Justin’s parents’ house so I could photograph some flowers and such.
I’m submitting the image below to the pinholeday.org gallery; it’s my favorite of the batch. Once it’s approved you can see it on their site here.
You can see the rest of the shots I took today right here.
I need a new scanner. I have an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo which has been my faithful home-photo-lab companion for years. But I think a bulb burned out in the lid, because if you look at the photos above you’ll notice a dark band across the center of the image. It’s only an issue when scanning medium format negatives — 35mm and flatbed are fine — so I’m hesitant to throw it out since it works great otherwise. Maybe I’ll give it to someone who won’t need to use it for transparencies.
I’d love to get a dedicated negative scanner but I don’t have a grand or two lying around to spare. So I’ll probably get the more reasonably priced Epson 4490.
