The Diary Project

House Sitting

I did a lot of sitting.

Well, laying on the couch if you want to know the truth.

Every once in a while, I have the urge (call it a need) to commemorate a moment in time. I suppose normal folks (and/or more social folks) might just turn their head and make note of the situation (and/or a particularly pleasing thought) to friends and family, in the normal course of events, as they go through life. But my circle of acquaintance is quite small (and getting smaller all the time). Which means, I turn inwards into myself (rather than outwards towards the media, as others in my situation have been known to do) and create Quasi-Fictional Social Interactions. And these Quasi-Fictional Social Interactions are extracted here for your enjoyment... so maybe, they are not so Quasi-Fictional, after all.

my camera is not very good, and it was hazy, call it Global Hazing, all the way across, the raw images are not very good, it seems I like the posterizing colour palette for whatever reason, it provides some clarity, removing the dull color blocked from haze with something purer and more abstract, this is an aerial shot of waterways, The Delta, I believe the same style as previous, showing erosion in mountains, I probably should have decided which images to keep after the application of the filter, prior to before

Let Us Begin


Even on Airplane Mode, the iPhone already knew about the Time Zone Change. Android did not. Ergo, Airplane Mode on the iPhone is not silent.

Flight In
4:14:52.80

Flight Out
3:45:31.51

For whatever reason, I find satisfaction in recording data points. After all, that's another way of regarding these posts... as self-selected data points in one man's life.

I like the idea of manufacturing with imaging software the look of typewritten notes, one of the things I needed was parchment paper, this is not that, but it is the type of shot that I too in pursuit of that aim, I have a landscape and portrait version of this in full size saved with the other raw images for use in future projects, but that does seem a long shot, I have better parchment samples
I have liked this sort of crack work for awhile, so maybe that is where the interestin textures began, or it is one and the same, this is an exterior concrete wall to a building, showing water damage cracks, I would like the image to be perfectly flat and grided out, the lines parallel and top and bottom perpendicular, so a scan, not a sideways image
I love this shot, this is among my best, or at least, I am very pleased with it, to the right, fading into the distance is a graffiti covered sea wall, and the the left, the beach, fogged in, with a few folks, up along the ocean line, it is a pleasing shot
distressed paint on the Golden Gate Bridge, it looks like where a sticker may have been peeled off, or something more random, stray duct tape, it looks like some sort of oriental character to me, I like it
A heavily gold metallic filtered image of the ocean, with bumper stickers and the like covering a no Parking Sign, I think, overlooking the Pacific Ocean

{She wants to be mentioned more.

But she needs to sign a release.

Without which, my hands are tied and I am unable to wax poetic about her sparkling blue eyes, soft-tasty lips, keen intellect, witty humour, and sweet disposition... well, it's mostly sweet, unless she's lobbying for a greater market share of my Mind, Body, Heart, & Soul.

My, but she is a greedy one... the best ones always are.}
In Muir woods, can you see the Man in the Forest, well, I can, it is a nice trick of the eye
The Man in the Woods
The Spirit of the Forest

Do You See Him?

the second two are repeats of the first two, this is a black and white, solid black image of a crow squawking, so a silhouette silhouette of crow bowing, both on fence posts
I give you The Golden Gate Bridge, it is now yours, or at least, this view of it is yours, back a little, from the tourist center, the approach is in view, as is Fort Pointless, below, with the fog on such a sunny day, I think it is a pleasing shot
Another aerial shot using the same filter as the opening duo, this of the Chicago Skyline

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FAN TO AUTO
INTERNET OFF
PLANTS TO SINK
PILLOWS ON COUCH
COUCH FAN TO CORNER
KITCHEN BLIND DOWN
CLOSE KITCHEN DRAPES
BLUE BLANKET TO GUEST BEDROOM
BEDROOM NIGHT STAND MOVE TO BED
PILLOWS IN GUEST BEDROOM
BAG IN GARAGE