i never thought i'd have tupac on my blog but.. .
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
CC gone mobile.
In the interest of time being more well spent (and life, living and loving) I have chosen to go mobile. I was resentful of the "mo-blog" for so long and now I have been lured in by it's ease of use and spontaneous life capturing essence. Since I mostly just review my occasionally boring life, this works well. I set up a nice little plan with my mobile carrier (Verizon) that reads something like "250 pix msg for $5/month" which sounds pretty satisfactory to me.
I do not really intend to "blog" as I once did, but I imagine every once in awhile I will be compelled to return to the cumbsersome format of resizing pictures and telling stories or regurgitating found web entertainment. Enjoy. Please. Thank you. You're welcome. Gazoontight.
I do not really intend to "blog" as I once did, but I imagine every once in awhile I will be compelled to return to the cumbsersome format of resizing pictures and telling stories or regurgitating found web entertainment. Enjoy. Please. Thank you. You're welcome. Gazoontight.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
lyrically speaking
if you follow every dream you might get lost.
i have a present. it is the present.
a cup of two day old coffee and your feeling like yourself again.
a natural beauty should be preserved like a monument.
half a mile from the county fair, and the rain keep pourin' down.
i could find her in a thunderstorm -- just by the way that the rain would fall.
i have a present. it is the present.
a cup of two day old coffee and your feeling like yourself again.
a natural beauty should be preserved like a monument.
half a mile from the county fair, and the rain keep pourin' down.
i could find her in a thunderstorm -- just by the way that the rain would fall.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Stumped, the video.
Today I went skating with Nick, at one spot in Norfolk. This is what happened (the music was added later).
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Marzipan
Sunrise at Kitty Hawk pier.
Hydroplaning watercrafts!
Jockey's Ridge State Park; biggest sand dunes on the East Coast.
The end of summer.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Work scenes
My job is pretty different and not many people understand what I do everyday. Well, I was originally just going to post these random work shots, but then I thought (for those who care) a little explanation would help in putting the shots in perspective. Basically I work with seriously mentally ill people in what is frequently called a "psycho-social rehab" (or a day program) which helps stabilized people who have a mental illness become more socialized, more independent (managing food and medications) and in some cases obtain employment, whether part time or full time.
This means, other than facilitating groups and life skills training, alot of hanging out and doing things like playing ping pong and cards. But many of the people get used to just hanging out (and who can blame them, it's a pretty stress free life in that respect). Some like to go after jobs, but that can be a difficult road, because when you are on "disability' you get a fixed check from the government each month for not working, and with that there is sometimes little incentive to work (however, that also means you are poor and you stay poor). But, if you want to keep receiving that stipend, you cannot work more than 20 hours a week. It's tough to maintain that balance and in deciding to keep the check or abandon the check altogether and try to get a full time 40 hr a week job! Many people are not ready to work, and some never will be, whether due to their illness, cognitive functioning or education level. Anyway, we give them an opportunity to work on these type of things if they want, or, they can just hang out, which is the lame part and ends up frustrating or boring me to death! Whatever, enough is enough!
Learn computer skills by a waterfall,
or help cook broccoli in the kitchen.
This is a collage of all the wild patterns seen around the building.
random shit!? check.
This means, other than facilitating groups and life skills training, alot of hanging out and doing things like playing ping pong and cards. But many of the people get used to just hanging out (and who can blame them, it's a pretty stress free life in that respect). Some like to go after jobs, but that can be a difficult road, because when you are on "disability' you get a fixed check from the government each month for not working, and with that there is sometimes little incentive to work (however, that also means you are poor and you stay poor). But, if you want to keep receiving that stipend, you cannot work more than 20 hours a week. It's tough to maintain that balance and in deciding to keep the check or abandon the check altogether and try to get a full time 40 hr a week job! Many people are not ready to work, and some never will be, whether due to their illness, cognitive functioning or education level. Anyway, we give them an opportunity to work on these type of things if they want, or, they can just hang out, which is the lame part and ends up frustrating or boring me to death! Whatever, enough is enough!
Learn computer skills by a waterfall,
or help cook broccoli in the kitchen.
This is a collage of all the wild patterns seen around the building.
random shit!? check.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Saturday, September 01, 2007
PULL MY DAiSY, 1959
For those of you with some time...this is a movie made by Robert Frank (great photographer/filmmaker) and Jack Kerouac (writer).
The following from Wikipedia...
"Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Delphine Seyrig and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son.
Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results.
Originally intended to be called "The Beat Generation" the title "Pull My Daisy" was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady over the 40's and 50's. Part of the original poem was was used as a lyric in the jazz composition played when the film opens.
The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set.
Pull My Daisy has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry."
more good reading...The Aesthetic Triptych of Robert Frank
The following from Wikipedia...
"Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Delphine Seyrig and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son.
Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results.
Originally intended to be called "The Beat Generation" the title "Pull My Daisy" was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady over the 40's and 50's. Part of the original poem was was used as a lyric in the jazz composition played when the film opens.
The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set.
Pull My Daisy has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry."
more good reading...The Aesthetic Triptych of Robert Frank
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