About the title?
Well, N and I saw Counting Crows at last …and it was sooo awesome.
The Traveling Circus and Medicine Show. Counting Crows and Augustana… they both hit the stage at the same time, and they both sang lots of songs.
Pure awesomeness. Two of our favorite groups onstage.
Adam Duritz standing on a monitor, smiling…
So what have I been up to?
Too many things to mention.
Some things have just been awesome, others have just been things you sort of have to do.
And as usual, here’s the small (!) amount of things I want you to know… (110 photos this time)
Like a roadtrip to Bainbridge Island… driving up to Mukilteo, and then up, up, and a bit farther, just to cross over at Mt. Vernon, and then South I-5 again.
I like pie… I mean… ferries film (portra 160vc or ektar 100 — dunno) on the m6:
The people on the other side of the ferry
Everyone minding their own business
Commuting sleeper… awesome to see how this happens in every known medium of transport
Boats = members? Whoa, thaaat’s sooo cleeeveeer…
We didn’t make it by 11. No breakfast for us.
Poulsbo cemetery… and the big tree there
Photo guys getting their angles
This was cool – imagine how the sequence would look in video
View from home
Random Capitol Hill moment
Yet another mirror shot. N+me+strangers
Some old dude wearing a skirt, and some other guy photographing him.
Moral of the story: Rewind the film before opening up the m6.
Now shifting to the f3 with good ol’ portra 160vc. First some leftovers from Poulsbo:
Best Washington bakery E V E R
The Poulsbo church – viewed at 17mm
Tighter shot
The cemetery tree
Another cemetery shot
…aaand another ferry shot on the way back
Good thing guy parked in a proper spot
I (heart) neon signs
Bldg in front of the Emerald Arms
Now back to the Fremont Solstice Parade
Before the parade began
I’ve realized that having more that 1 film camera screws things up. I know… maybe I just suck, but since sometimes I feel a certain camera would do fine, I leave another at home.
Anyway… when I ran out of portra, I put on a delta 400 on the F3. Still on the Fremont Solstice Parade…
“Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoooonmaaaaan”
The entertainer just arrived
There’s a bit for everyone there…
Her outfit was cool
This is SO European… I mean in every corner.. Paris, Madrid, Zurich, Stockholm…
Mini-raffle… the grand prize… a scribbled Mini
Bridge opening up for some guy in his petite yatch
Paramount Theater’s marquee
Yah, right… we supported John Smith and his plea for whatever… don´t know the restaurant
At the Death Cab for Cutie concert… more photos below
TMAX 400 on the m6 – leftovers from the Fremont Solstice Parade
Police bike- check
Billingham bag – check
Kneel in the middle of the street – check
After the Fremont parade was over…
Another self… at City Market… awesome place… e
They had Camper shoes in this store
Bonding at a M’s game
Taaaaakeee me ooouuut to the baaaall gaaaaameeee
Eventhough some people bumped into homey, he did not move… from his spotlight
I love the Seattle music scene. Looots of bands I really like. This makes me think about all the “cooool; trendy” hipsters that will go to the Killers’ Concert (in either Mexico City or Monterrey). Been there… months ago. :). For what it’s worth, these are from a Third Eye Blind concert. TEB rocks really hard!!!. This was with the m6 and Portra 800. These were edited in Aperture. I’m learning how to use it. Rocks on the MBP screen!! Not a big fan of Portra 800, though…
Opening band
Digital photo… the place was packed
The tones were NOT cool… but I like the red.
I hated the tones, so I just BW’d the rest…
Late night coffee
Party at Moni’s John’s – that sounds funny
John’s friends looking at his X-ray
Man looking at an unknown booze bottle
Note the small umbrella
Typical party-geek moment
The Triple door… cool drummer… her voice… hmmm… dunno
She played a cover by Natalia Lafourcade… we were surprised…
These are other frames from our every-days…
m6 + p160vc…
Anthroplogie @ U Village. Awesome…
Another self in a dressing room.
Boston guys…
Van breaking down in I-5
ha!
Teamwork… gets you places
Another Triple Door concert
The car coming into the frame almost runs me over… to many’s chagrin, I’m still around
I think I had a Slice + Vice
German posing… conceptually I like this. He has a twin (Gustavo).
Big evil octopus coming out of a building
And that was it for that Portland getaway.
There’s no sales tax in Oregon… so if you’re thinking about getting a new laptop… you can go there… I did. 🙂
Anyway…
I took N to Ballard for a concert where Trespassers William played. Cool stuff… m6 + portra 400VC:
The Olympic Athletic Club in Ballard
Ballard post… not very different than the Capitol Hill post
Guy selling tickets at the Tractor Tavern
Can’t remember these guy’s name… they were amusing
Trespassers William
My former mentor — ladies and gents… Mr. Brian Puhl. F’n awesome dude.
That window up top… our place
Then, near the end, came the big event where they took us downtown in buses… and closed down 520 and I-5 at rush hour. Yeah… I guess this is how Microsoft makes friends… oh well… it’s mostly MS people in 520 anyway.
“Yeah dude, let the buses go through”
I-5 being completely blocked just for us
That same weekend we had hamburgers at Pablo’s…. truly delicious delicious stuff… ektar (?) on the m6:
The cook extraordinaire
Chris + Anna… awesome dudes
After a quick N-stop to Anthropologie…
This made me smile
Dick’s. Yum Yum Yum
Simple menu — shakes, burguers, and fries
Yours truly
Mariners! Well… I’m a Red Sox guy (since I met Hamza – credit where credit is due). Anyway… we went to couple of games… this is against the Blue Jays, I think… f3 + p400vc:
Ichirrrrouuuuuuuu at bat
Safeco!!!
I guess he wasn’t into the sport
That day the pitcher srsly sucked
Sea-town docks
N + yrs trly
Cheap rooms…
during the heatwave
Old fashioned frozen custard…. yum!!
Paula – after I’d run out of 120 film
Quick rewind to Portland… using efke25 on the m6… mostly personal stuff, so not sharing more than a few…:
Garage in Powell’s Books. BEST BOOKSTORE EVA
Naked Capitol Hill riders
Before the Death Cab for Cutie concert
Then, I got a delta3200 on the m6 to see what could happen:
Lovely sky
Gotta love Delta 3200
4th of July fireworks
Some strange Pinapple Vodka prepared by Nath and Amir
On the way back home – more delta 3200 love
From inside Hot Mama’s Pizza Parlour
Across the street from Hot Mama’s, and besides Linda’s
DCFC playing “Your Heart is an Empty Room”
You and me have seen everything to see…
from Bangkk to Calgary… and the soles of your shoes are all worn out…
The Atlantic was booorn todaaaayyyy
Another camera shooting the stage
I guess these ladies really got into the music and broke into tears
On a lighter note, I remember a conversation I had with my cousin about Tweeter.
Two types of people use Tweeter: Truly useful information sources or poser attention whores.
Now, I wonder what’s the logic behind microblogging for the second type…
I’m doing some very very interesting/cool stuff.
…right.
No joke, I’m getting beaten up and the police has actual crimes to solve, so they’re not coming.
Awesome. That last one was by Perez Hilton FYI…
Now… really… do we need a microblogging engine to know that a certain dumbass is waking up? or dressing up? or being just generally pretentious?
Naah… didn’t think so.
Bitter Moon is on the TV now. Love that movie. I have not opinion about Roman Polansky, so I’ll digress.
Still, it’s a good movie.
Anyway… carrying on…
Approaching the end of this kilometric post… ektar on the m6:
Randomness
Mommy’s there
Girl dancing for her college degree
Cowgirrrrrrlssss
Dudes amazed at her skill
Tools of the trade
Explanation of the work…
Confiture… I miss this cat
I made an arrangement with a friend… she’d cook delicious food, and I’ll make her a portrait.
It was an awesome experiment…. apparently I don’t suck terribly at portraits.
N was the art director.
Shot with the Rolleiflex T, using Portra 400VC — perfect for the light. Here’s my fave:
Dramatic expression, and all…
Say goodbye to long-ass posts.
It’s hard to define the past six months of my life in a single thought. I guess not everyday you get to work on changing the e-mail management paradigm in the world, or work with the most awesome team I’ve ever worked with (IAM dudes… rock on!!!).
Also… I’ve never followed the phrase “Work hard; Play hard” so strictly.
But it paid off amazingly well… 🙂
I’ve got the tools for exactly what I want to do. My favorite camera ever, with the only two lenses I’d ever want for it – too bad I had to trade in two sweet two-eight’s, and a CV one-four to get those, but well… there’s a point in life where you know exactly what you want.
Last, but far from least… getting home, seeing N at home (working her genius and magic over long distance), and just thinking that I’d become an adult… in OUR place.
Can’t really explain how that feels… I guess you aren’t there, I could suggest to cut microblogging, the rest of your bullshit, and grow up… but anyway it’s cool… I mean… not everyone can handle being a grown up, and being treated like one.
And this is now… in a break from all that… listening to the raindrops hit the glass behind me, in the big man-zoo that Mexico City is… raining at night as only it can rain in this wicked place.
There’s no looking back, and there are no regrets.
This year has been better than the last; maybe as good as it gets.
Hope life catches you well,
J