Jan 30th 2011
Golden hour
Jan 29th 2011
Cafe Fanny
Jan 28th 2011
Today I looked at a replica of the Rosetta stone at the printer studio. After lunch, I spent two hours replicating a beautiful type with exact measurements using only a ruler and a pencil. I measured exactly how far apart and how thick every line and curve is in the letter “A” and “B.” Now I know precisely where every part of the letter start and end. I really like my Fridays.
Jan 27th 2011
Tree Nymph
Jan 26th 2011
Morning smoothie
Jan 25th 2011
State of the Union speech
Jan 24th 2011
I go to the environmental design library for their chairs.
Jan 23rd 2011
Shot production stills for Jun’s documentary film.
Jan 22nd 2011
Bananas in Chinatown, San Francisco.
Jan 21st 2011
At the print shop today. Mr. Goines showed me his woodblock for a poster he did for Peet’s coffee.
Jan 20th 2011
Red shoes
Jan 19th 2011
Red hair
Jan 18th 2011
Back to school, back to cool. Journalism graduate students in Steve Talbot’s longform television course.
Jan 17th 2011
Morning Dew
Jan 16th 2011
A woman sees her friend on the stairway after the 9th annual musical tribute honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Oakland.
Jan 15th 2011
Chinatown, San Francisco.
Jan 14th 2011
David Lance Goines is an amazing graphic designer and is a resident printer for more than 45 years at the MLK letterpress studio in Berkeley. He designed and printed all of Chez Panisse posters and book covers. He also has an amazing handlebar mustache. I’m feeling inspired.
Jan 13th 2011
Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences.
Jan 12th 2011
Today I met Richard Seibert after taking this photo. He owns a letterpress studio on MLK way in Berkeley. There is a part of me that wants to be in a dusty, cluttered studio and be Richard’s apprentice. Not sure how I’m going to have time for it but I’m going to have lunch with his crew on Friday to feel things out. I showed him my book blog and I think he liked it.
Jan 11th 2011
It started with a casual question.
"What kind of city are you looking for?" the lady asked the man behind her.
Before he had time to answer she started giving him the specs on the city: the racial and class demographic, neighboring cities, tourist attractions, the positives and the negatives of living there.
I was trying to sleep but their conversation was so loud I could not tune them out.
They were strangers that started a friendly back-and-forth for the whole plane to hear.
She proceed to talk about her nursing job after a soft prompt from the man. It turns out the man’s question about how one finds time to pee during long work hours was a way for him to tell his story about how he won three trips on the game show, The Price is Right. He told the story loudly about how he had to pee when they called his name but managed to forget about it and as a result won $19,000 and vacation package to Hawaii and such.