October 30, 2009
Handled With Care
Photo by Emilia Kaczynski
I wrote a bit about Handle With Care already. A little while ago, I was able to dispatch a reporter to the exhibition to document the exhibition before it closed. The intrepid reporter was my little sister, Emilia. She just happened to be in Paris studying all things French and she volunteered to go on a fact finding mission to Montauban. Undeterred by the six hour train ride (one way!) she brought back volumes of photographs of the exhibition. After seeing this virtual walk through I'm even more impressed by the breadth and depth of the exhibition. Bravo Laurent! Take a look.
Posted by tomk at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2009
Art Shanty Project
dIce Houses by Mr. Mike Click on the image to see the full Flickr set.
I caught a brief glimpse of the Art Shanty Project on a frozen Medicine Lake on Valentine's Day. It was the last day of the project and the lake was packed with people. Going into the shanties felt like entering a can of sardines. I definitely didn't get to see all the shanties as much as I wanted to. There is always next year...
Posted by tomk at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)
December 17, 2008
Recent Weather
Posted by tomk at 11:56 PM | Comments (2)
July 14, 2008
Recent Weather
Posted by tomk at 01:06 AM | Comments (0)
May 25, 2008
Mobile Photography Nostalgia
My dead Sony Ericsson T-610s soul taken by the Nokia 6300.
I don't take very many pictures with my cellphone. But, occasionally it is the only tool available to record a moment in time. Usually the picture is forgotten as soon as it is taken. When my trusty Sony Ericsson T-610 died a few weeks ago I was compelled to take a look at the pictures I've taken with it during the five (!) years it served as my phone. Its camera wasn't great and the pictures were very low resolution... on top of that, I'm not a great photographer. But the grainy, low-quality images have already acquired that warm and familiar sheen of nostalgia... the same kind of sheen that we experience listening to vinyl records or cassette tapes or playing old arcade style video games (Galaga!). A long time ago I posted a small set of pictures from the old phone when it was still new to me. Now I've added a bunch more to that Flickr set. Take a look.
My new phone (Nokia 6300) looks a lot like the T-610. I admit that I bought it mainly on the strength of that resemblance... but... I find its new interface a little too slick, its memory bigger than necessary, its photos are bigger but not better, etc., etc... already I'm missing the relative clunkiness of the old phone knowing full well I'll have the same nostalgic feelings for the new one in five years time.
Posted by tomk at 11:44 PM | Comments (0)
May 24, 2008
TCAF 2007
Daniel Libeskind's Royal Ontario Museum Expansion in Toronto
Here's another event I failed to write about after it was over: TCAF. Hard to believe it's been almost a year...! I was excited to visit Toronto, the city of Seth, Chester Brown & Joe Matt! Sadly, I missed their appearance together. Still the show and the city were amazing... and as ususual I managed to take very few pictures at the actual show. Instead, during brief moments away from the table, I filled the camera with images of unbuilt luxury condos, monumental residential building and deconstructed museum sharkitecture. You know... the usual stuff. All this was just blocks from the show! Someday, I would like to go back and see the rest of the city.
Posted by tomk at 12:34 AM | Comments (0)
May 21, 2008
Stumptown 2008
Stumptown is at this point gone from most people's minds... but I just uploaded all these pictures I took while attending the show to Flickr... only I neglected to take pictures of the Stumptown Comics Festival itself so instead you get bunch of pictures of the Willamette river front, the Red Lion Hotel and the Stumptown after-party held at the excellent Pony Club gallery.
Posted by tomk at 02:37 PM | Comments (0)
February 08, 2006
Random Mobile
Some random pictures from my mobile phone (Sony Ericsson T-610). Highlights include, pigeon on a trash can, microscopic concert pictures, the staircase from The Exorcist and more.
Posted by tomk at 09:15 PM | Comments (0)