Amelia’s Umbrellas
Amelia got some new umbrellas for her birthday, so she and Brian tried them out.
Flickr Photographer
Screw this guy and his photos that make mine look like total crap.
Keith McElhinney’s Front Flip Flair
I haven’t seen my old riding friend Keith McElhinney since he moved to Pennsylvania, but he’s clearly been doing a lot of riding at Woodward. At the Dew Tour’s 2006 stop in Denver, Keith pulled the world’s first ever front flip flair (which he has named the lawn dart) — check out the video. Update: …
Jeremy Photos
I keep getting asked for them, so here they are: more Jeremy photos!
Flopping Ruins Soccer
One thing that drives me nuts about soccer — I mean other than the fact that I find it incredibly boring to watch (and, to put that in perspective, this is coming from someone who loves to watch baseball) — is when players fake being tripped (“flopping”) in order to try to draw a penalty …
Modestly Competent Photography
How to Shoot People (and Places and Things) The first two [photos] I showed in class this evening … were technically passable but artistically bland. More than anything, they’re examples of my modest competency in selective focus and the one-third/two-thirds rule for composing pictures, but little else. The more I learn about photography, the less …
10 Things
This isn’t exactly new, but it’s too well-done not to link to it. The Ten Commandments as a teen comedy: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments:
Apple’s new NY store
Continuing the cool-buildings theme from yesterday, these are nice some photos of Apple’s new 24-hour (!) store in New York. The coolest thing is that there’s no actual storefront: the entrance is a glass cube with an Apple logo, and you go down underground into the store. (More photos of the store here and here.)
Vote for Gardener
Off Mound, Mets’ Ace Loosens Up in His Garden (NY Times) “It has to be in you to work with flowers, but if you grow up with it, you realize how it can make you untouchable,” [Pedro] Martínez said. “If something hurts, it disappears when you are in the garden. It’s about deep thinking, about …
Quick update
Random updates and links: New websites for Amelia and Jeremy are up now. Everyone’s seen Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by now, but still… Since I rarely update the Photos section of this site, I’m trying out Flickr to see if that gets me to take more photos. (My new …