Happy New Year!

2010 - not a terrible year for ye posting on this blog, relatively speaking of course... I'd like to take a minute to say that I'm very proud of those who recorded and album, threw an art show, improvised comedy, shot videos, etc... I feel lucky to have friends that all have their own thing going on. Thank you also for contributing to the blog. I was going to say, "Without you, this blog would be nothing," and then I got to thinking, well, I guess it's already something. I mean 900 something posts, you know? But I don't consider webpages tangible objects, so maybe it's nothing after all. If all the lights went out, where would the site go? Luckily for us it seems more inevitable that our future masters, The Robots, will use this site against us (depending on who is in power).

Today I was perusing the Boston.com's "The Big Picture" site, particularly the 2010 round-up pics. I was really captivated by several pictures mostly involving big, global news stories from the past year. Some were easy to see and soak in their beauty; others extremely hard to look at. Pictures. Moments in time, you know... This world is pretty nutso, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. I was definably shocked by the more apocalyptic photos. Natural Disasters came hardcore in 2010 (so did unnatural disasters), and luckily none of us where physically harmed (which is what I was referring to by the "relatively speaking" comment earlier).

I wish everyone a Happy New Year.

THE BIG PICTURE

part 1
part 2
part 3

Picture Me When You're Naked

Photos come courtesy of Mary. These were taken when The Family Swaggards were in New York the other weekend (however not all of us made it to the shoot). ZING! Click to enlarge.

UPDATE: After speaking with Mary on Friday night, she thought I should include the portrait she took of me waiting for the subway (since it's the best photo of the bunch). Damn, I'm a good looking man, I can't help it.

Two-fer Tuesday

First, a video of President Barack Obama reading "Where the Wild Things Are" to the kids gathered on the White House lawn for the annual Easter egg roll. Notable because I think you can actually see unconditional love glistening over the Obamas like the shimmer over a sun-baked highway.



Next, a few selections from a series of photographs created by compositing photos of the same NYC location over several days. The smokers are my favorite, obviously. The people touching their faces reminds me of 9/11.