The Bracelet Project: A Portrait of the City in Black and White

So I'm going to be working on a project That I would like to include people in if they're interested.

Firstly, I'm going to make a whole bunch of friendship bracelets in several different colors. They would wear different color bracelets depending on the interests they chose to affiliate with, and answer different questions based on what they are most passionate about.

Then I'm going to interview people across the city (In coffee houses, on campuses, downtown, the beach, etc). They don't need to disclose their real name. A nickname of their superhero name will suffice.

I will take a black and white photo of them wearing the bracelets. The photos don't need to include their face if they are uncomfortable with that, as long as it shows the bracelet on their wrist or ankle.

I'd like to then find a place that would let me hang them all together as a show that I can invite the people who were interviewed to. If they kept their bracelets they could easily find people with similar interests there, though since the images would all be black and white they could maintain a little anonymity if they elected not to have their face in the picture or their real name on the interview. They could maintain their secret identity.

V-Day Excursion

So I spent Valentine's Day morning in the hospital getting poked and prodded. But afterwards, to cheer me up, Irwin decided we should drive somewhere and asked me where we should go. Originally I had thought about exploring the caves east of his place, but then out of nowhere The Mystery Spot jumped into my head. So we drove down to Santa Cruz and got to tour the place. It was pretty cool. I'd have loved to spend a lot of time there messing around in the crooked shack, but the group we were with wasn't very interesting. We'll have to go back there with our own levels and roll-y things. It'll be fun.
And after leaving there we decided to avoid traffic and take highway 1 back up the peninsula. Somewhere between Pescadero and Half Moon Bay we got out of the car to run around on the beach collecting rocks and throwing them at other rocks. It was a lot of fun.
Pictures to come once I get them off Irwin's camera.

Tacos in Cabo with Sophia

So during our brief visit to Cabo, Sophie and I wandered off on our own into the city and ended up eating at the crazy lobster. Good food. It was nice getting to spend time with just my sister in another country. Phialia! We need to go to REAL Mexico together! game?

Some pictures that echo the past

These pictures look nearly exactly like a series of pictures that my mom took of me and my dad in Hawaii when I was very small. Bree is a little older than I was though. My dad's a bit older in these pictures too. I'll have to see if I can find those pictures of me and my dad so I can put them next to these and gawk.

More smiles from the family visit

A focus on the happy moments

I recently spend a week with my family. It came on the heels of some very sad news, but we managed some smiles despite it all.
Here's a focus on some of the happy moments.

Politics in this country makes me cry

and sometimes speechless with rage and horror...




http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Oops_White_House_spokesman_admits_telecoms_0212.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/us/13fisa.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&oref=slogin