Urban: August 2005 Archives
San Francisco has been absolutely lovely. I adore this city! On Wednesday night we had dinner in Chinatown, and afterwards I walked the short distance from our hotel to the waterfront to snap this photo of the Bay Bridge, covered in a slight bit of fog and being left behind by a passing ferry.
Submitted for the August 25 , Weather, because of the infamous San Fran fog!
The photoblog is on auto-pilot through Wednesday as I visit San Francisco and re-live a few photos from the year I spent in the Bay Area (2001-2002). If I am able to update from San Francisco, daily photos will continue through the week. If not, I'll be back on the 22nd. I should be updating my via cell phone camera.
A typical San Francisco street sometime in 2002. Steep hill. Streetcar rails. Cute houses. Happy sigh.
The photoblog is on auto-pilot through Wednesday as I visit San Francisco and re-live a few photos from the year I spent in the Bay Area (2001-2002). If I am able to update from San Francisco, daily photos will continue through the week. If not, I'll be back on the 22nd. I should be updating my via cell phone camera.
One night during spring quarter 2002, a huge group of us went up to San Francisco for a night out. After dinner at a fantasic Lebanese restaurant, we wandered the streets and I snapped this photo of Molly and Edgar checking out a Haight-Ashbury storefront.
Next to the Art League house (which was next to the Inversion House) were these two large men. I'm not sure what they were made out of. It sort of looked like paper mache, but I doubt it.
Ok, I've gotten enough mileage out of this crazy art project -- this is the last Inversion photo. For this one, I crawled halfway into the tunnel and shot looking back toward the street. Obviously I'm enamored with this cross-processing look, so for those that are anti-Photoshop, here is a version.
Almost as intriguing as the front of the Inversion House is looking at it from the side, through a broken window. Piles and piles of wood scraps, and the supports for the tunnel, are visible.
Shh! There's a secret on the sidewalk outside the ...
The sits no more than 10 feet from the cars cruising by on Montrose, so it was tough to get the photos to create a panorama. Don't look too closely or you'll see the seams. :)
The photos were taken vertically with the 18mm end of the 20D kit lens, and stitched via a first attempt with a program called PTAssembler. My old photo stitcher would not work because of the wide angle.
The "Open House" sign is a nice touch, I think.
A larger version is if you'd like to examine it more thoroughly. The seams are pretty obvious in that one, so don't say you weren't warned!
The gaping vortex on the front of the tapers to a small hole approximately 2 feet in diameter at the back.
There is also a non-cross-processed .
A few months ago, two artists took an old house on the corner of Montrose and Willard and turned it . I've seen many other photos on various blogs, but kept hearing that they were going to tear it down "any day now" so I didn't bother to make the half hour drive up there.
Well, here it is a month later and it's still there. When I saw some photos taken just yesterday, I decided to go there tonight and take some myself.
I like this photo a lot because the old man helps give you a sense of the scale. A small child, or an adult willing to crawl, can walk through the entire tunnel made into the house. If you haven't noticed, I'm really loving the look that cross-processing produces. If you prefer, I also turned this into and versions.
I'll show a few more photos of this in the coming days.
ESPN's Sportscenter is doing some sort of circuit around the country, and each time they promo it (which is often), it's set to a chorus of some song going "liiiiiife is an open road..." This photo reminded me of that. Not that this shows the open road, but it's in the ballpark. ;)
It's probably a good song, but ESPN's incessant use is ruining it for me.
