I’ve lived in the Richmond District for 12 years, not far from a section of Clement Street known as San Francisco’s “other Chinatown.” The location provides easy access to fortune cookies, often sold in quantities of 50-100. There has been little price inflation since I first started buying them for $0.99 a bag. Cheaper than chips, and with equal nutritional value (not much), these cookies have made a great accompaniment to many a lunch. The happy by-product of all this? I’m the luckiest guy around.
Photographs were taken at the Whitmore Pool, a public swimming facility fed by natural hot springs just south of Mammoth Lakes. The text, as I expect you’ve guessed, came from a fortune cookie.
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Auden, our youngest, joined Henry at preschool this month. The seasoned veteran (featured below) has taken it upon himself to show his brother the ropes, providing company on the playground, help unpacking lunch, reminders to go pee (Auden is still potty training), and a familiar face among so many new ones. This drawing is dedicated to the two of them. I am so very proud of both.
This series of photographs was taken in Tuolumne Meadows, looking back at traffic on Tioga Road (aka Highway 120) which runs along it’s southern edge. The meadow is a well known feature of Yosemite National Park and the road is an undeniable feature of it, taking travelers up and over 3,031 m Tioga Pass when open in the summer months. Facebook’s photo tagging convention and the names of Facebook friends (through September 8, 2009) were hand-drawn.
I love Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and feel so fortunate to reexperience it with our boys; at ages 3 (“I’m 3-3/4!”) and 2 (“I’m 2-1/2!”), they can recite every line. The story is reenacted daily at our home, and it is not uncommon to hear a terrible roar, the gnashing of terrible teeth, or see the baring of terrible claws en route to the kitchen. As such, it is a great pleasure to contribute to Cory Godbey’s wonderful project Terrible Yellow Eyes, a collection of artwork inspired by the book. View as slideshow (below) or click here to view as a single composite image.
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The seventeen images in this sequence were selected from projects completed over the past four years. Here, each is stripped of it’s original narrative and stands alone—as photograph with illustration and/or hand-drawn type.
Images were selected from: (Top row, from left) The Mallards of Gill Bridge, Cord, Fly Fishing, Montpelier, Sequoia National Park; (2nd row, from left) NYC/Hoover Wilderness, Birdfinger, NYC/Hoover Wilderness, NYC/Hoover Wilderness, Huntington Gardens (and Strybing Arboretum); (3rd row, from left) Huntington Gardens (and Strybing Arboretum), The Mallards of Gill Bridge, September 17th, Cannon Beach, Cord; (4th row, from left) Montpelier, and Yosemite.
Montpelier features photographs from the summer of 2006 in six parts: Hubbard Park, Capitol Plaza Hotel, Royal Orchid Thai, American Flatbread, Vermont College, and Fourth of July Parade. The series is overlayed with fragments of a hand-drawn map of Vermont copied from the 1930 edition of the Commercial Atlas of the World.
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