Couple Grammes of Soma

I’m switching this site to be django powered over the weekend. probably going to use byteflow as a start and then quickly hack it to an unrecognizable state

I.M.A. Fever

Here is something I like:

I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.
-Kenneth Koch

The rains are a welcome addition to any afternoon of mine. Post-heavy downpour dawn is one thing that is really awesome in FL.

There were times. I have them now, in my pocket with the stones that you left by the window, the ones you gathered. I wont keep them. Because you are too heavy.

“I thought I’d recommend a book for you to read, and if you don’t want to then MAYBE I”LL READ IT MYSELF!” messages from tampa wake me. Who’s calls are you avoiding today?

I see people I knew from my more tender years. Their eyes are afraid, like children.

I. M. A. Fever.

to shed skin and begin an intake that will make a difference in clear
thinking for conquering any fear that is thrown in a direction when at a
weak point or time of suffering the edge won’t quit if there is no
giving in to what drags on to be negative or seem wrong to live to
carry back home with full intent and better sense recognize what is
false and part with it knowing doubtless by instinct which triggers
thought on how to grow in soul without gold or praised lies which keep
the sheep all right with anything that seems safe and convenient

-Hot Water Music

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Originally uploaded by Kevin N. Murphy

So I’m visiting Seattle WA this week. So far my trip has been just great.

I had the chance to visit the nice little neighborhood called Fremont and visit the troll under the Fremont Bridge AKA suicide bridge. Pretty cool place.

Being that I’ve recently been freed of strings attached I am seriously planning to move out this way. Might take more than a few months to make it happen, but I want to move on and this would be a very real and positive way to do that, since I actually wouldn’t mind staying here for a very long time. Although, to be honest, nothing compares to Costa Rica in my book.

Photography is becoming a favorite hobby for me. I still haven’t conquered my timidity for shooting portraits of strangers yet, but I think I’m getting better at spotting good shots as I walk around.

I visited the Seattle Central Public Library last night. Really the best Library I have ever seen. Amazing. I wish I had a child I could bring to the children’s section. Tons and tons of open space, desks, computers, light, beautiful natural light really just tremendously awesome building.

So I still haven’t been ‘inspired’ enough to tackle the re-design here. But alas, I have some thoughts.

Typography

• Make use of that cool font mixing with italics and line height where you have of and for bigger than the rest and in a serif font. So yeah I’ll do that.
• I’d like to find a way to work in some Sanskrit aka Hindi script but am not sure where or how or if.

Mobile

• I’ll have an iphone and more general purpose mobile interface, cause I can.

Comments

• Gravitar support
• a fancy “I’m the author of this wob blag” style for my own comments

Portfolio/sandbox area

• Sounds sort of oxymoronic but I want a portfolio and a sandbox area, and am thinking the portfolio might be a good place for it. Maybe not. But I’d like to blow stuff up everynow and then and have an area for that.
• Need to have quality integration with Flickr. Think http://jeffcroft.com, cause croftie has about the sickest integration i’ve ever seen. Read his post on the re-design. (I’d link to it but i’m getting a proxy error with it at time of writing this )

Online Dating

• Need to have a way to qualify requests for dates with me. (I get a lot of these so it only makes sense to build this into the wob blag)

That’s what i think for now.

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing.
Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of
impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow
who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
- Dostoevsky

Seattle WA June 13th-21st FTW

The truth is no respecter of preferences.

Notes from the Underground is pure genius. That book does page after page what many try, with fleeting success, to do on twitter in 140 characters bits.

I’d say no if I were you. Thankfully for you, I’m not.

SO…

I think I may re-design this site soon. I’d like to house my photography a bit, and I currently have no mechanism in place for doing so. I’d also like to clean up the WP install. I’m honestly really trying to wait to update until i have something built in django I want to use but honestly I’m so busy that will probably never happen.

“on the face of disaster i planted glances
and into a gaze they eventually grew
and all of my hopes began to fall through
so let it be known, the disaster was you
(although in unaltered stances)”
-Kevin N. Murphy 6/4/06

I am hopefully traveling to the great city of Seattle very soon. I should find out on Monday for sure. BarCampSeattle is the day before I would be slated to arrive. So I may try and get out there early. Might be cool to demo out there, but oh what topic?

I submitted some photographs to photoshelter.com to see if they qualify for sale, only to read the directions after the fact and realize my submissions probably will get rejected. Whatever I’ll re-submit.

Huzzah!

Originally uploaded by Kevin N. Murphy

When undergoing heightened levels of anxiety it can be useful to stop everything for day, and just, well, stop. I don’t mean stop everything and just loaf around your house for a day. But put everything on hold and go do something else for a day. Clear your head. Stop worrying. It helps.

Aside from that, I am particularly annoyed that my lens apparently has some sort of junk on it and caused my sunrise picture on the right to have smudges on it, also the clouds in the foreground look kinda strange, I didn’t get the level of sharpness I expected at f/22 but perhaps it’s because they are clouds and honestly aren’t that sharp. In any case I am happy to have something wide angle again.

Words
Words and expressions
All these confessions
Of where we stand
How I see you
And you see me
Dedications of symmetry
Together we will be
forever.
Promises are nothing
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
Rearrange and see it through
Stupid stupid words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate
There were no truer words than when spoken
Let that stand as it should
There was nothing left when broken
We grab anything when we fall
Promises are nothing
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
Rearrange and see us through
Stupid stupid words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate
You will do what you do
I will do what I do
We will do what we do
Rearrange and see it through
Go where you think you want to go
Do everything you were sent here for
Fire at will if you hear that call
Touch your hand to the wall at night

PROMISES!

Words.

Originally uploaded by Kevin N. Murphy

So I’ve been using Bibble Pro (http://bibblelabs.com) and I have to say I’m mightily impressed with it. For one: It has a plugin called Andy that is a Black & White Film simulation plugin. It so much more advanced than simply desaturating a color image. You can mix different types of film with different types of paper, and the light they are exposed to, in addition to adjusting the regular stuff you’d adjust on the photo, white balance, exposure, sharping and all that jazz.

It’s for RAW format photos and I was frustrated the first time I tried to process the RAW photos I shot. But this program makes it so fun. I’m still learning a lot, but being that it’s cross platform (Win, OSX, and Linux) I am willing to throw down the $120+ for this bad boy.

Now to think of other themes!