NOAA Found Poetry
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Art Archives
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Designing a knife block
Recently the what-can-I-optimize-next? gaze fell upon our knife block, but my exhaustive web searches for a suitable replacement came up empty. In the world of knife blocks, something with a smaller footprint and more capacity did not seem to exist. Once I’d reached the end of the internet-of-things-to-buy, I turned to Etsy, which I’ve started to use lately as a marketplace for custom-made goods. I’ll search for something, and if I’m lucky, there will be a “Request a custom order…” banner beneath an item I like. In this case, I found a design that inspired me made by a seller, Jimmy Essien of The Aurora Artisan, who was willing to work with me.
Colors of San Francisco
Got a lot of enjoyment out of this article in Wired, The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation.
Prints of paintings of my photos
So I’m browsing the shops along Valencia Saturday afternoon when I stumble upon some prints of Eric Rewitzer’s paintings of my container ship photos. The print on the right is one of my favorites—his rendition really transforms the photo I took while we were docked at the Port of Balboa in Panama City.
Photogenic arch
We had a few hours to kill before my cousin’s wedding (in December), so Matthew and I decided to escape the hotel and visit the Gateway Arch. There was a momentary break in the clouds just after we arrived that created some really nice reflections on its stainless steel skin. I had the 35mm lens with me (instead of my usual 21mm), hence the tightly framed, almost abstract perspective of these shots.
