recent observations

1. My new thematic facebook album is on layers (I'm also working on one highlighting the underrated color grey). I took this picture yesterday on my way out of the school parking lot. I loved how you could see my car, the school's concrete, the road's concrete, grass on the side of the road, shrubs/weeds, plowed (harvested?) farmland (brown), unplowed (unharvested?) farmland (green), darker green, trees, sky, powerline. From the car, it all stacked up like a cross-section of off-color tiramisu. In the photo, it's nowhere near as dramatic. I'm just sharing because now all of the green has been plowed (harvested?) away and so this picture cannot be attempted again.
I can't wait until it's not still in the high 90s every day, temperature-wise, and people wear layers and I can have a reason to photograph clothing.






2. Some gems from the Sept. 28, 2009 issue of Time

"We're going to have no paper, no printing plants, no unions. It's going to be great."
-Rupert Murdoch on the future of the newspaper/my future career

"The national parks--and The National Parks--are based on ideas that are classically, if not radically, communitarian. That the free market doesn't always act in the public interest...And that it is right for people--through government--to protect [national parks] from business interests and even from the people themselves... A series on a public TV network that calls a government program America's best idea? Has no one alerted Rush Limbaugh?"
--James Poniewozik, on Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea

After presenting both liberal and conservative estimates of the size of a crowd at a recent protest, David Von Drehle writes, "Either way, you may not be inclined to believe what we say about numbers, according to a recent poll that found record-low levels of public trust of the mainstream media." --an article on Glenn Beck

This statement, from an article on the swine flu, totally blew my mind, "We're living through an unprecedented opportunity for civilization--a chance to pre-empt a catastrophic pandemic influenza rather than just react to it."

"Did he do it just to show the big TV that there are still some flesh-and-blood players in this game?"
--Richard Lacayo/Arlington, on whether A.J. Trapasso of the TN Titans purposefully punted a football into the Jumbo-Tron at the new Cowboy's stadim, in

Usually, nothing in Time stands out. I am happy that so much did today.


3. I found an old mix of some acoustic Saves the Day. It sounds like how I want the dinner/sit down and eat portion of my wedding to sound.