JUNE 19, 2021 – PASADENA, CA “The black widow is sleeping.” RECORDED IN PASADENA [START OF AUDIO] Good morning. June 19, 2021, 8:15 AM in the morning. Looks like I should be lowering the levels on this thing, but how? Record level. Let’s try that. Okay, that seems better, I think. Pretty long day yesterday,Continue reading “MOTORCYCLE DIARY: 3”
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MOTORCYCLE DIARY: 2
Motorcycle Diary, Day 2: still practicing and prepping in Pasadena.
MOTORCYCLE DIARY: 1
I bought an (almost) 20-year-old BMW R 1150 RS in May of this year with the intention of flying to California to pick it up and ride it home to NY (with a stop in Great Falls, MT for the BMWMOA national rally). In addition to my cameras, I brought along a Zoom H4n audioContinue reading “MOTORCYCLE DIARY: 1”
2002 BMW R1150RS
According to its title, this motorcycle now belongs to me.
Decade project 2021
This is merely a brief proof-of-life post. I am alive. Also, It is 2021, which means, incredibly, it’s the tenth and final year of the Decade Project. The final year’s images will be edited by “the Internet,” which I will explain in greater detail later in the year once the infrastructure is built and theContinue reading “Decade project 2021”
STATUS REPORT: DECADE PROJECT
Update 11/12/2020: 2019 A little over 11,000 images were delivered to Mario this morning, and his machine is already performing whatever mysterious AI magic it performs to begin the selection process. I’m fascinated by the machine learning process he’s employing to choose the pictures that will represent the year. In 2019 I traveled the worldContinue reading “STATUS REPORT: DECADE PROJECT”
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Coachella.
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Cambodia. 2014.
DECADE PROJECT – REMAINING WORK
2019: 59 rolls of film remain. Everything else from last year has been processed, scanned, re-sized and loaded onto a drive. Once these final rolls are processed and the task is complete, the drive will go to Germany so Mario’s machine can crunch data and perform whatever magic it will perform. (Clearing out thIs 2019Continue reading “DECADE PROJECT – REMAINING WORK”
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Union Square, NYC. 2001
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