true tales and other antics

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2012-01-23T10:54:00.000-08:00

Lei Out 2012, Sky'd

2012-01-22T15:29:00.000-08:00

Lei Out 2012

2012-01-19T19:45:00.000-08:00

LBC

2012-01-18T12:38:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-17T10:12:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-07T23:46:00.000-08:00

Playtime

2012-01-07T18:29:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-04T19:14:00.000-08:00

By guest photographer Sean D. Williams

Cathartic

2012-01-04T11:32:00.000-08:00

Happiness is a warm ... saddle.

2011-12-31T00:26:00.000-08:00

Greener is just a myth

2011-12-31T00:17:00.000-08:00

Sky Blue Sky

2011-12-26T11:46:00.000-08:00

Morning Fog

2011-12-20T23:47:00.000-08:00

I'm Not a Table

2011-12-07T10:44:00.001-08:00

Up & down & around & around & around & back & forth forever

2011-12-05T10:44:00.001-08:00

Portfolio Revisited: Figure Study: Labia majora

2011-12-04T20:08:00.001-08:00

Where Sugar Apples Grow Like ... Coconuts

2011-12-02T11:34:00.001-08:00

Portfolio, revisited: Sarajevo Rose

2011-12-01T16:41:00.001-08:00

Other Antics archives 2.0

2011-11-29T17:13:00.001-08:00

Portfolio: Revisited (May 2010)

2011-11-28T23:59:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-17T16:26:00.001-08:00

Francis Ford Coppola's #1 Fan

2011-11-15T14:03:00.001-08:00

Bottles n cans just clap your hands just clap your hands

2011-11-11T11:27:00.001-08:00

Breanne & Andy's EarthShip, south side of south wall

R2Peel2

2011-11-09T17:38:00.000-08:00

The Earth Ship (south wall)

2011-11-07T10:48:00.000-08:00

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2011-10-25T15:21:00.001-07:00

Honey bees tesselate

2011-10-22T15:35:00.000-07:00

Thank you, bees!

Occupy Brendan

2011-10-21T09:42:00.000-07:00

We are not just a statistic
We will be heard!!

23 & Q Bee Barn Honey Harvest '11

2011-10-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

Digital Underworld

2011-10-19T14:07:00.000-07:00

Scenes from (an) Uncommon Brewery II

2011-10-17T10:01:00.000-07:00

Scenes from (an) Uncommon Brewery

2011-10-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Funeral & 7:20, sunset

2011-10-10T12:19:00.000-07:00

Uncommon Brewery, pallet of empty

2011-10-09T21:44:00.000-07:00

Figure study: Arboreal craneium

2011-10-08T19:04:00.000-07:00

Media study: acrylics & neon

2011-10-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

Revisited: portfolio finale, Seoul

2011-10-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

Scenes from the Capitol Corridor

2011-10-05T13:11:00.000-07:00

The bar starts to bend at 200

2011-10-04T10:38:00.000-07:00

My first ever deadlift max: 260 pounds of steel, iron, & rubber

Alex: 1
Gravity: 0

G-o-l-d-f-i-s-h

2011-09-30T09:14:00.000-07:00

Even modern art can feel shy

2011-09-29T11:08:00.000-07:00

Always more vibrant in real life

2011-09-28T09:53:00.000-07:00

Some people commute, others never get on the train

2011-09-27T09:55:00.000-07:00

Ready II

2011-09-26T09:05:00.000-07:00

Acidic II

2011-09-25T12:27:00.000-07:00

Garden Gnome Wanderings, Vol. II

2011-09-24T11:51:00.000-07:00

Photo luminescent

2011-09-23T10:20:00.000-07:00

Anyone know what this structure was called? That fabric was black-light reactive. The designer attached black-light laser pens to cords hanging from the ceiling(?) every few steps for people to use, to make glowing graffitis at night, which disappeared within ~30 minutes...a kind of self-renewing canvas?
It was my favorite installation.

Renewable energy on the Playa

2011-09-22T12:33:00.000-07:00

Center of the Playaverse

2011-09-21T09:44:00.001-07:00

Hibasscus (detail)

2011-09-20T08:30:00.001-07:00

Hibasscus

2011-09-19T08:59:00.000-07:00

The Calm

2011-09-18T11:49:00.001-07:00

Ready.

2011-09-17T00:27:00.000-07:00

Once, I was as tall as a garden gnome, and Mexican sunflowers stretched above me like delicate...Mexican sunflowers.

2011-09-16T09:47:00.000-07:00

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2011-09-15T10:18:00.000-07:00

Acidic

2011-09-14T10:33:00.000-07:00

Pre-Playa

2011-09-14T09:49:00.000-07:00

Public Share

2011-09-10T09:43:00.000-07:00

Almost Married

2011-09-09T09:12:00.000-07:00

Vast-ly Embers

2011-09-08T22:00:00.000-07:00

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2011-09-07T10:06:00.000-07:00

Return to Consciousness & Reality

2011-09-07T10:03:00.000-07:00

(Yesterday, from a letter to a friend.)

Apparently, I'm back from Burning Man.

The longer I sit around trying to process what when down on the Playa, the more I'm discovering how impossible it is to put into any kind of words. Megan has been a few times, and she describes it as an Engineer's Carnival/Playground, which, aesthetically and structurally speaking, is very accurate. People spend months and months and thousands of dollars building the crazy awesome visions that are in their heads. And then they bring them to a dried up lake in the middle of BFE, Nevada for people to play with and/or gaze upon. I experimented with psychedelics, public nudity, shadows, and light. I met some incredible people, fell in Playa-love with them, danced, felt, and talked deeply. I let go of all judgment. I hugged everyone with whom I came in contact, and held onto them like letting go would be my last breath. The overwhelming sensory stimulation kept my photo-taking at bay, only taking out the Canon, finally on the fourth day, to attempt capturing a minute fraction of what I was experiencing, and failing miserably.

I'm exhausted and satisfied, in entirely new ways.

I hope you get to The Playa sometime (soon) in this life.

Be good, always.

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2011-09-06T13:54:00.000-07:00

Jugamos limpiar en la Playa.

2011-08-28T12:37:00.000-07:00

So long, Sacramento & beyond.
Burning Man beckons.
I'll be in touch upon my return to consciousness and reality.

13.08.11 Flight 1658 ICN to SMF via SFO

2011-08-28T01:30:00.000-07:00

IPA

2011-08-28T01:27:00.000-07:00

Home Sweet Sacramento Home

2011-08-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Patent Leather

2011-08-25T23:53:00.000-07:00

A Million English Names + Characters!

2011-08-25T18:16:00.000-07:00

The Diggins Vol. II

2011-08-24T09:59:00.001-07:00

Doings at Dawn

2011-08-23T09:38:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-21T08:38:00.000-07:00

I think I'd like this more if the entire leaf was in focus.

The Diggins

2011-08-20T16:21:00.000-07:00

Malakoff Diggins State Park

Lady Set

2011-08-18T12:14:00.000-07:00

Aerial Horizons

2011-08-17T10:11:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-16T04:30:00.000-07:00

Rice and beans

2011-08-15T11:36:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-14T03:51:00.000-07:00

30 July 2011

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

2011-08-13T00:10:00.000-07:00

Skewered

2011-08-10T16:12:00.000-07:00

06 AUG 2011

1 & done^^

2011-08-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

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Cheonan, South Korea

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2011-08-08T20:47:00.001-07:00

Figure Study: Phalanges

Cheonan, South Korea

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2011-08-07T09:06:00.000-07:00

... open the doors and see all the people.

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2011-08-07T09:04:00.000-07:00

Time tough, weather worn.

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2011-08-07T09:01:00.000-07:00

An alternate universe. (Or: the Korea Post Training Center.)

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2011-08-06T06:32:00.000-07:00

Bella's baby brother.

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2011-08-05T00:33:00.000-07:00

Herz & Hiz, the dangly bits.

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2011-08-05T00:31:00.000-07:00

His & Hers.

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2011-08-02T16:43:00.000-07:00

Participation medals and...congratulations(?) for the Summer English Festival at Rainbow Fun Kids.

ps -- Behold! SINGLE DIGITS.

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2011-08-02T08:08:00.000-07:00

The bride & her handmaids in hanbok.

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2011-08-02T08:07:00.000-07:00

Wedding entertainment.

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2011-08-02T07:47:00.000-07:00

That's the bride's rainbow-tasseled cage. It's about 37% smaller than the man's open, regal, intricately-carved throne.

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2011-08-02T07:43:00.000-07:00

I went to a traditional Korean wedding ceremony last Saturday. My Korean friend Soomin and my American friend Troy got married. He was carried to the stage thing in this chair by his footmen; the curtain hid his face so that they couldn't see each other. Arranged marriages worked in such a way that couples were not permitted to glimpse the other's face until the minute of their marriage.

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2011-07-29T08:24:00.000-07:00

"Love ____ Piano 2nd Floor"

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2011-07-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

Goodbye Rainbow Fun Kids. Forever. I will probably miss you at some point in my life.

the photo hiatus continues...

2011-07-29T08:20:00.000-07:00

...on account of the too many packing & squeezing & resqueezing (IT HAS TO FIT oh WAIT I STILL HAVE A LOAD OF LAUNDRY THAT NEEDS TO DRY!! shit!).
14 photos to go by August 10th! It will happen!!! Wait til I get out of this apartment and settled (? ha!!) at camp on Sunday. Eep!

She: an Analysis.

2011-07-27T06:38:00.000-07:00

Indeed, it seems she has taken it the wrong way. (Or, perhaps, the wrong way was taken by you.)

She felt she should explain her motives for sending suggestive photos and borderline-flirty quips. Maybe you have concluded as much, and maybe she even told you already, but it's been an uncomfortably long while since she's let herself feel any sort of emotion toward people...in general. She's been drifting along, in different parts of the world, for almost four years, meeting a million people, but connecting with a rare few. Sadly (or not, depending on personal perspective), it's been a game of detachment, building nearly impenetrable walls, defending herself against a potentially very painful sadness & heartbreak when, inevitably, she uproots and starts again elsewhere. She's simply not strong enough to have deep feelings for more than a few people (namely, romantic partners, but even friends fall into this category) when she knows her time with them is temporary. Maybe that partly explains her strong personality? It helps her quickly weed out those who won't stick around; she can know right off, or nearly, whether or not to invest any surface emotion and energy. S'true, there are certainly flaws in this strategy, but she's gotten on comfortable enough in its employ, until... you.

It seems the time for strategy re-thinking has commenced.

You got under her skin. She let you get into her head. For some reasons, mostly unknown...of all the people whose paths she'd crossed, she knew! Yours in particular would probably be the shortest, most fleeting (simply based on past unlucky okcupid encounters, your traveler status... nothing in her old play-by-plays pointed to "Yes! This one's a keeper! Let your guard down, Honey!" Which is why she was so irrationally saddened that Tuesday night of subway exit miscommunication.). Blame it on the weather, the moon's phase, the tilt of the planet, the atmospheric or barometric pressure, what she ate for breakfast, a particular olfactory stimulation, female hormones... she felt what she felt, for you and you alone. And what she felt, in her own self, regardless of whether you were feeling something of the same, was rare.

Chalk it up to a gross misinterpretation of actions and words, do what you gotta do for your own self.

THIS. This/that/these/those messages & photo, is what she had to do. Making a move, however risky, when she feels something. Telling people how she feels when she's little or nothing to lose and everything to gain. Having a little fun with someone who clearly also likes to have fun, pushing it pushing it pushing it until they tell her (or give her silence) to stop. She likes to test people. See if her energy is worth expending. That is what she does.

Tell yourself "she took it wrong," if that's what you need to do, but don't tell her; she's already surmised as much. She saw You, or the You she wanted to see.

And she reacted in mind and body.

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2011-07-23T22:27:00.000-07:00

50mm f/1.4!!!!!!!!

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2011-07-23T04:55:00.000-07:00

"I love you!" goodbye presents for a few of the kidz that I like ( who hugged me and gave me candy and lots of smiley attention).

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2011-07-22T06:41:00.000-07:00

"Once when I was little
someone pointed out to me
some constellations but
the Big Dipper's all I could see"
--Built to Spill, "Big Dipper"