As you may have inferred from my New Year’s post and wedding post, I’m in NC. As per usual, I’ve taken my travel time to extremes and am hopping around the east coast for a MONTH.
It’s cold here. I have realized how ridiculously spoiled I have become living in SF. I can function completely without a car, I don’t wear pants half of the time because it’s between 50-80 degrees all year, and coffee is as thick as espresso. Oh, and the surplus of cornerstores with awesome juice selections. And the lack of jesus billboards and general perceptions of “weird.”
I can work via le internets, so I can still maintain my projects from wherever, which is really nice. It will be nice to get back to the new SF homeland though, as while most of my projects are online, they’re very locally-intensive, and you can’t do much local bay-area work from the east coast. Well, you can, but it just doesn’t feel right. I’m ready to see real faces instead of email addresses and twitter names.
There are plenty of real Raleigh faces to bide my time, though.
I’ve just been doing what I usually do in Raleigh. Work on projects in Helio’s or Morning Times all day, then when I become restless, begin wandering around downtown, seeing and catching up with familiar faces on every corner, grabbing Lebanese food at Sitti, BBQ + Aventinus at Raleigh Times, local bands + Big Boss at Tir Na Nog, ginger ale at Foundation, greyhounds at Landmark, the sting at Busy Bee… inevitably getting into adventures that last me through the rest of the night. Wake up on friend’s couch, get up and do it all over again.
Note: I bought my entire family Luchador wrestling masks for Christmas. They happened to make their way around Raleigh before I wrapped them.
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Keep on keepin’ on dude! It’s been a long time since seein’ you down at Blue Martini. Keep on posting all your art. I always enjoy reading and checking out the photos. For now.. back to writing and listening to the blues for my next gig. Might do some stuff with trekky records.. I’ll email you if it works out.
Helena,
Your pics are awesome! What kind of setup do you have?
The first pic is how many of my dreams look like
Thanks guys! Jason – I shoot with a Canon 50D and lately I’ve been using only my 85mm 1.8 lens. It’s a strange lens to use for everyday shooting… and I guess that’s why I’m using it. It actually represents the way I see the world way better than a standard lens… hyper-focused on trivial details that usually go unnoticed.