About 10 years ago, I weighed around 220 pounds. I simply ate the wrong foods. I worked-out regularly, including jogging thirty minutes three-to-four days a week and lifting weights at the gym. However, I just could not take any weight off. A couple of professors I had at the time had both just lost a [...]
Archive | April, 2009
Facebook!
I have had a personal page for Facebook for a while. While I have some problems with how it’s organized and some of the mindless crap on there, if has been invaluable for getting in touch with friends from high school and college that I probably never would have seen again. For that, it has [...]
Speak Easy
I had the pleasure of photographing the 2009 Party of the Year last night with Giles. This year’s party had a roaring-20s, speak-easy theme and was held at an historic building downtown just known as the “Hardware Store” or the Karsten-Denson building on Third Street. All proceeds from the party go to support the efforts [...]
It’s Earth Day
So do something for the planet that we need, but that doesn’t need us. Put your politics aside for a day, and consider what would not only help the world, but would also help us. Check out Repower America. They want to Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years. This goal means new [...]
J.G. Ballard (1930-2009)
J.G. Ballard died today after a long battle with prostate cancer. He is perhaps best known for his autobiographical novel The Empire of the Sun, but I will always remember his work from the seventies and early eighties, beginning with Crash and ending with his collection of short stories War Fever. It was these edgy, [...]
Meeting in Milledgeville
Yesterday, I made the trek to Milledgeville, GA, for our second meeting of the faculty in the European Council’s study abroad programs. Faculty from all the programs were present, including the ten or so going with me to London. The day was beautiful, so I grabbed the camera and hopped on the freshly cleaned BMW [...]
New Orleans, 2009
If you’ve been following my posts over the last couple of days, you know I just returned from New Orleans. I have finally made it though all of my photos (well those of Autumn are yet to go), and I have posted them to my New Orleans gallery. Within the gallery, I have separated food [...]
