11.22.2004
i'm just a broke ass fool, tryin to play it cool
workin two jobs, and kinda goin to school
if i keep getting these credit card upgrades, i'll be rich in no time...
i'm sick of this in between state. its all a financial thing. soccer debts need to be resolved, along with bills, and other purchases. it all needs to be dealt with, and quick, so i can think about something else. tomorrow seems like a good day for this, because tonight i have to write a paper on a photographer and let christina steal music off of my computer for her ipod. and, of course, theres always crazy horse. i know its monday, but mondays have been pretty ridiculous lately, and its the monday before thanksgiving which makes it special somehow. back to the paper - i have to write a 3-5 pg paper on any photographer. i'm gonna write it on the Earth From Above photos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
i'm sure everyone has seen it ona bookshelf or coffee table somewhere. it's a fairly recent collection of aerial photographs from around the world. its not obscure, or particularly artistic, its more like the kind of art that sam's club would deal, but i really like the pictures, and all i need to write about is how i like the pictures and why. of course the answer is "the blue water is so pretty." i just have to make that stretch to three pages.
the first contact i had with these photos was the summer of 2002 when i was working at film and tape works in chicago. i would take the train to the city from joliet every monday, wednesday, and friday. we always caught the 6:25 train from joliet, which got us to union station around 7:30. sometimes we'd get a ride, but either way, we'd be downtown by 8. i never really had to be at work before 8:30. so i would just make the crosstown trek from union station to the mag mile at a very leisurely pace. i would never let myself get into a specific routine as far as my route went. it was pretty much different every day, except when i wanted food from a certain place or if i had to go to the bank. i wanted to get to know all the streets of downtown by walking different ways every day, but eventually i ended up going pretty much the same way.
i ended up just walking straight east towards the lake, until i hit what is now millenium park. they had just built the ice rink area, and they put up the earth from above photo exhibit. every day i worked, i'd go check out a few more pictures, until i examined every single one and read every caption displayed. there were 3 foot by 4 foot prints up on easels, i'm not sure how many, at least 150 i'd say. seeing the pictures so large is much better than seeing them in the book, but you still get the idea of seeing beautiful, natural settings that you will never see with your own eyes because you won't be in a helicopter in these remote places. i'm glad this guy was though. i'll have to continue this later.. but i probably won't...
workin two jobs, and kinda goin to school
if i keep getting these credit card upgrades, i'll be rich in no time...
i'm sick of this in between state. its all a financial thing. soccer debts need to be resolved, along with bills, and other purchases. it all needs to be dealt with, and quick, so i can think about something else. tomorrow seems like a good day for this, because tonight i have to write a paper on a photographer and let christina steal music off of my computer for her ipod. and, of course, theres always crazy horse. i know its monday, but mondays have been pretty ridiculous lately, and its the monday before thanksgiving which makes it special somehow. back to the paper - i have to write a 3-5 pg paper on any photographer. i'm gonna write it on the Earth From Above photos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
i'm sure everyone has seen it ona bookshelf or coffee table somewhere. it's a fairly recent collection of aerial photographs from around the world. its not obscure, or particularly artistic, its more like the kind of art that sam's club would deal, but i really like the pictures, and all i need to write about is how i like the pictures and why. of course the answer is "the blue water is so pretty." i just have to make that stretch to three pages.
the first contact i had with these photos was the summer of 2002 when i was working at film and tape works in chicago. i would take the train to the city from joliet every monday, wednesday, and friday. we always caught the 6:25 train from joliet, which got us to union station around 7:30. sometimes we'd get a ride, but either way, we'd be downtown by 8. i never really had to be at work before 8:30. so i would just make the crosstown trek from union station to the mag mile at a very leisurely pace. i would never let myself get into a specific routine as far as my route went. it was pretty much different every day, except when i wanted food from a certain place or if i had to go to the bank. i wanted to get to know all the streets of downtown by walking different ways every day, but eventually i ended up going pretty much the same way.
i ended up just walking straight east towards the lake, until i hit what is now millenium park. they had just built the ice rink area, and they put up the earth from above photo exhibit. every day i worked, i'd go check out a few more pictures, until i examined every single one and read every caption displayed. there were 3 foot by 4 foot prints up on easels, i'm not sure how many, at least 150 i'd say. seeing the pictures so large is much better than seeing them in the book, but you still get the idea of seeing beautiful, natural settings that you will never see with your own eyes because you won't be in a helicopter in these remote places. i'm glad this guy was though. i'll have to continue this later.. but i probably won't...
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