My commute includes about 100 yards of walking down market street. It is, as my friend Mike says, ‘Prime people watchin’. My tendency when taking pictures is to look for something about to happen, and try to get there in time. On this stretch of road, everything is always happening. Deals are made, breakfast is bought, people wander, lost, across the street at 9am on a Thursday. Tourists gater around their maps, and locals weave around them, as if they were statues. Bums beg for change, and they get some, sometimes. Messengers lock and unlock their bikes, delivery trucks stop with days or weeks of supplies for the buildings and restaurants. All in 100 yards! <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/to_work_and_back_again/470/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/to_work_and_back_again/470/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/to_work_and_back_again/470/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/to_work_and_back_again/470/0005.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-02-10T15:24:51Z GMT
It occured to me, looking at these photos, that it’ll be light again soon when I get to the beach on these rides. We’re currently as far from the solstice as we were in late october, which makes me kinda happy, although it’s dark now, at 6pm. SOON. The last couple rides out there I haven’t really taken any photos, because it’s started to feel like I’m repeating myself. So the light coming back will be a welcome change. I do think that there is a photo of a bunch of dudes around a bonfire somewhere in the queue. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/not_daylight_yet/471/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/not_daylight_yet/471/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/not_daylight_yet/471/0003.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-02-09T21:28:07Z GMT
I took some photos at the party, but really, none of them were that great. After the party, we ended up meeting Fletch and his wife; they’re really cool folks. I think this was zeitgeist? It’s been too long ago now. It was one of those faux dive bars in the mission. NEWS FLASH: if there’s not a reasonable chance of your getting stabbed inside, it’s not an actual dive bar. That’s why I like Merchants, over on this side of the bay. Anyway, I digress. fuck bad pictures of shit I don’t care about. Here are some good pictures of things I care about: <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/after_the_office_xmas_party/472/0001-2.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/after_the_office_xmas_party/472/0002-2.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-02-09T06:11:33Z GMT
So this was what, just before xmas? Severin came to town, and so we had to meet up for drinks. There was some confusion, followed by some stumbling, but luckily sophie was there to keep shit together. These would have been in color, but I somehow got the camera in JPEG mode, which means these have a weird blurry look to them when zoomed all the way in, as if the details were painted. Oh well. Which reminds me, I still haven’t done any work on a RAW converter to use with DarkTable. The list of projects keeps growing, and the time to work on them is somewhere between not much and nil. I need to prioritize, I suppose. Maybe after the move. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/left_the_camera_in_jpeg/473/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/left_the_camera_in_jpeg/473/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/left_the_camera_in_jpeg/473/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/left_the_camera_in_jpeg/473/0001.jpg’ /></div>
Posted by matt on 2014-02-07T07:10:43Z GMT
Startup central may be SOMA, but the finantial District is seeing a huge boom of its own. There’s a group of folks from work that almost always go for salads at an undisclosed location in that area (nobody wants to advertise). I’m not a salad eater by any stretch, but I do like the walk, and the light of all the giant glass building is nice. There’s something to these photos, a complexity, that I really like. They have a lot going on. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about subject. Specifically, what my subject is. What do I want to be looking at. It seems a lot of the most interesting things are already covered, in depth, by geniuses, sometimes many times over, in the face of change. I’m not sure where I was going with this paragraph. You can stop reading now. (ed. note: obviously the last picture wasn’t taken at lunch; it just fit with the building thing I had going, and happened to be next, chronologically) <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_lunch_walk_to_the_fidi/474/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_lunch_walk_to_the_fidi/474/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/a_lunch_walk_to_the_fidi/474/0003.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-02-06T06:25:40Z GMT
