Ronan is KJ’s new baby, about a week and a half old at this point. She’s already picking up her head and rolling over, which means nothing to me, but apparently means she’s very strong for a newborn. Congratulations to KJ and Thorne! <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/meet_ronan/707/0004.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/meet_ronan/707/0005.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/meet_ronan/707/0006.jpg” /> </div>
And two days ago was my first thunder game. Have I mentioned, lately, how awesome my girlfriend is? Because she got us corporate box seats. Easily the swankiest way to see a basketball game– that ish was catered from the start and at halftime there was a desert cart that came by. I didn’t take the long lens, so no great pictures of anything, but it was a great game, right up till the last minute where we lost. Refs were blind, we shoulda gotten foul shots in those final seconds. Unrelated: I saw a pretty car that day, too. <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/today_is_thursday/708/0001.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/today_is_thursday/708/0002.jpg” /> </div>
Just a quick thought while I’m working– I’m sitting here and I realize that my phone has more ram and processing power than the web server that runs this site. How much longer before my phone could run my entire web presence without it being noticeable? and how long before the “mobile web” is the only web consumers like you and me use? There is a need for big iron (big server farms, lots of data processing capacity), but most of that stuff that I use could be distributed. I think it’s not going to be long before I can buy an app that makes me the center of my social media (as opposed to some external company), and when I want to turn it off or hide those embarrassing photos I posted, I can. <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA”>Freedom in the cloud</a>, anyone? <div class=”center”> </div>
Maybe not in a bad way? It seems like even when I’m taking pictures of people, I’m really looking at the far background. In other news, I may have another kidney infection. Since the last one landed me in a hospital in Egypt for three days, I’m being pretty cautious about this one, going to the doc this afternoon, pushing fluids (including that perennial favorite, cranberry juice). <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/this_cloud_thing_is_really_getting_out_of_hand/710/0001.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/this_cloud_thing_is_really_getting_out_of_hand/710/0002.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/this_cloud_thing_is_really_getting_out_of_hand/710/0003.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/this_cloud_thing_is_really_getting_out_of_hand/710/0004.jpg” /> </div>
So, we went to momentum last night, and there were a couple interesting things… an odd performance piece where this girl was grating beets. WTF do you grate beets for in the real world anyway? And seriously, WTF was that supposed to mean? I’m all for performance art. But man, I don’t know about that one. I could go down the list of weird shit I didn’t get for a while, but shooting down art that falls flat in Oklahoma is far too easy (and the performance piece above was actually better than a lot of what was there). Overall, this year’s Momentum just lacked a lot of the charm and whimsy that has marked it in the past. Like the guy from last year who was putting up signs on all the sold pieces that said something like “This is no longer Art,” or the Womb Room from the year before (or was that 2009?). Even the really good pieces that were chosen seemed to be playing it safe on the part of the curators. I’ve been doing a lot of streets and clouds lately. Sometimes I’m just looking for that perfect moment when the light in the sky is balanced by the streetlights, and other times, I just want to take a picture of something to see how it looks. Photos (mostly) unrelated: <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0001.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0002.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0003.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0004.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0005.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0006.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0007.jpg” /> </div>
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