Project 365 - Week 38

Week 38.


Monday. Cullen cuddling with Dudley on the bed. It's not my bed. It's one of the Bolls's guest beds (isn't that a great bed spread?). They have been kind enough to let us stay with them since I am now 'homeless.' All of my furniture is in their basement storage area, along with many of my boxes. One thing I really love about Photoshop is the way that you can use layers to highlight just one little area (Cullen's face) so that it's a little brighter and so that you can actually see the definition of his fur and eye.


Tuesday. For the life of me, I cannot remember which research participant this is. Research participant? Well, it just about took forever for the USDA study that I was going to be working on with Paul to finally start. Originally, I was in charge of recruitment (which went very well - not one of the 14 people that came to do the study were students - which can be a feat since it's a college town with a campus of around 25K). But I ended up getting trained on how to place the biometric sensors and doing the study with participants. I made a few mistakes - like forgetting to do one final step for a few people at the beginning - but I also was able to figure out and fix why the heart rate signal was crazy (a bad sensor). The study showed participants 4 short 'commercials' on safely cooking meat and tracked their responses (both conscious and unconscious). Regardless of how she looks, it was neither painful nor terrifying.

Project 365 - Week 37

Week 37.


Monday. Isn't winter beautiful? It's the parking lot across from Lee Hills Hall, complete with snow.


Tuesday. Riley asleep. I need to take him to a chiropractor - he used to sleep like this all the time, before I took him to one and they adjusted his lower back. It was so bad, he wouldn't ever sit straight. He'd lean and then turn his head to the side. When she adjusted him, he was so stuck that it took several times and got to the point where he tried to bite her, it hurt so much. (And he doesn't try to bite anyone, even if they accidentally step on his feet.) Once he was adjusted, though, the splayed back feet and crooked neck went away and he slept like a normal dog.


Wednesday. A prop for some sort of shoot that I don't ever think ran in either the Missourian or Vox.

Project 365 - Week 36

Week 36. The year's drawing to a close and it's time to finish up things.


Monday. I chose this picture because it struck me as really funny (Kayley's hair). It was totally crazy. Which may not be very remarkable, but I am used to Kayley's hair looking like this. She got such a kick out of her hair being crazy.


Tuesday. My sweet Duds dozing on his pillow. Well, it's the boys' pillow, since it's on the other side of the bed, but right now it's Duds's pillow. He really likes lying there. And most of the time, when he's up there, he doesn't snore (breathe loudly).


Wednesday. Okay, it's finishing my proposal for my graduate project. Since I'm planning on going to Brussels, I'm wanting to do something related to the EU and how it negotiates the Muslim challenge (the fastest growing religion in Europe). I've honed in on doing a photo essay on EU officials as the personal project portion of my graduate project. Which is a scary thought because I have to *contact* powerful, official people to photograph them.

Project 365 - Week 35

Week 35.


Monday. I don't know why I find this unusual weather for November - rain - but I guess I think of November as being cold, not sweatshirt weather. I liked how this looked through the window after my photo desk management class. And I love that I caught someone walking across the street, a la Henri Cartier-Bresson. (Here's a compilation of his pictures courtesy of Magnum Photography, the agency he helped start in 1947. And here's pictures from a MOMA interactive exhibit.


Tuesday. I took this miserable picture after several hours of a terrible migraine where I felt like my head was going to explode. I'd pretty much done nothing all day except try to get rid of the stupid thing, thus this 'lovely' picture. No very glamorous but that's life, isn't it?


Wednesday. A picture from our family group Thanksgiving. (More pictures in this blog post. It was really delicious and not at all like last year where we didn't eat Thanksgiving food and instead ate tacos or something. Maybe it was pasta. All I know is that it was not Thanksgiving food.

I Love Psych

What has brought on this overwhelming emotion of love for this screwball detective show? The fact that they consistently pay homage to all that was awesome about the 80's. Whether it's their commercials (Miami Vice, 'Private Eyes'), their random but apropos references like "Dude, we're in Witness," or their use of 80s icons like Ralph Macchio (who still looks young!), Curt Smith, or the cast of Twin Peaks, they consistently warm my heart.


As I write this, I have just watched the "Dual Spires" episode and is was (as I sigh) great. I was an avid Twin Peaks viewer and am still the proud owner of 2 books - The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life. My Tapes - as well as the audiotape: Diane... The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper. There was so much in this episode that was a complete and clever shout out to the series.


Here's a list of the shout outs I picked up on...