Nice collection! I like that you stop and notice these little things when you are out walking around with the dogs. Walking...dogs or just regular, is a great, slow way to notice the world.
I am intrigued by perfect dead bees and stuff... but somehow I still get a weird fear-tingle down along my spine. You'd appreciate my little nephew who has an uncanny knack of finding dead bees and other insects, and a penchant for bringing them to me.
For about the first 27 years of my life I had a real antipathy for insects, snakes and spiders. I still am not crazy about any of them like, crawling on me, but I'm fascinated by insects' biology. And I was really hoping to get a complete cicada nymph molting (there is one slightly damaged one there in the photos) but they're not very resilient. That's one of the things I really love about my job, is the time it gives me to slow down and observe. I might be in the city, but there is still an enormous amount of nature around on all sides. I bought this camera with the intention taking it along with me and recording some of this stuff, but when I'm carrying a camera I'm thinking about the camera, not about what I'm looking at.
My father had a stroke when I was three and spent time at the Rehab Institute of Chicago. So seeing all those people who were paraplegic or quads from motorcyle and biking accidents pretty much made me a helmets 4 life person.
Well, if I actually owned a bike, which I don't. Because I'm a big chicken about riding in the city. (Also, that RIC thing pretty much convinced me to never dive headfirst into a pool.)
Every day when I walk out of the apartment building with my bike, I am absolutely sure that this is the day I'm going to get destroyed by one of the millions of shitty, shitty drivers in Chicago. I think that's a healthy attitude. It makes me enormously conscious of traffic and pedestrians and every little detail. I hate the fear of calamitous physical injury, but I love the exercise and speed with which it takes me through my day. So I understand not biking here.
You bought a new helmet! And you got a full-face one with a motorbike underneath it. Rad! Neato!
I'm going to start a new 'found objects' collection too now 'cos yours is cool. Mind you, I just took pooch on a walk to the shopping centre (mall) today and found nothing on the way. Not a skerrick. What's up with my ridiculously clean new neighbourhood?
Not just any motorbike underneath-- that's a VR-052 Veritech Cyclone, and I am a big fat nerd.
I've got a whole other collection of things I've picked up while sweeping up the bar at the end of the night; that one is mostly more damaged jewelry and lots of exotic foreign currencies. There's always interesting junk lying around, but it takes practice to notice those things.
Re: garlic n stuffinfanttyroneSeptember 19 2007, 16:43:12 UTC
Oh, I do. In my mind. Actually my last girlfriend and I called it quits an embarrassingly long time ago, and since I haven't gotten any better at the things I did wrong that time, I've just been saving myself and some poor woman the trouble.
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I am intrigued by perfect dead bees and stuff... but somehow I still get a weird fear-tingle down along my spine. You'd appreciate my little nephew who has an uncanny knack of finding dead bees and other insects, and a penchant for bringing them to me.
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And I was really hoping to get a complete cicada nymph molting (there is one slightly damaged one there in the photos) but they're not very resilient.
That's one of the things I really love about my job, is the time it gives me to slow down and observe. I might be in the city, but there is still an enormous amount of nature around on all sides. I bought this camera with the intention taking it along with me and recording some of this stuff, but when I'm carrying a camera I'm thinking about the camera, not about what I'm looking at.
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Well, if I actually owned a bike, which I don't. Because I'm a big chicken about riding in the city. (Also, that RIC thing pretty much convinced me to never dive headfirst into a pool.)
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I'm going to start a new 'found objects' collection too now 'cos yours is cool. Mind you, I just took pooch on a walk to the shopping centre (mall) today and found nothing on the way. Not a skerrick. What's up with my ridiculously clean new neighbourhood?
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I've got a whole other collection of things I've picked up while sweeping up the bar at the end of the night; that one is mostly more damaged jewelry and lots of exotic foreign currencies.
There's always interesting junk lying around, but it takes practice to notice those things.
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the next time i'm home, i'll look for you and your dogs strolling the streets.
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I will be the one walking the good dog. ("Who's a good dog?")
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