As is tradition, thirteen things that are going well or otherwise represent good fortune that I'm thankful for, this Friday the 13th. What's going well for you?

1. The Seattle Cinerama is starting their Big Screen 70mm Festival. Lawrence of Arabia in glorious 70mm on Saturday!
2. It's Dad's birthday today.
3. I have a 2-day Video Bootcamp for Photographers ( Read more... )

As is tradition, thirteen things that are going well or otherwise represent good fortune that I'm thankful for, this Friday the 13th. What's going well for you?

1. Between SIB and Wine Rocks, it's been a good couple weeks for sampling good alcohol.
2. SIFF screened Robocop last night as a shoot-a-long, complete with free cap guns at the door. (They're ( Read more... )

As is tradition, thirteen things that are going well or otherwise represent good fortune that I'm thankful for, this Friday the 13th. What's going well for you?

1. "Hack Day" skunkworks competition at work, Monday and Tuesday
2. I'm in the midst of a (literally) rockin' collaboration with local band Naomi Punk on a photo essay leading up to their ( Read more... )

It's Friday the 13th, which means it's time for another list of thirteen things that are fun, going well or are otherwise good fortune. What are thirteen things going well for you right now?

1. First and foremost, my Dad is doing very well after heart surgery over the holidays.
2. We are now only one week away from National Penguin Awareness Day. How ( Read more... )

Name thirteen things that are going WELL for you this Friday the 13th:

1. A very fun and productive course on live concert photography (with field trips, of course) through the Photo Center.
2. May seems to be bringing bona fide spring weather. Finally.
3. I've acquired the right film for a test drive of a Century Graphic that came back with me from my last ( Read more... )

For those who haven't already seen this via FB or Twitter, I have photos from my trip to the Rally up at Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_newell/sets/72157625294212566/with/5138276307/

( The whole scenic weekend getaway )

1. My photo show this month at the UW Medical Center
   
2. My team has had an influx of new staff. We've had an influx of new work, too, but getting actual people rather than just hypothetical "headcount" has been great.
   
3. Rodrigo y Gabriela tonight at Marymoor
   
4. ...followed closely by the Mountain Music Festival (Robert Randolph, Jakob Dylan, The BoDeans, ( Read more... )

Jan. 1, 2000: Computers everywhere continued working mostly as expected, so no need to go in on the weekend. Our British corporate masters (who had bought us a year or two earlier) were still trying to figure out what to make of our Pittsburgh office, which was mostly doing DoD/DARPA work and therefore had to have an arms-distance relationship ( Read more... )

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I am now just over 24 hours away from the start of two extremely welcome weeks of vacation, starting in Puerto Rico and eventually winding up in Barcelona, by way of the Canaries, Morocco, and a couple of other stops in southern Spain.

During this trip I will very deliberately not be online, and will specifically not be checking email (even ( Read more... )