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So this was Christmas
 So for the third year in a row, we worked on a 'x-Mas' EP, but never finished. This time around however we got further than ever before... We got pictures!
This is a house in my neighborhood that lights this sign up during the holidays and I knew we just had to get a picture for the EP. We took this photo around midnight and we only had a little Canon 3.2mp sd-100. I decided to use the 4 second exposure for this picture and I think it worked out just fine.
This is the first time I've ever used Google's picasa to post-edit a photo, and I'm pretty unhappy with the features available... but this will do in the meantime. Basically I just cranked every setting I could all the way up and got this gritty, two-tone image.
In case you're wondering, from left to right: me, Jon Filbey, Christian Anderson & Philip Artuz. The entire photo set can be found on phil's flickr page.
1.18.2006
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Time's in the Eyes
 A while back there was a webpage that some friends pointed me too that would age someone's face. The only link I had to the page appears to be dead now, somewhere out of the UK, and the site was owned by T-Mobile. You would upload a head-shot, define a few parameters, like where the chin was, the eyes, etc..., select the number of years to add, 10-20-30-40, then it returns an interesting glimpse of the future...
For this composite I used a picture I took of my cousin Max Grady. Max was probably around 16 or 17 when I took this. Using the Web-Application, I made 4 'aged' versions and then stitched them together, left to right, youngest to oldest.
I consider this an on going project, for I have one more composite to do... of his father. Using real photographs that span 40 years, and not just the digital representation of such a feat.
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City Streaks
 This shot is from the south Loop of Downtown Chicago, near State and Jackson. I called it Cabbie-Streaks for a long time, but I figure it does a better job just demonstrating city life than cab life. My buddy Jon Filbey mentioned that it reminds him of the feeling he has when riding a cab home after a night of bars and booze. I thought that was a pretty good description of what's going on.
If your perspective is all screwed up, that is the camera there at the top. Taken from inside Charlie, my old Volkswagon. That's a Canon SD-100, 3.1 mega pix camera. My method on image post is to bump the contrast to obsurd levels, drop out a major portion of the color frequencies, and same the image as a non-dithered GIF with anywhere from 4-16 colors.
5.01.2005
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An American Composite
 This composite was inspired by the "Purple America" graphical analysis of Bi-Partisan voting densities for the 2004 Presidential election. I wanted to show a relation between particular social-economical factors and geographic political influence.
The first map is probably the most common. It represents the electoral vote. I think what I found most troubling about this map was the shear disregard for regional diversity. It says the North-East, North-Mid-West, and Pacific North-West are the only population centers that be Democratic turnout.
The second map shows a county by county breakdown of the winning party. Notice the isolated blue districts in the South-East, the density of the Democratic vote in the South-West makes me wonder how representation those states electrode's really are.
The third map is the "Purple America." It shows the percentage of the vote, rather than the cut and dry winner of the county. What it demonstrates is that this was a 50/50 election. In contrast to the first map, this shows there was a significant amount of Democratic representation in the Mid-West and South.
Ok, the fourth map in my opinion is what really brings my argument home. This is a night-time satellite photo composite that shows light densities in America. White represents low or no population, black represents high density. Look at where the people are. The North-East, West-Coast, and North-Mid-West. The fifth map is a demonstration of population density as well.
Finally I wanted to demonstrate the lack of voice for minorities in our current electoral system. The sixth map is a representation of Unemployment and the final two demonstrate densities of Hispanic American and African American populations.
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The Golden Boy
 This is my little cousin Ben playing air hockey. This is a composite image, using photoshop to help colorize the photograph.
Ben isn't naturally that golden of course, but I was very happy with the way this photograph turned out. It looked interesting on it's own without the colorization, but I think the aesthetic is better satisfied with a slightly surreal ambiance.
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