My Japanese aunt who grew up in Tokyo before and after WWII before marrying my uncle and moving to the States gave this to me quite a few years ago. It's an authentic Japanese doll which traditionally they put in little cases like this one that keeps off the dust. It reflects my heritage, and mostly I take it for granted as it sits above my desk as I work. Perhaps it is a symbol of discipline. Which is awesome because I'm finally caught up with this photo blog which does require some discipline. Right now, discipline seems to me to only be about doing just a little bit but doing it every day.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Light: Big Sky (week 9,57/365,shinsato)
There's actually a lot happening in this picture, not just the Big Sky. There are twelve sheep staring at me thinking I'm going to give them something at the edge of a fence. But the picture looks really bad if I process it enough to make it show. Alas, there's only so much photoshop can do to improve one's photography. But the the sky in our "Big Sky" state was beautiful that evening.
Life: This is Thelonious Monk (finished).(week 13,90/365,jreyes)
Life: This is Thelonious Monk (finished).(week 13,90/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes
This is Thelonious Monk. He is a great pianist. I love the power, strength, and deep eyes in this piece. This is from his Time Magazine cover in 1963/4. It was suppose to be the cover, but President Kennedy got shot and they delayed this cover till 1964. Anyways, Thelonious Monk is a great Jazz legend. I love painting people who are strong. This painting to me just says don't mess with Thelonious, because I am one bad ass mo-fo. Here is the Time Magazine cover.
Here is his bio on wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk
Life: This is one the best drawings I have ever seen.(week 13,89/365,jreyes)
Life: This is one the best drawings I have ever seen.(week 13,89/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes
I could only dream of drawing something as beautiful as this. A woman in my art class drew this Renoir lady. I told her her drawing is awesome. It is amazing. I asked if I could take a photo of it and she says surely. I wanted to capture this before she paints over it. I really think she is an awesome drawer. I love my art class. It is one of the things in my life where I can escape and have no worries and just be in it. No work, No worries, No anxiety about life, but just create some art. It keeps me going. It is an energy boost, when I am feeling down. It is God's way to show the talents He created in me.
Life: This is a yellow flower.(week 13,88/365,jreyes)
Life: This is a yellow flower.(week 13,88/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes
I was able to work again this week. I went to lunch at my usual spot and I noticed that the spring flowers are out and blooming. So I took a picture of this yellow flower. It is good to stop sometimes and notice little things in life, we are far too busy sometimes to notice God's creation around us. We are too self-involved at times and too self-oriented. I blame the Hippie generation for this self-centered lifestyle. They screwed it up big time.
Life: This is a classical guitar.(week 13,87/365,jreyes)
Life: This is a classical guitar.(week 13,87/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes
There is no photoshop in this shot. I basically used a roll of toilet paper and my 50mm lens. I looked through the hole of the toilet paper to experiment what the lens might see. This was the effect that the camera captured. It reminds me of an intro to a telenovela or some old Spanish movie.
Life: This is a red sunset.(week 13,86/365,jreyes)
Life: This is a red sunset.(week 13,86/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes
I have been sick all week and this was a sunset outside of my kitchen. I live on the 3rd floor, and there are only stairs. It makes for beautiful sunsets, but is a real pain going up and down the stairs when you are sick. The good thing this week was the weather was awesome and it was not raining.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Light: Standing still (week 8,56/365,shinsato)
It's eight weeks writing and taking pictures for this blog. Here's my dashboard for my recently purchased car. It's been around the block quite a few times, but it's gets me where I need to go.
Light: Driveway snow mud (week 8,55/365,shinsato)
The light of the sun through the clouds reflected from the mud and snow slush puddles in our driveway that day (Tuesday). I think Winter has made a run for the border and we won't see it back for a few months.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Light: Winter clouds (week 8,54/365,shinsato)
It snowed that day but turned warm not too long afterwards. Jonathan inspired me to show some Montana clouds.
Life & Love: Cat blog time (week 8,53/365,shinsato)
Tribble our cat sleeps in very bizarre belly up positions often. It's a balm to the soul to see it. With the risk of making this a cat blog, here it is. I promise I won't offer too many pictures of our pets.
Life & Love: Drum circle birthday (week 8,52/365,shinsato)
A friend who is part of a drum circle invited all his friends to his fortieth birthday party. The first two hours were just standing around eating and talking. The last two or three included a lively drum circle. We really rocked the house. People even danced. I had to leave but before I did, I grabbed this photo using infrared to not wreck the moment with flash. I used the posterization effect to spice it up a bit.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Light: This is temperature (week 8,51/365,shinsato)
It reads 64 degrees fahrenheit. The little colored balls of water and some other fluid sink as it gets warmer. I've found it a cheerful little display. How do the little balls get denser as the air heats up?
Light: Grapewood (week 8,50/365,shinsato)
My wife got this bit of grapewood and devised some cool shadow effects for it on top of a bookshelf in the corner of the room.
Light: Jelly glass (week 7,49/365,shinsato)
This little trophy from the Monterey Bay Aquarium that we picked out has a nice light base which rotates all different colors. The picture doesn't give anywhere near the full effect, and it's still no where near as cool as the real jellyfish in the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but it's still a nice piece of glass art work.
Life & Love: Flower portrait (week 7,48/365,shinsato)
My wife's been redecorating while I was away, which has brought new art into the house as well as relocated old art. My wife moved this drawing my mom made a few years ago for us into a more prominent position.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Life & Love: Back in the country (week 7,47/365,shinsato)
Ya, I live in a rural setting. This is cattle you can see from my back yard. These cattle forage on public lands for a small fee, and then they bring them to smaller fields where ranch hands feed them hay put up during the summer.
Light: Sunset at home (week 7,46/365,shinsato)
The old St. Mary's mountain from my front yard, finally home. Though it will take my brain probably another week to get back to the home front.
Life & Love: On my way back home (week 7,45/365,shinsato)
This plane clears the passengers so I can get in the plane and make my way back home after a long hard work week in California. This was taken in SEA-TAC airport, waiting to board for Missoula and home.
Life: Late night grazing (week 7,44/365,shinsato)
Away from home, I revisit an old stomping ground in Palo Alto, almost like a ghost, a grazing hungry ghost late at night.
Life: This is Japanese miso soup packaging.(week 13,85/365,jreyes)
Life: This is Japanese miso soup packaging.(week 13,85/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes
An interesting package of miso given to me by my sister and brother-in-law to cook while I am resting and recovering from a brutal flu. Project 365(6) has been one of the bright happy things I look forward to these days. It gives me hope for something to see everyday, even though I am terribly sick. Hope is better than despair. Life is better than death. And healthiness is better than sickness. God's light, life, love and hope is better than man's darkness, death, destruction, and despair.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Life & Love: Open Space Agenda (week 7,43/365,shinsato)
We've held an Engineering Summit every year for years, and the big cheese let me facilitate a half day "OpenSpace". This was our agenda wall, built in half an hour at the beginning of the event. People just announce their sessions and put them on the agenda wall, picking a time slot and a place. Two of the slots were in conference rooms, the other two were groups of chairs near the wall in the back of a large open area. It was fun seeing much more participation from the attendees than you normally get in a scheduled powerpoint centric presentation at a conference.
Life: Hotel wakeup call (week 6,42/365,shinsato)
Yikes, another exhausted night photo in the hotel during my week of business in San Jose. This water faucet was the one I used to brush my teeth at night. Thank you God for indoor plumbing and running water.
Life: Hotel wakeup call (week 6,41/365,shinsato)
I took advantage of the hotel coffee maker in my room once in the week, so this machine was only a brief acquaintance - not a best friend. Still, it's rush rush rush, go go go. Part of the business world.
Light & Life: Lonely lampstand (week 6,40/365,shinsato)
The days in San Jose were a flurry of meetings and activities that left me exhausted at night and remembering, wait, I have to take a photo. It's fun traveling for work, and it's also at times lonely, as is this lampstand in my hotel.
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