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200 days of 2011
This is the last major milestone in my photo-a-day project as I’m taking a break for the foreseeable future. Shooting a picture every day is tough work, and forcing myself to do it is no longer as productive and helpful as it once was. 665 days in the past two years isn’t…
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Garden Photoshoot
Sometimes you just have to set up a tripod and go jump in the backyard for a while. Today was one of those days. After it stopped raining (and the mud had a bit of time to dry out), I went out back and took a few hundred pictures. Here’s…
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75 days of 2011
We’re off to a good start, 2011. A trip to Sundance, a new motorcycle, time with my family, steady work, and a quick getaway to Las Vegas all have made for a pretty crazy two and a half months. I’ve managed to (mostly) keep up with my photo-a-day project (no…
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Star Wars & Clam Chowder
Highlight of the day: The Dunsmuir Brewery Works booth at the 30th annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cookoff, and this fine gentleman on the accordion:
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2010 in Pictures
2010 was a pretty awesome year for photography. I took more pictures than I ever have before (17,482 exposures) and completed my first project 365 (a photo every day). Here’s a few links and galleries:
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A Story And A Picture
Do you like photography? How about short stories? What about awesome amounts of creativity? Then you should probably check out A Story And A Picture – a new collaboration with Christopher Hermelin. I take the pictures and he writes a 1000 words a few days later. It’s a good system…
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Google Apps Upgrade
Are you using Google Apps? Ready to upgrade to a single-sign-on for your various Google services, but the options hasn’t become available yet? It’s probably not shown up because you made an account for your Apps email outside of Apps. Yeah – it’s really confusing. Hopefully merging them will help. So here’s…
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The Bonneville Salt Flats
Driving to San Francisco from Utah on I-80, you’ll pass through the Bonnevile Salt Flats shortly before crossing the Nevada state line. There’s a rest stop smack in the middle of them, and it’s definitely worth stopping for. Pull over, stretch your legs, grab your camera and take some pictures.…
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Walk Like an Egyptian
Taken on Muir Beach with my sister, Carly Kear
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March by the Numbers
Photos Taken 962 Photos Uploaded to Flickr 37 Albums Downloaded 41 Tracks Listened to 895 Foursquare Checkins 164 Checkins at New Places 41% Venues Visited 101 Delicious Bookmarks 39 rss articles read 920 articles shared 49 Total Emails Sent/Received 1853 Tweets: 28 Incoming Traffic 97.6 GB Outgoing Traffic 16.4 GB…
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Two Week Challenge
My housemate Christopher and I are challenging each other every two weeks to keep things exciting this year. My first two week challenge of 2010. The challenge: make a lip-sync video to Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” starring at least 10 people I didn’t know personally. I started out in…
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Making Something Every Day of 2010
For the 365 days of 2010, I’ll be posting something to Flickr. View the full set here. Here’s a slideshow of my progress so far:
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100 Photos in 100 Days
From July – November 2009, I “made” something every day. Usually a photo, sometimes a video, but something got uploaded to Flickr daily. Here’s the full slideshow. View images individually here. Stay tuned for MSCED 2010.
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Nine Months Late
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A 60 Year Long Pool Party
My father recently found quite a few slides from 1948 and had them digitized for various reasons. One of those reasons probably wasn’t so that I could mess around with them with Photoshop, but I did anyway. Above is my version of my grandfather’s dive into a wonderfully blue pool.…
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Captain Kirk Is Climbing A Mountain
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Garden Party. Right Now.
Today marks the first day of my San Francisco growing season, and hopefully my amazing vegetable season will follow shortly. Or in 48-92 days. Something like that. Two solid days of taming the Jumanji of a forgotten backyard, a day of planting Home Depot seedings, and we’re off! There’s all…
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A flock of easter peeps
It’s that time of year again.. The time when a few of my pictures find meaning, popularity, and I feel particularly good about my photography. I took this shot a year or so ago and it’s always made me smile. (And no, there weren’t quite that many peeps. Oh, the…
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Rockin’ Chairs
Inspired by the internet – mainly amazing before and after pictures, and some sweet fabric patterns for sale, I took it upon myself to fix up and reupholster two outdoor rocking chairs. They were literally falling apart and a bit of a hazard to sit in. After a few days of taking apart, sanding,…
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Tasty San Francisco
Today turned into a mini culinary-adventure up Highway 1 and through San Francisco. Mostly unplanned, but entirely amazing. I’m so pleased right now, I decided to write it all down. If you’re in the area and haven’t been to these places, go now! An adventure through Hayes Valley: Paulette Macarons…
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Vader’s New Ride
The trade in value for a beat up TIE Advanced x1 Starfighter apparently was enough for a brand new Ariel Atom – an amazing vehicle. And I want one. Now where’s my extra 65 grand..
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5dmk2 HD video test
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Star Wars 2008
Election season is upon us, and that means one thing: parody election designs! Kristan and I had some free time this morning, and we were inspired to mockup a few designs for the Star Wars universe. The results follow. Go vote!
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new bike
Finally got my recently-purchased Bianchi up and running, after replacing the handlebars, stem, headset, brake cables, tires, and pedals. Lots of fun, as I had to figure out how to do most of that myself. But it looks so good! And it’s 15 years newer than my last bike! So…
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Redesign!
And like magic, maxelman.com looks completely different. I believe this is number 6 or so? Maybe with some digging, and archive.org, I can make a little “history of” page. That could be fun.
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oh, wonderful spam
I’ve been looking closely at the spam that Google manages not to block lately. On one hand, I’m disappointed Google missed one out of nine thousand this month, but I’m also a little glad, as this kind of thing shines a bit of happiness onto my internal image of spammers.…
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Happy Belated Birthday, Alfred
While I might be a tad late on this, it appears the crazy success of The Dark Knight brought some Michael Caine attention to the media. And thus, I realized I missed his 75th birthday. Shame. In honor of one of my favorite actors though, a picture. Just stare at…
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Photos From Europe
I’ve put up the first round of photos from Europe online at Flickr. Take a look!
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Graduation!
A quick update that for now, UCSC is behind me. Thanks to my Mom for taking this rad photo by the Porter squiggle: And also, this new Sigur Ros track from their new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, somehow sums up the past few days:
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maddbadger, maddbadger, maddbadger
Looks like this blog has turned into a portfolio of sorts showcasing my work, with the occasional non-me-related think I find awesome. Well, this time I have something that falls into both categories. Inspired by my housemate, Christopher, doing his rapping thing as usual, my other housemate and I decided…
