This was taken over by the Hamilton Train station. It’s the old American Standard factory. When I was wandering around, they were in the process of gutting the buildings and turning them into office space. It was actually kind of cool. The buildings had these old kilns in them, which were being preserved and integrated into the office space.
It’s always a drag on the subway. Even when you manage to get a seat and you’ve got a long ride, you can’t quite go to sleep because you might miss your stop. You just kind of drift… waiting… I never seem to have reading material. I think that’s the key.
I had fun taking this photo. It was pretty crowded. I had a 28mm lens on the camera. It was resting on my bag and totally in this guy’s face.
I watched a guy a bit earlier in the day obnoxiously taking a million photos with his big digital camera of this old guy. Shoot, look at screen, shoot, look at screen. On and on this went. Everybody was staring. Hope he got a good picture.
In anticipation of my big July paycheck, I purchased a film scanner finally. As a result, I’m going to try to post a picture a day. I probably won’t hit my mark; maybe I should shoot for one a week, but that seems a bit low. Oh well.
First up, in preparation for the big bash at Thom’s house, I present to you a photo taken at the last gathering. To me, this photo fully represents gatherings at Thom’s place. In the words of Mike, “It’s a weekend of booze and meat.” I think this picture does a good job of illustrating that. I want to say the hot dogs shown here were for lunch or dinner, but it could have been breakfast…
When I go away for conferences, by about the 4th day of eating out every meal, staying out late, getting up early, and sitting in crappy talks all day, I start to feel a little disgusting inside. I feel like that at Thom’s after about 3 hours.
A general note: Feel free to click through the picture to look at other sizes. I should be providing all these pictures at a decent enough resolution to get nice looking 4×6’s out of them if you feel like downloading them. Of course I have higher res versions too. It’d be great if you wanted to leave comments as well – either here or over on Flickr.
Click on individual comics for a larger version. A couple of these are by Grue. There are 5 in all and to my knowledge they were never mailed to the Baltimore Sun. Either that or the Baltimore Sun never wrote back.
Comic # 1
The following passage comes from page 189 of Hard Times: Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution, by E. Royston Pike, published by Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1966. As Pike writes, “All the documents quoted are original documents, prepared and written and set down in print when the Revolution was actually going on”. (7)
Hard times indeed.
Risks and Spoon Test Factory will be shown as a part of the Festival of Shorts in Philadelphia this Saturday. Details are below.
When:
Saturday, July 14, 2007, 8:00 PM
Where:
Fortress of the Arts
221 W. Glenwood Ave., 4th floor<br?
Philadelphia , PA 19140
610-291-1020
Admission: $5 (all proceeds go to the Fortress of the Arts)
Click here to read the press release on City Paper Net.
Click here for more information on other films that will be shown.
Note: I’m not sure what period this this armored man dates from, though his waist-line is a dead give away that he was never a citizen of the empire.
More to come soon.
Click Thom’s photo for Grizzley image quality picture.