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    New Mexico

    It’s been ages since I last saw Suzannah in person. I think the last time was 7 years ago! Though the years have gone by, we’ve remained close friends. We greatly enjoyed her hospitality during our three days in hot and humid New Mexico. On Saturday, Suzannah took us to…

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  • We had two presentations for the July 2004 COBA meeting. Mark Jaremko and Stan Jirman spoke about their photographic experiences on opposite sides of the globe, the Antarctic for Stan and the Arctic for Mark. Winnipeg at -11 degrees Celcius is nothing compared to the -40 degrees in the Arctic,…

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    Gigapxl Camera

    I just finished a delightful dinner with Michael T. Jones and the creators of the Gigapxl Project, Graham Flint and Catherine Aves. As I drove into the Cattlemen’s restaurant parking lot, I noticed a Toyota Sienna with the license plate, “Gigapxl.” Yup, I came to the right place. I would…

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  • The Worldwide Newton Conference is being held in a couple of months in Paris, France. I’m tempted to go, seeing that I’ll be in London the last week in August. I should just stick around in England and France that week, go to the conference and head back to the…

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  • Leslie and Will

    Catching up on some photos from the past several weeks. On June 19, I attended the wedding of my friends, Leslie and Will. I know Leslie from my days over at Palm. If Leslie and Will look familiar, perhaps it’s because you saw them on The Learning Channel’s Perfect Proposal!…

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  • Super Size Me

    Rae and I watched Super Size Me a little over two weeks ago. At the time, I was working on my final project for Art 174. Obesum was my attempt at making light of the whole weight-loss craze. I wanted to see how a weight-gain pill might be portrayed in…

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  • Oakland Dance Festival

    Facing East Dance and Music performed at the Alice Arts Theater in Oakland in the first annual Oakland Dance Festival. The festival is being produced by Company C Contemporary Ballet under Charles Anderson. Other companies performing in the next two weeks include Capacitor and Savage Jazz Dance Company. Facing East…

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  • Rae's New Bike

    This past weekend, Rae and I went to the local Chain Reaction store in Los Altos to pick up a new bike. We were deciding between a 2003 Trek 2300 WSD that was on sale and a new 2004 Trek 2200 WSD. Trek had discontinued the 2300 line to encourage…

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  • Audition

    MasterCard was looking for Asian-American actors for a new “Priceless” commercial they are filming. Auditions were held in Landmark Building C at the Fort Mason Conference Center in San Francisco. They were looking to cast an Asian mother, father, and an 18-22 year old Asian male with long hair! According…

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  • The last time I was in the Stanford Faculty Club was for the Symbolic Systems Class of 1997 gradudation party. 7 years later, I’m back for another graduation, the 2003-2004 Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program. Friends and family of the Digital Vision Program convened in the Gold Room for the…

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