neighborhood couch

Random in SB

Beautiful vacant wall off an alley in LA

The Adorables

Laurel at the Derby

I just love this photo

B-Side

ashley

joe

laurel

chilly

aaron

Andie

Some street photos

Morning Light

Beautiful Colors

More of SF

SF in March

Everything is more Pleasant with the ones you love

The Way I See It #7

This is from my Starbucks cup.

"What I look for in musicians is generosity.  There is so much to learn from each other and about each other's culture.  Great creativity begins with tolerance."

- Yo-Yo Ma

mannequin

That last link was no good. Here is a link that shows how a washed up American Appeal mannequin can make a comeback.

http://www.exhalethesoul.com/man_quin/

Journal

Journal entry.

Art...a lot of times left on wall to be looked at and appreciated from a distance.  With a journal like this, the art becomes apart of you.  It is now something to feel and engage in.  It is personal without being too revealing.  Unlike the other pages in my journal that are tied up with words, this page, although there is something written, it is more about the starkness and the textures more than what is written.  Expressing emotion through the mixture of found objects and paint, colored pencil, or charcoal might be more satisfying than pouring my hearts on the page using exact and deliberate words.  However we chose to express ourselves is up to us, we are all unique...and I hope we stay that way.

Aaron is...

Bike Composite

Portrait of a ...

Bike Culture

Introducing Bike Culture is something more complicated than starting with one bike or one rider, it is a feeling, a mystery, something that has to be experienced from within.  This story in no way shows the magnitude in which Bike Culture is infused within Portland, but it touches on just a few aspects of what Portland has to offer.  In a longer story this will become about Portland’s core, it will become about the faces of Portland, but right now, it is a meet and greet, it is the showing of what is going on within another city involving bikes.  To some this won’t be shocking at all or it might be eye opening to some who want to see more.  From the midnight hour to the early morning drop-offs, bike culture is always happening, and to understand it all requires a lot of leg power, availability, and respect.  Riding a bike isn’t just something that kids do, or something that an aspiring ‘Lance Armstrong’ does…it is for everybody who wants to really get to know not only who they are but where they live.  It evokes emotions in a person that will make someone ride a bike that is much smaller or larger than the average bike, it makes people get off their horse and choose a bike for the game of polo, and it inspires a father to bike his three sons five miles through a city and over a bridge to school, and it inspires people everyday to get out and explore, even for just a moment; Just long enough to make a small revolution inside themselves.  Riding starts with just one revolution.