norman music fest 2012

What’s this? Two posts in two days? It’s as if I’m really blogging again. All I can say is, don’t get used to it. I’ve got a bit of a backlog, but it won’t last. I’m doing stuff again though, so that might bring up the post volume somewhat. These photos are from norman music fest. It was a good day; pretty much exactly what I needed at the time. Met up with Anne, hung out with some of her friends, ran into a bunch of mine, drank, got made fun of at the stand up set (all in good fun). For once, NMF wasn’t an unqualified disaster. When I wasn’t worried about rushing around to see any band in particular, and focused on the people I was hanging out with, it turned out to be a good time. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0017.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0018.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0016.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0019.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0020.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0021.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/norman_music_fest/696/0022.jpg’> </div>

Posted by matt on 2012-05-21T02:12:20Z GMT

Railsconf 2012

This was several weeks ago now, but I was in austin for a few days for Railsconf 2012. It was pretty fun, even though I didn’t go to any talks really. My job, while I was there, was to answer questions people had about our product in our booth. Pretty cool to meet everyone, actually. Note that these photos are a bit out of sequence; my little camera had the wrong year. Next: NMF! <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0012.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0001.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0002.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0003.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0004.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0005.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0013.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0014.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0015.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0006.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0007.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0008.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0009.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0010.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/railsconf_2012/697/0011.jpg’> </div>

Posted by matt on 2012-05-20T20:45:20Z GMT

pleiades and venus up close

Nothing tests your long exposure technique quite like shooting stars through a 500mm mirror lens. I should have been using a remote and mirror lock. 1 sec at 3200iso, f/6.3 (for the curious). Click the photo to see it larger. <div class=”center”> <a href=”https://images.matt.pictures/pleiades_and_venus_up_close/698/0001.jpg”><img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pleiades_and_venus_up_close/698/0001.jpg’ /></a> </div>

Posted by matt on 2012-04-08T21:50:20Z GMT

pickup game

So last sunday, there was brunch and basketball watching at BBell’s house, and the dudes got inspired to go play a little pickup game in the alley, shirts vs. skins. I think skins won by 7 points. Then they realized due to the location of the basket relative to a certain ledge that they could all dunk. So that happened. Today I’m working, and then I’ma ride my bike later. Fun and adventure and really wild things. I see this post and the last post and I marveled at the fact that all those pictures happened in the same world. It’s no surprise, reflecting on this, that people get lost going from one place to another. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0001.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0002.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0003.jpg’> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/pickup_game/699/0004.jpg’> </div>

Posted by matt on 2012-04-08T20:50:20Z GMT

SF Scenes (in the city)

This was the first time I’ve been to San Francisco (since my first visit to the city back in high school) that I’ve felt like I got anything approaching an understanding with the city. The scale of it always threw me off in the past, for some reason. There was a mental parallax, if you will, between what I was expecting and what I was seeing. I think I’ve got a better alignment now. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0013.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0016.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0017.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0021.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/sf_scenes_(in_the_city)/700/0022.jpg’ /> </div>

Posted by matt on 2012-04-05T15:51:20Z GMT