Syracuse For Break
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Crazy amounts of heat ducts in our basement. Why is it never warm enough?
Grimy basement.Crazy amounts of heat ducts in our basement. Why is it never warm enough?Grimy basement.Crazy amounts of heat ducts in our basement. Why is it never warm enough?Grimy basement.At The Cage
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Tina Detchon reading in the tripod shelves.
Tina's shoes.
A rather sick Mike Morse contemplates taking more codeine than necessary.
After work.Break is almost here
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Chez moi.Studio Practice
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Photo class looking over a picture while practicing with the leafback in the Newhouse studio.
Lucas McComb in the studio.Some studio practice
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A dramatic Alyse Rene French in some 5:1 paramount lighting. Luke McComb is a sensational hair-fanning expert. Thanks.This class isn't motivating
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A portrait of Allison Nast taken for PHO403.
Boredom
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My room.Bleh
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Becca Wolford playing bass at a show at the Westcott Theater in my friend's parodic emo band, Branson.Redo
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Version 2.0 of Frankenfruit.
First Photo Assignment
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Frankenfruit. No, it has nothing to do with GMOs. Just thought it was a cool concept.
The Obameter
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Found this handy site in the comments at Digg: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
FTA: PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.
FTA: PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.
Breaks are awesome
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I have been up to nothing real important over winter break, and I can't complain. Took a walk up into the woods behind my house yesterday. London was cool, but I definitely prefer not living in a city. Not too fond of Syracuse, either.
Near the edge of the forest on a hill overlooking Chittenango, NY.
Near the edge of the forest on a hill overlooking Chittenango, NY.One more from my travels
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When we arrived at Newark from London, those of us trying to get to Syracuse found both each other and that our plane was canceled that evening. We spent the night in a nearby hotel after booking flights for the next morning (that flight was further delayed). We somehow spent $160 on room service.
Rachel and Alex enjoying some of our expensive wine.
Rachel and Alex enjoying some of our expensive wine.From the last week or so
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Some pictures from the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland. I did a photo story on a German couple from Bavaria that run a German wooden toy stand at the festival. They live up in Edinburgh and come down to London for the month-and-a-half-long event every year.
Hooray Food Class
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My ANT 400 Food and Identity class had a field trip to the Fuller's Griffin Brewery, and we took a tour of the complex. Fuller’s is perhaps best known as the brewer of London Pride, the United Kingdom's leading premium cask ale. At the end of the tour, all their products were featured in a taste-testing session, and the size of the test samples were quite generous.
Just walking around
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Visitors watch an ice skater at the ice rink outside the Tower of London.
And I thought Americans tended to be overly patriotic
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Sarah, Will and I went to Royal Albert Hall after photo class today to see the Classical Spectacular. To quote Linda Harkness, our amazing SULP student services faculty member who promoted the event to us,
"It’s a total musical extravaganza, a candy box selection of the world’s best loved classics (even the non music lovers among you will probably know most of them). But what makes it a ‘spectacular’ is that the show is accompanied by lasers, lights, can-can dancers and even canon fire in the finale of Tchaikovsky’s wonderful 1812 Overture, with uniformed Napoleonic soldiers standing guard around the area. There will be flag waving and cheering, so it would be fair to say it’s not an evening for classical music purists."
That describes the event remarkably well. The 1812 Overture was pretty sweet, and it's the first time I've seen a live performance of it. And they played Gustav Holst's Mars! Gahhh!
But then they played some uniquely British songs that I wasn't familiar with, and the entire audience waved their little British flags around.
The event was indeed a bit tacky.
Will stands in my way for the duration of the concert.
"It’s a total musical extravaganza, a candy box selection of the world’s best loved classics (even the non music lovers among you will probably know most of them). But what makes it a ‘spectacular’ is that the show is accompanied by lasers, lights, can-can dancers and even canon fire in the finale of Tchaikovsky’s wonderful 1812 Overture, with uniformed Napoleonic soldiers standing guard around the area. There will be flag waving and cheering, so it would be fair to say it’s not an evening for classical music purists."
That describes the event remarkably well. The 1812 Overture was pretty sweet, and it's the first time I've seen a live performance of it. And they played Gustav Holst's Mars! Gahhh!
But then they played some uniquely British songs that I wasn't familiar with, and the entire audience waved their little British flags around.
The event was indeed a bit tacky.
Will stands in my way for the duration of the concert.
More Business Story
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I found a sweet company for my business story, Howarth, which specializes in woodwind instruments. I usually struggle at communicating with complete strangers, but as I have a bit of woodwind history of my own, I could at least talk to them about something. The people working there were so nice and allowed me to walk around and take pictures of their daily operations.
