Day 600

9/6/2008

taken : 9/6/2008


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Day 600.

Well...this has been an adventure.

As I look back on the last 600 days of my life...

...well...nothing really comes about to tell the truth.

Onward we go.

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First of all. Fuck.

I started feeling like total shit yesterday evening. Starting at around 2:00 PM I felt like I was going to fall over and die. I napped for most of the rest of the day...and went to sleep at 10:00 PM.

Today I woke up and felt decent. I decided I was gonna head to a coffee shop to get some work done. TONS of reading needs to get done + finishing edits for the last wedding of the year so I can get that shit out to the couple.

Awake for about an hour...

...driving to the coffee shop.

Death.

I thought...maybe I just need some caffeine in me.

Get to the coffee shop.

Order.

Sit down.

Starting studying.

Death.

I could not keep my shit together. I felt like I was going to keel over right there in that coffee shop.

Went home.

Slept most of the day.

More death.

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I rallied.

I needed to rally to go meet LC, LC's parents and her sister and husband to exchange photos and get paid. More death. Thought I was going to pass-out while I was there.

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Stuck around for the house warming party for LC, Michelle, and Kate.

more death.

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I started to feel a little better later in the night...but still decided not to drink. I need to beat this fucker. Then I peaced out.

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LC

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Michelle

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All of these pictures were shot with my 70-200mm L. In an effort to switch it up. Vivitar 285hv on camera, always bounced off of the ceiling (fuck that direct shit...can't stand it). somewhere around 1/100 @ f/4.0

word.

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I hope I wake up tomorrow not on the verge of death.

Day 599

9/5/2008

taken : 9/5/2008

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I have been fighting off some sort of sickness for the last few days. It started the day of NIN. I woke up today and it was a little better, but I took like 8 naps today..

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I loved the weather today. I hate hot weather, it makes me cranky. I cannot wait for the fall. It is the best time of year. Bundled up.

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Only from Sarah on Vimeo.

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This one of the better videos I could find of Only

The sound is pretty bad, but you get good shots of the stage production. It's hard to describe what was set up for this song. Basically to walls of lights on a grid. The 3/5 of the band stood between the 2 walls and the last 2/5 behind the last wall. Wall is not a good word...more like grid.

For the song the grids were programmed to display as white noise (you could pretty much see nothing but the lights)...but some how Trent Reznor could interact with it? He could walk around the stage and 'separate' the noise so the audience could peer through. He would then sometimes be able to...for lack of better way of describing...throw the noise into motion, and it would spin around the band on stage...

...I don't know...I can't describe this...just watch the vid.


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this one is okay too (2 minutes 18 seconds in you get a nice shot of the video screen showing what TR is doing)

anyway...enough nerd stuff for the day...

Day 598

8/4/2008

taken : 8/4/2008

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It was a day of run-ins today.

I ran into Kyle L.

We strolled for about 50 feet then parted ways. At that very moment I ran into Ricky. He quickly pointed out to me during our exchange of pleasantries that Red Bull girls were down yonder. So we went and got some free Red Bull. I didn't really have much to do (those blog posts for my digital classes...but those weren't gonna be too bad) So Ricky and I went and shot some Pool @ The Connection (he is manager there).

We chatted about NIN and the NIN show...ya know...the usual.

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Then I headed to the library. Class was held @ special collections today.

I ran into Natalie!



We chatted for a bit.

Then I was off.

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Saw some crazy shit in special collections.

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Then I ran into Jen.

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She randomly went to Japan this summer (Dad is a pilot for United)

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so it goes...

Day 597

9/3/2008

taken : 9/3/2008

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I was able to get all of my readings finished over the long weekend (I didn't even really know it until today) and don't have all that much hard work to do this week. Two blog posts (both Digital Art 2 and History and Theory of Digital Art require students have blogs for the class) and 1 single page paper due by the end of the week.

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I took advantage of a lot of that free time today by editing photos (and taking some time to sit in the sun). It is going a lot smoother and quicker than I thought (editing the photos...not sitting in the sun...sitting in the sun is always easy).

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Nick was able to locate a few videos (although crappy quality) from the show last night.


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Closer
(with The Only Time breakdown)

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March Of The Pigs

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saaaaaawet.


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Day 596

9/2/2008

taken : 9/2/2008

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Looooooooooong day of classes.

Sleepy.

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NIN @ Red Rocks tonight.
Good lord. That show was fucking loud.

Soooo good.

I was a little disappointed there was no Echoplex (I think it was the first show on tour they didn't play it) but I am not really complaining.

We got to see: (some of these old videos I have posted before...but I figured what the hell)


Me, I'm not.





The Great Destroyer



Reptile
&
Down In It.



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That shit was sick. A few times I felt like the lights and sound combined were going to strip me bald or just make my head explode.

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The Ghosts material they played was unreal.

Fun night. Thanks TR and NIN.

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The Setlist.

1. 999999
2. 1000000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. March Of The Pigs
6. Head Down
7. The Frail
8. Closer
9. Gave Up
10. Me, I'm Not
11. Vessel
12. The Great Destroyer
13. 5 Ghosts III
14. 6 Ghosts II
15. 19 Ghosts III
16. Piggy (Ghosts remake)
17. The Greater Good
18. Pinion
19. Wish
20. Terrible Lie
21. Survivalism
22. 31 Ghosts IV
23. Only
24. Down In It
25. Head Like A Hole
26. Reptile
27. God Given
28. Hurt
29. In This Twilight


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P.S. this shitty photo taken with my cell phone was the closing of their set right before the encore.

(I put it through noise ninja...haha)

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Gotta get cracking on the last wedding I shot...clients are back from honeymoon and want some photos...booo.

Day 596 - random-A chance to meet NIN

I was confused about the blog updates on the NIN.com website last night. They don't list as an archive on the front page like this blog does. I saw a post from them eating @ a restaurant on S. Federal in Denver. The next post was a blurry image from a car with the caption

"Success. Aunt Linda and Ashley came to the rescue"

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I found out this morning that because the last show was in Lexington Kentucky, the band flew to Colorado instead of riding the tour bus, which pretty much gave them a day off. While the crews drove to Colorado, they bummed around, and hit up a restaurant on S. Federal. Last night they needed to get back downtown, and no cabs would come pick them up. They figured it was in a sort of bad area, and the cabs refused to come get them. So they (I think Alessandro and Rob) made a post (one I didn't see) about the six of them needing a ride. Apparently they were putting out updates on Twinkle/Twitter on their iphones asking any NIN fans around the area to come give them a ride. They offered tickets or whatever, "you name it, you got it, just come get us!"

And then, some chick and her Aunt Linda came and got them.

If I would have read that I would have jumped in my car right then.

Oh well. That would have been hilarious.

Alessandro made a post today linking to the Echoing The Sound forum thread with all the Colorado fans talking about what happened, and how many of them ended up there after the band had been picked up...the people @ the restaurant were confused by all the people who were showing up to take pictures of the place...anyway...Alessandro's comment was "Now THAT's social networking"

haha. Silly internets.

NIN tonight!

woo.

Day 595

9/1/2008

taken : 9/1/2008


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It was a very nice day.

Went on a picnic at the Foothills Community Park in North Boulder.

This was taken while we walked a short distance around the park.

Good times.

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Finally got around to doing readings for Greek Vase Painting.

well...some of them at least...


"There are two different types of shapes in Greek vases. Simple and complex."


What? Seriously? No shit.

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The rain was nice tonight.

Cool.

I was sitting @ my desk doing some reading when I noticed the lightning. It happened a few times in a minute so I jumped up and grabbed my shit and drove up Baseline.

By the time I was able to get there it had slowed down significantly...I was only able to capture a few mediocre photos.


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(Canon 40D. 17-50mm f/2.8. Shooting mode manual: ISO 800. 17mm. f/7.1. 8 sec. fired by tethered remote)

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(Canon 40D. 17-50mm f/2.8. Shooting mode manual: ISO 800. 23mm. f/7.1. 8 sec. fired by tethered remote)


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NIN tomorrow.

pumped.

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With Teeth live

From the latest live DVD Beside You In Time

The With Teeth tours were awesome. I saw two legs of it. This live line up has changed (well actually 2 members were replaced...Trent Reznor constant of course...) but I think it will be for the better.

wooooord.

(Have never been sure if the song With Teeth is actually about a woman or if its about heroin)