The Kids In B&W

Shamoooooo

Did you ever notice that cows and killer whales have basically the same paint job?

Just wondering.

Fuzzy

This may be the next big thing in police cars. It's being designed from the ground-up to be a police car by a company called Carbon Motors. It's bigger than the Crown Vic and powered by a 300 HP clean-diesel engine with gobs of torque. Since it's not a tacked-on police package, all the features required of a cop car (lights, radios, laser/radar systems, license plate recognition system...) are built right in.

I like the rear-opening door for easier perp-stuffing.

Clean & Neutral

The office is getting closer and closer to a state of photo-licious perfection. I have this thing about working in a very clean area. My mind is full of clutter enough, I need to have a really sparse, gray-monotone workspace or I think too much about the surroundings and not enough about the work. You really want to keep the color down when you are working with color, to avoid any kind of influence from the surroundings. For that reason the walls are a pretty neutral gray, the blinds are silver, and the art is black & white, or very nearly. Dull, maybe, but practical.

Almost White

Picking out the paint on our new house was an anti-climactic event. We carefully chose our colors for each room, sometimes looking over and comparing a dozen or more shades, tints, and tones of a color to get the exact look we wanted. We looked over the palette of colors like it was a menu at a fancy French restaurant. And yesterday we got the gamut of available paints from the painter.

It was a pamphlet with about 20 chips called "Whites and Almost Whites" or something like that.

So our mouths were watering for filet minon medallions with demi glace and what we got was an expired burger off the glowing Burger King menu hanging on the wall behind the pimply teenager.

All of the "colors" that this painter uses look the same in some lighting conditions. So we chose the least offensive shade of near-white we could find, and then chose one slightly lighter-looking and told the guy to paint the whole house with the first, and the molding with the second.

We'll be doing extensive repainting, using that generic sort-of-white color as a primer.

Laying Out

My ever-lovely wife is helping me do the layouts for a wedding shoot I did. Here's one of my favorite pages.