paradise...

There's a sign that hangs above the bar in the Cameron House in Toronto that says "This Is Paradise." I imagine driving there one day, from wherever it is I happen to be, not particularly quickly but with purpose. It's been suggested before that life isn't about the destination, it's about the journey, but sometimes it's nice to know where you're going too.

Beauty is where you find it

This is a Regina bicycle chain from around the mid 80's. It came off a beautiful handmade bike made by some small builder that you and I have never heard of. I should have taken pictures of the bike but I didn't. I did take pictures of the chain and some of the components as they came off the bike. This chain, it has hollow pins except for a small grouping where the chain was designed to be broken for removal and installation. You can see a couple of those links at the top center of the image.

It's just a bike chain, yes. But the energy that went into making this idea a reality, the idea of hollow chain rivets, well, wow, that's really cool. And that it was made to last, made to be "owned" instead of "used," well that's priceless.

It's about time I went for a bike ride. Not commuting, not going from a to b, not simply pushing the pedals and making the bike go forward, but a real honest bike ride where you get to close your eyes sometimes, and hit curbs, and run through puddles with your feet in the air. It's about time.

edges

I've not had much time to take photographs lately but I always seem to have a camera on me. Having recently re-found an appreciation for film the process of coming up with photographs has been slowed somewhat. I do have a compact disc chock full of digital scans of negatives but as a part of my new found ludditism (appreciation of the mechanical over digital camera) the computer holding that disc isn't even plugged in so it's trapped in its grip until I get motivated to release it.

These images are all digital and somewhat randomly happened upon taken at different times on different days. There was an idea about "transitions" that was to be an underlying theme with them but it's really manifest itself as "edges."

I should also mention that while I like each one of these images individually as a set, especially as presented here, I'm not very happy with them. Oh well.

perspective

I've always wondered if there was someone looking back.