I took the picture on a dare and wanted to dress up the kiwis a little
bit. On the plate is fried rice with some kind of Filipino-style pork
chop on top of it.
Category Archives: Photography
Half-dozen close-ups of Hesco fastenings, sounds dry as old dirt, yes?
The latest in this week’s series of Hescofotos. Focus of this set is how they are
attached to each other. Jean points out that the spiral sections are
used to hook the flat lattices together. I went to check on the
nearest row of them, and what it looks like is that they come in
multi-section sets, so that you can put down eight or ten or twelve in
a row all at once. If you want fewer, you just attack them with the
wire cutters and shorten the row before putting in the bags and the
sand.
‘Tis true: you don’t see single Hescos around. They’re always in rows.
Instant nostalgia trip, West Side IRT league
via flickr.com I showed this pic to the dude at the rec room and he seemed bemused that there would actually be a picture of my own subway train on the internets. I had typed “New York City Subway” into the flickr search box and this was one of th… Continue reading
Double the fun! Indian Bar for lunch and dinner
Today I got wise and photographed the menu card so I would know what I
was eating, and you would too.
Homage to photography artist Nini Norrmann
I have no idea what a “process-based blog” is about, but I am wearing
a soft spot in my tastes for the low-key semiabstract photographs of
one Nini Norrmann, available elsewhere on their own soi-disant process
blog. In addition, every time I post a Hesco picture to the
blog, the same Nini Norrmann slaps a “favorite” designation on it.
So in the latest chapter of my continuing effort to match the
arbitrary and capricious supply of postings here to perceived demand,
I dragged the camera out to the backyard yesterday evening during one
of the lulls in the ongoing sandstorm and shot a couple dozen
Hescofotos, then after dinner ran them through the photo editor (crop,
rotate, straighten, tint, shadow, sharpen, and neutral-color picker,
for starters) to create my own batch of semiabstractions, using the
countervailing lattices and bulges of the Hescos as raw material.
Attached are the results.
My favorite so far is no. 1874 (no. 8 in the gallery). The colors seem
more natural and the four-quarters composition is more rigorous, so it
allows the eye to focus on the different contents of each quarter.
Brown, dusty and sere, June 2008
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I found this snapshot last night browsing through the picture collection. The secret city is usually nicer than this looks. Continue reading
Busted Hesco
Today’s Hesco snap: this one between the tent area and the street.
Perhaps something crashed into it on the street side.
Dawn was great, but sandstorm kicked up again shortly after
I got up at six, the usual time, and snapped this panorama on the way
out of the refectory after breakfast, around seven-ten. Back then, the
air was fresh and clean and almost sweet-smelling, but between eight
and ten, the dust started blowing again, worse at moments than
yesterday’s storm.
Mini Maelstrom
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It’s not a doozy of a dust storm today, just a little one, the kind of atmospheric event that makes folks wearing facemasks look kind of foolish. The wind was coming from the south in the morning but over lunch switched to the north. Boreas, my an… Continue reading
Blast walls and Hescos
The blast wall, a 15-foot high concrete barrier, shaped like an upside-down letter T, is on the left. Its counterpart, the Hesco barrier, is on the right. A Hesco is a folding metal basket with a paper liner filled with dirt.
The advantage of the Hescos is that you can ship them broken down and fill them where you need them. The blast walls, on the other hand, are more durable and look nicer.
This picture is from right outside the recreation center where I am holed up afternoons to use the internet.