My photo, “aero”, has been selected for Rayko Photo Center’s 8th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show! 

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Ingredients 7.1  |  “We brought her up, up, up to live amongst giants.  Our hearts broken and flying.”

Produced: beet juice & lemonade

(as a sidenote: pleasantly, I cannot help but think of Philip Guston when I look at this.)

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I took a lot of phonephotos this past week for my turn at the helm of BeingNOLA.  I used a lot of goofy filters.  But I like ‘em, so here you go. New Orleans, LA September, 2013.

In the meantime…

While you anxiously await Part II of my long-due Kentucky travel blog (will be up by next Tues!), I would like to shamelessly promote my Etsy store, Holy Crow Studios.

I just put these little beauts in the shop, along with a few others:

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Cranberry sauce & pecan pie. November/December 2012 ———- Cranberry-Port Conserve Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie

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I have “high art” and museum structure/culture on the brain. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 2006.

Tonight, this happened: Pomegranate Molasses & Pine Nut Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon table salt
• 14 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup pomegranate molasses
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
3. In the work bowl of a stand mixer, using the paddle, cream sugar into butter. Add the pomegranate molasses and vanilla and beat until combined.
4. Add the dry mixture by thirds, beating on medium speed, until just barely combined.
5. Fold in the pine nuts by hand with a rubber spatula.
6. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment or Silpats. Drop batter by tablespoonfuls, 2” apart. Bake in preheated oven 10 minutes or until golden. Cool 5 minutes on the sheets, then transfer to a rack until completely cool. Store in an airtight container up to 1 week. Enjoy with ice-cold milk.

(Source: http://www.food.com/recipe/pomegranate-molasses-and-pine-nut-cookies-363277)

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I’m in the middle of re-editing the video for my China photo book Kickstarter project. That’s a sentence I kind of want to slap myself for uttering.  Yet, as I sift through hundreds of unseen images, I think this is … Continue reading →

With enough patience, diligence, and care, they can all be good.

La Spezia, Italy.  2006.

(Source: http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/liguria/laspezia.html)