A Day of Random Things

Felt a little scattered today---its been a very quiet house; Adam and the roomie have escaped to Canada for various bike related activities. So Tuck (my fiery little schnauzer) and I have been flying it solo. Just a couple things I'd like to share.

Stumbled upon a yard sale today and i found these gems:





i fell in love with the metal skeletons--aren't they great? Both menacing and adorable. Just in time for halloween, though i plan to keep it as a permanent fixture in my front room. The ornaments are antique and are heavy little buggers. There is an outer cracked shell and an inner mirrored surface. They are so wonderful and ive been racking my brain all day for the best place to put them.

SO. lately ive been thinking about the suspension of time...moments captured and filed away, manpulated and deconstructed. The idealization of images and memories; our own concepts of personal history and experience. of course these notions carry over to my thoughts regarding photography and our increasingly aggressive media, I read a book by Susan Sontag a long time ago called "On Photography" and I would like to wrap up this rambling thought with a quote from someone who really knows what they're talking about:

"To collect photographs is to collect the world. Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs the image is also an object, lightweight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store...To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power." ~Susan Sontag, On Photography

While i was thinking about this stuff today, i couldnt stop looking at this cicada suspended in a soap bar. This was a gift that adam and i received from his mom. she always sends us the coolest stuff.



oh yeah, and i also got a new sweater for my dog---he's been a little chilly as a result of his most recent haircut. he's rockin some serious granny style in this pic.



Poor dog.