Portrait of a Steadicam Operator

This is Luke Rocheleau on the job.

Rocheleau rocks the Actioncam Rebel Pro by Innocinema.  They go for around $20k.

Luke and I spent only a brief time together, when I was asked to help push his rickshaw about 100 yards.  We had a good conversation about the state of running shoes, and how messed up everyone’s feet are after the invention of the arched shoe.  Apparently the natural arc of the human foot, so admired by architects of old, is not meant to be supplemented by an underlying arch at all times.  Heel-striking, in running, is unnatural and disadvantageous compared to the more natural forward-weighted approach to which the Kenyans adhere.  Luke was cool.

I Cani Di Firenze

Life as a dog in a medieval city must be odd.  Especially if your job title is “pakistani laundromat doorstop.”

Freshman Move-In Day

At Santa Clara, the fifteenth of September marks the day new students arrive to live on campus.  The off-campus community welcomes them with a display of jovial binge drinking.

I am ever fascinated by Swig Hall’s eleven stories, and what they stand for.

[Insert above photo in prospective student page on university web site]

He’s saying “here’s to another year of excess and cultural insensitivity!”

As I pass by this pile of brassieres on the sidewalk to my left, I turn right to see a group of about six young women emerging from their house onto their porch, one of which is baring her enormous breasts for the world to see.  As I briefly meet her drunken gaze from the sidewalk, stupefied, she smiles, and her friends yank her back inside the house laughing. This is clearly a test.  If I follow them I will be trapped inside the Siren’s lair.  I turn and keep walking.

New Roommate

Interlude, back at Santa Clara University: My new roommate Connor is the man. (These are not the same photo. Scroll down.)

We built a loft for our room.  It’s far more space-conservative now.

Us men at work

People Taking Photos of Something

 

Mike and I tag-teamed this one.

I’m starting to think this is an impacted industry.

 

Snapshot: Twenty

Today I had zero responsibilities.

Whole grain cheerios aren’t bad but never ever try “dulce de leche” cheerios

Really. I could have stayed in bed…all day long.  Nobody would have minded.  This is simultaneously awesome and frightening.

I’m twenty now.  Living at my parents’ house feels like some sort of first-world purgatory, nestled somewhere comfortably between

Hometown Night Shoot

It’s Thursday night, I’m jobless and living at my parents’ house,

So I call up my former roommate/future housemate Matt Pritchett

and our man Jack Rogers,

and we got some night photography done.  This second image is actually three exposures, photoshopped together using meticulous pen tooling around Jack’s figure.  The exposure for Jack was ISO 1600, F2.8, 1/3 of a second, and the exposures for the car trails in the background were both F8, ISO 400, 10 seconds each.

“The Dark Knight Rises” Pre-screening Party

Thanks for the free Batman merch, Michael Rosa!  @ SCU TV studio.

Walk Across California

Ellie Shepard steps out of the Pacific Ocean and starts eastward.  Ocean Beach, SF

I signed up for this “Walk Across California” class uncertain about pretty much everything it had to offer, except that we were somehow going to walk across the width of California after finals.  Now that it’s over and I’ve had about a week to process photos and reflect on the experience, I think I’ll write a little about it.  We got a sweet write up in the San Francisco Chronicle if you want to see it from the mass media perspective; but that is a superficial perspective.

Kelsey: Starbucks Cup Artist

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My neighbor, classmate, and friend Kelsey likes to draw on Starbucks cups.  Out of all the people I know on this Earth…Kelsey is the best Starbucks cup artist.  Here is her impressive display of cups, as seen just before dorm move-out week.  I wish she had told me sooner that she has an artistic side to complement her hardcore computer enginerdiness.  It makes me wonder how many of my friends and acquaintances bear undiscovered talents.