cover me

cover me
Originally uploaded by yell saccani

yell saccani's photo from flickr.com - moving, emotional - check out her photostream - such great effects and imagery.

milan iron works

milan iron works, originally uploaded by carlindesigner.

I was in Milan a couple of years ago for work - there were so many little iron covers on the roads and sidewalks - my mission was to photograph them all - all i could. i just recently started cropping them out and working on them for flickr additions.

there is something captivating about the textures and icons.

Alone

Alone, originally uploaded by carlindesigner.

when i was doing laundry - i took a couple of shots and this was the best.. color corrected in photoshop a bit and viola :) it's an ok shot.

Lifeless

Lifeless, originally uploaded by Anrijs.

this is one of my favorites on flickr asitstandstoday. it's surreal, cold, warm, so real, inspirational, and makes me want to try harder.

I FLICKR

yeah, i flickr a lot... flickr is becoming my most recent addiction.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlindesigner/

there are soooo many amazing photographers on flickr. i can't keep up. they inspire me to make better photos. they move me to take more photos. they make me compare my work and examine it to see how i can improve it.

coke bottle1

coke bottle1, originally uploaded by carlindesigner.

I had a day alone yesterday so I got some pizza and was inspired to foto. I love abstract and I love using my razr as my camera - I'm somewhat addicted to taking razr pics and sending them to facebook and photobucket. Anyway, I am practicing taking shots with the razr to get things I wouldn't otherwise notice - and using the cameras capabilities as far as zoom, lighting settings, bw settings, etc. I'm no pro - just trying to expand my possibilities with what I have. Thinking of getting a mirrorlesss camera for a beginner like me.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Ideas:

From somewhere back in 1996 - just a random bunch of ridiculousness interspersed with some fairly decent ideas.
1. Get into volunteer work
2. Be sociable - goal: make 2 real friends each year
3. Read a book or magazine you like. You don't have to read the classics
4. Get over it, whatever it is.
5. Each hour counts. Don't be lazy.
6. Live your dreams. Don't wait for permission.
7. You never get back what you lost. You get back what you give away, love,
friendship or caring OR hate, bitterness, no concern. It all comes back
8. Do what makes life significant.
9. Question the ghosts in your head. Question everything. Change what you question.
10. Get out of the house. Get into life.
11. Wear monochromatic clothing only.
12. Find your local state park and track deer in that park. Sit by the nearest body of water and listen to it.
13. Read a book about solitude, in a solitary place.
14. Write at least one thing you like about yourself down. Look at it. Write down another thing.
Look at it. REALIZE you like some things about yourself.
15. Walk to the store instead of driving.
16. On saturday only go places that you can walk to. Sunday, only ride your bike.
17. Have your 2 best friends over for dinner. Make them cook, too.
18. Don't think about your family problems for one day; it's possible.
19. ----
20. Go to as many matinees as you can in one afternoon.
21. Drive to your nearest favorite city.
Go to the highest floor possible in the tallest building possible.
Look at your kingdom below.
22. Call a realtor and house hunt even if you can't afford it.
23. Get a haircut.
24. Buy a new shirt, wear it to your favorite club, bar or restaurant.
25. Buy a new CD.
26. Start saving money. Put your pocket change in a can.
27. Live life as you want, you make your own decisions, say no! don't explain why.

Cincinnati '96 - some sort of prosetic poem of mine

7 hill Cincinnati
living on Ravine
snow sliding
on the corner
a market
and this house
above it
silence
but music
cars accelerate
up the hill the city, I close the door and live big
in this apartment - compartment - my mine me to me.
"My world in the city"

on ravine
corner
a market
above it
this apartment
my world.
silence but music and acceleration up the hill.

Big nights to me are snow filled, and it [ the snow]
sticks to our street, a hill. It sticks and cars slide in
to parked cars. The cop parks and stepping out slips.
His car slides. "Hey buddy you stupid?
You wanna kill yourself?" he screams, pounding hoods.
it echoes snow flake to snowflake. I watch down below.
Cars slide. Black guy yells at the
yellow guy slipping up the hill yelling at the cop.

The radiator fills half the space
in front of the 3 windows I
open the middle window a crack and cold, cold air
dumps into the room.
I want to hear the traffic. I want to hear the snow fall
and how it talks to the
soles of shoes when they step on it. It talks to me, too.
The radiator is hot on my legs. The air is cold on my legs.
Its 9 pm and Cincinnati
is not ready for snow tonight.
Cars slide down the hill.
Parked cars parked on fresh snow slide down the hill.
I love this hill. No mercy hill.
the cop parks, gets out, slips on his backside.
His car slides toward him.
he gets up wiping snow off his clothes.
It's blue tonight.
The market sign reflects off the flakes more blue.
Cars slide into parked cars.

Hearing the traffic, hearing the snowfall.
It talks to shoe soles; it talks to me.
Hot radiator on my legs, cold cold air on my legs.
9 pm Cincinnati tonight is not ready for snow.
Slide down the hill mr. car.

The Girl Who Would Be Queen

She lived inside a box-
her eye poking up against
the box hole.

box hole
inside the box hole she lived
her eyes poking up against the glass
smearing the glass with eye juice
eye mucous
her green eye grabbing for a glimpse
of life, life, life live, life

oh in a box hole, box hole, box hole,
oh in a box hole -

thump, thump, thump.