Category Archives: Photography

The Slums of Beijing

I’ve found myself talking about China and Beijing a lot lately with the Olympics going on over there, and it seemed like an appropriate time to post this photo. Beijing The Photo was taken out of my hotel room window in central Beijing, 8 floors up or so.  I think it’s of interest because it …

August 26, 2008 – 9:10 pm | By Paul | Posted in Photography | Comments (10)

The Lonely Streets of Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale California certainly has its share of lonely streets.  In the 20 minute walk to the grocery store I rarely see another soul on foot.  When I do, they usually look sad.  The landscape is similar to mall-dra, but subtly different: rather than big-box-marts, I am surrounded by empty corporate campuses.  A corporate desert if …

June 28, 2008 – 4:23 pm | By Paul | Posted in Photography | Comments (0)

Hoo-Ahhhhh

As the three of you who actually read my blog regularly may have noticed, I haven’t been updating things in a while.  Why?  Because I am so ridiculously busy I can barely find time to go grocery shopping.  Currently, my projects include: Semester long team project to design a contextually aware mobile device that focuses …

March 31, 2008 – 10:13 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Photography | Comments (0)

The Bully Peregrine

So, a Peregrine Falcon has apparently taken to hunting in my backyard and the yards of my immediate neighbors. I first saw this ridiculously large bird in my backyard on day last month. I stepped out back, not noticing her and making lots of noise, before looking up to find myself with a very large …

January 22, 2008 – 5:16 pm | By Paul | Posted in Humor, Photography, Pittsburgh | Comments (1)

The End is Near…

Semester one is almost over.  We had our last class yesterday, and now it’s all about finishing up projects.  I’m currently in three groups working on three separate projects, and it’s nonstop work for the next week to see them all through to fruition, but I feel good about it.  After that I’ll be able …

December 7, 2007 – 9:03 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Music, Photography | Comments (2)

Random Photo

I was digging through files from the summer and came across this photo I took while hiking with my friend Matt. I personally think this is the most beautiful and stimulating piece of wood I’ve ever seen.

November 12, 2007 – 1:11 am | By Paul | Posted in Photography | Comments (1)

Lonely Streets

Got some neat shots of Pittsburgh’s Lonely Streets last night on the way home, and thought I’d share:

October 2, 2007 – 9:07 am | By Paul | Posted in Photography, Pittsburgh | Comments (0)

Yard Sculpture

Can you tell it’s my day off from the number of posts I’m putting up? Gotta play catch-up sometime. Anyway the photo below is over one of my neighbors’ front yard. I really like these (this?) sculpture, and think that there is something about this aesthetic that will be coming into vogue in the future …

September 28, 2007 – 9:49 am | By Paul | Posted in CoolHunting, Design Thinking, Photography | Comments (0)

Slugs!

So, two mornings ago I woke up earlier than usual. I went outside for my morning smoke and was surprised (and a little disgusted), to find a whole family of giant slugs crawling around my backyard! My memory of slugs when I was a child is that they were small fleshy colored things no longer …

September 28, 2007 – 9:00 am | By Paul | Posted in Humor, Photography | Comments (1)

A Weekend Off

After having projects due in every class (except seminar, for which we had the normal difficult readings), we got the weekend off (hooray!). So, I promptly headed for DC to visit my good friend and occasional musical collaborator Matt Treskon. I snapped some photos in DC – I’ve decided I want to become a coolhunter …

September 24, 2007 – 8:37 am | By Paul | Posted in CoolHunting, Photography | Comments (0)