July 23rd, 2010
Hey, I'm working on a new theme for the clock site, except rather than you sending me photos with the time in them...you mail me the actual time! Details here about the mail clock.
July 5th, 2010
Greetings from New York City, NY. Went two a couple John Lennon related spots today and took clock photos of a few people.
These two were on their way back to England after six months in the states:
June 20th, 2010
Went to see BSNYC read at Powell's bookstore tonight and got a couple clock photos of him (aka Eben Weiss). If you haven't read his blog and have even a remote interest in bikes it is well worth your time to check out. I think he won me over when he correctly pointed out that the musical group The Escape Club was created as a drop in replacement in the event that INXS' tour bus should ever crash.
Unfortunately on the photo I took of Eben where he had a nice smile, my camera was more interested in a Nov. 1979 letter to Andy Kauffman, written by one Jayme McDonald from Renton, Washington, and focused on that instead: (click for larger)
The letters in the photos are letters written to the late comedian Andy Kauffman and collected in this book:
Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!
June 16th, 2010
I'm really sad to say that my friend Tim Wallace unexpectedly passed away on Saturday, June 12th. He was "Mr. 2009" on the humancalendar.com website.
I remember when I took his calendar photos the process was a minor nightmare due to lighting and computer problems. Tim just sat there in the booth and we told stories as I cursed the remote capture software on my computer. The whole process took about 50 minutes instead of the usual 20. This turned out to be a bit of a blessing because I had a video camera running the whole time, and it captured a regular conversation between us without any degree of formality. I will post a little bit of the video at some point.
He was a great friend and I'll miss him a lot.
June 7th, 2010
I finally have the list of songs that mention a time all up to date, 953 songs as of this writing! Updating the list was a bit of a pain due to the huge amount of spam I had to clean out. I've made a few changes so it will be easier for me to administer the list going forward.
April 24th, 2010
The Bridgetown Comedy Festival is in town, and near my house! The last time something this exciting happenned so close to home was when the Flaming Lips did that naked video shoot up at Mt. Tabor. I've been seeing some great acts and last night I got a clock photo of Scott Adsit who plays Pete on 30 Rock.
April 7th , 2010
Greetings from Cora's hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. A few cool things going on lately....
A) Went and saw Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs tonight. It was a great show and I took a clock photo of them afterwards. Go see them when they come to your town! Also below that is a video I took of the song "My 45" from the show tonight:
B) In other news...ye ole Internet now has evidence of my first and only modeling gig. I am showing off my posh suit ("The Ace") I got from Duchess,Clothier at home in Portland. If I remember right I had them take a clock photo of me during this photo shoot but I don't think I've uploaded it yet. The suit is awesome, or as Sweet Jimmy T (in the Ted Leo photo below) says:
"I still have to say that that is one of the best suits I have ever seen. It's simple and classy, and the cut is pretty timeless. It looks new and old all at the same time"
C) Lastly, the humancalendar.com site is on the "Wacky Websites" Page-a-Day tear-off desktop calendars as January 2nd. I just heard about this the other day which is a good thing because I was able to pick up two of them (one for me, one for me mum) for $1.99 off of Ebay since it is four months into the new year.
March 21st, 2010
Got a clock photo of Ted Leo, pharmacist Chris Wilson, and customer Sweet Jimmy T last night. It was a great show!
March 9th, 2010
Work on the new clock site is progressing good, although I feel I'll be done sometime around 2024. And yes, you will be able to put the clock on your blog!
Anyway, if you are in the Portland, OR area this weekend you should really go see Star Anna. They are playing at the White Eagle here in Portland on Saturday, March 13th.
Famous Rock Stars and NPR have now found them so they won't be playing smaller venues too much longer.
A cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" with Duff McKagan at the recent benefit for Haiti in Seattle:
Here is one of their songs (of many) that I like:
Plus sometimes they do a nice cover of Otis Redding's "That's How Strong My Love Is":
February 15th, 2010
Humanclock.com/Humancalendar.com (websites) would like to say Happy President's Day (USA Holiday), from the Presidents of the United States of America (band) via Joanne Hendriks (nice person), who took these photos while they were on tour in Krenfeld, Germany (Country).
I think the first time I saw them was in 1994 in Bellingham, WA at the Royal Room. I didn't know too much about them at the time, but during their song "Naked and Famous", a girl who I had a crush on started taking off her clothes. I thought to myself: "This band is quite alright."
December 17th, 2009
I need a humancalendar.com model for "2010". You'd need to sign a release and be able to come to my freezing garage in the Portland, OR, USA area. Prefer someone that is out of the age 25-35 and/or caucasian demographic, but anyone is welcome.
You can contact me via the contact page if interested.
November 30th, 2009
One of the more unique submissions in awhile:
September 23rd, 2009
The Flaming Lips were shooting a video near my house today up at Mt. Tabor. I went over there and participated in the video. It involved a lot of bicycles and people being naked...it was quite an experience! I shot a lot of "making of" photos and video...but will leave them offline until the official video comes out.
Parks containing an extinct volcano with basketball courts in their crater surely must inspire great videos like this one today, since it definitely worked on my current favorite video of all time, which was shot on the south side of the park.
Anyway, during a break I showed Wayne Coyne my tattered photobook and he posed for a clock photo. Later on I got a clock photo of his wife Michelle, holding a clock photo I took back in 2002 when I was biking around Australia. Nice group of folks that whole bunch was.
Check out the news archive for witty little things concerning Madonna, Drugstore Cowboy, Richard Buckner, and the Sydney Opera House.
You could have cooked about 1 batches of minute rice by now!
