Signifying nothing

Ugolino & his sons Originally uploaded by Theorris Discuss... Grades for #1: Cordelia: A Kendra: B Everyone else: F

Stockton Originally uploaded by Theorris Well it is that time of year again: the start of basketball season. Utah played Denver and waxed the floor with them--108 to 87 last night. Preseason, of course means nothing, but it is good to see the Jazz off to this kind of start. It is going to take a great deal of work, of course, for the Jazz to get back to the height of the Stockton/Malone era. Perhaps the statues out front of the Meltdown Center will finally work some magic after years of some pretty mundane play. With Collins gone, I'm not sure I'm going to have an Ostertag to bitch about this year, other than aiming that at the poor besotted Boozer. In a weird, pre-season bit of coincidence, former Running Ute Pace Manion, who is currently a rather stiff Utah Jazz commentator along with the non-stiff Thurl Bailey, was in the Apple Genius Bar line in front of me yesterday. I was just working out that it was him when the Genius approached and said "Pace? What's your p...

I just learned that sculptor George Segal died, 8 freaking years ago. I need to pay better attention: Standing Woman Looking Into Mirror 1996 . Ok, I kind of have an excuse, I guess. My mother died that year too. The world lost a lot that year.

Nearly there Originally uploaded by Theorris I spent a large portion of the long weekend learning what I should have known about PhotoShop a long time ago. When I took these pictures of the Spiral Jetty back in 2002, I was sorely disappointed in how they turned out. My camera color-corrected the hell out of them and the sky lost all of its saturation. Needless to say, I was quite disappointed that I wasn't able to catch the intensity of the sunset. It was certainly one of the most surreal, ethereal moments I've spent on the planet to date. I was quite pleased, however, to learn that PhotoShop could come to the rescue on badly exposed image. This rendering of the scene is as close an approximation of what this really looked like at the time. The sky, however, needs to be more raspberry, but this is as close as I can get now. Expect to see more of this image and its Spiral Jetty companions over at flickr as I refine my color processing technique. This really is what it lo...

A few years back the Spiral Jetty reemerged from the Great Salt Lake that had inundated nearly since it was completed in the early 1970's. In fall of 2002 , a couple of friends and I went out to Rozel Point and I took many pictures. I also made a video of the experience (which is not shared anywhere on the Internet, simply because it is long and probably not all that interesting to anyone but me.) If you go to my Spiral Jetty flickr set and look at my pictures, you can see my friends and I had quite the time out there, and I was able to take some of my best pictures ever, despite my shoddy digital equipment, and a propensity to be a poor self-editor and post everything I took to flickr. While we were there for most of the afternoon, we actually started on to the Jetty itself just as the sun was setting. I have never witnessed in my entire life such a sunset with vibrant color. The sky flared up in a raspberry/orange firestorm. I had no idea how to capture such color on...