Hojography

Marley on The Struggle:

2011-07-08T13:10:00.005-05:00

It all seems so complicated in action, but the motivator is simple and has always been the same. The guilty should always be called out, preferably to rhythm.

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Guiltiness
Pressed on their conscience
And they live their lives
On false pretense everyday

each and everyday.

These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish

Say:

Woe to the downpressors
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!

You're losing your Vitamin C!

2011-03-24T22:16:00.000-06:00

2011-03-11T18:31:00.002-06:00

Read THIS!

Do It.

2011-02-25T12:41:00.002-06:00

alpine lakes wilderness

2011-02-21T21:09:00.002-06:00

2011-02-21T20:40:00.001-06:00

ye olde fishin' hole

2010-09-17T13:22:00.000-05:00

2010-09-16T19:57:00.002-05:00

2010-09-12T12:12:00.001-05:00

2010-09-12T11:45:00.002-05:00

I think the original source for this data is from Larry Bartels' 2008 book 'Unequal Democracy'.

Simple

2010-08-15T11:09:00.001-05:00

Vancouver, WA

2010-07-11T00:29:00.004-05:00

I bought a ticket for a me and a bike down to Vancouver, WA to do an audit. Fancy! Vancouver's train station is right next to a metal salvaging plant so you can watch the big claw things on caterpillar treads while you're waiting for the train. Its nice if you take the one going up or down the coast at around sunset and remember to sit on the correct side of the train.

2010-06-25T10:39:00.001-05:00

"You're going where on a 400?"

2010-06-11T14:33:00.012-05:00

Harper's brother decided you can't get to Alaska without a real-deal-motorcycle-gang, and with the printing of some wicked-cool vinyl flags the Scumbuckets were born. For us, scumbucket-ry seemed to mean rolling out of our campsite at around noon and hanging out in town to find replacement sprockets while eying the tires that were turning square and starter motors that didn't quite sound right. Got to get some coffee, too. In short, a fantastic trip complete with everything I would expect! Luke, Harper and Mike have continued north and I'm back to Seattle. From the looks of the GPS, they're making good speed to Anchorage now.

Luke, Mike and I rode Hwy 20 East though Washington, then 2 though Idaho and Montana to get to East Glacier. The riding on 20 was fantastic. Cold and rainy at times, but probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. The first night we camped at a free campground just east of Colville, WA. There was no one else there and plenty of stacked, pre-split firewood. This never happens.

The second day was equally incredible, and after getting though Glacier National Park we took a beautifully curvy rode though the foothills as the sun was setting. "Wow, Sunset! Shit, gravel!, Clouds! Curves! Deer! Mountains!". Five additional miles of dirt road and cattle herding got us to the campsite where Harper was waiting for us, fresh off the road from Minneapolis. I've got to be honest, I wasn't sure the meet-up-at-a-remote-campground thing was going to work, but it did.

After getting out of Glacier we headed into Canada, where a day of (windy) riding got us to a campground a ways south of Radium Hot Springs. The next morning we picked up a new rear sprocket for Mike and made plans to stop just short the Canadian Glacier National park, but ended up riding though it, syphoning fuel from one bike to another and laughing about how those solid green triangles on the map aren't actually campgrounds. Some old-fashioned campground bike work ensued. Note the super-fancy bike stand.

At this point I split off and headed back south, taking the ferry across a glacial lake and rode through Nakusp and Castlegar. Lots of nice riding and little valley towns in that area, though I was being chased by thunder and hail storms. I ended the day camping on the Columbia river in Washington.

2010-06-01T15:43:00.002-05:00

For those of you who know how much of a nerd I am, this is news:

2010-05-25T11:32:00.002-05:00

Instructive post on 'fucking oil booming'. Best read out loud with a beer or something stronger.

2010-05-20T13:32:00.000-05:00

2010-05-15T00:43:00.002-05:00

2010-04-16T17:07:00.001-05:00

Krugman's April 15th article is worth reading! Here.

2010-04-08T00:51:00.000-05:00

2010-04-05T21:44:00.000-05:00

2010-03-05T15:08:00.001-06:00

Luke, back from the olympics with good stories and wicked-cool hair from napping on the couch.

Olympic Peninsula

2010-02-19T12:42:00.000-06:00

Minneapolis Music

2010-02-09T14:44:00.001-06:00

I am always a sucker for people in bunny suits doing creepy things. They're just so cute.

Website

2010-01-29T15:08:00.003-06:00

I now have a mostly completed website. It is here, at www.mattwalshimage.com

2010-01-16T22:10:00.000-06:00

Moon Pictures

2010-01-14T14:38:00.004-06:00

Discovery Park

2010-01-12T17:34:00.004-06:00

Sitting on this point, with your back against a lighthouse and your feet almost in the water, you can watch wave swells from the north and south intersect.

iPhone Photos

2010-01-12T17:30:00.001-06:00

Bootstrap's Design

2010-01-08T15:32:00.002-06:00

A friend of mine is in a rowdy band that leaves a trail of empty whiskey bottles and full eardrums everywhere they go in MPLS. He wanted a design and lo and behold five years later here it is. Im kidding about the five years part, but just barely.

2009-12-29T18:23:00.001-06:00

Yes, I know its a cop out to turn boring things on their side to make them more interesting but I just can't help it!

2009-12-29T18:08:00.001-06:00

2009-12-27T18:18:00.001-06:00

2009-12-24T20:37:00.000-06:00

Pictures from the yard

2009-11-16T21:36:00.001-06:00

Observing

2009-10-11T20:49:00.003-05:00

Phil took us to school. He's got the key to a 110-year-old telescope that sits in its own tiny castle, adrift in all the modern development of the university, still smoothly tracking stars with careful counterbalancing and a wind-up gearing. Its a 6 inch refractor in a dome operated by pulleys and rope. I saw the bands of Jupiter and 4 of its satellites with me own eye-balls!

2009-09-30T01:06:00.002-05:00

For some images, no explanation is necessary. I think my message comes through loud and clear with this one.

m.k.

2009-09-21T00:01:00.001-05:00

A little emotional

2009-09-11T12:43:00.003-05:00

I think I let some of the excitement through my poker face.

With the ringing clattering dry clutch and the racing exhaust it sounds like santa coming in an helicopter.

Not mine.

2009-09-06T20:21:00.001-05:00

2009-08-31T02:14:00.002-05:00

Early shift this week

2009-08-27T02:10:00.002-05:00

Downside: Early shift
Upside: The Cascades sit conveniently between the living room window and the eastern horizon.

2009-08-27T00:23:00.001-05:00

2009-07-25T22:43:00.000-05:00

2009-07-23T23:15:00.000-05:00

Janna in Idahoooo

2009-07-20T22:21:00.001-05:00

2009-06-22T15:25:00.002-05:00

The end is good

Bainbridge Breakfast

2009-06-22T12:37:00.002-05:00

Took the ferry to Bainbridge for breakfast at a place with a flowery tablecloth.

2009-06-15T11:36:00.000-05:00

2009-06-14T15:59:00.002-05:00

Annika demonstrates the proper guard position with her foil.

2009-06-14T15:58:00.000-05:00

Phil is in a band

2009-06-14T15:51:00.001-05:00

Fun, loose in the good way, honkytonky-klezmer-waits-trash-hoedown!

2009-06-08T13:05:00.001-05:00

2009-05-11T12:05:00.002-05:00

"sean hannity says he can take a waterboarding?! i can break sean hannity by getting him a middle seat in coach!"

People

2009-05-07T00:32:00.001-05:00

Chocolate Easter Jesus

2009-04-10T14:23:00.001-05:00

2009-03-25T23:43:00.000-06:00

2009-03-19T00:29:00.001-06:00

2009-03-14T22:54:00.001-06:00

Trevor's Birthday

2009-02-26T22:41:00.001-06:00

2009-02-25T22:27:00.000-06:00

Film is still pretty

2009-02-25T22:25:00.001-06:00

Max Roach

2009-01-26T14:42:00.002-06:00

I saw Max Roach perform once and my brain almost popped.

2008-12-22T15:39:00.000-06:00

2008-12-22T10:59:00.001-06:00

9-ish inches of snow?

2008-12-21T16:24:00.000-06:00

2008-12-21T16:13:00.001-06:00

Should have got that tarp.

Irene

2008-12-20T02:15:00.000-06:00

2008-12-20T02:14:00.000-06:00

pieBAMA!

2008-12-17T21:18:00.003-06:00

My neighbor has submitted a pie for the (second?) annual pie calendar. Being the only member of the pie calendar contributers living in the U.S., she was told to thematically tie her pie into our momentous election.

Luckily, President-Elect Obama and Molly knit together every friday, and she happened to have a picture laying around. I give you....January!

2008-12-07T17:17:00.001-06:00

Maybe its because I'm spending more time outside than usual, but I've been catching a lot of crazy sunrises/sunsets that span blue to red like its nothing. I swear I didn't even do anything much to the colors here, just adjusted the white point. Well... I punched up the blue juuust a liittle in the gaps in those clouds.

2008-11-22T23:58:00.001-06:00

This is what it looks like when I have free wood to get home from work. I'm going to build a table....

Safety first kids- note the flag.

2008-11-16T18:42:00.000-06:00

cell phones dont take the best pictures....

2008-11-16T18:22:00.001-06:00

but they're always on you when the light gets just right.

2008-11-14T10:33:00.001-06:00

All Hallows

2008-11-01T21:19:00.003-06:00

Batman, The Scarecrow, and The Boy Wonder. Pow! Thwack!
Best skeleton ever.

2 harpers

2008-11-01T21:16:00.002-06:00

2008-10-20T18:25:00.000-05:00

2008-10-15T22:34:00.000-05:00

2008-10-10T10:16:00.000-05:00

2008-10-04T21:28:00.000-05:00

2008-10-01T13:44:00.001-05:00

2008-10-01T13:14:00.002-05:00

In this picture: Luke, Wizard island, and Luke's invisible wizard hat.
I thought Oregon would be a let-down after northern California, but this area was full of valleys, weird mesas, farm fields, and this mountain that may or may not have been Mt. Hood. I just pretended we were very, very fast hobbits on our way to throw a ring in the volcano. Very fast hobbits.

2008-10-01T13:13:00.001-05:00

I probably should have turned around and taken a picture of the glorious crashing surf behind me, but this is alright too.

This one-lane bit of blacktop was fantastic. It took us off the highway, up along a ridgeline, and deposited us a mile up our original road after a 20 mile loop. Or at least that what the plan was before we got lost...

There were four of us on the trip. Harper, Luke, Myself, and John Jameson.

2008-09-30T00:12:00.001-05:00

You can still see the seams, but it gives you an idea...

2008-09-21T23:56:00.003-05:00

Soul music so good it makes you want to clean your apartment. Sounds like something from 1975 you found in a mildewy crate from the basement... only it's not old, and it was released earlier this month.

2008-09-14T20:19:00.001-05:00

2008-09-06T20:14:00.001-05:00

Andre, Andre, Evan and Link, and a smily kid on the ferry

Take one of these

2008-09-02T10:23:00.004-05:00

Sorry for that last one. It was a little too much. Listen to this, it will make everything a better-ish, promise.

The old version I had up here disappeared, so here is the live one. Is it wrong that I love bands like Debarge?

2008-09-01T21:55:00.002-05:00

2008-08-31T17:24:00.001-05:00

2008-08-29T00:29:00.000-05:00

2008-08-27T20:44:00.003-05:00

Just got this film back that went through my Kodak Medalist. Because I am too cheap to get scans made with the development, I hold the negatives up in front of a white wall, point my camera at them and take a picture, reversing the colors in Photoshop. This actually works surprisingly well, which isn't to say it makes very high quality images, but there are two schools of thought right? Some say "life is short- drink good beer", while others make the point that "bad beer is better than no beer". I drink PBR unless the High Life is on special.

RUCKUS!

2008-08-27T20:17:00.003-05:00

2008-07-31T13:26:00.000-05:00

2008-07-23T16:49:00.000-05:00

2008-07-19T20:43:00.001-05:00

The Art of Chessboxing

2008-07-13T13:16:00.002-05:00

This is real, and it sounds like a fantastic idea. To me, at least.

2008-07-12T22:49:00.002-05:00

I like taking pictures of people. Sometimes I forget how much, and then a shot like this comes along.

2008-07-06T19:23:00.000-05:00

Mt. Rainier on the left, The city of Seattle on the right