Playing With Fire, Oakland, California, August 2005
In West Oakland.
Simon Griffee
Department of graphic design, art direction, and photography.
December 2007
Taxi to The Dark Side Poster Censored by Motion Picture Association of America
“The viewing public is constantly rewarded for suspending disbelief and ethical revulsion about the conduct of violence; just play along and you get all the pleasures of the show. On the other hand, actual violence being perpetrated by the government is minimized, sanitized, or outright censored.”
A Conversation With Peter van Agtmael
A conversation with Peter van Agtmael.
“While there has been a lot of phenomenal and revealing coverage of the war, especially by The New York Times, my main experience with censorship has come from the media, not the military. I will cite a few examples.”
Winter Solstice 2007
Today is the day of the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. According to Wikipedia, the solstice will happen at precisely 06:08 Zulu Time. The last sentence was just an excuse to use the word ZU-LU.
Crosswalk in Via di Porta Angelica, Rome, Italy, December 2007
Taken just outside the Vatican City walls.
Smokestack From Caltrain, Near San Francisco, California, US, December 2005
Riding the Caltrain to Palo Alto to crash classes at Stanford and visit Frankie.
Horse Carriage, Rome, Italy, October 2007
My apologies for the lack of updates the past couple of weeks. I’ve been traveling and without my Leica which is in Solms, Germany, for a circuit board replacement. I will write more about the latter in the journal soon.