Interlukin Zvei

A new hope. like george lucas. but no such luck. fist high hopes and a smile then nothing. nothing learned, nothing gained, 6000$ less.

deposition

today was a nice day, not too hot but still hot. i am learning how to use the M (for Middle) feature on my camera. its not going to well. i am not so good at doing stuff.

crusts

today, June 24, 2010, ebay sent me an email stating that an action i did expired on July 27, 2010.
that is clearly from the future. for a while, when i was trying to figure out whats what, i thought to my self that some Sci FI things has happened to me and tess. i started checking the computer clock, but them i thought that whoever did this time warp illusion to us would have naturally taken that in to consideration, and so my wrist watch and the computer clock, google time on my IP and the phones were are pre set to show the wrong date, and that we have been kidnapped or something like that and w3ere not returned to the right point in time or that we were supposed to believe for some reason that today was infact more then a month in past. this had no explanation online,  and the ebay customer support chat guy i spoke with seemed like he was hiding something that i was not suppose to know about the whole time thing. after all it is one of the most complicated things to get in to, that ebay support chat. and i thought that because i am a computer savvy person they had also thought about that and got me intouch with someone on the other side who was in the loop about our time displacement.
i was kinda getting worried and my heart beat was rising.
then i reached the ebay forums where it clearly and plainfully stated:
ebay is aware of the early notices, like the one i received.

later that night smigel was chasing some kind of Sci Fi monster through the hall way. tess let it out the window.

filling

cats. camouflage.

A ci Mon

Joe Deal

today i learned that Joe deal has died.

i had the honor of learning from one of the greatest analytical artists in the world. 

joe deal, who participated in the new topographics show. who created a whole new world of photography, a world i am happy to be in. a world in which i can never take enough photos, never see enough things never stop to be amazed at what is directly infront of me. 

Joe Deal 12-05-2010

two times

today i feel great in the morning, feel like shit in the after noon. i am terrible. i wish i know how to do things better so i dont have to feel this way.

generics

today we put in the new bed in the bedroom.
the end result presented us with two problems:
1: inches are not as accurate as the metric system, and thus the matress, that is "exactly" 60X80 inches, is infact much smaller, and the bed frame designed to be half an inch smaller the above mentioned dimensions is still bigger then the mattress by about a full inch on all sides.
2: we have no where to put the box spring the mattress came with initially.

on another note, the bed looks good, and even though it has many desgin, craftsmanship and material flaws, it works quite well, and i think suits are style and look, as maho was saying about their new living room console. this was the main reason for this bed, but after having to lift it from the kitchen to the bedroom, all of 5 meters distance, we decided it will never be moved again, and that of we move we will need to by that MALM bed from ikea. this house is generally well lit, but the light fixtures are not so well designed or placed and so the light we have is not always sufficiant. that will be the next thing.

then again, this house is getting to be more and more ours, and yesterdy after a random visit to a starnge store in harvard square in cambridge, tess found a really cool looking toothbrush holder, somthign we have been looking for since forever, and not only we found one, but a cool one too. so with every day that goes by and i guess for a few days already now, i feel like this is really our home, and its our own. this is an exciting feeling since this is the first time i have lived in all my own home, with no roomates no hadmedowns, and no other poeples stuff all around me. frames to hang, a few more plants to buy and we are all set. this will definitly be awesome.

more ideas

today i ran jobo for the first time. i took the camham out for the first time and shot one picture for control prossece, not that it made any diffarence, as i dont have a scanner to test the result on, and i was so excited it all worked i just ran ahead and mixed all the chemichals and developed more films... the first 4X5 plate came out looking ok if a bit over developed. but who cares.the lab is working and i cant wait to get work in to it.
there is one thing that is somwhat bothering me eversince yesterday. i might be working full time soon, and i had some ideas about what i want to photograph, for school stuff, but i am not so sure any more what i want to do. and also i am not sure when i will have time to do work. on the other hand i am happy that i might have a crazy schedule for this one year then finish school or each semester, and have huge long breaks of fun. maybe even a motorcycle. and take lots of pictures. i guess a tight schedule makes you photograph every daylight second that you have free. i will start this weekend. i will.

dispatch

thoughts tomorrow.

some thoughts

for some time now i wanted to make these comming few posts. i had stuff to say, stuff that i think almost every morning when i go to work, when i go out of my to get somthing, or just even when i am driving through the ghetto. i am happy to be in america. this is a great place. there are many great things about this place, especialy, it NOT being israel, but there are a few other things to. there is so much here, and even though it is all backwards old and under developed, the roads are lined with trees, the grass is trimmed, and there is a feeling of real oprotunity here, where poeple spend money not only toget what they need but even if they do it unkowingly they spend their money so that someone else can get a cut of their share. its not real socializm, just consumerism, a place where poeple buy. and there is lots of money to be spent and earned. all that ofcourse is less intresting and less important compared to the fact that there is this feeling that everything is ok. not that i am mellowing out, i just dont feel like im in a combat for my life, my peace of my mind and my goals. when i look out our windows there is an abudence of life and there is a jungle of wild animals living in our back yard.  i like this place.

tracing

lab day one

last coat

the things i want to know are not the same as the things i want to see

bunkers

those peppers are really hot.
a few days ago i lost a follower, but thats fine, i just learned my dad follows my blog.

lasting

arrange

i am not doing the blog daily as promised some days ago, but i am trying. the last few posts were written back, in post tense and i guess not only i forget stuff or write it not as it exactly happened, i also loose track real quick because so many things happen.
i guess i can update in general terms about how stuff is moving along. the house is taking shape, though it seems to me more and more that buying an ikea bed, would have been cheaper easier and faster as far as in setting up the house goes but on the other hand i am somewhat enjoying my self doing this. yesterday i made all the final cuts, sanded the last beams ( i forgot one and have one more before it can be painted). today i started painting it. paiting is not my thing. its taking a shit load of time and looks like it will take a few more days of painting, that are nice and sunny.
i stopped using the ac in the car over the padt few days as the weather was super nice, and all of a sudden the car runs real fast... i enjoy driving it a bit more this way.
work is getting harder and harder to cope with. on one hand i am enjoying my self alot, but the enviornment in wich i am is not the ideal place to say the least, and i am not sure that it will get any better. my hopes are high again about setting up my scanner jobo setup in the comming days. perhaps this weekend.
we bought a mirror to hang and it came with custom made wall hanging system wich failed after less then one hour. this sucks because i really liked it.
i started organizing my digital photos in a sensible way for the first time since i got a digital camera. this will enable me to make proper back ups of all the material. this stuff goes back to april of 2005. there gaps for each time i lost my camera, it was stolen or broken. i am also verry happy about that.
today we had to leave early and go to providence to get our marrige license, and do a few more errands, so we had to get up early on what was otherwise a free day.
painting is not really my thing. it takes so long and it looks like i am not the most talented painter on earth. i guess enough paint coats will make it all look reasonable.

in fact there are so many diffarent thing that happened just today that i cant even begint o remmeber all the stuff i wanted to write here about.

on the one hand i did realize today that i am trying to take more film photographs as since i have not been carrying my digital camera around it seems to me that i have much less photos to show for, and that this blog has turned in to somwhat of a how to do it your self kinda thing with a silly theme. so i will now concentrate on the reason for this blog, wich is photos. namely one a day. here are a few.

backloging

completion.

today i started building our bed.
we had to go and buy more things. at the begigning i felt like every time we go shopping we are getting only essential stuff that we would other wise normally have in a house and so there is no reason not to buy them. but this is never ending. it seems as though we are only buying a few more things here and there but it all ends up in big bucks. i felt a bit better that my 10 bucks an hour part time job is paying for some of that stuff but we also need to pay rent we need to pay a yet unknown amount for electric bill and other things too. i am not sure who this will turn out. on the other hand, building the bed is lots of fun. though i dont have the exactly right tools for each thing, and more then that i am not an expert on using what tools i do have i am having lots of fun.
today i started with cutting down the large beams to their final sizes and sanded them. i started with the two biggest beams that will be the front and rear of the bed. i worked only for an hour or two as earlier we met with tesss israeli friend nir, who moved to boston a few months before us with his wife for her job. he is also a photographer. we had a talk and that feeling of all the other poeple having it allgoing for them and i am beeing left behind but the strides of the times washed all over me again. he is nice and all but has a strage attitude about the world somethign that made me feel bad on my own. this is a lazy weekend for us as we have time to get the house going, both of us together.

yesterday as i was clearing up and unpacknig boxes i found my beloved desks custom made bolts. they were left in one of those polaces where you will not loose them, a logical place to look but also one that you will never think of when trying to remmeber where exactly they are. any hows, just now we finished putting the desk back together. i got a new red ceramic plant pot that tess cant use for all my pens and stuff on the desk. its does not really fit in but this desk does not really fit on with the rest of our scheme in the house anyway.

another day has passed.

more back logs

some back logs

long long long

now, i have to back track all of the missing five days. they have been full of excitement and adventure. lots of photos taken. lots of things to to day about things that happend and also lots of stuff forgotten.
 i will try to pick up the action from where i dropped off.
after that ride with joe i had another day of work before moving to boston. this was almost a breaking point when i was questioning what it is i am doing with my self and what i am doing working for less the minimum and less that what i need and should be making any way with or without my skills and knowledge, this especialy after the part time manager girl at the store asked me "so what would you rather be doing right now?" the truth is that i had a hard time thiking about what i would rather do other then work and sell cameras. i might would have wanted to work in a real camera store, but still i struggled, she told me all about who she is starting a bussiness and is going to make millions and on top of that she is sick of working there and that it sucks and that it could have been a much better store and all that and even then she wants out because she is so special. it made me upset that she is like me with a worthless MFA and trying to make a living but she owns a house, and is starting a bussines and she is not much older then i am and has all that experiance that i should have had by now. i was ready to quit and drove home in a bad mood. this was the last day of the week

after this we moved to boston.

this started with us getting a call from our landlady that the house is ready for us. actualy she dident call, i called her to ask if it was ok that i would be putting some stuff in the house and she just mentioned after the fact that we can move in. shit. we have been ready to move in for weeks and so was the fucking house. in the end it turned out ok as this was memorial weekend and a we had an extra day to get stuff done.we packed up our little honda with as much stuff as we could fit in it and drove up to the house. there was a plan to swich cars with my sister and take her van over night so we can move all the reamianing thigs in one load. luckely for us they had just gotten back from camping and had an extra container tied to the roof of the van. this would come in helpfull as the car was packed all the way up with no room to spare and still we had more stuff.

the honda van packed all the way up.

last time at jays house (almost) at East providence RI.

we only forgot a few small things and some trash at jays house and were all unpacked and ready to give back the car to my sister before noon. the house was now full of boxes and piles of carton boxes. this was really exciting for me, like tess said, i love opening new stuff like toys and shit, and now we had a new microwave vaccum dishes silverware and so many more things.... it was lots of fun setting it all up. the first thing we set up was the bed. this already made me feel more cumfortable in the house, this was the first time for both of with all new of our own stuff in our own place. sure we both had new beds before, be for me this felt a bit diffarent. it was so much fun, the first of so many things to follow in the new house that i enjoyed in much the same way. the sheets and bed spread came on it was really super cool. much better then i could have imagined it. we made some more house setting up and went for lunch. when we got back i started setting up tess's new ikea desk. this should have been a 2 second thing but it was not that easy as i thought it would be from the instructions they give. after that i moved immedietly to set up my beloved 80's heady desk. and then it hit me. we did not have the little screws that connect the diffarent plates of the table. we flipped over every bag we had, and looked in every fucking box we had packed, and it was no where to be found. this was devistating. this was custom made bits and the desk cannot be made with out them. after freaking out and banging on stuff and yelling, i set of with a sample of the bolt size to the home depot in west roxbury, wich is most liekly the home depot in the nicet place on earth, at the end of a park drive in the mist. oh, i forgot to mention that the whole day the entire west coast of the US including boston was covered in a misty smoke from some huge wild fires in canada. this gave the road an even better movie like look.

as i rushed in to the home depot and looked for the right screw i was optimistic as 1/4 inch screws come in all shapes and sizes. but then it downed on me that this was notgoing to be so easy. when i first bought the desk and wated to take it apart in order to move it none of the million allen hex keys would fit the bolts. this is because the fucking table is milimetric. it took 5 hours of driving finding a millimetric key set. then i figured, 1/4" is actualy the more acurate 5mm size. after some dismay i found that the home depot do have "some" milimetric screws. of course they did not have what i needed really. but none the less i took 11 screws, the longest they had were 50mm long. not nearly as long as needed, and also i bought a drill bit to try and drill of the 10mm head of the screw so it can replace my missing custom bolts. i had a file and a small saw (with no handle) at the house. with out a vice, and a real saw, drilling through the sync plated steel screw was usless. the saw dident do much good as i could not hold the screw down even with tesss help. i had to get up early for work the next day and so we turned in sad and frustrated. 

house at day one.

after work i decided to drive down to providence to try and find the bolts we were missing. the traffic was not that easy. i was all ready and happy that tess had left her swim gear behind and was kinda sure that it can only possibly be there, but it was even worse to go there and not find them in the swim gear bag. i drove by the local home depot on the way back and got 1 vise, one small hack saw and a few replacment blades. i forgot tesss swim gear in providence and felt even worse about going all the way there and not getting anyrting. the guy at the store said i should get those replacment blades because they break easily. the first thing i did was set up the vise on tess desk with a spare piece of wood we i had from the bed material, and the two grippers i have. i then started cutting the first screw, and it went quite smoothly. though not as fast as i thought it would be. after the forth or fifth screw i guessed the blade was finished and i swiched them out wiht one of the spare ones. this was crazy, the new blade cut through the screw in 2 seconds. fuck, couldent he tell me that the blade the comes with the saw is shit??? to make this long story short, we got the desk set up and there was much rejoicing. yeehhh.

my screw hacking setup.

day two.

i will go to sleep now and do some more work here tomorrow.

days

delays

today i have internet.
yesterday i also had internet but no time.
today i have internet and time, and not will. i had lots of will. back tracking of the past few days to follow shortly.

united