Travel Photobook: Princetown, England

Just after graduating from The University of Kansas in 2001, I took a poorly-planned trip to England for a month that left me flat broke.  Needless to say, every other trip I’ve taken has been well-budgeted.  Perhaps the greatest lessons in life are learned outside of the classroom.

After spending entirely too much money in London (some of which went to new clothes after the airport lost my luggage) and enjoying the lower cost of living in Exeter (where I found a couple of great pairs of pants), I spent a few days wandering about Princetown in Dartmoor, collecting my thoughts and bracing myself for the job search I’d inevitably have to engage in when I returned to Kansas.

Here are some of the photos I took while spending next to no money in Princetown:

The Plume of Feathers Inn.  The oldest building in Princetown.  I stayed in the bunkhouse for just a few pounds a night.Processed with VSCOcam with s4 preset

Dartmoor Prison.  Processed with VSCOcam with s4 preset

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Behind the Scenes of a Student Film

Recently, I was asked by my friend Erin Jackman to play the role of a defense attorney in a short she’s producing for one of her classes at KU called THE JUDGEMENT, a movie about a judge whose drug-dealing past comes back to haunt him in the middle of a trial.   The role has no speaking lines (aside from one that was a last-minute decision in the second scene I’m in), so three days was plenty of time to prepare for the performance.  As it is with any shoot, there’s a lot of sitting around waiting for camera, light, and sound set up, but this gave me the opportunity to take some photos of the production crew at work.

Overall, the movie was shot in several locations, but I only appear in two of them.

A courtroom in the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office just off 11th and Mass. where the trial happens.  Here the crew is setting up shots, first of the judge, then of the defendant’s reaction to the acquittal: Processed with VSCOcam with b2 preset Processed with VSCOcam with b2 preset Processed with VSCOcam with p2 preset

A hallway in Strong Hall on campus at KU, where the judge is presented incriminating evidence of his sordid past by his lovely secretary.  Here, the crew is discussing where to set up, prepping for a dolly shot, adjusting lighting, then recording the secretary walking in high heels for use in sound production:Processed with VSCOcam with b2 preset Processed with VSCOcam with b1 preset Processed with VSCOcam with b3 preset Processed with VSCOcam with s6 preset

THE JUDGEMENT:

The crew:
Director: Jordan Marable
DP (camera): Blaine Mulholland
First Asst. Camera/Sound: Alaine Caudle
Lighting/Sound: Grant Zizzo
Editor/Boom: Zach Clossin
Key Swing: Annie Drape

The cast:
The Judge/The Rider: Nick Lazer
Ranger: Evan Jackman
Defense: Joseph Griffin
The Convict: Phil Jones
Drug Dealer: Aaron Marable
Secretary: Katie Wade

Photos of Coffee

“They say in the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love.  Perhaps if he has enough time left over, his fancy can even make room for a cup of coffee.”  –Richard Brautigan, “Coffee”

People on Instagram take photos of a great many things.  Some people take selfies, some people love airplane wings and seem to book flights just to take photos of them, some people take photos of lovely sunsets or streams flowing through wooded areas you could look at forever, some people are fascinated by manicured elaborately painted fingernails or beauty products, some people endlessly take photos of food so they can relive every meal and savor the memory.  Looking through my Instagram account, I don’t take many photos of food, but I can’t help but notice several photos of coffee.  I decided to compile my favorites here.

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This is from La Prima Tazza several months ago.  One of my favorite coffee shops in Lawrence, KS.

 

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This summer I enjoyed this cup of coffee from The Merc at Centennial Park just off 9th and Iowa.

 

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A cup of coffee after breakfast at Milton’s is the perfect start to your day.

 

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Coffee at The Bourgeois Pig.  Watching the world go by.

 

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Reading over a cup of coffee at Aimee’s.

 

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Late-night coffee at my apartment after drinking too much at The Replay.

 

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A coffee from Starbucks at Target I drank myself but which was a virtual Instagram coffee I bought for my friend Miljana.

 

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Coffee from Parisi at Union Station in Kansas City.

 

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Just wanted to show off my cool Wonder Woman mug.

 

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The Bourgeois Pig again.  This time with a real mug rather than a to go cup.

 

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There’s nothing like a hot cup of coffee on a cold November day.  At La Prima Tazza.