Photos I took during a walk at Clinton Lake in February:
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Lawrence, KS Photobook: Harbour Lights
A few photos I’ve taken recently at Harbour Lights:
Photos of Lawrence, KS during the snowstorm (2.4.2014)
Lawrence, KS doesn’t generally get a foot of snow. Not all at once, anyway. So, when a heavy snowstorm hit on 2.4.2014, I couldn’t help trekking out in it and taking photos. Here are a few of my favorites from my walk down 9th St. to Mass. and back:
Lawrence, KS Photobook: Mass. St.
Some photos I’ve taken over the last several weeks of the nexus of the universe in Lawrence, KS, Mass. St. :
Photos of Lawrence, KS in the Snow
Some photos I’ve taken of Lawrence, KS, in the snow over the last few weeks:
Outside my apartment:
On a walk, near KU’s Memorial Stadium:
On campus at KU:
From the bridge over the Kansas River:
On the patio at Harbour Lights:
Mass. St. on two different nights:
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: 
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:
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.
This is from La Prima Tazza several months ago. One of my favorite coffee shops in Lawrence, KS.
This summer I enjoyed this cup of coffee from The Merc at Centennial Park just off 9th and Iowa.
A cup of coffee after breakfast at Milton’s is the perfect start to your day.
Coffee at The Bourgeois Pig. Watching the world go by.
Reading over a cup of coffee at Aimee’s.
Late-night coffee at my apartment after drinking too much at The Replay.
A coffee from Starbucks at Target I drank myself but which was a virtual Instagram coffee I bought for my friend Miljana.
Coffee from Parisi at Union Station in Kansas City.
Just wanted to show off my cool Wonder Woman mug.
The Bourgeois Pig again. This time with a real mug rather than a to go cup.
There’s nothing like a hot cup of coffee on a cold November day. At La Prima Tazza.
Kansas Photobook: Trees in Autumn
I love going for walks on the weekends, when I don’t have to be cooped up behind a desk all day. And, although this weekend was too cold to spend much time outside, I did have the opportunity to look over a number of photos I’ve taken over the last couple of months. I found myself particularly drawn to several shots of trees, which tell the story of the changing seasons. Here are some of my favorites.
From the Wetlands south of Lawrence, KS, October 25, 2013:
From Clinton Lake, November 1, 2013:
Just off of 9th St., Lawrence, KS, November 1, 2013:
In the country, south of Lawrence, KS, November 9, 2013:
Near Watkins Museum, 11th and Mass., Lawrence, KS, November 15, 2013:
In front of the Carnegie Building, 9th and Vermont, Lawrence, KS, November 15th, 2013:
Just outside my apartment, Lawrence, KS, November 22, 2013:
Images from The Graffiti Room at The Java Break
If you’re at a loss for things to do in Lawrence, KS, the default options are to either go to a bar or to a coffee shop. For the indecisive, there are a couple of combination bar/coffee shops, like Henry’s and The Bourgeios Pig. However, for those who like to do one thing at a time, keeping your bar life and coffee shop life separate, there’s The Java Break, the only coffee shop in town open 24 hours a day. The 24/7 business model allows people to either spend endless hours at a coffee shop instead of a bar; or to get a cup of coffee and then go to a bar; or to go to a bar and then get a cup of coffee after the bars close at 2 a.m.; or to get a cup of coffee, go to a bar, then get a cup of coffee after leaving the bar. It’s a system that works.
Writers face similar challenges. Write at a bar? Write at a coffee shop? Which to choose? While some people write in notebooks or on laptop computers, other people take to writing on walls and tables with felt-tipped pens and permanent markers. Perhaps this is a way of getting exposure for their work, similar to keeping a blog; I don’t know. But there is a room at The Java Break dedicated to those people who can’t stand being confined to the traditional page and who just have to get their work out there somehow.
If ever you happen to go to The Java Break, be sure to go into the Graffiti Room and read the walls, because, as one graffiti-ist put it, “Earth without art is just ‘eh.’”
Here are some other memorable works:
A glimpse into the haunted history of Lawrence, KS: The Lawrence Ghost Tour
8:00 pm. After dark. October 26th, 2013. The Saturday before Halloween. Ghosts are diligent, haunting places year-round. But people seem to think it only happens in October. This is the most popular time for the Lawrence Ghost Tour, as well.
There were some vivid historic accounts of the Quantrill Raid, and some tidbits on a couple of haunted houses that used to be brothels. Apparently a buxom redheaded apparition appeared at the foot of a husband and wife’s bed undulating scintillatingly. The wife attempted to wake her husband, but he was in some type of sleep paralysis and missed the whole thing. One of the neighbors called the police because she thought an intruder was in the house. This was the first stop after leaving the Eldridge, the point of departure.
The Eldridge has many ghost stories, especially involving the fifth floor, room 506 in particular. We were shown a photo of the lobby, where a ghost can be seen standing in the elevator.
Sigma Nu Fraternity House. Kansas Governor Roscoe Stubbs lived there in the early 1900’s. He returned from a trip one day to find his wife sitting in a rocking chair and his young lover hung in an upstairs room. Legend has it, Virginia, the young woman who hung herself still haunts the building.
Pioneer Cemetery. Some people on the tour claimed their cell phones and photographic equipment would not work inside the cemetery.
The last stop was the Children’s Cemetery at Haskell.
An all-around informative tour without any over-dramatics, just a lot of great history and ghost stories. I went with a couple of skeptics. However, there were several people who bought ghost-hunting apps on their phones part-way through the tour and seemed to be having a good time with them.
For more information about this and other Kansas Ghost Tours: http://www.ghosttoursofkansas.com