Working Life

My ongoing project about people at their job is going well. I have visited with architects, a dentist, graphic designers, administrative assistants, a baker, photographers (of course), a yoga teacher, a writer, clothing designer, sales-person, a painter......and yesterday a hair stylist. I really need to start getting more folks who work outside, like in construction, utilities, police, firemen, inspectors, delivery, movers, etc. Beyond that, if anyone reading this knows someone who wouldn't mind being photographed at their job, send them my way. It is very interesting to see what people do to make money in 2008, because so many of us make a living sitting in front of a computer, and many of these jobs did not even exist until 20 years ago.

email me at ellen@ewarfield.com

Lights out

Latourell Falls, Oregon

I just gotta say

I was on the subway on the way home tonight and was standing next to two women, who I realized were a couple as their fingers were interlaced as they held onto the subway pole together. It dawned on me that after a few years, when gay marriage has finally been recognized and accepted all across this tumultuous, anachronistic, and enchanting country, it will not be so much of a struggle for anyone to recognize what I have always thought, and what anyone with half a brain could easily see, that love is just that. Why bother trying to define it? My family - my heritage - has been American for over 300 years, and I always thought one of the main reasons they came here was so you could do as you please (besides the fact there wasn't too much food to go around in Ireland), so long as you don't hurt your fellow man. Isn't it time we started realizing that people aren't afraid any longer to say who they love, and far be it from any government to stand in their way. Halting this progress can only lead to the downfall of a progressive society.

It makes me shake my head that politicians see halting love as an issue to deal with rather than: unnecessary war, health care, high prison population, drug abuse, unemployment, etc.

Happy Father's Day! (2 days late)

Dad is in New Hampshire working on a production of Much Ado About Nothing; can't wait to see it! Here is me and my Dad, I would say... spring 1978 - check out his shirt. The collar is insane!

Tintypes

I am going upstate later this summer to a tintype workshop. Thought I would share the info if anyone else out there is interested in this sort of thing. The man who runs it is John Coffer. There is lots of talk about "camping" on his website, which, as many of you would guess, I will not be doing. I have a hankering for a cheap motel anyway, and upstate New York seems to be chock-full of those.

Horse on Bedford Ave!

Horse on Bedford Ave!, originally uploaded by dirtystan.

yes, that's a horse at N 7th st and Bedford today. No word on the Lone Ranger.

and Summer begins...

wiffle ball in backyard. with porch, originally uploaded by dirtystan.

so hot. very thankful for my family and our CT escape hatch. it's much cooler lying in a hammock under a canopy of leaves