black is the new black.

Well I'd say it's about time for my photo website's hiatus to come to an end. In a recent burst of ambition and lack of anything else to do, I've been working on revamping the old website that's been sitting around, un-updated for the past 9 months or so. Here are some screenshots of the new site, which should be up and running in the next couple weeks (hopefully):












Kinda hard to see, but it's pretty minimal, with a simple menu up top and a rotating gallery teaser slideshow on the home page. Also decided to make the full spectrum shift from the stark white of the old site to a black and gray scheme.












Here's a sample of one of the gallery pages, with expandable thumbnails.












And here's the ever-awkward-and-narcissistic "About" page. I'm gonna break down and upgrade to a yearly package, which will give me my own domain name (www.danielaisenbrey.com), and remove all the Wix.com branding from the site. I really like Wix for the creative control you have over everything. If you want an easy-to-design flash website for anything you should check them out. Keep your eyes peeled for the launch of the new site!

keep dreaming

Do you ever get a spark of an idea for a creative expression (song, painting, story, etc) but then realize that you have no idea how to implement or realize it?

Sucks, doesn't it?

I just thought of a loose plot for a story about dreaming, based on a dream that I just had. Now I just have to figure out how to write.

Can't be that hard...

Here's a picture of a cat (Preston) sitting in a Star Trek board game box on a Green Lantern flag. What a nerd.

In Soviet Russia, picture takes you.

Guess what came in the mail yesterday?

summa this:











to go in this:












out of which will come things like this (hopefully):
































All these photos came from an awesome Lubitel Universal 166 site you should check out if you're into vintage or medium format cameras. They've built a new model of the classic Soviet medium format "Lubitel" camera, and have a bunch of great medium format galleries.

So, budget willing, I'll have some new stuff to show you soon. I think I'm gonna try to document next month's roadtrip with it, but I need to get in a little practice first.

All I need is a class-C driver's lisence and lots of money...

So I just stumbled across this Kickstarter campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2140943094/compass-green-a-mobile-greenhouse-project


Why haven't I heard about any other "rolling greenhouses"? Seems like a pretty intuitive idea to convert an old box truck or school bus into a self-contained, mobile garden. You could take it to schools to educate kids, drive it up to a farmer's market for fresh-as-can-be produce, or just use it as a garden if you don't have land. This might have just made it into my "potential future venture incubation area".

I have no idea how you'd make it cost-effective, though. A functioning bus/truck would probably cost you about $1,000-3,000 on craigslist. Doing the conversions (skylights, sidewalls, garden beds, etc) would probably be at least double that unless you can use repurposed materials & do the labor yourself. Then tack on a biodiesel conversion and solar panels if you really want it eco-pimped out, and your return on investment is probably upwards of 150 years.

Oh well, it'd still be pretty awesome. Maybe I can find a grant...

Hey look, the first post!

Well, I suppose this is the requisite 'first blog post' where I talk about how I've never blogged before and I hope I can update it frequently and so on. Maybe I'll add a picture. Pictures are nice.

It's a preview of a set I'm about
to upload in 15 minutes...