Take 4 & More
Wed: June 4th + Thursday & Friday = Mali CD project with Don E. Hurlbert Wednesday we had minor [ rather a difficult time] with Mr. Epson R260; first the inks kept running out and then the contacts of the cartridges were defective
Thursday and Friday: I continued to finish the 98 items [including CDs & contact sheets] for Don; this project mind you is already a year-old...oh and yeah it took 3 days to finish!
Saturday: June 7th = JJ learns how to use the metro and goes to Dupont Circle. I walked all the way to GW and then back to Dupont for some yummy lunch at Teaism. Teaism has bubble tea and yummy eggs with cilantro & green peppers. Then I went back to Union Station towards home. All the while taking pictures! The head of security in the metro accused me of being a terrorist because I was taking pictures of the inside interior of the Metro! Puh-lease!! If you have Facebook--look forward to those pictures being put up soon-ish. I rested until Ladies night @ Hawk and Dove, a local bar located approx. 5 blocks from our townhouse. Not my type of place, but interesting none the less.
Sunday: June 8th = Trip to Eastern Market located at 7th Street and North Carolina to buy affordable/fresh produce. It's basically similar to the Winter Park and Rochester farmer's markets, but also includes crafts, antiques, and junk. I bought the ingredients to make Mom's grape salsa for Family Dinner/Potluck, which is a tradition we have started in our house. No matter what's going on we all try to eat dinner together on Sunday nights before the work week starts to catch-up and kyvetch. Everyone makes a dish and then switches the next week--it went amazing! We had shrimp 'n pasta, a salad, grape salsa, bread, and strawberry shortcake for dessert. :OD [talk about glamorous]
Monday: June 9th = I finished the remaining CDs for Don and talked pshop with Jim and Joe while they finished shooting 165 mya snail fossils
Tuesday: June 10th = ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES EVER!!!!!!! I got to participate in an archaeological dig. Scientists, visitors, soldiers, & photographers were present in Congressional Cemetery to witness the excavation of the top commanding US general of the War of 1812. The tomb was located 8-12 feet under ground. He was buried in a zinc coffin with his first wife and possibly his father as well. By the end of the dig, a total of 2 bodies were accounted for--the father still aloof. It was 100 degrees out and we were all sweating bullets. I found a tooth, phalanges, metatarsals, and other bone fragments while sifting and screening buckets of dirt from the dig site. It was an awesome experience and I really got to enjoy Archaeology, which I have decided to pursue as my minor during my last year at RIT. It stormed really bad, luckily Mr. Chip Clark, the photographer I was working with throughout the day generously offered to take me home :0).
Yesterday, I went to the Museum Support Center with Don for a tour of the facility and storage "pods". I finished a project involving retrieving negative numbers for artifact retrieval via database; process similar to stock photography. I also met Walter, another researcher/photographer.
Today: June 12th I was at Natural History retrieving images for 170 negative numbers that I had processed on Wednesday. I went through hundreds of CDs looking for images to place in a folder for Don. [All artifacts pertained to Anchorage Loan--Arctic Artifacts] This morning I also helped Jim, Joe, and John photograph the Korean exhibit on the 2nd floor of the museum before 10 am when the throngs of people start arriving. Roomies and I went to the Pour House, a bar located on Pennsylvania Avenue to visit Valerie, my cuz and hangout! That's it for now stay tuned...tomorrow's broadcast = JJ gets to shoot the skulls of a new species of Monk Seal!! Fun in the studio with Don!
