Zeitguy on it

I can do that

2011-05-26T22:46:00.001-10:00

I can do that, originally uploaded by zeitguy.

In the thrift store, time is not money.

2011-05-25T18:30:00.001-10:00

In the thrift store, time is not money., originally uploaded by zeitguy.

The sky sheds glory, casually

2011-05-25T15:11:00.000-10:00

Zombie Mall - Long Shot

2011-05-25T07:58:00.001-10:00

Zombie Mall - Long Shot, originally uploaded by zeitguy.This is the Hektor 135 mm f.4 lens. I liked the staggered reflection inside the arcade doubled by the water on the walkway. Arcades are a favorite theme of mine too. They originated with sacred architecture...they offered an ambulatory around the inner sanctum of the basilica. The deserted mall is like an abandoned scene of faith. It was a

Bridge to Shrine Island Color

2010-08-07T13:18:00.001-10:00

Bridge to Shrine Island Color, originally uploaded by zeitguy.This photo is in honor of my mother, Ruth Ann Beddow, on her birthday.

skyway glimpsed

2010-03-03T18:45:00.001-10:00

My current project is to capture the skyways in Minneapolis in some different forms. Here is a study of one skyway and a portrait of the artist as an old man.

Healing the Lemma of Viet Nam

2010-02-26T15:19:00.000-10:00

I am reading The Perfect War. On Amazon they hate it and love it. Vets seem to have dismissed it for credulous, shallow research. Academics were grateful that one of their own stuck his neck out (read "put his career and reputation, both of which were on the short side, up against the wall of silence that met the real history of our engagement with Viet Nam.) Intuitively I agreed with the

I think I am finally starting to get the 20th century...

2010-02-26T15:16:00.001-10:00

Give me a minute here. This might be good for you, too. Now, I know you have wondered what the @%#*&@^ happened in the 20th century. It was like, well, the end of civilization and the beginning of Wii-ocracy. Bridges and principles fall, while small gesture-based gizmos make billions for foreign corporations. And that is the part that is easy to report. On a larger scale, you had the death

"Faith Healer" at the Guthrie

2010-02-26T15:14:00.000-10:00

Brian Friel crafted several emotional arcs into "Faith Healer". I can't decide if there were too many for the close quarters of the play itself, but I think there were too many for the Guthrie cast that essayed the production at the Matinee yesterday. The oddest thing about the play for me, was the woodeness with which Joe gave us the supposedly charismatic central character. At least for the

Crown Jewels, the face of liberty, caged.

2010-02-26T15:11:00.001-10:00

My wire-wrapped coins. A Morgan silver dollar from1888 and a King George V penny from England....1918. The silver dollar is wrapped in gold filled wire, and the penny in sterling silver. It takes me about an hour of work to wrap one coin. Now I need to find out who would wear these things.

Lesson of the 20th century unlearned in the 21st

2010-01-20T07:27:00.002-10:00

The 20th century from our vantage point was all about technology. It "looked like" war, pestilence, revolution, famine, plagues and death darkening the global background; and microwave ovens, velcro, computer graphics and viagra seeming to enable the individual in the foreground. But the subtext was transportation technology enabling the spread of local diseases globally, communication

A real Alchemist's laboratory: Schwaller laboratoire 2.avi

2009-11-17T10:56:00.001-10:00

Video tour of a working alchemist's laboratory in France. There is a special quality to the space where stuff is made with the complete intensity of the intelligence, the heart, the soul, the spirit. There is no appreciation of "sterility" here, instead the opposite, it is as though the ceramics and glassware in their wooden shrines and dusty counters invite impurity to give meaning to purity in

Sixty Two

2009-11-09T18:12:00.002-10:00

My birthday this year came at the end of a year-long web redesign effort, so it got overshadowed by the drama at work. In fact, it fell on a Thursday before a Monday launch, so you know it was barely noticed. Nonetheless, I got a birthday song from the staff, a nice dinner with my kids and wife, and a furnace tune up to really top off the joy.So what do I know?I have looked back over the

Raimond Hoghe at the Walker Art Center, Sept. 19 2009

2009-09-22T04:30:00.005-10:00

Hoghe stands at the back of the theatre, just out of the reach of the lights, absorbed into the murk of the dark curtains. He is about to perform a very peculiar kind of 21st century magic in this space.He is transfixed in the shadows, a dim moon of a face. We take our seats in the small theater, and notice him noticing the audience. For minutes he stands motionless. There is no transition

Glagolitic script sample

2009-08-14T09:36:00.000-10:00

This image of The famous Baščanska ploča, oldest evidence of the glagolitic script, caught my attention while researching Croatia. It has a "Keith Haring" quality to it that looks curiously modern, systematic, and expressive.Now don't even ask me to pronounce Glagolitic.

The NINE

2009-08-14T06:21:00.001-10:00

Who is this guy?

Caption this photo

2009-07-10T10:08:00.000-10:00

I am a camera

2009-07-10T10:07:00.000-10:00

What follows is the wedding day, approximately backwards.

Light moment at the reception

2009-07-10T10:05:00.000-10:00

In the middle of women, a bride.

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Friends, goofing

2009-07-10T10:03:00.000-10:00

Dad, Groom, and Mom

2009-07-10T10:02:00.000-10:00

John Rock, Cheney Rock, Sara Beddow

Happy mom

2009-07-10T10:00:00.001-10:00

Proud mom

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Cheney and Sara

Proud mom.

2009-07-10T09:59:00.000-10:00

Sarah Jane, Cheney, Sara Jeanne...

Proud mom

2009-07-10T09:58:00.000-10:00

Sarah Jane, Cheney, Sara Jeanne.

Katy, Cheney, Sarah

2009-07-10T09:57:00.000-10:00

bff, groom, bride

Groom and Bride.

2009-07-10T09:55:00.000-10:00

I'll save a thousand words with this picture.

Wedding picture.

2009-07-10T09:53:00.000-10:00

All brides look like they know something. This one looks like she knows something good.

It is all about them.

2009-07-10T09:52:00.000-10:00

This is what our trip to San Francisco was all about. These two. The beginning of a new life.

Dad and daughters.

2009-07-10T09:49:00.000-10:00

Official Sister and Bride photo

2009-07-10T09:48:00.000-10:00

One down....

Official Mom and Bride photo

2009-07-10T09:47:00.000-10:00

Awww.

Official Dad and Bride portrait

2009-07-10T09:46:00.000-10:00

Notice: no phone.

They just stepped off the wedding cake...

2009-07-10T09:42:00.000-10:00

No words.

Wackiness, beauty, anticipation

2009-07-10T09:41:00.000-10:00

In city hall.

Cheney and his Dad, John

2009-07-10T09:40:00.000-10:00

In city hall. He is still single....the clock is ticking.

Sara and da Goils.

2009-07-10T09:39:00.000-10:00

City hall lighting. Underwater? In a refrigerator?

Sarah and Mike in CIty Hall

2009-07-10T09:38:00.000-10:00

T - minus 30 minutes. She is still single....

Mike, put down the phone

2009-07-10T09:37:00.000-10:00

Dad and bride in SF city hall.

Bay Bridge, Sara, Trolley

2009-07-10T09:35:00.000-10:00

This shot has it all going on.

Bay Brdige abstraction

2009-07-10T07:48:00.000-10:00

San Francisco, summer, 2009.

Bay Bridge study

2009-07-10T07:47:00.000-10:00

This is the build up of a couple generations of red paint on the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Land Ho!

2009-07-10T07:46:00.000-10:00

We walked across the bay bridge in San Francisco. When you walk across from the city side, this is the first land you see.

Guy study

2009-07-10T07:45:00.000-10:00

When guys go up on the bridge to work, they make sure you know they are guys.

No photo can

2009-07-10T07:43:00.000-10:00

Give you a sense of the scale of this engineering. The red shape in the upper right is the cable that holds the bridge up. It consists of 27 thousand pencil-thick strands all woven together, straining across the gulf, anchored in bedrock. It is an act of faith.

Our love is here to stay

2009-07-10T07:41:00.000-10:00

We are so sentimental.

a little sense of the scale

2009-07-10T07:40:00.000-10:00

You are almost 200' off the water, I think, and can look into the mists. It begs meditation, even if the foot and bicycle traffic seems to push you along.

self portrait on the Bay Bridge

2009-07-10T07:39:00.000-10:00

Whadda you lookin at?

Young tourist snaps the bridge from a secure place

2009-07-10T07:37:00.000-10:00

She wanted a picture of the bay bridge but didn't want to stand too close to the edge.

About to walk across the Bay Bridge

2009-07-10T07:35:00.000-10:00

Old guys start to automatically stand at attention when someone is taking their picture. It is a reflex that disguises their loss of self.

Lori's Diner

2009-07-10T07:33:00.000-10:00

I was starved before the reception. Hey. They have GREAT burgers.

We present Mr. and Mrs. Rock

2009-07-10T07:32:00.000-10:00

Groom and dad in City Hall

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Bride, Justice, Groom.

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A verite photo.

The bride's ladies

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Da Goils

2009-07-10T07:28:00.000-10:00

Katy, Kailen and Caryn.

Sarah and Mike

2009-07-10T07:27:00.000-10:00

Did I tell Mike to lose the phone? This is odd but a good sense of the dynamic lighting at City Hall.

Sarah and Mike

2009-07-10T07:25:00.000-10:00

He's sunburnt. It shows up nicely here.

The Bride in City Hall

2009-07-10T07:24:00.000-10:00

Sara took this shot of Sarah, and it is a keeper.

The bride

2009-07-10T07:23:00.000-10:00

Sarah has just shown up at City Hall. My forearm in the left frame is one of the few bits of evidence that I was really there.

Maritime museum abstraction

2009-07-10T07:18:00.000-10:00

From the Farallon Island lighthouse, a fresnel lens.

Sara in Union Square

2009-07-10T07:16:00.000-10:00

This is an experiment to see if Picassa 3 will upload the mpeg movie to my blog. I don't expect success.

Fisherman's wharf, San Francisco

2009-07-10T07:11:00.001-10:00

There was a great sense of elan in the boat colors. These people enjoyed their space and time.

A polished brass door at Fisherman's Wharf

2009-07-10T07:09:00.000-10:00

My idea of a tourist shot.

Union Square and the Spanish Fleet

2009-07-10T07:07:00.000-10:00

This towering column in Union Square commemorates the telegraph sent from the U.S. war office at the onset of the Spanish American War. The telegraph tersely instructs the American Admiral to steam into Manila harbor and begin the complete destruction of the Spanish Pacific fleet. Very macho, eh?

Powell Street abstraction

2009-07-10T07:03:00.000-10:00

Steep. Really steep.

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Sara and I walked up a few blocks from our hotel and looked back toward the bay. Our thighs memorized this view, with sullen concern should we ever see it again.

Day glo pants on the trolley

2009-07-10T06:59:00.000-10:00

A bright spot.

Fella alley, fellows, allies?

2009-07-10T06:56:00.001-10:00

If you click to enlarge this shot of San Francisco, you will see the alley has its own street sign, and the name is "Fella." The fellas next to the alley seem okay with the idea.

Sara and the flower bells

2009-07-10T06:54:00.001-10:00

Sara will kill me for posting this but hey, I love this picture. I love Sara, and it is fitting that her natural beauty is adorned with the flower field.

Life is only real when "I am"

2009-07-10T06:41:00.002-10:00

San Francisco is a city of acute contrasts. I borrowed the title of this post from Gurdjieff, as it seems to express the intensity of existence faced with such startling extremes. The car on the left looks like a million dollar car (although it's only a Pontiac), and the woman on the right was about to come up to me and say "Look at me." Then she rolled the waistband of her pants down a few

Social media and the "genius" syndrome

2009-06-09T23:20:00.009-10:00

Social media and the "genius" syndrome: why you are crazy and are signing up to go even crazier.The amount of man-made electrical fields on the planet has increased a million-fold since the late 19th century. We are living in a fantastic cacaphony of electrical signals and fields that has never existed on the planet before. And we don't have a clue about its impact on biology. On our bodies.

Pushing the boundaries of homebrew ELF monitoring at home

2009-05-11T18:19:00.002-10:00

(Nerd alert -- skip this if you don't make electronic stuff at home)I have been researching low frequency electromagnetic fields and their effect on human health for a few months now. What could be more fun than to do my own monitoring? I bought a TriField Meter to scan my own home. The readings from the first scan were intriguing but not easy to understand. I got high readings from the

Fun with ELF

2009-05-11T17:38:00.007-10:00

(Nerd alert - skip this if you don't crunch data or build electronics at home)It isn't that easy to acquire and monitor Extremely Low Frequency electromagnetic radiation below, say, 30 Hz. The main problem is that it requires large antennae to capture the long wave, low power frequencies. This can be approached several ways. Physically large armatures (9 - 20 feet or more) can be wound with <

Side roads on EMF research: Puharich and Bakken

2009-05-02T16:23:00.006-10:00

My explorations of biology and electricity have taken me down some interesting side roads.In Minneapolis, there is a museum of "Electricity in Life." It was started by Earl Bakken, a local resident who also started Medtronic , the pacemaker company, a few years earlier. Follow that last link for the 'official" company history. It presents Bakken as an energetic Electrical Engineering student

Has the U.N. done a volte-face on emf health?

2009-04-20T11:57:00.005-10:00

In the 90's there were several books published that tried to alert the public to the dangers of unresearched levels of exposure to electromagnetic radiation, especially to children and women.I have been researching this issue lately, and the majority of books available online have publication dates ranging between 1985 and 1995. After that, there are studies, but few popular and authoritative

Biology and electricity, basics

2009-04-20T07:13:00.007-10:00

Every cell in your body carries an internal electrical charge that is slightly different from the surrounding fluid. That difference of a few thousandth's of a volt between the inside and outside of a cell is the difference between life and death, sickness and health, memory and blankness, love and despair.Despite not knowing exactly how this vital, vulnerable balancing act works, we are

Sci Fi Author predicts Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1941

2009-04-18T02:29:00.006-10:00

My earliest exposure to the idea that electricity, and particularly radiated electricity, might be harmful came through a Robert Heinlein short novel I read in the sixties. Written in the 1940's and set in the 1980s, it was based on the idea of power being broadcast through the air to vehicles and appliances. This idea came from Nicholas Tesla, the Serbian genius who invented alternating current

Sunset on Lake Superior

2009-04-15T16:48:00.001-10:00

DSCN52992009-04-10-19-33-26, originally uploaded by zeitguy.Spent a few days last week on Lake Superior. This was the view out of our room at the Blue Fin resort. Sunset, looking southeast.

Electromagnetism and Health - EMF, Bioelectromagnetics

2009-04-12T15:45:00.003-10:00

This is a weird field. There is some serious research in very limited areas, and some seriously far-out stuff going on at the grass-roots level. One of the top references on Amazon, from 2005, is this construction industry guide which runs $200. If you search on electromagnetic field meters on Ebay, you wade through pages of new gadgets designed to let you copy the ghost hunters whose antics are

Is democracy really crowd-sourced governance?

2009-04-06T16:21:00.003-10:00

This is a good post on O'Reilly Radar.It succinctly gives the argument in favor of allowing meaningful government participation by citizens. It doesn't give enough of the picture to get you started changing things overnight. But it is going to make you look in the right direction, and maybe take some baby steps.Citizen energy and interest are far more important to governance than mere taxes.

They weren't our parents. They never will be.

2009-03-23T09:15:00.006-10:00

We have turned over the most precious things, and been betrayed. We have turned over our futures, our health, our trust.We have seen business journalism, Wall Street, the health system, banks, retirement plans, market regulation, and to a degree, representative democracy fail the interests of the common citizen of the US and impact the citizens of the globe. (nod to @evangineer on Twitter)All of

Rage is the lever, trust is the fulcrum.

2009-03-19T07:36:00.003-10:00

Archimedes said that if he had a lever long enough, a fulcrum and a place to stand, he could move the world.The rage that is sweeping the country because of the AIG scandals has made a single, very long lever out of the fragmented American will.Do you want to move the world? You start with a simple pledge. "I respect you as much as I respect myself, I am as good as my word and I want you to

What is action, and why is it taken for granted?

2009-03-18T10:43:00.004-10:00

A recent article on the success of the Obama campaign pinpointed its ability to translate internet info into direct on-the-ground action. It was based on two basic technologies, a massive interactive strategic database, similar to a Customer Relations Management system, and constant messaging to well-organized action groups. The action groups were recruited through self-selection on the web,

Laozi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

2009-03-18T10:43:00.001-10:00

Quoted from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laozi/: Laozi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Laozi First published Sat Dec 15, 2001; substantive revision Sat May 5, 2007 Confucianism, Daoism (Taoism), and Buddhism commonly name the three main pillars of traditional Chinese thought, although it should be obvious that like any “ism,” they are abstractions —

Via Tweetarosa

2009-03-16T05:05:00.003-10:00

Stations along the Via Twitterosa1. Look at all these people2. These people are listening to me!3. There aren't enough people listenting to me.4. Why are all those people following someone named Robert Scoble?5. I don't want to be followed by an account with no posts and no location.6. There are more people listening to me!7. I refuse to retweet myself, or follow Jimmie Fallon.5. How can you tell

The fantastic flatness of twitter

2009-02-13T18:19:00.002-10:00

There is a process in neurophysiology called refraction. It refers to a period immediately after a nerve has been stimulated before it can respond to another stimulus.There is a vast range of refraction times in neurology. Your retina can respond at the speed of light. Your sense of touch takes infinitely longer, relatively speaking.Conversely, the impression made by photons on one retina cell

The bluebird of happiness

2008-09-22T17:27:00.000-10:00

A still life is a study in what is known, what is seen, and what is necessary to see. I have done several versions of this, each progressively more "finished". In this case, that means smoothing the surfaces, filling in blanks between tones to establish continuity. I hesitate to overdo it, however, as the dappled sense of light and color is really the motivation for the work. To a certain

The meaning of life

2008-09-14T00:37:00.001-10:00

The digestive system has more neurons than the central nervous system, according to a recent article in the New York Times. The ancients believed the seat of thought was in the belly, not the head. I imagine that by painting vegetables I am getting closer to understanding the meaning of life. The irony, of course, is that neither vegetables nor my digestive system care about the meaning of life।

Lao Tzu gives advice on diet and exercise

2008-09-13T12:28:00.001-10:00

Know contentmentAnd you will suffer no disgrace.Know when to stopAnd you will meet with no danger.You can then endure.Book XLIVD.C. Lau translation

Lao Tzu on identity crisis

2008-09-13T12:01:00.001-10:00

Know the maleBut keep to the role of the femaleAnd be a ravine to the empireIf you are a ravine to the empireThen the constant virtue will not desert youAnd you will return to being a babe.Know the whiteBut keep to the role of the black,and be a model in the empire.Then the constant virtue will not be wantingAnd you will return to the infinite.Book XXXVIIID.C. Lau, translation

Lao Tzu on interior design

2008-09-13T11:49:00.001-10:00

Cut out doors and windows in order to make a room. Adopt the nothing therein to the purpose at hand, and you will have the use of the room.Thus what we gain is Something, yet it is by virtue of Nothing that it can be put to use.Book XI

Lao Tzu comments on American produce

2008-09-13T11:45:00.001-10:00

Hence the Sage is for the belly,Not the eye.Therefore he discards the one and takes the other.Book XII

Questions from Lao Tzu's job interview

2008-09-13T11:42:00.000-10:00

When the gates of heaven open and shutAre you capable of keeping to the role of the female?When your discernment penetrates the four quartersAre you capable of not knowing anything?

2008-09-13T11:27:00.001-10:00

The nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth;The named was the mother of the myriad creatures.Hence always rid yourself of desires in order to observe the secrets of the Tao.But allows allow yourself to have desires in order to observe its manifestations.

Lao Tzu considers what is left when life has passed on.

2008-09-13T11:23:00.001-10:00

To retire when the task is accomplished is the way of Heaven.

A cloud doesn't look in the mirror

2008-09-13T11:19:00.001-10:00

wood kiss stone

2008-09-13T11:16:00.000-10:00

Love is a marsh

2008-09-13T10:51:00.001-10:00

There are collaborations in love, like light and water, wood and air, blue and green, that could astonish you if you quit thinking about yourself for one minute.