12 - 39 - 1000 - hike!
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netpositiveThis idea came via Dave Hogg,
who got it in turn from dmmaus.
Rules:
Tips:
* Try to mix it up a bit. Streetscapes, landscapes, interiors, candid portraits, close ups, etc.
* Bend the rules if you want.
I often mention my walk to work
in the mornings in my LJ, so I hope
this view of some of the things I see
may be an interesting window for you
into a part of my time and space...
Step 0, "Deciduous on a diet": From the front door, the token skinny-leaf tree on our lot.
Step 100, "Move that earth, baby!": Land in our area is at such a premium that it's profitable to tear down small to medium size houses to build bigger, better McMansions.
Step 200, "Political commentary?": Orientation time.
The Real Step 200, "I'm shy...": Peeking around a corner...
Step 300, "On the edge... of what?": The chiropractor Marc switched to a few years back. This basically marks the boundary of the residental area we live in (which I call "the urbs") versus the commercial zoning of Clarendon proper.
Step 400, "You were only waiting for this moment to arise": One lone crow. Wish I was up there.
The Real Step 400, "The building they tore down my old dojang space for to build": I hate this building. I will never set foot in, much less patronize, any business in this building. Grr.
Step 500, "Crayolas for big kids?": At least this construction junk is colorful...
Step 600, "Shades of grey": You can still see the sky at Garfield and Washington... but for how much longer?
Step 700, "In the midst of life...": The weirdest thing in this continuingly built-up area with its premium land prices - this small business in a tiny building with heavy blocks of granite around it. I have no idea.
Step 800, "Clarendon Grill": Bearing out the rule that trendy popular gathering places have mediocre food. (On the other hand, the owners also run the Clarendon Ballroom, so long may the Grill continue to make profits off the happening crowd - especially the neocon 20-somethings of the Leadership Institute next door.)
Step 900, "What the street people see": Signs, signs, everywhere a sign...
The Real Step 900: Ok, now you see why I automatically take so many pictures in portrait mode.
Step 1000, "Street cones reading a Metro map?": The theme of our show for today, kids, is construction. Can you say con-struc-tion? I knew you could.
Step 1001, "Oh no, not again.": Persons with disabilities need to know about elevator outages so they can take shuttles from alternate Metro stops. If they had to tell the rest of us about all the escalator outages, this sign would Totally Freak Out.
Step 1100, "Orange you glad you have Metro?": Welcome to the next 20 minutes of your life standing on the Orange Line! That's 20 minutes assuming a passenger hasn't gotten sick at Courthouse, the Blue Line hasn't broken down under the river at Rosslyn, some frustrated commuter jammed car doors at Foggy Bottom...
Step 1200, "Red light, green light": Waiting at Metro Center to change to the Red Line "in the direction of Silver Spring".
Step 1300, "And they wonder why I'm developing claustrophobia as I get older...": Did I mention escalators? The middle of the "up" escalator coming out of Judiciary Square. Many Metro exits don't have a plain set of stairs between escalators, so if one side breaks, the other side has to be stopped for two-way foot traffic. This one's been working a whole week in a row now....
Step 1400, "Wherever you go, there you are": Yet more construction, on a prenaturally ugly addition to the U.S. Courts.
Step 1500, "I'd - turn - back - if - I - were you.": Not the door to my office space.
Step 1501, "No, you cannot go out sledding, Johnny, we have work to do!": The latest accessory for the well-dressed downtown government office building: Lifesliders on every floor.
(Yes, I've even had training in how to use a Lifeslider. May I never have to.)
who got it in turn from dmmaus.
Rules:
- Start just outside your front door.
- Take 100 steps.
- Take a photo of whatever looks interesting.
- Take another 100 steps, take another photo.
- Repeat until you have walked at least 1000 steps, more if you wish.
- Post photos with comments.
Tips:
* Try to mix it up a bit. Streetscapes, landscapes, interiors, candid portraits, close ups, etc.
* Bend the rules if you want.
I often mention my walk to work
in the mornings in my LJ, so I hope
this view of some of the things I see
may be an interesting window for you
into a part of my time and space...
Step 0, "Deciduous on a diet": From the front door, the token skinny-leaf tree on our lot.
Step 100, "Move that earth, baby!": Land in our area is at such a premium that it's profitable to tear down small to medium size houses to build bigger, better McMansions.
Step 200, "Political commentary?": Orientation time.
The Real Step 200, "I'm shy...": Peeking around a corner...
Step 300, "On the edge... of what?": The chiropractor Marc switched to a few years back. This basically marks the boundary of the residental area we live in (which I call "the urbs") versus the commercial zoning of Clarendon proper.
Step 400, "You were only waiting for this moment to arise": One lone crow. Wish I was up there.
The Real Step 400, "The building they tore down my old dojang space for to build": I hate this building. I will never set foot in, much less patronize, any business in this building. Grr.
Step 500, "Crayolas for big kids?": At least this construction junk is colorful...
Step 600, "Shades of grey": You can still see the sky at Garfield and Washington... but for how much longer?
Step 700, "In the midst of life...": The weirdest thing in this continuingly built-up area with its premium land prices - this small business in a tiny building with heavy blocks of granite around it. I have no idea.
Step 800, "Clarendon Grill": Bearing out the rule that trendy popular gathering places have mediocre food. (On the other hand, the owners also run the Clarendon Ballroom, so long may the Grill continue to make profits off the happening crowd - especially the neocon 20-somethings of the Leadership Institute next door.)
Step 900, "What the street people see": Signs, signs, everywhere a sign...
The Real Step 900: Ok, now you see why I automatically take so many pictures in portrait mode.
Step 1000, "Street cones reading a Metro map?": The theme of our show for today, kids, is construction. Can you say con-struc-tion? I knew you could.
Step 1001, "Oh no, not again.": Persons with disabilities need to know about elevator outages so they can take shuttles from alternate Metro stops. If they had to tell the rest of us about all the escalator outages, this sign would Totally Freak Out.
Step 1100, "Orange you glad you have Metro?": Welcome to the next 20 minutes of your life standing on the Orange Line! That's 20 minutes assuming a passenger hasn't gotten sick at Courthouse, the Blue Line hasn't broken down under the river at Rosslyn, some frustrated commuter jammed car doors at Foggy Bottom...
Step 1200, "Red light, green light": Waiting at Metro Center to change to the Red Line "in the direction of Silver Spring".
Step 1300, "And they wonder why I'm developing claustrophobia as I get older...": Did I mention escalators? The middle of the "up" escalator coming out of Judiciary Square. Many Metro exits don't have a plain set of stairs between escalators, so if one side breaks, the other side has to be stopped for two-way foot traffic. This one's been working a whole week in a row now....
Step 1400, "Wherever you go, there you are": Yet more construction, on a prenaturally ugly addition to the U.S. Courts.
Step 1500, "I'd - turn - back - if - I - were you.": Not the door to my office space.
Step 1501, "No, you cannot go out sledding, Johnny, we have work to do!": The latest accessory for the well-dressed downtown government office building: Lifesliders on every floor.
(Yes, I've even had training in how to use a Lifeslider. May I never have to.)
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Pretty nifty.
Date: 2004-05-21 05:04 pm (UTC)The link for step 1001
(http://www.radix.net/~dcheetah/insteps_1000a.jpg) gives me a 404 error.
Re: Pretty nifty.
Date: 2004-05-21 07:10 pm (UTC)Mea culpa - for some reason I thought 1001 looked better as a GIF than a JPG, and then I forgot I'd done that. Link fixed now.
Them LifeSlider things...
Date: 2004-05-21 08:49 pm (UTC)Then again, listening to Marty Mornhinweg give an interview is in itself a trip. You can almost hear him want to break into redneck-speak at any moment.
P!
(Me no need no blog. Went to work, went home, pondered cats, got rejected from grad school, wash, rinse, repeat. Go Pistons. Go Blue Jays. Yee haw.)
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Date: 2004-05-22 12:22 am (UTC)Kinda like sleds gone horribly wrong.
Maybe there actually is a factory making sleds with seatbelts, and this is their "slightly imperfect" discount outlet.
Generally, I thought the only people who used toboggans to save your life were on Ski Patrol.
Who also tend to wear tiny barrels of alcohol on chokers.
Then again, listening to Marty Mornhinweg give an interview is in itself a trip. You can almost hear him want to break into redneck-speak at any moment.
Now that Norv Turner has yet another head coaching position, I figure Eagles new Assistant Head Coach Marty is due back in '06, right after Philly wins the Super Bowl due to his masterful handling of QB Andy Hall and his favorite receiver, the born-again Terrell Owens....
(And you need no blog, for you are P! and will write anyway. *hug*)
Re: Them LifeSlider things...
Date: 2004-05-24 07:35 pm (UTC)"I need one of my quarterbacks to grab the bull by the horns and run with it." - best ever Marty quote.
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Date: 2004-05-24 07:48 pm (UTC)Real 400 - Good god, someone drove the Edmund Fitzgerald into an intersection!
700 - They can't tear that building down! It's a monument! It even says so!
900 - That's a seriously cool picture, even if it was a mistake.
1000 - *giggle*
1001 - Request what? Wings?
1200 - In the direction of? Do you have to roll D10 for a scatter pattern? This is like races at Saratoga that are "about 7 furlongs".
1300 - *shudder*
1501 - I'm very disappointed. I thought a Lifeslider was like this enormous garbage chute that you went down to evacuate the building. That would be COOL~!
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Date: 2004-05-25 02:34 am (UTC)There are two houses being built side-by-side... could be all three of them. Plus the large half-commercial property next door being renovated could house Shane, Marisa and the new baby...
Real 400 - Good god, someone drove the Edmund Fitzgerald into an intersection!
I swear, it's even worse in person. There is a *moat* around the building bottom; I just can't figure out where they're going to put the drawbridge. Maybe there won't be one. ;) Its resemblance to a waterborne gambling ship has me calling it "The Steamboat Building" or "The Clarendon Belle". I think I've been watching too much TV poker...
700 - They can't tear that building down! It's a monument! It even says so!
Walking by unfinished tombstones every day on one's way to work makes one feel a bit like the Undertaker...