let's catch up

as of january 1st i started Project 365. you simply take one picture a day for 365 days. what i like about this project is that at the end of the year you have something to refer to to reflect on your whole year. every picture is a piece of my day, whether it's something i just thought looked interesting or something that i do often that i want to document. i haven't uploaded days 23 and 24 but let's catch you up on 2011 so far.

i don't have the picture for day 1 either. i'm an xray tech and every day i use "L" (left) and "R" (right) markers to indicate whether i'm x-raying the person's left or right side for documentation purposes. it's preeeetty important for my job, so my first day was a picture of my markers. don't worry you're not missing anything. i can assure it you it was a crappy picture.

day 2: spikes. a plant that sits outside of my house. 

day 3: driving through the Mission district of SF, this caught my eye.

day 4: Katy Perry's song Firework has the lyrics "you're original. cannot be replaced." originally i heard it as "your original cannot be replaced." i liked the way i initially heard it where "original" is a noun rather than an adjective. i think each person absolutely has their own version of original. in my version "your original" is what you value that makes you you. and we all know that what you value about yourself cannot be replaced. you determine what makes you special, not anybody else.

day 5: driving around SF you try to look up into the sky but often time your view is interrupted by wires and cables!! i'm not complaining. it's just an observation.

day 6: i see this sign nearly every day when i take my lunch breaks during work. and everyday this tempts me!

day 7: outside of my house. i was trying to capture the fog rolling over the mountain but that didn't show up. the settings on the hipstamatic app on my iphone aren't always the greatest.

day 8: this will be me for the next 357 days. i didn't have a picture for the day and it was getting late so i decided to take a picture of myself taking a project 365 picture. 

day 9: chillin at a laundromat while we wait to get our table for dinner next door.

day 10: that is a picture of someone's abdominal arteries as they are being filled with contrast. this was taken in the operating room at work. some amazing work from our doctors, i'll tell ya!

day 11: coffee

day 12: my membership to 24 hr fitness expired so i had to do at-home workouts. and this is how i do. Ellen or Rachael Ray is almost always on when i do video workouts. kill two birds with one stone.

day 13: my cousin Eva and i went to Seattle for a short vacay. what to do? what to dooo? who am i kidding? we actually just went up for a food trip. the only tour we did was a food tour of Pike's Place Market!  all we did was eat!

day 14: the famous gum wall at Pike's Place Market! SO gross. this picture is really washed out.

day 15: flipping through a book called The Book of Awesome, i came upon this page. who ever knew about the tabs to hold your foil in place? i sure as hell didn't! this is a revelation!!! now i know my foil will stay in it's home.

day 16: the space needle

day 17: after Eva and i ate our way through Seattle, i HAD to go for a 5 mile run along Ocean Beach once i got back home. 

day 18: i didn't have a photo for the day so i used a photo i took in Seattle at Pike's Place Market. take a look at what the man is holding. it's a lightbulb! imagine yourself walking down those stairs. the man sticks out from the wall as a light fixture. it's pretty cool.

day 19: the view as i lay on a bench.

day 20: take a second look! the five prong fork at Benu, a fantastic restaurant from Corey Lee (once executive chef at French Laundry). whoever designed this fork swears that the extra prong makes food taste better. the hell if it was the fork, but the food was pretty amazing.

day 21: i parked and noticed bird poo all over the floor around my car. i looked up to find this. bird booty!! you better believe i was scared to take this pic. i did it as quick as possible.

day 22: you all know those really small compact parking spaces at the Metreon? you know the ones that are lined with huge cement cylinders? yeah, well i tried parking and scraped my car on one of them. note that my car is black but due to the thick layer of dirt, it appears gray. the scrape allows a hint of that original black to show up. anyway, i have the exact same scrape on the other side of my car at the exact same level. now that i have matching scrapes, i call them my racing stripes!