Manual Labor

One of the things I love most about construction is that it's loud and gritty, but also subtle. It bombards your senses with scale, with noise, sometimes with danger, but I can't help but to keep looking. And sometimes you just have to look a little longer to see what's so amazing.

"S" is for "Snake"

One of the two SRT Viper teams waits for the race to begin at this weekend's American Le Mans Series competition at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. 2013 is the final year that ALMS will exist in its current form; for the 2014 season, they join forces with the Grand-Am Rolex SportsCar Series to form the United SportsCar Racing series. Current plans are that most classes will remain, although the LMP1 class has already gotten the axe. More photos to come from this year's ALMS Laguna Seca.

Drops of Jupiter

I spent yesterday evening watching a presentation of work from the Center for Investigative Research at Open Show Bay Area, this time hosted at the Berkeley Rep. It was fantastic. The CIR has been on my radar ever since I read their piece The Shooter, and the work presented at Open Show was of the same high quality. In fact, we watched a video from the Broken Shield project, which project nearly won the reporters a 2013 Pulitzer Prize (they were finalists).

After the presentations, we went to the nearby beer garden Jupiter for drinks and chatter. That's when I pulled my camera out and took a few pictures. For your enjoyment, a few vignettes from Jupiter.

Two chefs prepare food in the kitchen.

One of the chefs on the pizza crew tosses a pizza dough.

A bartender moves some glasses to a dish rack before sending them through the dishwasher.

Night Flight