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The Road to Awe

jules.maas — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:26:48 +0000

Repost of an entry deleted during Stargazer’s Domain Transfer Fiasco 2010

There are a lot of things I don’t like about where I’m from – the drugs, the crime, the politics, the heat. But there are also a lot of beautiful things about the Southwest, of which I was recently reminded when a friend posted these production videos by astronomy photographer Tom Lowe.

Timescapes: “Death is the Road to Awe”

TimeScapes: Rapture (features the International Balloon Fiesta)

For My Mom, Whom I Love

jules.maas — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:56:22 +0000

Yesterday, Garfield turned 30.

Just a few of the things I love and remember as a kid of the 80s include jellies, neon clothes, rubix cubes, mousse…watching Steven Tyler gyrate down a pole of scarves 5 seconds before my dad turned it off and announced Mtv was banned in our house because ‘you’ll see a lot of things that don’t make any sense’.

But Garfield trumped them all. I remember reading the small, bound, comic strip books walking home from the school bus stop without looking up – using the sidewalk as a guide from meandering into traffic. My room was decorated now and again with his posters. I liked Garfield, but I realize now that as an eight+ year old, I didn’t really GET him.

But mom? She did. She LOVES Garfield. Mom can still quote him at the drop of a hat, and I’m pretty sure she’s got at least a few of all those postcards, coffee cups, and t-shirts we gave her throughout the years. The car window cling was by far my favorite. Garfield replaced her yellow “Cocker Spaniel on Board” right after the day she was driving me home from a hair perm, and two teenage girls pulled up beside us to ask if I was the dog.

I think I just figured out what I’m gettng her for Christmas this year…

Heads, Hands, Hearts

jules.maas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:33:29 +0000

Loren Blanton Bentley, 1943-2008

Out of the five rolls of film I shot in Albuquerque last year, not a single image captured what I wanted. Instead, they captured what was really there: a total blur.

Over Albuquerque

jules.maas — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:16:57 +0000

above the Sandia Mountains, NM
October 2007

Adams’ Gaze

jules.maas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:36:43 +0000

Of my many features there are several I would change, specifically my Cyrano-like nose. But if there’s one thing I DO like, it’s my eyes. Because they are my grandfather’s eyes, my mother’s eyes, my sister’s eyes.
They are her eyes.

Who’s a Pepper?

jules.maas — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:53:22 +0000

Albuquerque, October 2007

Hanging out on the porch after Garry’s funeral, my nephews do what kids do best.

They go on.

…a Boo

jules.maas — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:35:05 +0000

Albuquerque, October 2007

Peek…

jules.maas — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:54:28 +0000

My reeediculously photogenic sister playing with her daughter in Albuquerque, October 2007

A Golden Moment with Grandfather

jules.maas — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:21:41 +0000

Melt My Heart

jules.maas — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:24:41 +0000