Midnight Cheese

I picked up a Kodak Zi8 for an upcoming road trip and have been shooting a bunch of test footage. For the price, the HD image quality is quite decent. Here are a couple clips from downtown Nashville taken earlier this week:

OpenStreetMap shows the path of the Stones River prior to the building of Percy Priest Lake in the 1960s.

The Stones River prior to the construction of Percy Priest Lake.

Percy Priest Lake.

The idea that all that land, places where people lived and even entire towns like Jefferson are now under water is fascinating to me. You can follow where roads like Couchville Pike used to span from the 840 area all the way over to where Nashville International Airport now sits. Little pieces still stick out here and there.

Jefferson, or Old Jefferson is the most interesting. Once the County seat, now under water.

Facebook served me up a nice targeted ad today. Apparently I’m really into toilets. But not just any toilet, the DUALIE of toilets: The Dual Flush Toilet. For when you need that extra flush.

A few photos from the beach at midnight.

Our dog Belki passed away this weekend. She was a good dog. Her favorite thing to do was chase motorcycles. From a distance she could always tell the difference between a motorcycle engine and a loud truck. Belki will be missed.

NaNoDrawMo requires its participants to create 50 drawings in 30 days. I’ve had a little empty sketchbook sitting around for some time now that I thought would be perfect for this exercise. I’m doing quicker sketches rather than finished drawings which seems to fit better in the smaller space of the book.

I started with some renderings of objects but have started to move into faces and characters. More to come!

My Dad and I went to Savage Gulf for some last minute fall foliage shots this weekend. The color was excellent, but unfortunately the height of the bluffs doesn’t come through the photos very well. Savage Gulf is one of the more beautiful Tennessee parks I’ve been to. We hiked from Stone Door almost to the bottom of the canyon, but had to turn back due to time. Definitely want to get back to Savage Gulf soon.