Week 6, Day 3: Easy does it.

Went on the treadmill again to save myself from the cold, biting winds outside.

Did 6 miles in 50m 10s.

Jumped on the weights for another 20minutes.

Some thoughts going through my head at the time:

1) Glad that I finally figured out why my Pentacon-Six was giving me these:

I only found out after shooting another roll with Monica that the shutter wasn’t completely shutting, so that there was a streak of overexposure/light leak in the shot (See the shot of my nephew, and of the Lozada side of the family).  In the slower shutter speeds, or later in the roll, the shutter would actually get stuck open – which explains why my dad and sister look ghostly in the last shot.

Sure this is an arugment for the digital side, but again there’s a value in the craft, mechanics, and work that’s still present in shooting film, especially from older cameras.  Perhaps it’s a dogmatic, old-school way of practice, but diligence always has it’s benefits, and for the most part, it’s worked in my favor.

2) On that tip, I’ll finally be expecting this lovely in the mail:

Can’t wait.  Can’t wait.

3) I’m driving down to Los Angeles and will be around from about May 6 – 8 to support a 2004 project entitled, ‘down so bad, looking up.’  It was my 2004 effort with Visual Commmunications Armed With a Camera Fellowship.  ‘down so bad..’ is a short experimental chronicle that features a fictional manong who found his voice with a bottle of whiskey, and Bukowski.  I had five minutes, and really pushed the structure and narrativity.  Of course, it’s disjunctive, odd… questionable.  But it’s sincere and aware of itself — I don’t know what that means, but I put some effort in it, and got some strong support so come out if you’re in the hood!  Oh, props to Muni Zano who acted in it, Terry Kosel, Jay Perez, and John Dion for listening to my rants, reviewing my scripts, or even rolling with me to Los Angeles (remember how we ended up volunteering Terry?).

Reset: Back on it.

I caught a bad cold after finishing a long run.  It crept to my lungs, giving me a thick cough.  I wheezed for the first set of days, and was knocked from even stepping foot to lift weights.

I think that may have been close to two weeks ago.

I jumped on the treadmill 5 days ago to do a 4 mile run, and it felt okay.

I jumped on the treadmill again for 6.25 miles, finished in 45:10

I’ll be running bay-to-breakers with a group of friends from work.  Our theme is superheros – I need to figure out mines soon.

Thinking this:

Too much?  Nah.

Onward.