100 Things I Will Miss About DC: #73
by Nick Farr on June 26, 2009
in 100 Things I Will Miss About DC, District of Columbia, Vanity
73: Where there’s cameras in the sky, there’s spies in the lobby, originally uploaded by nickfarr.
Neighborcon. Knoxville. This weekend.
by Nick Farr on June 25, 2009
in Conferences, Vanity
PH Neutral, originally uploaded by Travis Goodspeed.
I never did have time to fabricate my belt buckle badge…*sigh*.
100 Things I Will Miss About DC: #57
by Nick Farr on June 23, 2009
in 100 Things I Will Miss About DC, District of Columbia, Vanity
57: Huge, clear, well maintained signs designed to direct a lost army of tourists., originally uploaded by nickfarr.
100 Things I will Miss About Washington DC
by Nick Farr on June 5, 2009
in 100 Things I Will Miss About DC, District of Columbia, Photography, Vanity
When I left Los Angeles, I did a photo series of 100 different people, places, concepts–things I would or ended up missing about the place. I attempted, but failed to do something similar for Grand Rapids.
As I prepare to move to New York (after this summer’s big activities), my thoughts drift to what I’ll miss about DC. Unlike the other places I’ve lived, I never really felt like I made this strange place my home. Where the LA project was about loss, the Grand Rapids one about moving on, this one seems to be a bit more about creating a present life worth remembering.
The numbers are randomly assigned, implying no order but that of whim. The pictures are mostly original, with a few memories thrown in for good measure. In following most of my work whose purposes are purely selfish and aesthetic, I make no attempts at creating a path for the viewer to follow. It’s more for my own amusement.
Sacher Torte: What better way to end an evening in Vienna?
End, Middle, Beginning
This is a project I’ve been procrastinating on for six years. Today, at the C4, I’m making a go at ending the verpeiling with my website. Ending the string of broken promises that it will be updated. As with any blog, anything Web two-point-oh, it’s a work in progress, but it has to start somewhere. So, this is and end and a beginning. I hope there’s a long middle.
Some context: Nickfarr.org was registered in April of 2003. Mostly, it just sat there with a picture of me in front of Fred 62, almost at daybreak on North Vermont Ave in Los Angeles. My friends Patrick and Marikka stood with me in the middle of the street, snapping me holding a sign that was barely legible. Occasionally, people would ask me what the sign said…or just make assumptions it said something vulgar. Really, it was part of a photo project of mine at the time, one where I held signs with silly sayings like “Iron my shirts before you wear them – Kenneth Cole”. That particular day, I was professing a crush on Thora Birch. Her role in Ghost World was fascinating. A few months later, I’d be leaving LA for Grand Rapids, MI.
Previous incarnations of my more active online presence were on Livejournal, monkey.org and umich.edu. Today, I am reasonably active on Amplify and Twitter as well as hackerspaces.org’s blog.
Where will I go from here? Hopefully somewhere really cool. As I wrap this entry up, surrounded by awesome people at Cologne’s hackerspace, preparing for my talks at SIGINT 09, I hope I can actually engage with the world through this website/blog/digital home. Hopefully, people will find useful ideas here, be it in the form of random entries, slides, papers and other things I intend to post.
So here’s to a momentous beginning. All apologies to Anne Sexton for the title.
