I got loose in the belly of the building again... Weeeeee!

I love getting into the deep inner workings of a building. Capturing its organs, its heart, its lungs, its ears... There is something about gazing upon a structure as if it were alive. Listening to the an exhaust breath, the creaking of settling concrete and iron, the hum of an elevator shaft...

Here below are three images, inspired by this thought. Taken earlier this afternoon.

Lungs

"Allowing the Engines to cool"

Ears

"Connecting all the voices outside, with those within"

Heart

"Pumping bodies between floors, all throughout the building"

Creative Commons - Shall I break down the wall, or not?

Ah, decisions, decisions.... What to do, when you want to free your chains and break down parts of our ever so coveted, yet limiting, walled garden.

Well, as with all of our careers/hobbies progress, eventually we find ourselves at a crossroads. A decision that comes up that will dictate the manner in which you will proceed and how your work is perceived.

Which leads me to the Creative Commons structure of licensing. Which as explained by the organization, "develops, supports and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing and innovation."

Haight Ashbury

Sorry again everyone for the recent up, down, up, down, nature of the website. 

For the last couple of years, I have been trying to recapture my old domain name (recasper.com). I stupidly let it go when I washed my hands of graphic design (got burned out) and another picked it up shortly after.

I got one opportunity to purchase it some time back, but the price was far to much for a "non-premium" domain name. So I just waited for the expiration date to run out, hoping that the old renewal button wasn't engaged. Thankfully and much to my surprise, it became available last night and I snatched it up fast. Who knows, maybe after I informed them that I would not be spending the auction price for the domain and a lack of additional interest thereafter... maybe they decided it wouldn't make them any money.

... My very excited gain. 

So here we are good people, back up and going with the new and improved www.RECASPER.com. New categorized landing pages for my B/W and Color galleries and all around new excitement for the blog. I also picked up the .co version a few days ago in an attempt too, which is a large reason for the site outages. Toying with the DNS settings is a pain in the ass.

So, in the spirit of the recent domain name change, I thought it worth sharing some street signs. Here we have one of my favorite cross streets in the United States. 

I miss San Fran... ;-)

Large Format: http://bit.ly/zpu7SR

From atop Lombard Street

Taken during our San Francisco, CA trip in October... our scouting mission for the upcoming move. Oh yes, I cannot wait until I wake up to the cool, salty, pacific air.

This shot is from the top of Lombard Street gazing down....... aaaaand up again.

Large Format for the pixel gazers, watch out for the noise ;-) - http://bit.ly/AxEY1f 

Site Down Update

Hello readers. My apologies for the recent site issues.

I am in the process of switching domains, and whoa has this turned into a pain in the neck. So after being down for a couple days, I have reversed the system back and will return to the domain switch shortly.

In the mean time... come on back, the gates have been reopened. 

Round One: NAS Drive (Seagate GoFlex Home)

Alright, my first bout with choosing a NAS drive begins with the Seagate GoFlex Home. Its sad that one would have to proceed into this with an outlook of "bouts," but with touchy technology that's sadly the case. NAS drives very much qualify here.

I have had an amazing history with Seagate. I'm actually still rocking the same 500GB FreeAgent HDD from 6 years back and a smaller 250GB portable FreeAgent for about 2 years. Six years with that 500GB, I'm serious... and it was my primary music archive while, in another life, I dj'ed in Columbia, Mo. It took countless drunken bumps to the desk, followed by the inevitable drop to the dance floor below. So its dented up, beaten and battered. But still kicking and I commend it...