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Vulcan Trail Stroll
On Sunday, the Denbows decided to enjoy the nice weather and take a stroll on the Vulcan Trail. We brought the camera, of course and snapped a few pics off using the fisheye lens attachment. The daughter was asleep through the whole thing. She’ll get used to the daddy paparazzi and the hiking, for sure!
Sunday night found her awake and fussy until I cranked up BB King’s “Paying The Cost To Be The Boss” and Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Pride & Joy”.
She is like her father in so many ways, including loving the Blues because she was asleep almost instantly.
-ing
Reading- Girls- An Owner’s Manual
Watching- Heroes and The Office. Excellent shows while waiting for Lost and Battlestar Galactica to come back on.
Listening- to Led Zeppelin box set on the iPod
Doing- working on photos with my baby girl around my neck
Eating- breakfasty things like eggs, bacon and hash browns…mmmm
Thanks for the post suggestion that was shamelessly stolen from Kristen at This Classical Life!
All That Jazz
Congratulations to Leah Tucker and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame for putting on a fantastic all-day jazz festival this weekend. Saturday’s crowds beat the heat with good food and great music. There was easily 5,000 people on one street at any given time which is impressive since the Sidewalk Moving Picture festival was going on at the same time. I was asked to shoot the event and was able to get some great portraits and stage shots of the artists who were more than happy to have their pictures snapped.
Annie Sellick
Cleve Eaton
the crowd pleaser
Mayor Kincaid
Taste of 4th Ave Jazz Fest
Feeding & Digesting
For a few years now, I have ingested ginormous amounts of content from the internet through RSS feeds I have subscribed to over 300 website’s RSS feeds. This prevents me from visiting each website individually and aggregates them into my feed reader of choice, which is currently Feed Demon. In the past I have tried most readers and really liked Bloglines and Google Reader. Feed Demon is paid desktop software while the other 2 are free web-based apps. But it is your choice in how you want to be served!
So what do I do with all 300 websites that generate on average 3 posts a day each? How does anyone assimilate and digest that much mental food? Let me clarify here: I don’t read ALL of them. In fact, I scan over a few posts to find anything of interest. When I do find something relevant and noteworthy, I’ll read it and use it. If I can’t use it then, I will flag or save that post for future reference. Think of it as a bookmark to go back to when you have the time or pass on the second helping, thanks.
Also, when flagging for future use, I will highlight a link and tag & save it to my Delicious bookmarks, again, insuring that I will see it and use it.
So when picking through the buffet of web content I chose the finest morsels, feeds that will enrich me and make my world more productive and fun. According to Feed Demon, my top ten feeds I pay attention to (this week) are:
1. Lifehacker
2. Mashable
4. Boing Boing
5. Webware.com
6. TechCrunch
8. The Terminal
10. Read/Write Web
If I want to see what is going on in the internets, I can view all of the aggregated Popular Topics from the past 48 hours (as of 9/26) according to all of my feeds.
1. MySpace launches free mobile service
2. Sketchcast blogging tool
3. WordPress 2.3 released
4. Diigo social annotation tool
5. Microsoft plans to invest in Facebook
6. One Laptop Per Child
When feeds include audio or video podcasts, you can bet that they are either consumed on my desktop or transferred to my iPod so I can feed while on the go. Get your brain fed while you work out or commute to work!
That is one of the arguments for RSS feeds: Your news brought to you and consumed by you in the manner and times of your choosing.
Want to subscribe to the Mojo Network feeds that delivers content to you? Add this link from Combo Mojo to your feed reader and enjoy!
Double Dumbass-ness
- If, when you are dining in a restaurant or shopping, please refrain from using the walkie-talkie feature of your Nextel phone. No one wants to hear that #$@^& chirp sound, nor the ensuing conversation. Also, the mic picks up your voice. You don’t have to yell into the walkie to be heard, dumbass!
- If you are a smoker and threw your cancer stick outside of your moving vehicle during the summer-long drought and soaring temps, you are a dumbass. Also, smoking in the car with your window cracked will not prevent your car from smelling like an ashtray, dumbass.
The Locals
Even though I have met tons of new people and have sneaked my way into various people networks, there are still a few folks to see. Here are a few peeps I haven’t met yet but read their blogs. There are also places to discover that I haven’t been to yet. I smell a few meetups.
People listed are not in order of popularity…
Ike Pigott-Occam’s Razr
Doug Gillett- Hey Jenny Slater
Traci & Leah, the super cool chicks of RedBlondehead
Jean Goforth of Go Forth Alabama
Brian T. Murphy- Worstblogintheworld
Places here in town I’d like to go to but haven’t had the chance yet
So who is the first to buy me an import beer?
Shameless Self Promotion
Photo Mojo Birmingham Mag Scan, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.
In all the hubbub of Daphne being born and family in/out of town, I realized I hadn’t mentioned some other good news. Recently, Photo Mojo was featured in the September 2007 edition of Birmingham Magazine as an article for the Magic City Flickr Group
Here is a 2 page scan stitched together and the mag cover. Thanks to Carla Jean who wrote/edited the article.
Cover: 
Old School
I never really went past the Atari 2600 video game console, in fact, I have one hooked up in my basement right now. So I am not what you would call a "gamer". Recently I have seen some VERY cool things from video game makers that is making me change my mind such as the sports and action games. I’ll plop down some money eventually for an X-Box 360 or a Wii. Amazing graphics, story lines, interaction from players across the globe and media extensions are making it very difficult to say no to. Of course, now that I have a baby, the choice is simply "diapers or games"?
What I am used to:
Atari Combat circa 1982(?)
What is available now:
Microsoft’s Halo 3 circa 2007
Taste Of 4th Jazz Festival
Saturday September 29th from 12 to 12 outside the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. The jazz festival is outside in the streets of the 4th Avenue Historic District. Come hear old favorites like Foxxy Fatts & the Birmingham Heritage Band. Enjoy first time Jazz artists to Birmingham Ronnie Laws and Jean Carne along with Annie Sellick from Nashville. Children’s Area, Art village and many food Vendors.The best part? Free.
I’m shooting the event and will be there mostly at night. Give me a shout and we’ll meetup.
Also, I don’t know which graphic I like better so I’ll post both. Use them as desktop wallpaper! Hopefully they’ll have tees designed with these.
