F O U N D

My camera is pretty damn kick-ass cool. I took this picture w/out flash (on a tripod) and using a digital zoom of X2. It came out pretty good (oh, I should mention that this item is about a half inch in diameter, to give you an idea of why I'm impressed - that and the subject was about 16 inches from the lens). That, plus it's been dumbed down (that's what I call the shrinking of a file size in order to accomodate for ease-of-viewing on the web; I don't know if anyone else uses this phraseology or if phrasology is a word, but that is beside the point, the real point is that I anthropomorphize lots of things especially having to do with computers, which I suppose will eventuall not be considered anthropomorphism because they'll be ALIVE - yes I've had a cup of coffee - shut up). The camera is a Minolta DiMage X, for whatever that's worth.

Anyway, this is a blue cog. I'm not quite remembering where I found it. On the street? I'm pretty sure I found it at a construction site, but I know I found it relatively recently and I don't remember being at a construction site recently, so it may remain a mystery. But I like the blue cog because 1) It's blue, which has been and remains my favorite color, and 2) because it represents mechanization, which I think is really cool too. I often pick up cogs. If you'll scroll down, you'll see another one. Well, below is a cog thingy, not really a cog. But for all intents and purposes on my end, it's a cog because if I use it in art, I will incorporate it where it looks like it represents a functional cog.

So, why do I like cogs? Pieces of a whole...?Functionality...?Universal wholism...?Divinity...? I don't know. Just for some reason, cogs-in-motion=beauty to me. I suppose I'll have to eventually spend some time trying to figure out why.

Brian posted at 9:48 AM.