Of Note:

Canon has announced it’s newest high end DSLR, the EOS 1D Mark II, with an 8mp CMOS sensor, larger buffer for a 8.5 fps up to 40 frames shooting rate, as well as a number of other enhancements. Prices look to be about $4000 or so. Accompanying this outstanding announcement are two new lenses.

In other news… this photo both intrigues me and makes me laugh.

Coolest website. Insomnia sucks…

And this comic. Did I mention I hated insomnia?

I hate insomnia. New comic strip!

Daily Links

• Really cool chalk art drawn with 3d perspective.
• Great snow covered beaches from Top Left Pixel.

My brothers blog is not gone… its has simply moved… to jeremy.marzhillstudios.com.

My first free verse. Feels like I’m cheating. I like it though, and I’m not sure it would have the same effect if put in rhyme. Next thing you know, I’ll be eating my own words…

link o rama

• Alex Arnold of has written a post on post modernism which was followed up by part two and part three. The post isn’t comprehensive, but finding the term post modernism entirely to vague I found the post interesting. (hattip: bropwn pau)
• Food For Eyes posted a gorgeous photo of dusk today.
• Chromogenic.net also posted a great photo of the gritty city like genre.
• Top Left Pixel followed up with a great black and white scene of a snow covered park at night.
• In other news some guy at MIT is conducting a blog survey.
• One of our brothers was martyred in Tajikstan. Our prayers for his family and the Church there.
• A cool website showing reletive scales is enlightening.
• A great review of Tolkien’s LOTR by John Garth in the Scotsman.
• Gene Wolf writes his tribute to Tolkien, summarizing and elucidating the quality of Tolkien’s books that so captivates our hearts.

I was deeply moved when I saw this photo essay , Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Veitnam. The photos are graphic, and the subject trajic.

I’ve added new photo to the San Francisco Gallery.

Daily Links

• Paul Ford is catching mice and writing about it.
• This photo of a little Iraqi girl crying is beautiful and poignant, and I wish very much that I had taken it.
• The swedish post office finally gets around to delivering that letter…

I’m at a loss. Can you suggest a title for this verse?

Thoughts and literary criticisms also welcome.

Update: I’ve decided to call it “Anxious Hope”. Thanks so much to all who suggested titles. They were helpful.

This article on the First and Fourteenth amendment is interesting and informative. Something you don’t often find in weblogs. :)

I got lazy this evening and decided that crosswalk.com needed a bookmarklet to allow you to search its online Bible service. So here it is:

Mozilla Compatible – Search Crosswalk bookmarklet.
Internet Explorer – Search Crosswalk

What amazes me about LOTR Barbies is that the Arwen barbie looks a good deal more like the Arwen I pictured when reading the books. Who would a thunk it?

The American Family Association is conducting a poll on homosexual marriage. Go vote.

I’m not sure weather to be happy or offended by this article on how fundamental christian groups are working in foreign countries. Apparently we use all sorts of insideous tactics like humnitarian aid, education, and medical help to further our prosylitization program.

There was one quote in particular that gave me pause. I was reminded of the early objections of the Roman Empire against Christianity. The writer of the article said,

What is objectionable in this fundamentalist campaign is not its desire to gain adherents, but in its determination to totally alienate their converts from all their traditions and all ‘non-believers’.

During the first few hundred years of the Christian church, Christians were murdered, not because we believed in a different God than anyone else. You see, the Romans allowed for all sorts of diverse pagan deities, but we were murdered because we had the audacity to declare that our God is the only true God. We survived then, prospered even. And we will prosper in Nepal too. I know. I’ve read the ending. We win.

In the past two years, my interests in photography have segregated themselves into two camps. I like the idea of the single and evocative print, but my real interest of late has been in the area of documentary types of photography. To take an idea and develop it through a series or an essay seems to hold more value than the simple ascthetic. It carries a much deeper weight or meaning, or at least the potential for it.

I have resolved to do a few things for 2004. Those resolutions that affect those who visit walljm.com I list here for your speculation:

• One major photo essay, possibly two.
• A major redesign of the underlining structure of walljm.com as well as possibly a new visual look.
• A greater emphaisis on photography and less on the occasional essay or blog post.
• The implementation of a link log similar to the integrated posting style of Jason Kottke. (note: this is a hint as to the kind of changes you might expect in the underlying structure)

Before I go, This Collection of Photography by C. W. Cushman is astounding and wonderful.