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Walk Like an Egyptian

Max Elman — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:49:35 +0000

Taken on Muir Beach with my sister, Carly Kear

March by the Numbers

Max Elman — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:19:33 +0000

Photos Taken 962
Photos Uploaded to Flickr 37

Albums Downloaded 41
Tracks Listened to 895

Foursquare Checkins 164
Checkins at New Places 41%
Venues Visited 101

Delicious Bookmarks 39

rss articles read 920
articles shared 49

Total Emails Sent/Received 1853

Tweets: 28

Incoming Traffic 97.6 GB
Outgoing Traffic 16.4 GB
Total Bandwidth 114 GB

Sneezes (approximate): 385

Two Week Challenge

Max Elman — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:12:28 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

My housemate Christopher and I are challenging each other every two weeks to keep things exciting this year.

My first two week challenge of 2010. The challenge: make a lip-sync video to Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” starring at least 10 people I didn’t know personally.

I started out in Dolores Park, and rocked out with a few fun folks, but after getting a full time job the next day, realized I needed another way to get videos. That’s where Reddit and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk came in. Thanks internet! For free to a dollar, you sent me videos of yourselves a-sing-song.

So here’s the final product, 10 people, 1 cat, and 1 crazy deer.

Making Something Every Day

Max Elman — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:31:26 +0000

I’ve been posting something new to Flickr every day for 42 days now. There’s some pretty cool stuff, if I say so myself. Have a look!

Nine Months Late

Max Elman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:46:17 +0000

New Year’s Eve – 2008. Just found I never uploaded this. Whoops?

A 60 Year Long Pool Party

Max Elman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:08:27 +0000

My father recently found quite a few slides from 1948 and had them digitized for various reasons. One of those reasons probably wasn’t so that I could mess around with them with Photoshop, but I did anyway.

Above is my version of my grandfather’s dive into a wonderfully blue pool. A bit different than the original slide below. It’s amazing what 60 years can do to a photograph…

Feel free to click through to Flickr and comment there.

Captain Kirk Is Climbing A Mountain

Max Elman — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:35 +0000

As Shatner’s a trending topic right now, it seemed fitting to share some of his earlier work, not involving a gun-crazy ex-governor.

Amazing, right? Why is he climbing the mountain? Because he LOVES the mountain. Makes sense, really.

Want the MP3? Download it here.

Garden Party. Right Now.

Max Elman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:00:43 +0000

Today marks the first day of my San Francisco growing season, and hopefully my amazing vegetable season will follow shortly. Or in 48-92 days. Something like that. Two solid days of taming the Jumanji of a forgotten backyard, a day of planting Home Depot seedings, and we’re off! There’s all sorts of peppers, cucumbers, herbs, peas, melons, trees, and a few colorful flowers. Exciting. Here’s a few more pictures:

A flock of easter peeps

Max Elman — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:31:08 +0000

It’s that time of year again.. The time when a few of my pictures find meaning, popularity, and I feel particularly good about my photography. I took this shot a year or so ago and it’s always made me smile. (And no, there weren’t quite that many peeps. Oh, the wonders of photoshop.)

Buy a print here.

Rockin’ Chairs

Max Elman — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:55:37 +0000

Inspired by the internet – mainly amazing before and after pictures, and some sweet fabric patterns for sale, I took it upon myself to fix up and reupholster two outdoor rocking chairs. They were literally falling apart and a bit of a hazard to sit in. After a few days of taking apart, sanding, painting, stapling, and gluing, volia! Brand new, sweet looking chairs. (Hopefully the picture above is clear enough to show which is which.)