There’s a reason I have not been updating this blog very often… a new one was in the works! Please check it out and let me know what you think. It is designed with PHOTOS in mind and they are very large and very pretty.

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Please redirect your browsers and RSS feeds to the new spot! Sorry for any hassle.. thanks for viewing!

Yes, yes, more photos to come. In the meantime, another map! haha..

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Clayton

Found this fun little video about Hamburger Eyes. Plenty more photos on the way, currently digging myself out of a photo pit and will post stuff up here when I have some free time. You can always check my flickr or other blog in the meantime…

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Clayton

I was out of town for a few weeks (SF & LA) and it threw me off my routine of updating my dozens of blogs.. getting back into things, here’s a shot of a cat I met on the trip. Of course, another cat..

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Clayton

Scroll over (link) the targets below to see the state’s ranking and fatality rate.
Number of Drunk Driving-Related Fatalities per 100,000 people in 2006

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So.. I’m currently off on the West Coast (San Francisco/Oakland/LA) for a few weeks.. more photos to come, in the meantime here’s another interesting map I found today. Especially interesting to me since I deal with drunks way too often…

I have to say, I figured drinking levels would be higher in states they are supposedly low, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Alabama & Mississippi, but Wisconsin seems to be dead accurate..

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Clayton

I’ve gone and done it. It seemed for a while there that everyone was a flickr member. I never much saw the point, but recently figured I’d give it a second chance. Well, it turns out that I actually enjoyed the service–especially the map option. It was just cool enough for me to fork down the twenty bucks or so they decide to charge you after you post a hundred or so shots and start to get used to the thing. Very clever on their end, for sure.

The reason I bring this up here is that, well, very often this blog falls into neglect and if you’re interested in following my photos closer, subscribing to my flickr stream would be a good option, as I’ve been pretty good about keeping it up to date with current work. Also, don’t forget about my other blog, everyoneisfamous.com, which is largely nightlife and music-based.

And while on the topic of maps… I’ve long been wanting to create a separate blog to simply post cool maps and graphs I find while browsing the internet. The last thing I need is another blog, so I figure I’ll just mix things up here a bit from time to time if I feel the urge. So on that note, a random map!

Much is made of the outlandish national debt levels here in the United States (~$11trillion currently), but most people don’t usually think of it as a % of GDP. When factoring in GDP, the US is in much better shape when compared to the rest of the world’s developed nations. The world really does run on debt/credit, which is what makes these questionable economic times that much more frightening.

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Clayton

Getting myself to use this scheduled post option as a way to get more photos up on this blog…

Summer is finally here… Lunch at Earwax in Wicker Park, Chicago.

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Clayton

My cat-on-loan, Lula.

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Clayton

Art Brut played a week of sold-out shows here in Chicago (in addition to NY & LA). I caught them on Thursday June 11 and shot a few photos. It’s always hard shooting bands playing in venues with bad lighting/no flashes allowed, not to mention a full house and no photo pit. Alas, I think I got a few decent frames. After the show everyone headed upstairs, where the band played some songs on their iPod–which included songs from The Hold Steady and McLusky. Needless to say, it was rad. Here are my picks of the pics.

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Clayton

Probably the best set of photos from inside North Korea I have seen. Photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve posed as a business man to gain greater-than-usual access to the largely secretive country. The video below are his shots via his blog & website. He was also interviewed by BBC about his journey.

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If you’re interested in N Korea, check out this weblog from a couple of European tourists who managed to gain access to the country by train via Russia. It’s pretty interesting and also contains quite a few photos from inside the country.

enjoy,
Clayton