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Happy weekend to all, some new stuff coming soon! More Hyperprime, Crazy Comparison, & More!
TGIF! It's Friday night and I am home in my quiet house relaxing with my old dog Scrubby. He is snoozing away on the floor next to my chair and the house is dark. I just watched TV for the past hours so I figured I would sit down and look over some snaps I shot today with the M9P, which is a camera I seem to never tire of. I may shelf it for a month or two but I always come back to it and am always enamored by its beauty, form and output. Yep, I love my M9 even after almost three years since its debut.
So what did I do today? I did not go out for photos. In fact, it was a boring old day for me here in sunny AZ. The weather was great at almost 80 degrees and sunny but I simply had nothing to do, and nothing to shoot! My fiancé is in Chicago, my best friend was working, my son was with his Mother and there was basically nothing to do after my work on the site was done today.
So after updating the site this morning I wandered around my backyard, and snapped away with my beautiful Chrome M9-P (see my updated gear page). In the image above you can see the HUGE SLR Magic lens attached and I have been shooting with this lens every chance I get..just waiting for something to go wrong..I mean, this is NOT a Leica lens. It is a lens from SLR Magic! It CAN'T be good, right? Well, that is what many think anyway.
The fact is that this is a GREAT lens. If it didn't have the barrel distortion it would be every bit as good as the Leica Noctilux ASPH f/0.95 in it's IQ. Still, the distortion is easily fixed but it never gets PERFECT like the Nocti. At $7k cheaper though, it is to be expected and besides, who shoots architecture with a lens like this anyway?
The fact remains though that this is a lens I never thought I would see anyone else make. It IS the FASTEST 35mm lens in production today even though it is not available until September, and that in itself is quite the feat. Andrew from SLR Magic said the day after I posted the pricing info and his shops street address in Hong Kong he had a few visitors the next morning who saw the lens on this site. They all wanted to buy one then and there and one guy wanted TWO. Andrew found one thing interesting. All of these guys already had the Noctilux ASPH! Pretty interesting!
With their low production volume I seriously think they will sell every one they can make, even at the $4288 price tag. Also some have e-mailed me asking this question and no, I am not getting paid money to talk about this lens or write about it. SLR Magic is not even a site sponsor anymore though I keep up their little ad box on the right because I believe in what they are doing, and after meeting Andrew, I know they are passionate and really care about what they are doing. These words are just my real experience with this lens, and if there are any negative things that pop up you can be sure I will write about them. With that said, here are a few more shots from the lens with the M9P. Just snaps, nothing serious. They do show the character of the lens though.
One from the SLR Magic at T/2 – converted to B&W with some PP – click for larger. Sharpness is NOT an issue with this lens at any aperture I have tested it with.
Another at T/2 – This is usually a bokeh torture test!
How about T/5.6 (I wish this lens was rated in F stops instead of T stops) – click it for 100% crop!
The image below is interesting because the room was actually fairly dark. There was no window light, it was indoors and shot wide open. I was curious to see how sharp it would be, and this was 1/60th of a second. You can not get this look with a Voigtlander 1.1, or even a Lux ASPH 1.4 as the Bokeh would be totally different as would the rendering. This is the equivalent of f/0.92 and it comes into play when you have no light. :)
Soon I will be doing some side by side comparisons with this lens and others, so stay tuned for that. BUT they will be added to the review HERE.
Other things coming up..
This weekend: Crazy Comparison: Nikon V1 vs Panasonic GX1
Really not so crazy I guess but I am curious myself so I may post this one over the weekend. Full size files, crops, color, noise…JUST for FUN and because I have both cameras here. I have the X zoom for the GX1 on loan along with the camera so should be interesting. Zoom against Zoom :)
I will also be getting my own NEX-7 in the next week or two (I hope) so I'll be shooting more with that, and trying out the SLR Magic lens with it as well. Photo and Video.
I also have more guest articles and user reports on the way, so check back daily! BTW, I checked my stats today and this website has had over 21,000,000 views in less than 2 1/2 years and 2 million of those was in January alone! WOW!! THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO VISIT HERE EVERY DAY!!! I truly appreciate each and every one of you!
I have a feeling things will get nuts around here in April when all of these new cameras start shipping and even more news leaks out. Gonna be a crazy year for us all!
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Why don't you just physically measure the lens for it's maximum F-value?
After all; F = length of lens barrel divided by maximum diameter of front glass.
T-stop mens actually testing for how much light actually goes through the lens.
I went to the shop too today. I took my Noctilux f/1.0 along as well. It is very different. I actually prefer the HyperPrime 50. It has less light falloff. It is much sharper. It focuses closer. Not much of a case left. I think I am ready to sell of my f/1.0. I noticed one thing though. The front of the lens is 62mm The Noctilux is E60. If the Noctilux was E62 instead of E60 by design I am sure it can be f/0.92. The cost from f/1.0 to f/0.95 was almost double. So if it is f/0.92 it would probably cost triple of my f/1.0. kudos to SLR Magic for making such a lens. I am now on the waiting list for one as well.
Thanks steve,
Andrew emailed me after reading my post (again great service), i was wrong when i said the spring in my lens mount. Andrew clarified that its the spring in the lens mount on the lens that had to be adjusted and not on my camera which should fix the problem.
I happen to be one of the visitors to the shop steve mentioned. Here is my observations, do keep in mind this is from 20 mins of playing with the lens.
The lens felt good in my hands but definitely heavy. Not something i would keep on camera all day long. its simply too front heavy for my liking. Mind you i have never shot a Nocti so i have no frame of reference except my summilux so its heavy by comparison. I have a feeling the Nocti would have the exact same problem. So its not a con of the lens itself but a limitation when you want such a fast lens.
One thing that really got me was that there is no aperture click. The aperture ring is smooth from open to close so there will be no way to select an aperture unless you looked at the lens. I asked Andrew whether this will be added in the production models, he said no because this lens is converted from a cine lens.
Unlike Steve, i found pronounced back focus shift at mid distance. it was shifting about 1.5m while i was aiming at a subject 5m away but it was spot on close distance. Evidently Im not the only one and different people are reporting different things. I talked it over with Andrew and he was extremely helpful in trying to test out my problem and finding a solution. He has since followed up with me and believes he found the problem which involves adjusting the spring on my lens mount. I haven't had the chance to go back to the shop to try but i certainly will the next time i go to hk.
Bottom line, i will most likely order the lens when it comes out. The test pictures look as sharp as my summilux. Build quality seemed extremely high. The screwed on lens cap design is great. Yes its heavy, but i don't expect to carry it all day long. its a specialty lens and does it very well. If there was anything i would change it would be the aperture click and reduced barrel distortion. Other than that i think the lens is perfect as it is. (i was told that the green/black barrel will be a free option so nothing to change there).
special kudos to andrew. he wasn't in the shop that day but the shop keeper called him up and he asked me about what i thought about the lens and discussed my focusing problem. He seemed to be genuinely enjoying what he does and got back to me with a solution that same night. if only leica's service were as good.
I am very proud of slr magic… They have been flexing there muscles as of late with quality glass that is as good as any. Steve isn't afraid to tell them when there celebrating mediocrity… And I think that has helped them push out better lenses…. Can someone please let me know where I can find an SLR Magic 12 mm Lens for micro 4/3? I found one on eBay about a month ago but didn't pull the trigger now I'm regretting it. It's like they don't exist!
SLR Magic 12mm for sale on ebay.co.uk # 140701280014
Thank you
It's a good camera, but in your opinion, will it be a replacement for a full frame DSLR such as Nikon D700. I currently use a D700 but have not been able to find an equivalent but lighter. Thanks.
The Nikon D800 is slightly lighter. ;)
The D700/800 is far from a Leica. With he Leica you take your time to compose the framing an dfocusing. The D700/800 is a fast AF beast. Leica yoi are descrete. D700/800 you are like a marcho man
Huh? ..Simply turn off the autofocus and use an SLR in manual mode: choose an aperture, a speed, your choice of where to focus, and take as long as you want to shoot: "..take your time to compose the framing an dfocusing". You don't have to buy a Leica to do that!
Yes, turn off AF and get a lot of misfocused shots. For most people AF is the better choice, there is not doubt about it.
There is reason why AF was invented, it was to let photographers focus on the important aspect, which is to take photographs, not to use more time than needed on focusing.
The same goes for built-in metering. Don't think many people would like to use an external meter (light meter) to calculate the combinations of shutter and aperture combined with the ISO setting.
No, Anders; I was trying to explain to David P, above – who wrote "..With he Leica you take your time to compose the framing an dfocusing.." – that you don't need a Leica if that's what you want to do (to take your time composing, framing and focusing) ..you can do that with just about any camera if you want to!
You say "..turn off AF and get a lot of misfocused shots.." ..no; I don't think that Steve gets many misfocused shots when he focuses manually. And I don't. I get them focused exactly how I want them.
You say "..Don't think many people would like to use an external meter (light meter) to calculate the combinations of shutter and aperture combined with the ISO setting." Well, if it's sunny-ish here in the UK, knowing that – at ISO 100 – a decent combination is 1/125th at f5.6 you don't really need a light meter at all.
If I'm outdoors using ISO 200 and I'm shooting at f2 for sharp pics with a blurred-away background, I know that I need 1/2000th. Or if I'm shooting somewhere duller – think outdoor market, but in the shade – I'd change that to about 1/360th.
Generally, though, I DO use auto-focus, and auto speeds (having set the aperture I want). But I use just one central focus spot, and centre that on the one thing I want in focus, then hold the button halfway down while I move the camera to reframe what I'm shooting, but keeping that same focus.
I was trying to point out to David P that you can take as long as you like with any camera, and that he doesn't need a manual Leica for manual focusing.
I agree with everything you say, but it takes practice, that is why I said "For most people AF is the better choice".
Manual focus is something I would newer use unless I had to. Got a Voigtländer 40mm f/2 where my only option is to manually focus it on the D700 (fortunately metering and normal A,S,P programs still works.)
Also for moving "targets" like children ,animals, sports etc. a good AF-system like the one in D700/D800 (or J1/V1) is prefereable as that will give you tack sharp focus almost every time if you set the shutter high enough.
The D700 also has the brilliant 3D auto focus tracking which is invaluable if shooting sports. Start focusing on a football/tennis player and the D700 tracks focus perfectly even if something else gets in front of the player for a while.
You mention that you know how to set the combination of aperture, shutter value and ISO at the given light. That is really the hard part to learn and it requires a lot of experience. Most photographers (9999 out of 10000) will not be able to do that.
What I usually do is set the aperture and let the camera decide the shutter and ISO (auto ISO between 200-3200). At other times I use shutter priority (sports and fast moving things). Also the variable P-program is useful with the same ISO setting.
But again you are absolutely right, there is nothing that prevents using manual focus on a modern DSLR.
When you use a Leica you want to be Discrete. Turning an SLR in manual mode is not the same. SLR is loud as well and attract too much attention.
Actually some of Nikons newer DSLRs like the D300s has a quiet mode and the M9 is about as loud as the Nikon D300s this mode.
Also the new D800 has a quiet mode as far as I recall.
But the M9 is smaller than a DSLR so in that way it may be more discrete.
Yeah, your answer has been writen sooooooo many times on the internet. No need for for writing the same blahblah again and again, it's allready well known Mr. David P.! Thank you.
Again and again I have to repeat myself – always looking forward to read and look at your reviews.
Personally I am really torn between X-Pro1 and the Oly OM-D…and having in mind what LEICA my come up in summer with its new X-model…
"Hard" times for photo-enthusiasts!
Hey Steve, i noticed from your gear page that you seem to have bailed on the Fuji X-Pro1! That true?
Went to the shop today, man, the thing felt & weigh like a brick but is it nice or what … interesting that the aperture ring is smooth (unlike the clicking that we are used to with Leica lens) and it is VERY NICE!!! Some saving up to do between now and Sept…
Steve can you show us comparison of f/0.92 vs f/2 with same shutter speed? I have a summicron and want to know how different f2 is compared to f/0.92 unde rthe sam elighting conditions and 1/30s shutter speed as tha tis the slowest I can go without blury photos with camera shake. Thanks
I guess he can, but you're gonna get an underexposed shot unless he changes the ISO to compensate, but then that's not a fair comparison if the ISO is changed.
Second picture is very sharp and details in crop are convincing.
Happy week end to you Steve !
Nice and refreshing review on a saturday morning and well spotted about the OOF rendering in the last picture of your fiancée !
I'd wish the SLR Magic 50 price would be lower though.
If you have old manual C mount lenses, it would be interesting to see their look on the Nikon V1 (adapters are already available on the web) !
Cheers, Jean-Marc.
Your site is a fresh, personal, fun addition to all the photography stuff out there on the internet. Keep up the great work. D!RK
Sharp pics… who's the pretty lady? I mean who's the b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l lady? It's cold at night, but sunny and warm during the day here in the Northeast. I have been photographing farm animals outdoors, so there's always something to take photos of here in the Northeast USA. Perhaps, you could visit a shoreline and show us what sharp photos of the beach look like using your M9-P. Sunny Florida makes for a nice relaxing vacation with plenty of photo opportunities. Everyone tells me the fashion is great on the beach. Vacation… hint, hint.


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Anyone else make pita bread pizzas? One can get from "Hey, I want pizza..." to "Hey, I'm eating fresh Pizza!" in under 15 minutes. I coat the pita in herb'd olive oil, tomato sauce, and toppings of choice then put it in a counter top convection oven.
I wish I didn't have to use canned tomato sauce, but.... i've been too lazy to make up my own.
I wish I didn't have to use canned tomato sauce, but.... i've been too lazy to make up my own.
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Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sat, November 24, 2012 - 9:55 PMYep. These are super easy. Not sure if is "healthy". Meh.
I use the frozen pizza bases or simply bread. The ones I get look pretty good on the nutritional information... buy hey.. it is pizza and it is hard to make a pizza healthy unless you use low fat cheese etc. At the end of the day, it is hard to make a "low fat pizza" and I am sure that canned sauce you are using is full of sugar and salt (I use tomato sauce from a bottle – like people use on the table for meat.. it is also full of sugar and also has a healthy.. or should I say unhealthy amount of salt.. but it is not like I am eating these all the time)…
I guess if you used pitta bread, make vegetarian pizza or used something like ham rather than salami which has a high fat content, you could knock up something which is not too bad..
But hey… I think the key is all things in moderation…
(and I wonder if pesto would be more healthy than tomato sauce on the base.. might be a nice change too..)
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sun, November 25, 2012 - 5:21 AMPesto is amazing as a sauce, and basil is easy to grow. However, I never grow enough to keep useful quantities of basil around over the winter (I'm in the mid-west). I've been using the Muir Glenn canned pizza sauce, which doesn't have sugar--however, it does have a modest amount of salt.
Salt is the hard thing to avoid. I've used canned artichoke hearts that I process with roasted garlic and nutritional yeast to make a cheesy layer, and make an attempt to rinse as much of the salt of of them as I can. When I'm really lazy I'll get a jar of some tapenade, which always seems to come with a heavy dose of salt. Cooking down diced mushrooms, olives, onions, and garlic can make a semi-gooey layer as well and is the healthiest base I've come up with so far.
We're lucky to have quite a few bakeries in town, and one makes pita breads so it is easy to get fresh whole wheat pitas without any additives here.
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sun, November 25, 2012 - 2:24 PM<Muir Glenn canned pizza sauce, which doesn't have sugar>
Surely it has gone some - just by the fact it has tomotoes in it ?
I did some checking (not to sure about the source) but
"Sugar in Tomatoes
One cup of sliced tomatoes contains just 5 g of sugar. Compare this to common fruits, such as grapes which offer 15 g of sugar per cup or 1 cup of apple slices with 13 g of sugar. When compared to vegetables, tomatoes are slightly higher in sugar than green choices -- one cup of zucchini, for example, contains 3 g of sugar and a cup of broccoli contains 2 g. A cup of corn kernels contains 6 g of sugar and a sweet potato contains 13 g per cooked cup."
Read more: www.livestrong.com/article/...2DH8UD7SB
A fresh sauce would have even more than 5 g.. but really.. who cares..they would not be complex sugars..
I know it is a bit of topic drift but when looking up the above I found "6 Foods Secretly High in Sugar" which made me laugh... did you know dried fruit and cholocale milk are high in sugar * Horror * LOL www.daveywaveyfitness.com/nutri...sugar/
Anyway... back to the topic at hand - pizza - "get fresh whole wheat pitas without any additives" sounds good :)
And I looked up that sauce - only 5% sugar www.muirglen.com/products/...auce-15-oz
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sun, November 25, 2012 - 4:51 PMI LOVE pita bread pizzas! The chewy texture of the bread is perfect!
1) Brush the pita with a little olive oil, one of the unsaturated oils;
2) Canned salt-free tomato sauce is available, so common now it's next to the regular tomato sauce in my Kroger Store. (Also salt-free tomatoes, and salt-free tomato paste);
3) FRESH mozzarella cheese has only 70 cal per oz!
4) I cook up ground beef and pork sausage ahead of time, put in a colander and rinse with hot water, shake real dry, and freeze in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Then I transfer the frozen cooked meat to zip-lock bags. The meat has had most of the saturated fat removed, and in the case of the sausage, also the sodium -- but the sausage flavor remains.
5) I use tons of fresh basil; I have a small indoor herb garden, and basil seems to do very well.
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sun, November 25, 2012 - 9:36 PMThinking of fresh Basil and mozzarella cheese does make one hungry!
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sat, December 1, 2012 - 4:44 AMyou know it is kind of weird that pita bread here is kind of blah tasting and tiny!
Turkish flat bread or even Italian flat bread is cheaper and easier to find in this region. so during winters like today where the ground is frozen
solid and one doesn't want to drive into town, I rather take advantage of the wood burning stoves are going. I'll make Italian flat bread since it is easier and faster than Turkish flat bread.
ITalian Flat bread / Piadina Romagnola
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup nonsalted butter or margarine, at room temperature
1/2 cup Greek yogurt or sour cream
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 egg white (the yolk ends up in our dog's bowl!)
Stir the milk, margarine, and yogurt together in a bowl.
Mix the flour, salt, baking powder, and egg white in a large bowl. Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture and work the mixture together with your hands until the dough separates from the sides of the bowl, adding flour or water as needed to get the right consistency, which will be neither sticky nor dry. Cover with a damp cloth and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface; divide into 12 pieces and roll into balls. Roll and stretch each ball to about 1/8-inch thick and 8 inches in diameter.
Lightly oil a cast iron skillet and place over medium-low heat. Cook the dough in the hot skillet until it begins to set, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Pierce the dough with a fork 3 to 4 times while it cooks. Wrap the finished pieces in a towel until ready to serve.
The leftovers the next day, for pizza, I'll spread ricotta cheese on the flat bread, sprinkle dried basil, powdered garlic, red chili flakes, grate a little of what ever cheeses is in the fridge and bake. But I do like the olive oil idea!
I'll let you know tomorrow! Thanks!
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Sun, December 16, 2012 - 6:21 AMcooked eggplant sliced thin and diced cooked into some diced tomato sauce sort of between marinara or
the thin red basil spagetti sauce. then take some chopped and crumbled dried firm tofu and some romano or
prov any kind of dry cheese or use a very hard or firm motz. just sprinkle a teaspoon of a blend then place in the broiler .
You can embelish with sweet cherry peppers or the red bell peppers.
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Mon, December 17, 2012 - 2:15 AMSounds pretty good....
Re: Pita Bread Pizzas?Wed, December 19, 2012 - 7:27 PMMy local grocery store has naan (white or whole wheat) that makes a darn good pizza crust in a pinch.


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Apologies first for what is likely a dumb question. I'm new to WordPress and PHP so I'm already over my head. It concerns this part of the code:
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I could really use some help...sigh.


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LA's best vegetarian restaurants
These vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants are as varied as LA's neighborhoods, from meatless Chinese in SGV to an Italian hotspot in Venice
All that bacon worship getting you down? In a city where you can find a farmers market any day of the week and a collective love of kale that borders on obsession, discovering a plate of perfectly prepared vegetarian (or even vegan) cuisine is easy. We've combed through the city's eateries to find LA's best vegetarian restaurants—and even a few that aren't strictly vegetarian, but are friendly to your meat-free palate.
The best vegetarian restaurants in LA
Elf Cafe
Stepping into Elf Cafe makes you feel like you've stumbled into the ideal Echo Park dinner party; the interior is dimly lit, punctuated by lush plants and textured art, and the organic, local food is thoughtful and nuanced. While most of the staff was in a band together years before the restaurant began, the recent addition of chef David Martinez has only added to its allure. This pioneer of the (now ubiquitous) kale salad continues to boldly forge forward—roasted tomatoes left on the vine balance beautifully with a full-bodied sheep feta ($15); the blackened heart of romaine Caesar salad begs to be picked up and eaten by hand, manners be damned ($12); and the carefully assembled, sustainable and biodynamic wine list is eclectic and enticing. Oh, and they finally accept credit cards.Read more
Paru's Indian Vegetarian Restaurant
Ring the doorbell on the heavy metal gate and you'll be buzzed into a wholly unexpected patio full of twinkly lights—an oasis in the middle of a nondescript stretch of Sunset—and diners in many variations of yoga pants. Paru's serves South Indian food, redolent with spices and herbs that permeate the restaurant's interior in a warm, piquant cloud that hits you as soon as you enter. The full dinners are the best way to try everything: Indian Thali ($14.95) gives you a selection of puri, two curries, sambar (a lentil gravy), rasam (a yogurt-based soup), papad (lentil crackers), pickles and dessert; while the Queen Paru is a creamier choice, with coconut chutney, raitha and ghee to accompany your paper-thin dosa (rice flour crepe) and idli (a savory rice and lentil cake).Read more
Hugo's Restaurant
Hugo's Restaurant truly sets the standard for vegetarian-friendly dining. What began as a butcher shop, then transitioned into a gourmet foods store with a few tables that helped coin the term "power breakfast" in the late '80s, is now a gathering place for eaters of all stripes to enjoy great food and a warm sense of well being. A dish is just as likely to contain Kapha spices (an Ayurvedic healing mix for spring), organic tofu or house-made vegan salami as it is old school carne asada. Almost any dish can be transformed into plant-based cuisine with delicious results, and the smoothie, juice, coffee and exquisitely curated tea list is guaranteed to please.Read more
Shojin Organic & Natural
Yes, Shojin is eccentric. Located on the third floor of an indoor mall in Little Tokyo, this pretty Japanese restaurant has very specific instructions for seating and bag placement: handbags are placed in a designated basket next to your table and a portfolio of exuberant pro-vegan cartoons make an appearance at the beginning of the menu. But almost everything on that bill of fare is excellent and instead of wheat-based faux meats, Shojin uses tofu and tempeh, along with an interesting range of veggie and grain substitutions. For example, a mix of quinoa, miso and vegan-mayo make for an interesting and tasty topping on the traditional Dynamite roll, which we can't get enough. Other Japanese dishes are easily vegan, such as versions of tempura, fried shishito peppers and seaweed salad, as well as savory ramen and miso soup.Read more
Happy Family
Always crowded with tables of chattering Chinese families (and their sullen teenagers), this San Gabriel Valley joint serves vegetarian versions of American favorites of the sweet and sour pork and cashew chicken (both $5.50 lunch specials) variety, but the real draw is the all-you-can-eat menu ($13.95). Dishes are brought out a couple at a time, and with dozens of choices, a dedicated eater can sample everything from green mustard with bean curd sheets ($7.95) to the sesame chicken ($8.95). Of course, vegetarian doesn't always mean healthy. The fried bread adds an appealing (and greasy) crunch to every bite.Read more
Superba Snack Bar
No, Superba's not a dedicated vegetarian restaurant, but chef Jason Neroni is as passionate about the veg-friendly "From Our Backyards" selections as he is the porchetta and pheasant. While the cauliflower T-bone ($16) will wow—a smoky, yielding slab of the white stuff, lovingly dotted with a parsley purée and orange and olive pistou—be sure to add an order of housemade pasta to your meal. The ricotta gnudi ($14), hand-rolled little puffs that sop up Parmesan-flecked broth and charred lemon brulée, are anchored by hearty spigarello, a green in the running to displace kale as Most Beloved Vegetable.Read more
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If vegetarian restaurants don't cut it for you, check out our list of the best vegan restaurants in LA.Read more
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The best vegetarian restaurants in America
Herbivores, rejoice! The growing ranks of superb vegetarian restaurants across the country means you need never settle for a steamed-vegetable platter again.Read more


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Welcome to Tots & Blocks. Our school was established in 1970 and we are happy to report that we are now getting children of happy former students. What is the Tots & Blocks Spirit that has made us the area's most exciting pre-school for over 40 years?
It starts with the philosophy that children are curious, energetic, sensitive individuals. With this in mind, we create a nurturing, respectful and developmentally appropriate environment that allows each child to advance socially, cognitively and physically.
Our outstanding staff of early childhood professionals is headed by Anita Meyers, founder and administrator, and Wanda Jones who creates and oversees the music, art and science programs. All teachers are certified by the State and most have been with us for over 5 years. Assistants are high school or college graduates who come with high recommendations and also remain with us for a many of years.
You and your child are invited to visit us any weekday between 10 and 11 or between 1:15 and 2:15. During your visit, you can see the 5 classrooms in action and we can discuss your expectations and personalize your understanding of our school.
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To This Day Project { a collaborative animation }
This is my [very small] contribution to a really beautiful project that I am honored to have a little flash of my jam inside. I usually don't showcase things on this site that aren't 100% my work, but if you have 7 minutes this is a heart-melter from the moving poem written and performed by Shane Koyczan to all the talented contributions and styles that collage together a fantastic free-association of visual storytelling. A full list of all the participating animators can be found below.
To This Day is a project based on a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan (shanekoyczan.com) called "To This Day", to further explore the profound and lasting impact that bullying can have on an individual.Schools and families are in desperate need of proper tools to confront this problem. We can give them a starting point... A message that will have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying.Animators and motion artists brought their unique styles to 20 second segments that will thread into one fluid voice.
This collaborative volunteer effort demonstrates what a community of caring individuals are capable of when they come together.Credits:
Ryan Kothe
Mike Healey
Will Fortanbary
Brian San
Diego De la Rocha
Gizelle Manalo
Adam Plouff
Mike Wolfram
Hyun Min Bae
Oliver Sin
Seth Eckert
Viraj Ajmeri
Vishnu Ganti
Yun Wang
Boris Wilmot
Cameron Spencer
DeAndria Mackey
Matt Choi
Reimo Õun
Samantha Bjalek
Eli Treviño
Ariel Costa
Caleb Coppock
James Mabery
Samir Hamiche
Waref Abu Quba
Deo Mareza and Clara
Josh Parker
Scott Cannon
Thomas McKeen
Kaine Asika
Marcel Krumbiegel
Teresa del Pozo
Eric Paoli Infanzón
Maxwell Hathaway
Rebecca Berdel
Zach Ogilvie
Anand Mistry
Chase Ogden
Dominik Grejc
Gideon Prins
Lucy Chen
Mercedes Testa
Rickard Bengtsson
Stina Seppel
Daniel Göttling
Julio C. Kurokodile
Marilyn Cherenko
Tim Darragh
Jaime Ugarte
Joe Donaldson
Josh Beaton
Margaret Schiefer
Rodrigo Ribeiro
Ryan Kaplan
Yeimi Salazar
Daniel Bartels
Joe Donaldson
Daniel Molina
Sitji Chou
Tong Zhang
Luc Journot
Vincent Bilodeau
Amy Schmitt
Bert Beltran
Daniel Moreno Cordero
Marie Owona
Mateusz Kukla
Sean Procter
Steven Fraser
Aparajita R
Ben Chwirka
Cale Oglesby
Igor Komolov
Markus Magnusson
Remington McElhaney
Tim Howe
Agil Pandri
Jessie Tully
Sander Joon
Kumphol Ponpisute
James Waters
Chris Koelsch
Ronald Rabideau
Alessandro & Manfredi
Andrea López
Howey Mitsakos
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Leah Nelson
Jorge R. Canedo Estrada
Alicia Katz
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Joni Avram
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Maiya Robbie
Stefan Bienz
Corwin Fox
Aaron Joyce
Christina Zaenker
Melissa Bandura
for creating such a beautiful piece of music and having the patience to explore this art form with me.
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This is my [very small] contribution to a really beautiful project that I am honored to have a little flash of my jam inside. I usually don't showcase things on this site that aren't 100% my work, but if you have 6 minutes this is a heart-melter from the moving poem written and performed by Shane Koyczan to all the talented contributions and styles that collage together a fantastic free-association of visual storytelling. A full list of all the participating animators can be found below.
Animation, Motion Graphics
Other Projects
- Reel16 2016 Reel of Motion Graphics and Animation by Rebecca Berdel 2016 Animation, Digital Art
- Curtain Raiser: Eye On Earth Summit 2015 Curtain Raiser produced in partnership with YOND3R for the 2015 Eye On Earth Summit. 2015 Motion Graphics
Adeso Africa Animation
The story of three characters' lives transformed by Adeso's work in South Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia.
Produced in partnership with YOND3R 2015 Animation, Motion Graphics
Class 5 Films logo design + bumper
I've got to thank the guys at C5F for really letting me indulge the creative process on this one. They came to me early in the summer with a very open creative brief to design their logo and animate it to open their newest release. While the final approach was incredibly simple, the process of defining the style that would fit this group of contemporary writers whose company name comes from their shared adventures in white water rapids was one that inspired a sea of creative references for me.
The legend of wilderness photographer, Ansel Adams, was my first character of inspiration of this project. His vast black and white landscapes encompass all the themes of backcountry adventure with timeless stately glimpses of the natural world. Specifically some of his water photography inspired the high-contrast, gritty texture.
The animation concept opens with a classic countdown leader that stops on the five. Then, as if sliding back along the tracks of Ansel's view camera, the letters are sucked backward in depth behind a perfectly centered view hole. The client really wanted to see the C+5 come together, so the final letter C does a quick wipe as it encircles the five and it ends on that bold, clean mark.
Sound design by Parabolic NY
2012 Animation, Motion Graphics
- Someone You Know Client: Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest 2012 Motion Graphics
Created to succinctly give tangible examples of who is affected by a low minimum wage, specifically promoting demonstrations in the Boston area. The creative brief called for a "suburban militant" treatment and the use of a variety of fonts.
Pop art has always been one of my favorite movements, and so with that in mind I was drawn to use these halftone textures to give a little gruff to my typically clean aesthetic in a Lichtenstein meets Paul Rand kinda way.
Produced and written by Big Bowl of Ideas
Music by Mark de Clive-Lowe 2014 Animation, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics
Old Fashioned Title Sequence
My dear friend Holly made a documentary! Whipped up a few graphics and this title sequence for kicks.
Check out the doc at: oldfashionedthemovie.com/ 2014 Motion Graphics
Rethinking Communities
National change begins in our own back yards.
Written and Produced by Big Bowl of Ideas 2014 Animation, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics
- BAMMO In December 2011, I produced these crazy vfx-driven promos for BAMMO including the branding and design of the channel's logo. BAMMO is one of YouTube's "super-channels"--combining such famous-on-the-internet talents as MysteryGuitarMan, Mike Diva, DeStorm, and Corridor Digital. 2011 Motion Graphics
This short film directed by Angeline Gragasin is undoubtedly the most in-depth, out-of-this world project I have worked on in my young career.
Though this is just a teaser to one half of a dual-screen narrative, you can see how much can be done with a single character shot on green-screen.
This portion is a HUD-style perspective of Candy Machine as it views Man. I started by keying the 5D footage and compositing it into a stark, but textured environment for Man. Then I built out the future-weird tech-ish graphics that constitute CM's brain at work. As Prologue might agree, it's mega fun to imagine and design for a near-future dystopia.
The full length film is something to experience in person, as the dual screens and brilliant sound design live much better off-internet, but you can sneak a peek at manvcandymachine.com 2010 Motion Graphics
- composite FX // before++afters Composite work usually gets little love, of course, because a good composite is seamless. Going unnoticed is its job. But I've pulled back the curtain on a few projects for you to see some of my tricks in action:: some before++afters for your viewing pleasure. 2013 Motion Graphics
Manifest Equality
In early 2010, I had the pleasure of working with two amazing artists: Damon Locks and Amy Rice. They were participating in a huge group art show called Manifest Equality, and they offered their work to be deconstructed and turned into a couple teasers for the show.
It feels like a very intimate thing to "take apart" a finished piece of art, but both Damon and Amy were gracious enough to send me layers of their process which made these animations possible. And super fun to work on. 2010 Motion Graphics
OCCUPY: Citizen Journalist SuperSuit
This was a personal project that my dearest collabo-friends and I made in response to events of the Occupy movement. Filmed in November 2011 at Synchronicity LA.
And yeah, this was the first time I've had to motion track my own body, so that was both fun and weird. 2012 Motion Graphics
- Live More Weigh Less Re-Brand Freshly spruced for version 2.0, here's the new Live More Weigh Less trailer with a couple new touches to update with Sarah's awesome "roadmap" re-brand. Love this woman! 2012, 2013 Motion Graphics
PlayOn Logo Bumper
Back in March, young film director, David Midell, came to me with the task of redesigning his production company's logo and building it into the opening bumper for their films. The special thing about David's company is that the vision for the company is built out of David's work in special education.
So I presented a handful of concepts and they chose this snowflake design. Since a life with "disability" contains an extra component--that PlayOn aims to deal with in its narratives--I created a 7-pointed snowflake: an icon of individuality with an extra story to tell.
The animation was a practice in delicate treatments that would represent the physics and beauty of moonlit snow falling on a lake. The actual photography of a snowflake up close is something of pure beauty, so I did my best to create a tastefully styled interpretation resting on the physical interactions--the ripples of impact, melting from ice to water--to elicit a few sensations of reality to go with...the...well, the really shiny typography.
In my Chicago days, I loved jogging along the Lakeshore path, and sometimes I'd go late at night just as fresh snow was falling all around me and I swear it feels like you might be magically running in the clouds. Just maybe.
2012 Animation, Motion Graphics
EA Evolution
Event Architects had evolved past an event production provider into a full-service marketing company, so they came to me with a simple text-driven concept to help explain the transition from Event Architects to Agency EA in video form.
Client: Agency EA
Creative Direction: Korbi Bare, Clinton Withers 2011 Motion Graphics, Typography
Fifth Third Bank Graphics & Screen Compositing
This series of videos highlights some great concept UX design, motion tracking, and compositing work we did for Fifth Third Bank this fall.
The beautiful footage was shot and edited by Adam Stein of Bloomgarden Films. He brought us in to work some magic and turn a few "ho-hom" bank charts and transactions into sleek "iPhone-y" touch screen experiences that we tracked and composited into the screens. The subtle end result is a testiment to the seamless execution. 2011 Motion Graphics
Our Children Our Future Ballot Initiative
A little bounce on some simple illustrations and a peppy whistle go a long way.
2012 Motion Graphics
Chicago Freight Car Documentary - animated docs
As an animated interlude in a documentary about CFCL, we "dissected" a couple of their [very] old b&w promotional materials and gave them some life.
Art Direction: Steve Juras
Client: Winding Road Productions, Kathleen Quinn 2010 Motion Graphics, Photo Manipulation, Documentary
Health Care Reform teaser
Teaser to Health Reform: a visual explanation! A series of videos to educate the public about Health Care Reform.
Illustration by Ray Noland 2009 Motion Graphics
- Chilis BE BOLD This project commissioned by Ogilvy Chicago was a spec commercial for Chili's. The assignment was to create an avant-garde interpretation of the brand. 2007 Motion Graphics, Animation
- Wendy Simard's Sprouted Content Wendy Simard is making the newsletter game a little easier for advocates of nutrition and healthy-living homies. Check out her site at sproutedcontent.com 2013 Motion Graphics
Made this "explainer video" for Kara Wright's Mindhearted. It was a very simple shoot designed for a few fun motion tracked elements.
Brand Development for Mindhearted provided by Birkdesign, Inc.
Music is Utah Carol's "Sam's Ranch" 2009 Motion Graphics
- MOCRO winter greetings! Inspired by the fluffy winter of '09-'10, we built this holiday greeting just for fun. (Also, my first foray into the C4D Hair module (pine needles) for the geeks.) And yes, winter's a bitch. 2009 Motion Graphics, Animation
Run, Blago, Run!
Made for Mr. CRO's project at Kickstarter.com - a new online funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, etc. "Run, Blago, Run" was a 3-day Pop-up Art Show in Chicago, July 'o9. Based on the mysterious stencils of the disgraced former governor jogging in a track suit and looking over his shoulder which are found their way onto buildings and alleys around the city.
Visit: kickstarter.com/projects/Mr-CRO/run-blago-run-show 2009 Motion Graphics
New Options
motion + design + rotoscoping for a cool nonprofit org.
Produced by See3 Communications
Sound Design by Dave Fischoff 2011 Motion Graphics
- Sam's Club: Blueprint to Savings Animated this series of in-store gfx displays for BlueSky Chicago. Kitty litter never looked so fly! 2009 Motion Graphics, Animation


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Raspberry Mojito
From Everyday With Rachael Ray magazine
Raspberry Mojito
Handful fresh mint leaves
3 whole fresh raspberries
Juice of 1 lime
2 teaspoons sugar
1 1/2 ounces spiced rum
Splash club soda
- In a highball glass, muddle the mint, raspberries, lime juice, and sugar.
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; add the rum and shake for 15 seconds. Pour into the glass and top with the club soda.
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Slow Death: A Once Fresh and Daring Play Is Killed off in a Plodding Revival
Portillo, Michael, New Statesman (1996)
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Comedy Theatre, London SW1
It must be 27 years ago that I saw Tom Conti in the role of the patient with a severed spinal cord who asserts his right to choose to die. The play Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Conti's performance have lived in my mind ever since. I looked forward to seeing the revival with the Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall as the paralysed advocate of choice, renamed Claire Harrison. Like visiting a friend I had not seen for years, I was wholly unprepared for the ravages that time had inflicted on Brian Clark's text. Where once the dialogue had rattled along, it now seems to plod. Material that was once fresh and daring now strikes me as musty and trite.
The play has reached a venerable age. Originally a TV play, it was born on Granada Television in 1972 (when Ted Heath was prime minister, if any readers remember him). Theatre in the 21st century moves at a different pace. Playwrights no longer treat theatregoers as quite so dumb. In the intervening years, the issue addressed in the play has become familiar. Stephen Hawking has produced masterpieces of thought, despite having lost the use of his body. Christopher Reeve fought to recover movement after his spinal injury and campaigned to raise money for research. Diane Pretty went to court to claim her right to die. Reginald Crew travelled to Switzerland where he was allowed to end his life. Parliament is legislating on living wills (which would allow people to make their wishes clear before their accident or illness). When the judge in the play says, "This is a most unusual case", it makes no sense. Nowadays, such cases are rarely out of the news.
In plucking this dusty play from the shelf, the director, Peter Hall, could have presented it without modification as a 1970s classic. In fact, Clark's play has been doctored. References to the modern world hang from it untidily like Post-it notes. Thus NHS consultants moan about bureaucracy and accountants. But the make-over is superficial. Some unreformed lines sound as patronising as a Pathe newsreel: "I never met anyone quite like Claire Harrison. She's so bright."
The play is filled with stereotypes. The giggly trainee nurse (played by Emma Lowndes) made me feel uncomfortable, and I am no feminist. The gangly, oversexed, joke-cracking black orderly (Jotham Annan), who has a sit-down whenever he can and gets caught by the sister, is a caricature bordering on the offensive. It only gets worse when Claire elevates him to a sort of hero because he alone does not feel guilt about her condition. …


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After firmware update 1DX problems with auto focus
anyone having problems with auto focus after the firmware update
My 500 f4 with the 1.4 i have to manual focus until i get have way there and then the auto kicks in same with my 100-400 if i extend it to 400 it won't focus auto i have to back off to around 350 then the auto works this is weird and was not a problem until i updated to the last firmware update for the f8 fix anyone having the same thing happen
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Sorry guys, i will be spending less time on MTB forum.
I think i may be picking this bike up soon, Scattante XRL, singlespeed.
Opinion or singlespeeds? road or mountain?
Sorry guys, i will be spending less time on MTB forum.
I think i may be picking this bike up soon, Scattante XRL, singlespeed.
Opinion or singlespeeds? road or mountain?
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Me too. Gears are good.
speeds on a road bike range from less than 10 to over 30 on a pretty regular basis, if you live somewhere with hills. Hence the need for gears.
Gears are for Wussy. I used to ride a fixed gear all winter.
Now I am a Wussy.
I guess with pcad and me spending more time on the mountain bike forum, the universe needs to balance out. Gears? I like them.
hmmm, darn now im indecisive, it was the general concencus in the road forum the SS would be ok but i dont know now, we do have some hills around where i live... ughhhh...
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I think I speak for the majority of the mtn bike forum when I say we will gladly trade some elf232 time, for some pcad time.
duh, i cant compete with pcad
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I spent a season riding 95% road and then went back to my MTB. After pushing big gears all summer I was totally crushing people on the climbs with my MTB. Riding a road bike is an awesome way to get really fit and it will help you on the dirt. Enjoy.
aiy, but that still doesnt sound "right", yea i think im going to do it, im kinda talkin it over with my 'rents, they arent very comfortable with me road biking (but they arent opposed). I dont think they want me road biking alone though, but im still workin on that issue (since im using it for transportation, alone, is the only real option).
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if you really feel the need to have a SS one day, just duct tape over the shifters.
Nothing wrong with single speed road bikes (or fixed gear), or geared. I have one of each. They are all different tools for different jobs.
Love it for bad weather training, commuting and errands. I can't ride if fixed gear any more though. Right knee won't allow it anymore.


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INTRODUCTION"All these years I'd taken such comfort in my wandering life, but really I'd been as anchored to the night my father died as Blake had been, circling it from afar, still caught within its gravity." (p. 104)
As a child, Lucy Jarrett received a unique inheritance. Her father, a third-generation locksmith, taught her how "to listen to the whisper of metal shifting" (p. 36) and to open locks without a key. Since then, Lucy has left her hometown—and the pain of her father's mysterious death—far behind. But years later she finds a cache of papers whose long-held secrets will eventually unravel her family's cherished history and release Lucy from her haunted past.
It's been more than a decade since Martin Jarrett drowned in the Lake of Dreams, and Lucy has made only brief visits back to the eponymously named upstate New York village. But when she receives word that her mother has been injured in a car accident, her boyfriend, Yoshi, convinces her that a change of scenery might help her regain perspective and a sense of purpose.
Lucy first met Yoshi, an engineer, while she was on a short-term hydrology assignment in Jakarta. They'd quickly "fallen in love the way it is possible to fall in love overseas, cut off from everything" (p. 6). Afterwards, however, Yoshi found lucrative work in Japan while Lucy remained unemployed. She accompanied him only to become isolated and lonely, adrift in a foreign land.
At a crossroads in her life and in their relationship, Lucy returns to the Lake of Dreams to find the once quiet village on the brink of upheaval. The recent closing of the area's biggest employer, a local military depot, has left a large area of wetlands hotly contested between developers, conservationists, and the descendants of the Iroquois tribe who originally inhabited it.
Closer to home, her brother, Blake, has just accepted a job with their Uncle Art, who finagled their father out of his share of the family business years before. And their mother, Evie, is enjoying a budding romance after years of widowhood.
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Disoriented by jetlag and a flood of conflicting emotions, Lucy seeks refuge in her family's lakeside home. There, peeling paint exposes a cupboard that attracts Lucy's attention, and she picks the lock. Inside lies a mishmash of papers dated from between 1913 and 1925. Some are newspaper clippings and relics from the suffrage movement, but there are also two compelling and provocative handwritten notes whose author, Rose, Lucy cannot place in the family tree.
She is intrigued by this mystery, and—as she awaits Yoshi's imminent arrival—grows determined to learn Rose's true identity, embarking on a quest that will uncover the past, piece by piece. The scant clues gradually lead her through a Byzantine web of deception whose resolution will shake the Jarrett clan to its core.
Beautifully written and lushly imagined by one of today's most gifted novelists, Kim Edwards's The Lake of Dreams is an enthralling family saga rich with insights on the past's inexorable power over all our lives.
Kim Edwards is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which has been published in more than thirty-eight countries, and a collection of short stories, The Secrets of a Fire King. Her honors include the Whiting Award, the British Book Award, and USA Today's Book of the Year, as well as the Nelson Algren Award, a National Magazine Award, and a grant from the NEA. She is an associate professor at the University of Kentucky.
I've always written, and knew from the time I was learning to read that I wanted to be a writer, so it was completely natural for me to embark on another novel once The Memory Keeper's Daughter was complete, even before it was published. Each story begins with fragments, images, a glimpse, and in those early days with The Lake of Dreams I was doing a great deal of writing outside the narrative—character sketches and histories, writing exercises, lots and lots of free-writing of all kinds. I set myself a goal of 1,000 words a day, but I put no other constraints on the work I was doing. Very few of these early pages ended up directly in the novel, but this underlying work was necessary for me to understand the characters and the narrative. I was also reading a great deal about myths, in particular about the hero's journey and quest narratives, thinking about structure and Lucy's experiences. I read Thomas Mann's tetrology, Joseph and His Brothers, and started reading contemporary theologians, too.
Thus, by the time all the excitement began over The Memory Keeper's Daughter, I was already deeply immersed in The Lake of Dreams. I had to put writing aside altogether for a couple of years to respond to the astonishing events—The Memory Keeper's Daughter became a bestseller internationally, and won the British Book Award. When I finally came back to my desk, it was very satisfying, as well as very grounding, to return to writing in general, and to this story in particular, with so much already begun. Gradually, I was able to block out the world with all its clamor and demands and reenter the fictional world I'd been creating. Again, this shift felt quite natural and gratifying. Through times of great obscurity and times of great recognition, the constant for me, and the greatest satisfaction, has always been the writing itself.
Q. How—if at all—has success affected your job as a professor of creative writing? What advice would you give to an aspiring writer?
I've been on an extended leave in order to focus on writing, so I haven't been in the classroom much lately. The advice I'd give to beginning writers remains the same, however. First, write. Every day, in a disciplined way. Read as much as possible, read everything. Take writing classes to deepen your understanding of narrative structure and character development. Find a group of other aspiring writers and exchange manuscripts—becoming a close reader of the work of others will ultimately help you turn a clear eye on your own, and the community will help sustain you through the years it takes to master aspects of craft. Be patient, and take pleasure in the joy of writing.
Q. In The Lake of Dreams, you give a subtle nod to The Memory Keeper's Daughter when Lucy looks at the book her mother is reading and "glimpsed an ethereal baby dress against a background of black" (p. 143). Both novels have abandoned children at their heart. What draws you to explore this theme?
That's a good question. It's not personal, at least not directly—my parents have been married for fifty-five years and still live in the house they built in 1958, where I grew up with my two brothers and my sister. Both my grandmothers lost their mothers at young ages and ended up in difficult situations, so perhaps hearing those stories of loss did influence me obliquely.
I think, however, that there are deeper and more interesting underlying reasons. Both of my novels deal with situations in which social structures and mores affect the individual lives of my characters. In The Memory Keeper's Daughter, the assumptions and expectations about Down's syndrome that were prevalent in the 1960s allowed David Henry to believe he was doing the right thing to give his daughter away. He acted from a position of power, but for Rose, in The Lake of Dreams, the situation was much different. Although Rose lacked rights we've come to take for granted, such as the right to vote, to own property, and to have an education, she understood her own integrity as a human being and stood up for what she believed to be right, carving out a life for herself against difficult odds and opening the path for those who would follow, even when that meant leaving her child in the care of others. What connects the two situations, in my view, is the pressure that dysfunctional aspects of society put on individuals, even on the bonds we tend to think of as being the strongest and most inviolate of all—that of parents with their children.
I'll add to this that variations on the situations in these two novels happen all the time, all around us. Several years ago I started an ESL program to meet the needs of the growing Hispanic community in my city. We worked with a literacy organization; the classes were held at a church. I taught in this program weekly for five years, and during that time I heard again and again stories that broke my heart: the couple who took turns sleeping in their car between shifts at McDonalds so they could send money home to their families, including the toddler they'd left behind; the woman who had not seen her two older children for seven years, not since they were eight and nine years old and she'd left them to try to work her way out of poverty and provide them with food and education. These were gentle and loving people who had been forced by circumstances to make choices no parent should ever have to face.
Q. Whose story did you envision first: Lucy's or Rose's?
Actually, I started with Evie's story. Before my story collection The Secrets of a Fire King was published, I finished a draft, some 400 pages long, of a novel that was a precursor to The Lake of Dreams. Some familiar elements were in that book—the comet tying an intergenerational novel together, a complex family history, and the thematic concerns with regard to the land—but the draft was a youthful effort, and it ended up in my desk drawer. I tried again, a few years later, using a different voice, but hit a wall about 200 pages in and put the book aside to write The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
By the time I returned to The Lake of Dreams I knew it was Lucy's story. I had her voice, which is always the crucial discovery. Still, as I wrote more deeply into the narrative, another voice, this one from the past, just kept persisting. I finally started writing it down, thinking I could simply understand the back story and how it had influenced Lucy and then put aside the pages I was writing. Gradually, however, the story of Rose Jarrett took on its own life, weaving its way into the contemporary narrative in ways I could not have imagined when I started.
Q. Where The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a very intimate family saga about a child with Downs syndrome, this novel is crafted against a much broader socio-political backdrop (e.g. the American suffrage movement, Native American rights, and wildlife preservation). What inspired this shift?
First, I disagree with this distinction. The Memory Keeper's Daughter does focus on individual lives, but it also takes place over several decades, and against the backdrop of the quite dramatic cultural shifts that happened in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. The possibilities for women changed, and parents launched an extraordinary grassroots movement to gain greater acceptance for children who had disabilities, to name just two. Likewise, The Lake of Dreams is also the story of particular characters, living their lives in particular times. As a writer, I'm interested in the way that historical events and social mores influence the way we understand the world and the decisions we make. I don't think it's possible to isolate individuals, or characters, from the eras and cultures they inhabit.
Q. After you earned your graduate degrees—an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and an MA in linguistics—you lived and taught in Asia for several years. Like Lucy, you spent time in several countries. Are any of her experiences based on your own?
Not really, not in more than a general sense. My first summer in Japan was full of earthquakes, which was unsettling, and that made its way into the novel because it struck me as a perfect way to presage the unsettling to come in Lucy's personal and emotional life. I traveled a bit in Indonesia, but didn't spend time there, though I did draw generally on my years in Malaysia to imagine what Lucy's life would have been like there. Cambodia was a moving and important experience for me, one I've never been able to write about directly, so certainly having Lucy go there was a way of remembering my own connection to the country and to its incredibly strong people. One thing I did give Lucy from my own experience is the shift in her perspective. In total, I spent nearly six years living away from my own country and culture, and that has necessarily changed and shaped the way I see the world.
Q. You include incredible descriptions of both the art of glassmaking and technical details about hydrology—not to mention information about the suffrage movement. What were some of the more interesting things you discovered in the course of your research?
It was very interesting to read about the "Silver Ghost," which was the name given to the first Rolls Royce, and to imagine a world before the automobile. I spent time at glass studios and even tried my hand at blowing glass, as well as reading about glassmaking and the art of stained glass windows. Since I grew up very near Seneca Falls, N.Y., the research I did on the women's suffrage movement was very real and alive to me—the authors were talking about events that happened on streets I had walked, in places that I knew. Also, I was intrigued to realize, at a point far into the narrative, that all the imagery of the book was working together in a harmonious but unplanned way. The motif of the circles was in this draft of the book from the beginning, and wheelwrights resonated with that image quite directly; that was a conscious choice. Yet much later, long after I'd written the scenes, I learned that early stained glass windows were modeled on the shapes of wheels—they were called 'wheel windows'—and that the word orbit comes from the Latin orbita, meaning a rut or a track, like that left by a wheel, traced in the sky. Also, of course there are the many relevant associations with roses, from circles to chalices. I didn't plan this, not at all; in order to have any power or authenticity, images have to arise from the work itself, they cannot be imposed. So I was fascinated as I began to realize how everything resonated, how deeply and intricately all the imagery was connected.
Probably the most interesting thing, however, and perhaps the most sobering, was to realize how many of the issues the early feminists faced are still under discussion today. Only within my lifetime has the church begun to ordain women, for instance, and many denominations still exclude women from positions of authority. I was writing and researching this novel during the 2008 election, which meant that I was reading about the events and debates of the early 1900s while arguments about women's reproductive health, access to information, and even, extremely, the 19th amendment, swirled around me in the present, too. It was a compelling reminder that the rights I take for granted haven't always been there.
Q. You write about Keegan's work and Frank Westrum's stained-glass windows with such passion. Have you always been interested in this medium, or is it more of a metaphorical vehicle?
Early on in the writing of this novel I had a sense that Keegan was a stained glass artist. I was drawn to the beauty of the process, the way glass moves between liquid and solid states, and the idea of shaping glass with breath. While I took notes and kept extensive journal entries about the experiences, it was a year or more before I began to write the scenes in the novel involving glass. I had to understand the characters first, and allow time for the experiences and information I'd collected to distill into the imagery and metaphors essential for this novel.
Q. Who are some of the writers that you most admire?
There are so many that it's hard to choose. Virginia Woolf is a favorite, and I always look forward to Alice Munro and William Trevor. Seamus Heaney, too, and Mary Oliver. I enjoyed Susan Cheever's biography of Louisa May Alcott, both for Cheever's writing as for the chance to reacquaint myself with Alcott, whose books I loved as a girl. Recently, I've also started to read the collected works of Thomas Hardy, and have discovered several contemporary theologians, including Teilhard de Chardin, Dorothy Soelle, and Elizabeth Johnson; their work is brilliant and thought-provoking.
Q. What are you working on now?
I've had the first glimpses of the next novel, and I understand something about its characters and concerns, but it's far too soon to say more; it's still a secret, and will be for years.
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Dr. Wahlen's Specialties
- Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
- View all 2 Specialties and 2 board certifications
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Patient Satisfaction
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Likelihood of recommending Dr. Wahlen to family and friends is 1 out of 5 5 1 2
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Appointments & Offices
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Accepting new patients?
- Yes
- 6028 S Ridgeline Dr Ste 101
- Ogden, UT 84405
- (801) 409-2040
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