Friday, September 26, 2008

September 24-26, Kaohsiung

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 11:52 a.m. - Kaohsiung TRA Main Station.
12:08 p.m. - The KMRT line that leads to my uncle's building has opened. For the first time no one had to come pick me up at Kaohsiung Main Station or the HSR.
12:18-12:19 p.m. - My uncle and aunt still have to cross the street to get to the KMRT station.
2:40 p.m. - KMRT Formosa Boulevard Station.
3:58 p.m. - Heart of Love River.
5:04-5:05 p.m. - Port of Kaohsiung and detail.
5:05 p.m. - I don't know them, they were just hanging about.
5:38-5:40 p.m. - I still can't get over how much this part of my uncle's street has transformed with the KMRT station.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1:32 p.m. - KMRT Central Park Station.
9:16 p.m. - Pie and Gracie. Pie's birthday.
9:32 p.m. - Eddie.
9:38 p.m. - with Pie.
SEPTEMBER 26, 9:11 a.m. - They're converting the old rail line into walking/biking paths.

September 14-26, black & white

Pentax ZX-5n, Ilford XP2 Super:

Typhoon Sinlaku:

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14



Taipei Main Station:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23



Kaohsiung:

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26



Gongyuan 2nd Road photo essay. More than a kilometer worth of residents and business were evicted and buildings demolished, presumably under Taiwan's version of eminent domain, to make way for a park. Ironic because "Gongyuan" means "park". You might say they had it coming to them.





Saturday, September 20, 2008

I think I said it all when I said all I would want anyone to know about me is that I committed suicide. Why say anything else? Anything else I might say, I don't care about. All that's left is that I killed myself. And I haven't done that yet.

I've been being blog-stalked by people I know, and that's no good. Still no evidence that this blog has been breached. One of my fotologs was breached by my sister-in-law, and I stopped posting there and started another fotolog.

Wednesday, September 10, 1:54 a.m. - My neighborhood. Nothing special, but the last picture posted on the breached fotolog (and first on the new one).
I just thought it was creepy being blog-stalked by someone I know, i.e., someone with whom I have pretty regular communications. It would've been alright if she found the site and told me that she found it and would be visiting and asked if that was alright.

Actually, I had evidence that she had likely breached the flog a while ago. It would have been alright if she regularly or even only once-in-a-while emailed me regarding things I had posted. But as it was, I posted a picture that was meant to get attention from people who knew me (tattoo pics) and she took the bait, and only then did I know she was stalking. Or monitoring.

Maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe she was using my instigation as an opportunity to let me know she was visiting, and I'm using it against her. Maybe I'm still disgruntled that she told me not to post pictures of her daughter (on a blog I know she breached, and from where she likely found this flog), which is totally within her rights to do, and it was totally in her rights to be offended by my posting her daughter's pics without getting permission first!

Hm, maybe I should re-consider and start anew and tell her about the new flog. And the only difference would be that I told her about the site – I controlled her access.

The singer of the band I'm in found one of my blogs, too, and I'm still trying to assess the damage. After the sister-in-law incident, I cut most of the links of my sites to each other. But this guy is savvy, and I don't know how deep he might have gotten. This site is probably safe.

Although his finding some of my web presences is fair. And he told me. I'm just more paranoid now. All I want people to know about me is that I killed myself, but I would prefer they knew it after the fact. Otherwise people get nutty and jump to conclusions or think they can do something about it fuckall.

I never found out how Josephine found my fotolog before she disappeared. She disappeared once after first contacting me, then she reappeared, seeming like she wanted to stay in contact and even started posting her own photos. Maybe she didn't like the slow pace at which I was willing to re-acquaint. I was willing to get re-acquainted, but I wasn't going to rush anything. And for me, at least, her second disappearance was affirmation, and if she reappeared again, I would issue an ultimatum – are you in or are you out? Or ignore it. No more games, please, unless it's by my rules.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

September 1-17

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 4:05-4:07 a.m. - Completed Neihu MRT tracks at Dahu Lake. The lights at the upper left in the bottom pic are on the hill for hikers, but imagine, just imagine, that those lights are out in space; that our planet wasn't in such a quiet, rural backwater of the galaxy where stars are so far away and faint that urban lighting can completely wash out all but the brightest stars. Imagine what a night sky might look like in a busier part of the galaxy illuminated by stars and nebulae that were much closer. But there's a give and take as scientists surmise that in more dynamic areas of the galaxy, it might be harder for life to take hold as the interstellar hazards would be greater.
4:16 a.m. - Getting artsy and abstract riding in a Neihu tunnel.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 7:46 p.m. - Live music in the Eslite CD/DVD store in Xinyi District.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2:02 p.m. - Taipei 101 south sidewalk along Xinyi Rd.
2:16-2:17 p.m. - New construction and detail on Songren Rd., Xinyi District.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 3:51-3:52 p.m. - The Living Mall upper floors interior.

Flashback:
April 14, 2008, 1:54 p.m. - The Living Mall basement floors.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 3:34 a.m. - Ruifang night ride.
4:03 a.m. - Qing An Bridge. My bike is there on the right side.
4:11 a.m. - Along the Keelung River in Ruifang. All the red lights in apartments are probably shrines.
5:12 a.m. - Arriving home at daybreak. Shooting west on Maishuai Bridge #1.
3:42 a.m.
Ruifang tunnel from keauxgeigh.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 5:06-5:08 p.m. - On my way to work.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 11:25 a.m. - Typhoon Sinlaku aftermath along the Keelung River.
11:29 a.m. - Debris marking how high the river rose.
11:52-11:53 a.m. - Maishuai Bridge #1 and collecting bottles deposited on the river bank for recycling. From Rainbow Bridge.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 4:20 p.m. - Maishuai Bridge #2 from #1.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 3:47 p.m. - Neihu District, same subject matter as the first two photos. The Neihu MRT tracks have been completed, but not in operation yet.
SEPTEMBER 17, 4:45 p.m. - Taipei Main Station.