I took this photo while visiting China in January of 2008. My friend Kai and I just finished climbing part of the great wall located near Beijing. When we came down, we saw a tree with hundreds of these charms tied onto it. These charms have the chinese character 福 (luck) written on them.

Because most people can’t reach the top of the true, most of these charms are tied to the few bottoms branches of the tree. The crushing weight was pulling whole branches down, much like the population problem in China, a lot of good wishes, too few branches.

Ryan Onorato, Whitney Flanigan, Justin Lloyd, Ashley Culver, Kate Dervishi.

This was taken, or should i say these were taken during fall of 2007. I was going to MICA at the time and lived in Sutton place, an apartment building near the school. One day, just after a thunderous storm in the afternoon, a rainbow appeared and the sky turned orange and pink. I took some shots and put them together in photoshop.

I love basketball. Bball Bball Bball. Seeing the ball go in the rim (get your mind out of the gutter) and hear the sweet sound of the swoosh. As good as any meditation, yoga, therapy you can do.