A Slice o' Life

Changing Channels

2006-11-04T22:41:00.000+01:00

Slice o' Life is now locked into cryogenic storage for the enjoyment of future generations. For those seeking the latest from me, come on over to PartialSight.com, where all the action is. The archives here will remain open for nostalgic perusal.

Remember: for the latest and greatest in photofantastic imagery, PartialSight.com.

It's much more fun than sticking something sharp in your eye.

Break Time

2006-10-11T00:01:00.000+02:00

A Slice o' Life will be taking a break for a couple weeks, as I will be on the road. There will be exciting new site news when I return, though. If you'd like a little reminder at that point, drop me a line at pferenczi at gmail.com with REMIND ME in the subject. I will only sell your e-mail to Nigerian 419 scammers, not knock-off Viagra vendors. (No offense to my Nigerian readership. It's just a fact that you have a lot of letter fraud coming out of Lagos.)

2006-10-10T23:42:00.000+02:00

Children of the Fog

2006-10-09T22:36:00.000+02:00

Thierry Dreyfus installation at the National Library. Very War of the Worlds.

2006-10-08T22:02:00.000+02:00

It was the Nuit Blanche last night, with artistic stuff going on all over the city until early in the morning. Here's the obelisk and fountains at Place de la Concorde illuminated in what I was informed is "International Klein Blue."

2006-10-07T20:44:00.000+02:00

All David Blaines must be secured in the perspex courtesy lockers prior to entering the museum.

2006-10-06T22:40:00.000+02:00

Dino bones behind bars, ready to get all ghostly Jurassic Park.

2006-10-06T00:44:00.000+02:00

A spot of afternoon light.

2006-10-04T22:23:00.000+02:00

Francois regarded his shadow. He was forcefully reminded of childhood harassments, the other kids calling him "lollipop" in reference to his pipe-cleaner body and remarkably round head.

2006-10-03T23:08:00.000+02:00

There are differing definitions of "relaxing."

2006-10-02T23:31:00.000+02:00

Defined by shadows.

2006-10-01T23:16:00.000+02:00

A gratuitous and exploitive shot for all the flies in my audience.

2006-10-01T01:23:00.000+02:00

depth of (flower) field

2006-09-29T23:13:00.000+02:00

It was when the ceiling started to melt that Martin realized he had probably consumed an ill-advised amount of the strange elixir.

2006-09-28T21:31:00.000+02:00

Traces of time.

2006-09-28T03:43:00.000+02:00

Jules Verne does garden care.

2006-09-27T00:27:00.000+02:00

Ommm....

2006-09-25T21:35:00.000+02:00

Although not predatory by nature, the common pigeon has been known to attack with a low and fast approach when potential prey is particularly oblivious.

2006-09-24T18:58:00.000+02:00

Padma always had a way with birds.

2006-09-22T22:54:00.000+02:00

Harriet had the feeling that it was just going to be one of those days.

2006-09-22T01:35:00.000+02:00

From the Pantheon: Luxembourg, Invalides, Eiffel.

2006-09-20T23:11:00.000+02:00

There's something about parades in Paris that makes people need to climb up on high things. It's the primate in us, I suppose.

2006-09-20T00:02:00.000+02:00

The answer was in there. Somewhere.

2006-09-18T23:02:00.000+02:00

The kids were running wild at the Techno Parade on Saturday.

2006-09-17T23:51:00.000+02:00

We could only assume that it was heavenly essense made physical, dripping from the lofty heights of the cathedral.

2006-09-17T00:39:00.000+02:00

trans-species morpho-mirroring

2006-09-15T23:17:00.000+02:00

monopod

2006-09-14T23:48:00.000+02:00

Love is a many-footed thing.

2006-09-14T00:16:00.000+02:00

the step

2006-09-12T22:56:00.000+02:00

Gino forced the ficus into the car while Mario kept an eye out for witnesses.

2006-09-12T03:21:00.000+02:00

early bird

2006-09-11T01:24:00.000+02:00

Stripes are in.

2006-09-10T01:25:00.000+02:00

We'll leave a light on for you.

2006-09-09T00:12:00.000+02:00

Couldn't sleep this morning. As a compensation, I caught moonset.

2006-09-08T01:15:00.000+02:00

traces and remains

2006-09-06T22:01:00.000+02:00

Although he faded from the public eye after his 1982 smash arcade hit, Q*bert enjoyed a sucessful albeit low-profile career as a designer of tile patterns. The foyer of the apartment building he retired to in Paris is irregularly open to the public, and the occasional pilgrim who grew up in the golden age of the arcade game is free to stop by and recall an orange sphereoid creature deftly navigating a pyramid of blocks.

2006-09-06T01:06:00.000+02:00

A little sameness makes a big difference.

2006-09-05T00:17:00.000+02:00

Cheek-peek.

2006-09-04T00:44:00.000+02:00

You never know when your own life becomes cinematic.

2006-09-02T22:43:00.000+02:00

It's important to stop and smell the flowers, even when it feels like you're drowning in sorrows.

2006-09-01T23:04:00.000+02:00

A reason to admire the French: the ability to reach utter satisfaction at a table for one.

2006-09-01T00:07:00.000+02:00

vertices

2006-08-31T01:23:00.000+02:00

blue bells

2006-08-29T23:08:00.000+02:00

The false eyes help frighten off predators.

2006-08-29T01:14:00.000+02:00

some colors fight the darkness.

2006-08-28T00:40:00.000+02:00

Steph at Rainbow Falls.

2006-08-26T23:51:00.000+02:00

As if there were any doubt that the "insects" known as mantises are anything but sentinels for a race of aliens bent on universal domination.

2006-08-25T23:48:00.000+02:00

FOODS. Exotic-like.

2006-08-24T23:32:00.000+02:00

the painter

2006-08-22T22:22:00.000+02:00

Posts on the Devil's pile.

2006-08-22T10:19:00.000+02:00

Beach cruiser.

2006-08-21T04:53:00.000+02:00

They left in a hurry. And never came back.

2006-08-19T23:11:00.000+02:00

Kites over Seal Beach.

Click on through to the other side.

2006-08-19T00:36:00.000+02:00

The click-through to a larger image is working again; click on a picture to see the same picture, but bigger. Just skimming the images on the main page is like going to a fine restaurant with a large corporation footing the bill and then stopping after the appetizer. Eat the meal, and order a nice bottle of wine. Greed is good. Chow down.

2006-08-19T00:35:00.000+02:00

Cars criss-cross down Lombard Street.

2006-08-17T22:20:00.000+02:00

I took this from the eastern road out of Yosemite. You'd think there wouldn't be mosquitos at 8,000 feet -- until you saw them coming at you, wearing fighter pilot helmets with oxygen tanks on their backs. Then you'd know you were wrong. So wrong.

2006-08-16T09:15:00.000+02:00

Bernie hung motionless from the tree, his agile beak ready to pluck shiny objects from the heads of passers by.

2006-08-15T09:21:00.000+02:00

Taco Chon: the power to devour.

2006-08-14T08:41:00.000+02:00

The Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, California.

2006-08-12T09:37:00.000+02:00

OK, I've enabled word confirmation in the comments due to the deluge of comment spam I got while I was away. You'll now have to type in a word whenever you comment; I know it's a hassle, but I hope it won't stop my loyal commenters (all two of them) from sounding off.

2006-08-12T09:32:00.000+02:00

Sorry for the absence -- due to technical difficulties, I couldn't post from the road. Here's a postcard from Yosemite.

2006-08-08T09:12:00.000+02:00

Remnant

2006-08-07T09:36:00.000+02:00

17 Mile Drive in the fog.

2006-08-06T08:46:00.000+02:00

Steph called them "CDs."

2006-08-05T04:37:00.000+02:00

Life's a beach.

2006-08-04T09:22:00.000+02:00

America is beset by a large and growing crack problem.

2006-08-03T09:20:00.000+02:00

Forest for the trees.

2006-08-02T08:44:00.000+02:00

Californiacana

2006-08-01T08:50:00.000+02:00

Cloud City

2006-07-31T08:31:00.000+02:00

Philip stuttered and his flatulence was widely remarked in private, but none of the other kids bothered him because of his big brother.

2006-07-30T10:06:00.000+02:00

You're gonna find some special people there...

2006-07-29T06:52:00.000+02:00

Fog City

2006-07-28T08:05:00.000+02:00

Appealing to criminal kindness...

2006-07-27T07:36:00.000+02:00

Morris vented his rage. Say what you will about sticks and stones, but an unflattering remark about someone's nose can cut to the quick.

2006-07-26T09:15:00.000+02:00

A dash of orange outside Lompoc.

2006-07-25T07:52:00.000+02:00

Herbert had that sinking feeling. The one that comes from being buried in tar up to the shoulders.

2006-07-24T09:32:00.000+02:00

I prey for you.

2006-07-23T17:17:00.000+02:00

Borat in LA. "Is a good!"

2006-07-22T08:40:00.000+02:00

The view from the giant helium balloon.

2006-07-21T07:53:00.000+02:00

The nymph juggled her orange spheres while Time rested.

2006-07-20T07:29:00.000+02:00

She was early for the alien invasion. The planet in question was dull, but at least the wait gave her time to work on her tan.

2006-07-18T22:51:00.000+02:00

The Eiffel bathed in an unusual light before the Bastille Day fireworks.

2006-07-18T00:41:00.000+02:00

The Rapunzel sisters practiced with ivy long before risking their hair in the daring stunt.

2006-07-16T23:56:00.000+02:00

They set the Bastille Day fireworks off on the other side of the Eiffel tower this year, but since we watched from the Trocadero, we still got to see that iron silhouette.

2006-07-16T01:34:00.000+02:00

two and two

2006-07-15T00:23:00.000+02:00

The face you present to the street.

2006-07-14T00:58:00.000+02:00

the light inside

2006-07-13T00:51:00.000+02:00

Due to some technical issues, the last couple posts don't let you click though to a bigger version. I hope to resolve this soon, but until then you'll have to be happy with these medium res versions of new posts.

2006-07-13T00:50:00.000+02:00

Art can be found underground, if you know where to dig.

2006-07-12T00:02:00.000+02:00

I'm back from the south, so posting will now recommence on the regular schedule. Here's a lavender field near Gordes with a picturesque abbey in the background.

2006-07-07T23:06:00.000+02:00

It was the last bar before 1,000 miles of nothing. Of course, we stopped.

2006-07-06T23:41:00.000+02:00

We made it to the massive photo festival in Arles today. Here we are following the orange flag road.

2006-07-04T20:16:00.000+02:00

The Furry Cartoon Characters' jungle expedition ended abruptly and tragically with their discovery of the head-hunters' village.

2006-07-04T00:33:00.000+02:00

Wave 'em like you just don't care.

Bonus video

2006-07-03T11:36:00.000+02:00

Expanding on the photo-centric mission of this site, I bring you the first Slice o' Life Video. This is further coverage of the post-game celebration seen below, and although the quality is dismal (it's from my phone) it gives you a sense of the scene.

2006-07-03T01:10:00.000+02:00

I missed last night's posting due to the World Cup post game celebration here. I didn't have my camera with me, but here's a shot of the madness in Place St. Michel a few minutes after the victory that I snapped with my phone. You can make out a guy standing on top of a city bus (the 21) waving a French flag.

2006-06-30T23:24:00.000+02:00

When Jimmy played the horn, he became the brass.

2006-06-30T01:06:00.000+02:00

city in a vacuum

2006-06-28T23:56:00.000+02:00

This noble expression of bird pushing the genes one more step down the line.

2006-06-27T23:35:00.000+02:00

At the Ecole des Beaux Arts, a monument to lapsed grandeur.