Thoughts “Don’t Shoot! We’re with the Science Team!” Jon Hillenbrand, September 12, 2017October 17, 2019 Inspired by the PC Gamer article about save games… When I was a kid, I was playing Half-Life with my dad watching in the chair next to me. I had been fight and hiding from the Marines for a while now, listening to them talk about me, hiding in vents…
Thoughts Haunted House Theories Jon Hillenbrand, December 12, 2016October 17, 2019 A few years back, I rented a haunted house. I didn’t know it was haunted when I first rented it. You would think it would be exciting. Well, it’s not. It sucks. One time, I heard all of the pots and pans fall from a ceiling mounted rack into my…
Thoughts A Thought of My Own Sourcing Jon Hillenbrand, December 12, 2016October 17, 2019 All original thought is just randomness grabbed from an infinite database in our brains. And it’s all written down already in the Library of Babel. Did we create the language or did the language already exist and we created meaning? If all words and imagery exists independently of meaning, does…
Thoughts 5K Registration Jon Hillenbrand, August 7, 2016October 17, 2019 Now I’ve done it. After 3 months of pretty darn steady training, I’ve signed up for my first official 5K, the Humboldt Park 5K, on Sunday Aug. 14th. The reason I chose this particular 5K was that it falls on the exact day my training program calls for running a…
Thoughts Night Running Jon Hillenbrand, August 6, 2015October 17, 2019 I often run at night. Yesterday, I went for a long walk. And when I was passing the beach, the cops came and shined a light onto the beach because it was closed. The cop’s light illuminated a group of eight college students who were all crowded on top of…
Thoughts Jon Hillenbrand’s “Run for your Life 5K” Jon Hillenbrand, August 2, 2015October 17, 2019 The culmination of a 12 week Couch to 5K running plan ends today. The training has been the most fun running I’ve ever done. It is a plan that I chose through Garmin Connect, the website that interfaces with my Garmin Fenix 3 watch and tracks my fitness. The plans were all…
Thoughts Creativity in a vacuum Jon Hillenbrand, July 28, 2015October 17, 2019 I’ve sometimes been asked if there’s a difficulty in my life between being creative and paying the bills, often referred to as “whoring yourself out for the Man” or “selling out”. Here are my thoughts on this.
Thoughts Unshackled From Gravity Jon Hillenbrand, May 31, 2012October 17, 2019 Yesterday morning as I was walking to my car before work, I saw two Song Sparrows sitting in the middle of the street very close to each other looking at me. I thought they might be mates but as I got closer they started fighting. First they pecked at each…
Thoughts Cold smoke Jon Hillenbrand, April 30, 2012October 17, 2019 This past January when the weather was extremely cold, I was asked to photograph a new sign on the outside of a cancer treatment building for advertising purposes. I decided to wait until the sun was going down in order to have the best light to work with. Shooting at…
Thoughts The Adventures of Jon Hillenbrand Jon Hillenbrand, January 13, 2012October 17, 2019 My mom forwarded this story to me that I wrote when I was 8 years old… THE ADVENTURES OF JON HILLENBRAND One day I climbed up my tree and saw a race track. I was there yesterday. I was looking at my racing car. The racing car was red and had…
Thoughts The Missing Ingredient Jon Hillenbrand, December 5, 2011October 17, 2019 There are many things in this world that are almost perfect. Pringles, for example, would be perfect if they satiated you. Unfortunately, you crave more the more you eat which, lucky for Pringles, keeps you purchasing can after delicious can. My sister used to joke that they were laced with…
Thoughts Taffy Apple Day Jon Hillenbrand, October 31, 2011October 17, 2019 Today I photographed Taffy Apple Day in the cafeteria at work. I have no deep thoughts about this. It was simply a quick little shoot. Nothing to report here. On the other side of the cafeteria, they are trying to get coffee addicts to stop using 4 million Styrofoam cups a year…
Thoughts Still Waters Jon Hillenbrand, October 15, 2011October 17, 2019 Today is my birthday. One of the traditions my family has on birthdays is to give everyone at the table a small present. I think because my parents were raising three kids, it was a way of reducing the amount of jealousy and door slamming among the non-birthday kids after…
Photography Amazing Women Jon Hillenbrand, August 5, 2011October 17, 2019 LOOKING NOT FINDING Looking online for someone to date is like shopping for a car. Too old, too young, wrong color, wrong features, looks like high-maintenance hotness, looks perfect but the seller won’t contact me back, etc. The good thing about shopping online for someone to date is when…
Photography ARC Jon Hillenbrand, July 27, 2011October 17, 2019 Automatic Relationship Compensation (ARC). I’ve discovered that I suffer from ARC after I bought my first car. The concept is this: the more my romantic life suffers, the more money I spend on my car. After three years of on and off with a girl I was dating, my car…