Photography Metrics Jon Hillenbrand, October 2, 2010October 17, 2019 Some people I work with don’t care about anything other than successful numbers. As someone involved in creating artwork for a living, it’s difficult to mesh with that metrics-based world. But I do keep track of almost everything I do at work so just for fun, here are some of…
Photography Thoughts on Thoughts Jon Hillenbrand, September 29, 2010October 17, 2019 I am Captain Insomnia. My super power is the ability to stay awake forever. Sometimes I just can’t get my brain to shut the hell up. It’s probably clinical and can be treated with a pill which will destroy other parts of my life. Fuck, anything I write seems self-servingly…
Photography Et maintenant au Congo Jon Hillenbrand, August 30, 2010October 17, 2019 Often when I am photographing wealthy socialites partying or buying art on the north shore of Chicago, I think of a friend of mine, Amy Ernst, who is in the Congo right now taking amazing photos of interesting people. But she’s not there to take photos, she’s doing her part…
Photography Cracking Open the Omniverse Jon Hillenbrand, August 24, 2010October 17, 2019 Today I experienced a cranial disaster resulting from a singularity in all space and time. It all started way back when my parents decided not to have any more children after the birth of my older sister Sarah. Sixteen months later, I was a newborn being carried around the hospital by…
Thoughts The Killers of Juarez Jon Hillenbrand, August 23, 2010October 17, 2019 One of the greatest crimes of the favored is apathy to the plight of the unfortunate. Many Americans feel this to be true and for a few moments each year, they gather behind the news of the day and text money to a cause. They allow others to work out…
Photography Universal Tooth Jon Hillenbrand, August 10, 2010October 17, 2019 Debating the details of someone’s core beliefs is an entertaining yet usually pointless endeavour; but let slip the dogs of war, I say. I once argued with a girl for what felt like two hours about the existence of Universal Truth, she on the, “it obviously exists,” side and me on the, “you can never prove it,”…
Photography Medium Sized Jon Hillenbrand, August 4, 2010October 17, 2019 After college, I lived in Kankakee County in a small town called Momence for a while. There were only a few hundred people living there with a main street no longer than 10 or 15 blocks long, and that’s being generous. It was far from work, but in the neighborhood…
Photography Mother and Daughter Jon Hillenbrand, August 3, 2010October 17, 2019 I’m sure there’s some sort of life lesson to learn from the massive striped spider which has been constantly making a web on the side of my car door. But I really don’t care because the damn thing scares the crap out of me every time I jumps out at…
Thoughts Subtitled for Success Jon Hillenbrand, July 16, 2010October 17, 2019 Regular readers of my blog already know that I imagine myself to be fluent in several foreign languages including Russian, Spanish, French, Southie, Klingon and of course Huttese. But I use the word fluent to mean, “I know enough to get myself in trouble.” The drawback of my foreign language…
Photography Bathroom Perspective Jon Hillenbrand, July 11, 2010October 17, 2019 It’s funny how some ordinary everyday objects take on a new life of their own depending on how you look at them. Of course, for someone like me who has -5.5 vision correction in both eyes, this is how the bathroom looks to me every morning when I haven’t put…
Photography Making bubbles Jon Hillenbrand, July 8, 2010October 17, 2019 Photoshop has been good to me. Since version 4.0 or so, I’ve been teaching myself successfully how to use it and having a lot of fun along the way. I’m always impressed with what it can do in such a short amount of time. Getting a Wacom tablet opened up…
Thoughts College Paper Redux Jon Hillenbrand, July 2, 2010October 17, 2019 While recently poking through my ancient floppy disks, I found some college papers which were written on a vintage Canon Starwriter 30 electronic typewriter. Most of the disks are corrupted or unreadable, but mixed in among the Organic Chemistry and Ecology Lab papers were five or six philosophy papers that…
Photography Canine Compound Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 Every morning, someone is out in the courtyard behind my bedroom window screaming “Duke,” in inadequately-hushed tones repetitively in some kind of valiant attempt to overcome the human-dog language barrier. Either that, or he is attempting to train a dog on the spot without supplying it with any commands. The…
Thoughts You All Everybody Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 I’m in the middle of watching a marathon of Lost episodes from Season 1 through 6 and I’m finding that even though I never really liked Charlie, the washed up heroin-addicted rock star, before, I particularly don’t like him now that I’ve just seen Get Him To The Greek’s character…
Photography A is to B Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 Blogging can be a rewarding and/or frustrating source of happiness/malaise. Forests require trees, fortune seems pale, fury seems petty and sometimes you just don’t feel like a good enough writer to compete with other talented bloggers using their accounts to the fullest. For example, let’s say that person A and…