Addressing the Vest » Successes

Scott & Patricia Lewis

Ross Evertson — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:21:10 +0000

If you think you know two more wonderful people, may I submit that you are probably dead wrong. I haven’t, as best as I can recall, met two more wonderful people. It is surprising and amazing and fantastic that these two have found each other, twice. Once over a decade ago, and again recently when they reunited and eventually got married two months ago.

Scott is telling a joke that somehow I ended up hearing the next day on NPR, as told by Larry King of all people. If that taught me anything, it is that Scott is a much better story teller than Larry King. Sorry you old sad bastard, it’s a fact.

In honor of larger images here is a picture of a dog.

Ross Evertson — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:23:37 +0000

A rat faced dog and a muddy floor

Ross Evertson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:05:58 +0000

One photograph, ostensibly about nothing at all and maybe seven years old, made me want to write thousands of words. I was compelled to tell the story of the moment, everything that had led to that moment, and everything that came afterwards. I wanted to describe how all of that described me, how all of those things before and after made an awful lot of awful sense—and that things that had happened since might have been misunderstood, but were really just surrounded by other pictures of good things. Even when I was in the middle of some personal tragedy, feeling overly dramatic, they were still pictures of good things.

Instead I described something much more finite, instead I told just the story of why there was a rat faced dog on such a muddy floor.

When driving through Nebraska

Ross Evertson — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:39:17 +0000

and you ask the person sitting in the passenger’s seat to take a photograph of some train graffiti so you can share it with someone, it looks like this—

Does your Grandma’s nursing home have a shoe mirror?

Ross Evertson — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:40:54 +0000

Mine does.

Hi, Colorado.

Ross Evertson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:13:39 +0000

Rocky Mountain National Park, 2010

After nearly 5 months out from Toronto, things are making both more and less sense than ever.
Hi, Colorado.

LBM, by LBM, from LBM

Ross Evertson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:55:57 +0000

I did a small favor for the people of Little Brown Mushroom and they sent me a small book in return. Also, an amazing laser print of what looks to be a giant piece of ham.

“Above the mountain,
The boy grows himself a beard,
This is his ladder.”
—Lester B. Morrison

Mike the Bike

Ross Evertson — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:05:17 +0000

Relevant Photograph #MLK001

Ross Evertson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:14:28 +0000

On Outsourcing

Ross Evertson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:03:34 +0000

Using the Amazon outsourcing service Mechanical Turk I hired workers to visit my website and describe my work. The results were then typeset and printed, including the unedited text of the responses, along with the associated, anonymous worker number.

The results were varied. Most read like book reports, struggling to fill the word quota. There is, though, some interesting insight—including the assumption of one that I am a woman.

See a bit more on the project here.