Dad's Peakin
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suzukisvrider (12:19:44 PM): how'd it go at your dad's?
ryanuklisfpp (12:19:51 PM): yo yo
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:05 PM): well, better you didn't go considering your time constraints
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:17 PM): They closed down the express lanes on 95
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:24 PM): so getting out of the city took 2 hours
suzukisvrider (12:20:30 PM): holy fuck
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:32 PM): to get from 20s to GWB
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:33 PM): yeah
suzukisvrider (12:20:40 PM): i heard there was bad traffic all over the city last night
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:43 PM): yeah
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:45 PM): it was brutal
suzukisvrider (12:20:52 PM): good thing you have a benzo
ryanuklisfpp (12:20:55 PM): at first it seemed like normal bad traffic
suzukisvrider (12:21:01 PM): right
ryanuklisfpp (12:21:22 PM): but i hadn't seen him in like 2 months so i figured i made the commitment so i stuck to it
suzukisvrider (12:21:31 PM): yeah
ryanuklisfpp (12:21:39 PM): turned out to be awesome, he was in good shape
ryanuklisfpp (12:21:45 PM): good day
ryanuklisfpp (12:21:58 PM): it's amazing.... i had a lot of guilt for not having seen him since easter
ryanuklisfpp (12:22:08 PM): but nothing on his end
ryanuklisfpp (12:22:29 PM): i brought the latest book of pkins
ryanuklisfpp (12:22:39 PM): he flipped thru it... he tried reading some
ryanuklisfpp (12:22:47 PM): but definitely still captures his interest
ryanuklisfpp (12:22:56 PM): i asked him to do one
ryanuklisfpp (12:23:10 PM): so he drew/wrote on it
ryanuklisfpp (12:23:16 PM): started out with a J
ryanuklisfpp (12:23:23 PM): then went into scriggly lines
ryanuklisfpp (12:23:28 PM): with peaks and valleys
ryanuklisfpp (12:23:31 PM): and he said "Maryanne"
ryanuklisfpp (12:23:48 PM): which Tiff thought was him reading the date of May 26 or Memorial Day on the previous one
suzukisvrider (12:24:05 PM): hmm...
ryanuklisfpp (12:24:27 PM): I think that may have been what triggered it, but I'm pretty sure Maryanne is the name of the chick that he spoke about the time we walked around Madison Square Park that tried to have sex with him
suzukisvrider (12:25:13 PM): lol
ryanuklisfpp (12:25:18 PM): Then on the inside I drew a tree and asked him to do something
ryanuklisfpp (12:25:25 PM): he looked at it and said "Hey, that's good"
ryanuklisfpp (12:25:30 PM): so i wrote that down in quotes at the bottom
ryanuklisfpp (12:25:47 PM): Then he read it as "I have...."
ryanuklisfpp (12:25:53 PM): I have
ryanuklisfpp (12:25:58 PM): shit i forget what he said for "good"
ryanuklisfpp (12:26:46 PM): anyway... then I took some pics of him holding the pkin
ryanuklisfpp (12:26:55 PM): then Tiff took some of us each holding a pkin
ryanuklisfpp (12:27:13 PM): i took some shots of him holding a pen to pkin
ryanuklisfpp (12:27:21 PM): and him daggering a pen at the pkin
ryanuklisfpp (12:27:39 PM): we started writing the song "Hey Good Lookin"
ryanuklisfpp (12:27:57 PM): "Hey good lookin,
We're good lookin now"
ryanuklisfpp (12:28:16 PM): Pretty interesting that he chose "now" in there, now that i think about that
ryanuklisfpp (12:28:34 PM): although i suppose remarkably unsurprising
ryanuklisfpp (12:28:59 PM): I attempted to get a lyric out of him for the song "I don't care, what they say, you're alright"
ryanuklisfpp (12:29:11 PM): but that one he just "sang along" with me
suzukisvrider (12:29:43 PM): yeah
suzukisvrider (12:29:56 PM): sounds like it was fun, how'd the photos come out?
ryanuklisfpp (12:30:06 PM): not sure, i only looked at them on the camera
ryanuklisfpp (12:30:11 PM): they seemed somewhat dark
ryanuklisfpp (12:30:23 PM): but whatever, i don't really care too much about that. a little i guess
ryanuklisfpp (12:30:32 PM): i care more about what settings i have the camera on
ryanuklisfpp (12:30:51 PM): i don't know if i'm using too much memory per pic
ryanuklisfpp (12:31:05 PM): or if it's on the right resolution or whatever
ryanuklisfpp (12:31:25 PM): there was definitely one angle i got that i liked
ryanuklisfpp (12:31:34 PM): i was to his left
suzukisvrider (12:31:38 PM): ok, well i'll take you through all that stuff when we get together
suzukisvrider (12:31:43 PM): it's easy once you know where it is
ryanuklisfpp (12:32:07 PM): he was holding the pkin and pen and i tilted the angle to get him in the upper right corner and the pkin/pen in the lower left/middle
ryanuklisfpp (12:32:32 PM): this stuff is awesome... i think photos are going to be great once i can really figure out what to get, how and when
ryanuklisfpp (12:32:41 PM): The trick is getting the candid shit
ryanuklisfpp (12:32:47 PM): although the posed stuff is pretty funny
ryanuklisfpp (12:33:00 PM): i couldn't for the life of me get him giving Tiffany "googly eyes"
ryanuklisfpp (12:33:16 PM): he was whispering to her, telling her "He won't notice" if they left
ryanuklisfpp (12:33:30 PM): at best i got a sideglance shot of it
ryanuklisfpp (12:33:57 PM): but the eyes... this is the type of stuff i need to capture now if i'm ever going to be able to paint it
ryanuklisfpp (12:35:05 PM): how would I search art content, in this case photography, that has concentrated on Alzheimer's as the subject?
ryanuklisfpp (12:37:55 PM): i was getting pretty excited though... i wished i had planned out more activities
ryanuklisfpp (12:38:11 PM): i think i could have had him doing a bunch of shit, i just didn't do it
ryanuklisfpp (12:38:27 PM): i think it would be fun to go sometime and turn his bedroom into a "fort"
ryanuklisfpp (12:38:35 PM): or some kind of make-believe shit kids do
ryanuklisfpp (12:38:40 PM): and photograph that