As the result of a yet undisclosed massively cool project I became the proud owner of some 80+ miniature liquors, more commonly known as “nips”.

These cute little fellows share varying degrees of likeness to their 750ml parent bottles but all share the joy of 50ml of pure fun. Using my lil’ light tent, I made a set of photos of these characters, trying fairly hard to match up the lighting & the colors. I am pleased with the results.

Fairly soon I will introduce an interesting application of these carefree shots, but for know you can simply lose yourself in this forest of booze!

This is a shot of one of many painfully awesome kinetic sculptures by Arthur Ganson that you can find at the MIT Museum. Most of them involve some type of viewer input, a little hand crank or a button on the floor to start up the gears & other weird things strung together to create his odd yet beautiful machines.

The MIT Museum is right off Mass Ave near Central Square – if you’ve never gone you are missing out on a Boston nerd-gem (they have a lot of sweet robot/hologram stuff as well!)

Blue Jet, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

There’s a neat spot in Boston where you can watch planes, like this puppy, as they land. They zip by right above you on their final approach to the runway – they are huge and loud at this point, pull out all the stops for the last 1/2 mile.
I really like the way this one turned out!

Leah, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

This is a friendly local feline (FLF) that spends its day sunning on top of parked cars and waiting for a for some free petting.
You had me at “meow”!

Just Ducky, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

Look at this little fellow!

Giant Soccer, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

Waiting for some peeps in NYC I saw some soccer team warming up and kicking around a giant soccer ball – they had a crazy flag that said ‘Chinatown Soccer Club’. What made it all the better was that it looks and moves similar to a real ball, knocking people over and causing mayhem but luckily making the perspective amusing in these photos…

X – Detail, originally uploaded by nate_marsh.

My parents made a fantastic book of ABCs for my cousin in 1975. He was about 6 at the time, but the book is unafraid to venture into more advanced topics. like the xerophytes above.

When I visited my aunt & uncle for Easter they brought out the “book” which is in remarkably good shape, suggesting it was kept safely out of reach from my cousin.

I was able to take some pictures of each page, the detail and humor is a testament to the creativity of my folks and perhaps a splash of Yuengling. I love it.

Here is a link to the whole set or watch the lil’ show below!

The good thing about taking hundreds of photos of the same thing is that you end up getting a shot like this – look at those huge eyes, the floppy velvet ears, slightly moist puppy nose and crinkly doggie brow… and that mouth, whiskery without pretension – an elegant little fellow!

Turning the big 29 is a tough one, the last year of your 20s – yowsers…

To celebrate this I threw myself a lavish taco party – it was awesome. Then I got a sweet bday surprise present – I was caught completely off-guard by this little supergadget.

Bonus: Check out the sweet shirt!