Writing Archive
10-05-05 'Facts'
I hope this should about do: a)...
08-26-05 'SausageFest'
I was recently invited, by good friends,...
07-25-05 'Meat'
Sometimes, in the break room, someone who...
06-29-05 'Support'
Me: You don't see it under "Accessories"?...
06-21-05 'Code Orange'
I've been monitoring a disturbing development in...
06-06-05 'Bag of Bones'
Jacob was telling us stories told by...
06-01-05 'Make My Day'
Coming back from two weeks off, I...
05-11-05 'Guaranteed Freshness'
Why do I enjoy the occasional bag...
05-04-05 'Spoon'
I think I'm speaking for most Chihuahua...
04-25-05 'Ruby'
Milo's impression of Oswald being shot by...
04-13-05 'Livin' Large, Lickin' Lint'
Milo has a seemingly insatiable appetite for...
04-05-05 'Content'
F: "How's Content doing?" Me: "Sorry... what?"...
03-21-05 'Milo'
Heather and Derek are to blame. If...
03-03-05 'Thin Mint Cookies'
Each person entering the break room was...
01-31-05 'Ranch'
Dear America, I take it you're in...
01-04-05 'Peacemaker'
For the first time in many years...
11-30-04 'Camera Phone'
The urge to document unbelievably mundane things...
11-06-04 'Fathomless Void'
For a while, during my teen years,...
10-22-04 'Unlimited Ability To Annoy Me'
Babies with pierced ears Little girls wearing...
10-20-04 'She did it!'
Okay, so don't hate me, but I...
09-08-04 'Photography on the Web'
Only publish your very best work. Always...
08-21-04 'The Package'
I took Preston and his friend Connor...
08-20-04 'Eat Like Mob Bosses'
We tried to have Chinese food last...
08-04-04 'Henri Cartier-Bresson Dead at 95'
No matter who you are, if you...
06-16-04 'The Incredible Inconvenience of Snacking'
I have to tell you, Hershey's has...
06-15-04 'A Dearth of Photographs'
The problem with being obsessive compulsive is...
06-10-04 'Witty Workplace Observations'
My lazy-ass, non-blogging coworkers keep pointing out...
05-24-04 'Back in the World'
I suppose the only mildly amusing observation...
05-20-04 'A Shameless Plug'
So what, you've been wondering, could have...
05-09-04 'My Life as Cautionary Tale'
When my hard drive died several weeks...
04-25-04 'Manipulation'
Completely blown away by Jason Zada's work....
04-20-04 'Bad Data Day'
So first my hard drive crashed, taking...
04-13-04 'BAP Get-Together'
Heather, Derek, and Michael are calling all...
03-20-04 'So says me'
Crowds are boring. People in crowds are...
03-01-04 'Assless Chaps'
Since becoming a motorcyclist my coworkers have...
02-12-04 'Shoot The Homeless'
Can I be on record as saying...
01-27-04 'Day By Day'
Thank you to everyone who wrote with...
01-19-04 'No Words'
I'm coming to terms with a loss...
01-12-04 'A Plug'
We implemented and publicly tested a new...
01-06-04 'The Return of The King'
Noah's back!...
01-01-04 'Hello, World!'
So my unintended vacation from photography and...
12-12-03 'The Barton Gallery'
I'm excited to say that The Barton...
12-06-03 'Cojones'
So now that my mom knows I...
11-13-03 'Thousand'
I posted my one-thousandth 'SF Street' series...
11-08-03 'Moved In'
Well marcnorth.com is all moved in to...
11-06-03 'Moving'
Hey everybody! I'm moving marcnorth.com to a...
10-15-03 'Revelations'
'Diane Arbus Revelations' will be at the...
09-30-03 'Coworkers'
So the meat delivery guys have started...
09-23-03 'Not In The Cards'
The question was recently bantered about the...
09-19-03 'Dalai Lama Lite'
"But the risk of the Dalai Lama's...
09-12-03 'Faith'
"I have one life and one chance...
09-02-03 'Marc North Is...'
It's tough living two lives. All this...
08-25-03 'Back in the World'
Andreana, my youngest niece, is five years...
08-07-03 'Time Off For Good Behavior'
The old dot-blog takes a dot-vacation. It's...
08-06-03 'Saturday'
Six a.m. The city lay under a...
07-28-03 'Haunted'
There's a crazy stretch of highway on...
07-18-03 'Is For Victory'
In front of me - a car...
07-13-03 'Directions'
Many years ago, while visiting my sister...
07-09-03 'Amended'
This happy little amendment was included in...
07-01-03 'O, Canada!'
In April I celebrated my eighth anniversary...
06-24-03 'Black'
True story: My dad and I went...
06-16-03 'Details'
I notice minutiae. It's the little things...
06-12-03 'Close Call'
You should no more piss off the...
06-09-03 'Arrived'
It was an unending sea of skinny...
06-03-03 'Lucky Fin'
A young kid, his left arm amputated...
05-30-03 'Sleep is Published'
SHOTS number 80, now on newsstands, has...
05-26-03 'Failing The Man Test'
I'm probably supposed to know a lot...
05-22-03 'The Bank of Good Favor'
Chris, a manager at work, stopped by...
05-20-03 'Dumb Joke'
A kid, dressed as a pirate, goes...
05-18-03 'Keys'
Sitting reading my book in the waiting...
05-16-03 'Reloaded'
Alison gives us Candy this week. Co-worker...
05-14-03 'The Letter N'
A recent conversation with my son: "Dad,...
05-12-03 'Becoming'
Those of us raising sons know the...
05-11-03 'Paul Strand'
"Your photography is a record of your...
05-10-03 'Michelangelo'
Ever-unobservant of simple location-revealing details, I can't...
05-09-03 'Five Hundred'
Derek provided this week's challenge: 'Urban'. Thank...
05-08-03 'Dialog'
Lightning flashed in the distance as I...
05-07-03 'Warnings'
Inside a bottle of vitamins, or something...
05-06-03 'Diane Arbus'
"Everybody has that thing where they need...
05-05-03 'Neurosis: Transferred'
Sandy occupies the stall directly behind me....
05-04-03 'Why I Love Netflix'
We enjoyed X-Men 2. In line behind...
05-03-03 'Reclassified'
How fucked up is this? I almost...
05-02-03 'Neck Cone'
Me. Two presentations back to back. Projector....
05-01-03 'Symptoms'
I clap my hands together in spastic...
04-30-03 'Heart Attack'
As a child, my mother explained why...
04-29-03 'For Raissa'
I believed in the Pillsbury Doughboy. Santa...
04-28-03 'Happy Nerd'
I was thrilled to discover David Hume...
04-27-03 'Gravity'
A little sidetracked this weekend when we...
04-26-03 'Vibe'
I'm fixated on a two-block section of...
04-25-03 'Shadows'
Karla Martinez suggested the challenge "Shadows" -...
04-24-03 'Faith'
Sitting here, the earpiece end of one...
04-23-03 'Top Ten'
Upon returning from ten days off, I...
04-22-03 'Nosy'
The quantity of meat is staggering. Two...
04-21-03 'Early Morning'
The truth of the matter is that...
04-20-03 'Bookworm'
Bookworm has occupied far too much of...
04-19-03 'Hypertext Haiku'
O Photojunkie Your Water challenge is grand...
04-18-03 'Plates'
Recent real-life license plate sightings: SOIMFAT On...
04-17-03 'Extrusion'
A churro is something like a Mexican...
04-16-03 'Sawing A Trumpet'
I adore Manhattan. I love how Woody...
04-15-03 'Robotic Tapeworm Implants'
TMN offers a generous public service announcement...
04-14-03 'Sugar and Butter'
Those who know me will snort out...
04-13-03 'Biscotti'
Toasted almonds give these a slight bitterness...
04-12-03 'Black Death'
I killed a Black Widow spider and...
04-11-03 'Vacation'
I plan to lay on the sofa...
04-10-03 'The Money Shot'
They did impressive yoga positions on little...
04-09-03 'Agenda'
Preston's on spring break next week, and...
04-08-03 'Very'
Paul Ford interviews Takoma, the mine-sweeping dolphin....
04-07-03 'Resurrection'
My NordicTrack is dead. It died months...
04-06-03 'Bones of the Dead'
I found an Italian bakery and coffee...
04-05-03 'Tussle'
My kid's going through a hell of...
04-04-03 'Planning'
Either I'm vastly underestimating how difficult it...
04-03-03 'The Return'
Another glorious - and huge! - edition...
04-02-03 'August'
We'll be in Vancouver in August for...
04-01-03 'Fool'
Preston's idea of an appropriate April Fool's...
03-31-03 'Nauseous'
After New Year's rolls around and Turbo...
03-30-03 'Scratch'
When I was about eleven, I spent...
03-29-03 'Cursed'
I was not disappointed; the atmosphere around...
03-28-03 'Daybreak'
Last week's Photo Friday challenge, "Blue", suggested...
03-27-03 'By Ear'
I don't know precisely how, but my...
03-26-03 'Signs'
On Friday's drive home from work, three...
03-25-03 'Now On Display'
Andreas Gursky at SFMOMA until June 1,...
03-24-03 'Ming Kee Game Birds'
I awoke at four on Saturday morning,...
03-23-03 'Mardi Gras'
On a purely selfish level, big demonstrations...
03-22-03 'An Open Letter'
A panhandler approached a tourist standing in...
03-21-03 'Friday'
This week's Photo Friday challenge was suggested...
03-20-03 'By Way of Internet'
It was shades of nine eleven; people...
03-19-03 'Being Peace'
"In Vietnam, there are many people, called...
03-18-03 'Sassy'
I suppose it's because I spend so...
03-17-03 'Forty-Eight'
The world has forty-eight hours to brace...
03-16-03 'Twelve'
It's an unexpected side effect that, while...
03-15-03 'Giant Sterile White Man'
If you pass this excerpt from Dylan...
03-14-03 'Lips Moving Silently'
I've known Catholics so devote that they...
03-13-03 'A Good Word'
It was like walking your best friend...
03-12-03 'driving mind'
glenn gould, english suites, tonal contrasts, suddenly...
03-11-03 'A Pyramid Story'
Mr. Barazzoul, my high school Social Studies...
03-10-03 'Audblog'
Audblog - an audio blogging service -...
03-09-03 'How Random'
Congrats to all winners in The 2003...
03-08-03 'Fragments: Chinatown'
An old woman stops to chat with...
03-07-03 'Fotobot'
Jason's snow shots are wonderful. Lovely images...
03-06-03 'Loving Dog'
I was in a local independent bookstore...
03-05-03 'Despair'
Despair... on Flattery on Goals on Stupidity...
03-04-03 'Newsstand'
Another radiant edition of 28mm.org is on...
03-03-03 'Benefits of Blogging'
1: People at work do wittier things...
03-02-03 'Cobra Strike!'
"Open your mouth, and close your eyes,...
03-01-03 'Harrumph!'
Heather is as warm, funny, and brilliant...
02-28-03 'Toot'
Rick, a manager at work, who's own...
02-27-03 'KHAN!!! KHAN!!!'
Shatner's face twists up in pure hamminess,...
02-26-03 'Fast'
I'm fasting again. Not completely. In stages....
02-25-03 'Invisible'
On Saturday, from across the street, I...
02-24-03 'Sleeping Bodies'
I feel ignorant and insensitive every time...
02-23-03 'And The Winners Are...'
The winners of the first-ever Photobloggies are...
02-22-03 'Seeing, Part 2'
These two young kids came up to...
02-21-03 'a profound sense of relief'
its that end of week exhaustion and...
02-20-03 'Delivery'
They called me in at 2:30am yesterday...
02-19-03 'Explorer'
If you tried to judge the whole...
02-18-03 'Phil Hartman'
We were reminiscing today about how so...
02-17-03 'Erin, Mark, and The Devil'
Erin sees with unbelievable sensitivity and insight....
02-16-03 'Groove'
At nineteen I worked briefly as a...
02-15-03 'White Rabbit'
I bought a package of White Rabbit...
02-14-03 'Hearts & Flowers'
Seems my tiny little host provider, Hostway,...
02-13-03 'Say WHAAAAAAAT?'
Honestly, I rarely watch TV. As in...
02-12-03 'Sounds Like Somebody's'
It was a day of exhilarating, non-stop...
02-11-03 'Found Any Shuttle Debris?'
A craigslister writes: "I live in Nob...
02-10-03 'Hitler's Fingers Crossed'
The nominations for the first-ever Photobloggies are...
02-09-03 'Cracks'
Brilliantly clear, cold, windy; spectacular sunrises, and...
02-08-03 'Adams'
"On a very rainy morning in March...
02-07-03 'Seeing'
We're taught not to stare. Something in...
02-06-03 'The Perils of Pastry'
Enjoying a Pop-Tart Pastry Swirl, my eye...
02-05-03 'Thoughts'
A few very thoughtful people have written...
02-04-03 'Assassins!'
Jason, a coworker within earshot of my...
02-03-03 'Sleep'
I am so grateful to Rachel for...
02-02-03 'LensWork'
The Feb/Mar issue of LensWork is on...
02-01-03 'Seventeen'
I was 16-years old the first time...
01-31-03 'The Mind's Eye'
"In photography, creation is a quick business...
01-30-03 'News'
David Hoye interviewed me for part of...
01-29-03 'Google Image Search'
So I've noticed my images are now...
01-28-03 'Turning The Corner'
Though most evenings the atmosphere is milky...
01-27-03 'Numbers Game'
World domination doesn't come cheap. I was...
01-26-03 'Salty & Crunchy'
Sunday is my day for grocery shopping,...
01-25-03 'I Haight Ashbury'
Today, deciding it might be fun to...
01-24-03 'Clip Clap Clump'
Nick has a fun challenge this week...
01-23-03 'Death Valley Print'
I ordered a print from Noah's recent...
01-22-03 'Of Knives And Forks'
We stopped at a Denny's for breakfast...
01-21-03 'Penne Con Dito'
Dull. Dullness. What I thought was a...
01-20-03 'A Dog'
As in sick as one. I realized...
01-19-03 'Saturday Mornings'
I've been preoccupied shooting an original series...
01-18-03 'San Francisco Peace March'
I'm taking a one day break from...
01-17-03 'B-52'
When it's as foggy as it was...
01-16-03 'The Art of Crapping'
The skill of aiming one's ass and...
01-15-03 'Movement'
I will begin posting a new miniseries...
01-14-03 'Up Past My Belly Button'
I will never be the kind of...
01-13-03 'Photobloggies & Other News'
Rannie's got a fun thing going with...
01-12-03 'I Am An IT Nightmare'
I enjoy eating carrots. In fact the...
01-11-03 'Car Decals, Revisited'
People aim to tell you a lot...
01-10-03 'Happy Birthday, Mom!'
Today is my mom's birthday. While I...
01-09-03 'Melissa & Maria'
"melissa is a photojournalist at the south...
01-08-03 'Ire, mon!'
Something annoying happens to white guys who...
01-07-03 'Wanton Violence'
Preston hinted he wanted Grand Theft Auto:...
01-06-03 'Learning To Drive'
I'm convinced parents should never teach their...
01-05-03 'Questionable Hiring Practices'
At an old employer, a dot-com that...
01-04-03 'In Her Defense'
Dave, a homeless man with a wide,...
01-03-03 'Family of Dogs'
To this day, our dad will call...
01-02-03 'Stammerpuss'
My brother used to call me 'stammerpuss'...
01-01-03 'The First Word'
Burritos. That's the first word of the...
12-31-02 'The Last Word'
I will neither eulogize 2002 nor will...
12-30-02 'Urban Mimes'
If you hang around Union Square or...
12-29-02 'Excessive Ass Loading'
We ate at Godfather's Pizza last night;...
12-28-02 'Digital Wallet'
I get a ton of questions each...
12-27-02 'Father Time'
Christmas and my birthday are almost six...
12-26-02 'Boxing Day'
December 26th is Boxing Day. A day...
12-25-02 'GI Joe'
I hadn't thought about GI Joe since...
12-24-02 'Notes to Self'
Over the holiday break, I have the...
12-23-02 'Ups A Baby'
Sunday, in Union Square, the father of...
12-22-02 'Stealing Souls'
I had my first unhappy subject today....
12-21-02 'Berkeley Hills'
I spent the day in Berkeley at...
12-20-02 'Baci'
Albert, A God-like coworker of ours, brought...
12-19-02 'The Wunderkinds'
Another story from the Roots file. To...
12-18-02 'Air Quotes'
I've developed the disturbing habit of using...
12-17-02 'No Crying In Baseball'
I drove behind a minivan this weekend...
12-16-02 'Stepping Through Kristina'
My buddy Damon's girlfriend, Kristina, has a...
12-15-02 'Photo Friday'
About ten days ago I was approached...
12-14-02 'Coming Up For Air'
If I had to say in a...
12-13-02 'Clawing'
So I've been a real asshole to...
12-12-02 'Oceans'
As close as I get to my...
12-11-02 'The Gift Of Suffering'
I'm trying to remember a time when...
12-10-02 'For Rachel'
During the ten days I waited for...
12-09-02 'Stillness'
The spots of sunlight on the kitchen...
12-08-02 'Making Spirits Bright'
Working to come out of a holiday...
12-07-02 'Thank You, Heather'
Heather invited me to curate a gallery...
12-06-02 'Christmas, In Bondage'
The first year Preston decorated the tree...
12-05-02 'Winter Comfort Food'
My favorite winter comfort food is a...
12-04-02 'Bathroom Etiquette'
I'm not the kind you should engage...
12-03-02 'Site Update'
I've begun a new series called 'Reflections',...
12-02-02 'Hey Big Spender'
I once tipped a girl $50 for...
12-01-02 'Silent Night'
I'm a freak. In June I'll start...
11-30-02 'It Wasn't Cancer'
The woman from Kaiser was nearly unintelligible....
11-29-02 'Filibuster'
My mother thought she was on to...
11-28-02 'Giving Thanks'
I'm thankful for my health; for the...
11-27-02 'In The News'
In a delightful example of irony, my...
11-26-02 'What The City Taught Me'
I'm off work all this week, and...
11-25-02 'Log Rolling'
The summer camp experiences of an eleven-year...
11-24-02 'This is Me / This is Not Me'
Eating alone. Busy restaurant. Beside me a...
11-23-02 'Grateful Acknowledgement'
I want to thank the following people...
11-22-02 'Slightly Unconventional Baby Names'
The Kabalarians have put up a database...
11-21-02 'Crickets'
This being our first year living on...
11-20-02 'Perks'
Right after finishing up volunteering, I got...
11-19-02 'Anthem'
Fridays I take my son to ToGo's...
11-18-02 'David Hume Kennerly'
I absolutely do not think I have...
11-17-02 'Tricks of Distraction'
If you went to high school with...
11-16-02 'Mail Bag'
Responses to my San Francisco Street photo...
11-15-02 'Safety'
More and more I find I want...
11-14-02 'A Plague of Left Shoes'
There were so many strange, annoying, and...
11-13-02 'Rock on, Dr. Christiensen'
Trying, I think, to front a different...
11-12-02 'Inherited Neuroses'
My family has thing about hearing people...
11-11-02 'Ten Tips For Managers'
1: How To Take Vacation You never...
11-10-02 'Autumn Sky'
It's finally raining in Sacramento, and I...
11-09-02 'The Magic Prostate'
There's this old Chinese bastard in our...
11-08-02 'Seven Blessings'
1: My son, and all his amazing...
11-07-02 'Weather Tantrum'
I woke today to the rhythm of...
11-06-02 'Monkey Boner'
My agent called, saying she had a...
11-05-02 'Thirty'
Wow, it's already been thirty days since...
11-04-02 'TV For Dummies'
I grew up watching no less than...
11-03-02 'Insulting Corazon Aquino'
The truth is, you never know who's...
11-02-02 'The Cigarette Pimp'
I sneaked my first one in the...
11-01-02 '14 Easy Speech Tips For Canadians'
Are you Canadian? Do you want your...
10-31-02 'The Great Pumpkin'
It was Halloween and I was ten....
10-30-02 'Finding Mom's Stash'
It's our grandfather's fault. He gave it...
10-29-02 'Memories Lost'
I don't remember how I found it,...
10-28-02 'They Must Be Renters'
My son and I have lived in...
10-27-02 'The Little Mafioso'
About 22 years ago, around this time...
10-26-02 'Everybody's Dude'
I'm one of the old guys where...
10-25-02 'I'm Not Feeling Very Well'
By fifteen I was convinced my calling...
10-24-02 'The Lesson of Change'
My mother taught me, "You can't always...
10-23-02 'The Bull's-Eye'
The best description for introversion I ever...
10-22-02 'Remembering Roma'
My aunt and uncle had an apartment...
10-21-02 'On Being Vegetarian'
There's a dumb joke that goes, "I'm...
10-20-02 'Inventing Wish Chips'
When we were kids, my brother told...
10-19-02 'House Calls'
To be a physician is very different...
10-18-02 'Mamma's Boy'
My mom was considered a real hotty...
10-17-02 'The Copier Guy'
Cubicle sitting is all about strategic placement....
10-16-02 'Between The Fence And The Garage'
Vancouver houses, at least in the region...
10-15-02 'Overcoming Road Rage'
San Jose was a much more hostile...
10-14-02 'A Normal Breath'
The only cure is confrontation. All tricks,...
10-13-02 'Karma Yoga'
We used to torture a kid named...
10-12-02 'A Good Volunteer'
The summer after graduating high school I...
10-11-02 'Listening To The Boss'
I worked for a now-dead but once-infamous...
10-10-02 'Shoe Sneezers'
A decade ago, or more, I worked...
10-09-02 'Furniture That Moves Itself'
I worked as an extra on TV...
10-08-02 'Dorothea Lange'
The Getty is having an exhibit of...
10-07-02 'Honk At The Photographer'
So what's the deal with drivers honking...
10-06-02 'The Mirror Project'
The Mirror Project is undeniably a cool...
10-06-02 'A Blog is Born'
The world trembled in anticipation while I...
10-05-05 'Facts'
I hope this should about do: a)...
08-26-05 'SausageFest'
I was recently invited, by good friends,...
07-25-05 'Meat'
Sometimes, in the break room, someone who...
06-29-05 'Support'
Me: You don't see it under "Accessories"?...
06-21-05 'Code Orange'
I've been monitoring a disturbing development in...
06-06-05 'Bag of Bones'
Jacob was telling us stories told by...
06-01-05 'Make My Day'
Coming back from two weeks off, I...
05-11-05 'Guaranteed Freshness'
Why do I enjoy the occasional bag...
05-04-05 'Spoon'
I think I'm speaking for most Chihuahua...
04-25-05 'Ruby'
Milo's impression of Oswald being shot by...
04-13-05 'Livin' Large, Lickin' Lint'
Milo has a seemingly insatiable appetite for...
04-05-05 'Content'
F: "How's Content doing?" Me: "Sorry... what?"...
03-21-05 'Milo'
Heather and Derek are to blame. If...
03-03-05 'Thin Mint Cookies'
Each person entering the break room was...
01-31-05 'Ranch'
Dear America, I take it you're in...
01-04-05 'Peacemaker'
For the first time in many years...
11-30-04 'Camera Phone'
The urge to document unbelievably mundane things...
11-06-04 'Fathomless Void'
For a while, during my teen years,...
10-22-04 'Unlimited Ability To Annoy Me'
Babies with pierced ears Little girls wearing...
10-20-04 'She did it!'
Okay, so don't hate me, but I...
09-08-04 'Photography on the Web'
Only publish your very best work. Always...
08-21-04 'The Package'
I took Preston and his friend Connor...
08-20-04 'Eat Like Mob Bosses'
We tried to have Chinese food last...
08-04-04 'Henri Cartier-Bresson Dead at 95'
No matter who you are, if you...
06-16-04 'The Incredible Inconvenience of Snacking'
I have to tell you, Hershey's has...
06-15-04 'A Dearth of Photographs'
The problem with being obsessive compulsive is...
06-10-04 'Witty Workplace Observations'
My lazy-ass, non-blogging coworkers keep pointing out...
05-24-04 'Back in the World'
I suppose the only mildly amusing observation...
05-20-04 'A Shameless Plug'
So what, you've been wondering, could have...
05-09-04 'My Life as Cautionary Tale'
When my hard drive died several weeks...
04-25-04 'Manipulation'
Completely blown away by Jason Zada's work....
04-20-04 'Bad Data Day'
So first my hard drive crashed, taking...
04-13-04 'BAP Get-Together'
Heather, Derek, and Michael are calling all...
03-20-04 'So says me'
Crowds are boring. People in crowds are...
03-01-04 'Assless Chaps'
Since becoming a motorcyclist my coworkers have...
02-12-04 'Shoot The Homeless'
Can I be on record as saying...
01-27-04 'Day By Day'
Thank you to everyone who wrote with...
01-19-04 'No Words'
I'm coming to terms with a loss...
01-12-04 'A Plug'
We implemented and publicly tested a new...
01-06-04 'The Return of The King'
Noah's back!...
01-01-04 'Hello, World!'
So my unintended vacation from photography and...
12-12-03 'The Barton Gallery'
I'm excited to say that The Barton...
12-06-03 'Cojones'
So now that my mom knows I...
11-13-03 'Thousand'
I posted my one-thousandth 'SF Street' series...
11-08-03 'Moved In'
Well marcnorth.com is all moved in to...
11-06-03 'Moving'
Hey everybody! I'm moving marcnorth.com to a...
10-15-03 'Revelations'
'Diane Arbus Revelations' will be at the...
09-30-03 'Coworkers'
So the meat delivery guys have started...
09-23-03 'Not In The Cards'
The question was recently bantered about the...
09-19-03 'Dalai Lama Lite'
"But the risk of the Dalai Lama's...
09-12-03 'Faith'
"I have one life and one chance...
09-02-03 'Marc North Is...'
It's tough living two lives. All this...
08-25-03 'Back in the World'
Andreana, my youngest niece, is five years...
08-07-03 'Time Off For Good Behavior'
The old dot-blog takes a dot-vacation. It's...
08-06-03 'Saturday'
Six a.m. The city lay under a...
07-28-03 'Haunted'
There's a crazy stretch of highway on...
07-18-03 'Is For Victory'
In front of me - a car...
07-13-03 'Directions'
Many years ago, while visiting my sister...
07-09-03 'Amended'
This happy little amendment was included in...
07-01-03 'O, Canada!'
In April I celebrated my eighth anniversary...
06-24-03 'Black'
True story: My dad and I went...
06-16-03 'Details'
I notice minutiae. It's the little things...
06-12-03 'Close Call'
You should no more piss off the...
06-09-03 'Arrived'
It was an unending sea of skinny...
06-03-03 'Lucky Fin'
A young kid, his left arm amputated...
05-30-03 'Sleep is Published'
SHOTS number 80, now on newsstands, has...
05-26-03 'Failing The Man Test'
I'm probably supposed to know a lot...
05-22-03 'The Bank of Good Favor'
Chris, a manager at work, stopped by...
05-20-03 'Dumb Joke'
A kid, dressed as a pirate, goes...
05-18-03 'Keys'
Sitting reading my book in the waiting...
05-16-03 'Reloaded'
Alison gives us Candy this week. Co-worker...
05-14-03 'The Letter N'
A recent conversation with my son: "Dad,...
05-12-03 'Becoming'
Those of us raising sons know the...
05-11-03 'Paul Strand'
"Your photography is a record of your...
05-10-03 'Michelangelo'
Ever-unobservant of simple location-revealing details, I can't...
05-09-03 'Five Hundred'
Derek provided this week's challenge: 'Urban'. Thank...
05-08-03 'Dialog'
Lightning flashed in the distance as I...
05-07-03 'Warnings'
Inside a bottle of vitamins, or something...
05-06-03 'Diane Arbus'
"Everybody has that thing where they need...
05-05-03 'Neurosis: Transferred'
Sandy occupies the stall directly behind me....
05-04-03 'Why I Love Netflix'
We enjoyed X-Men 2. In line behind...
05-03-03 'Reclassified'
How fucked up is this? I almost...
05-02-03 'Neck Cone'
Me. Two presentations back to back. Projector....
05-01-03 'Symptoms'
I clap my hands together in spastic...
04-30-03 'Heart Attack'
As a child, my mother explained why...
04-29-03 'For Raissa'
I believed in the Pillsbury Doughboy. Santa...
04-28-03 'Happy Nerd'
I was thrilled to discover David Hume...
04-27-03 'Gravity'
A little sidetracked this weekend when we...
04-26-03 'Vibe'
I'm fixated on a two-block section of...
04-25-03 'Shadows'
Karla Martinez suggested the challenge "Shadows" -...
04-24-03 'Faith'
Sitting here, the earpiece end of one...
04-23-03 'Top Ten'
Upon returning from ten days off, I...
04-22-03 'Nosy'
The quantity of meat is staggering. Two...
04-21-03 'Early Morning'
The truth of the matter is that...
04-20-03 'Bookworm'
Bookworm has occupied far too much of...
04-19-03 'Hypertext Haiku'
O Photojunkie Your Water challenge is grand...
04-18-03 'Plates'
Recent real-life license plate sightings: SOIMFAT On...
04-17-03 'Extrusion'
A churro is something like a Mexican...
04-16-03 'Sawing A Trumpet'
I adore Manhattan. I love how Woody...
04-15-03 'Robotic Tapeworm Implants'
TMN offers a generous public service announcement...
04-14-03 'Sugar and Butter'
Those who know me will snort out...
04-13-03 'Biscotti'
Toasted almonds give these a slight bitterness...
04-12-03 'Black Death'
I killed a Black Widow spider and...
04-11-03 'Vacation'
I plan to lay on the sofa...
04-10-03 'The Money Shot'
They did impressive yoga positions on little...
04-09-03 'Agenda'
Preston's on spring break next week, and...
04-08-03 'Very'
Paul Ford interviews Takoma, the mine-sweeping dolphin....
04-07-03 'Resurrection'
My NordicTrack is dead. It died months...
04-06-03 'Bones of the Dead'
I found an Italian bakery and coffee...
04-05-03 'Tussle'
My kid's going through a hell of...
04-04-03 'Planning'
Either I'm vastly underestimating how difficult it...
04-03-03 'The Return'
Another glorious - and huge! - edition...
04-02-03 'August'
We'll be in Vancouver in August for...
04-01-03 'Fool'
Preston's idea of an appropriate April Fool's...
03-31-03 'Nauseous'
After New Year's rolls around and Turbo...
03-30-03 'Scratch'
When I was about eleven, I spent...
03-29-03 'Cursed'
I was not disappointed; the atmosphere around...
03-28-03 'Daybreak'
Last week's Photo Friday challenge, "Blue", suggested...
03-27-03 'By Ear'
I don't know precisely how, but my...
03-26-03 'Signs'
On Friday's drive home from work, three...
03-25-03 'Now On Display'
Andreas Gursky at SFMOMA until June 1,...
03-24-03 'Ming Kee Game Birds'
I awoke at four on Saturday morning,...
03-23-03 'Mardi Gras'
On a purely selfish level, big demonstrations...
03-22-03 'An Open Letter'
A panhandler approached a tourist standing in...
03-21-03 'Friday'
This week's Photo Friday challenge was suggested...
03-20-03 'By Way of Internet'
It was shades of nine eleven; people...
03-19-03 'Being Peace'
"In Vietnam, there are many people, called...
03-18-03 'Sassy'
I suppose it's because I spend so...
03-17-03 'Forty-Eight'
The world has forty-eight hours to brace...
03-16-03 'Twelve'
It's an unexpected side effect that, while...
03-15-03 'Giant Sterile White Man'
If you pass this excerpt from Dylan...
03-14-03 'Lips Moving Silently'
I've known Catholics so devote that they...
03-13-03 'A Good Word'
It was like walking your best friend...
03-12-03 'driving mind'
glenn gould, english suites, tonal contrasts, suddenly...
03-11-03 'A Pyramid Story'
Mr. Barazzoul, my high school Social Studies...
03-10-03 'Audblog'
Audblog - an audio blogging service -...
03-09-03 'How Random'
Congrats to all winners in The 2003...
03-08-03 'Fragments: Chinatown'
An old woman stops to chat with...
03-07-03 'Fotobot'
Jason's snow shots are wonderful. Lovely images...
03-06-03 'Loving Dog'
I was in a local independent bookstore...
03-05-03 'Despair'
Despair... on Flattery on Goals on Stupidity...
03-04-03 'Newsstand'
Another radiant edition of 28mm.org is on...
03-03-03 'Benefits of Blogging'
1: People at work do wittier things...
03-02-03 'Cobra Strike!'
"Open your mouth, and close your eyes,...
03-01-03 'Harrumph!'
Heather is as warm, funny, and brilliant...
02-28-03 'Toot'
Rick, a manager at work, who's own...
02-27-03 'KHAN!!! KHAN!!!'
Shatner's face twists up in pure hamminess,...
02-26-03 'Fast'
I'm fasting again. Not completely. In stages....
02-25-03 'Invisible'
On Saturday, from across the street, I...
02-24-03 'Sleeping Bodies'
I feel ignorant and insensitive every time...
02-23-03 'And The Winners Are...'
The winners of the first-ever Photobloggies are...
02-22-03 'Seeing, Part 2'
These two young kids came up to...
02-21-03 'a profound sense of relief'
its that end of week exhaustion and...
02-20-03 'Delivery'
They called me in at 2:30am yesterday...
02-19-03 'Explorer'
If you tried to judge the whole...
02-18-03 'Phil Hartman'
We were reminiscing today about how so...
02-17-03 'Erin, Mark, and The Devil'
Erin sees with unbelievable sensitivity and insight....
02-16-03 'Groove'
At nineteen I worked briefly as a...
02-15-03 'White Rabbit'
I bought a package of White Rabbit...
02-14-03 'Hearts & Flowers'
Seems my tiny little host provider, Hostway,...
02-13-03 'Say WHAAAAAAAT?'
Honestly, I rarely watch TV. As in...
02-12-03 'Sounds Like Somebody's'
It was a day of exhilarating, non-stop...
02-11-03 'Found Any Shuttle Debris?'
A craigslister writes: "I live in Nob...
02-10-03 'Hitler's Fingers Crossed'
The nominations for the first-ever Photobloggies are...
02-09-03 'Cracks'
Brilliantly clear, cold, windy; spectacular sunrises, and...
02-08-03 'Adams'
"On a very rainy morning in March...
02-07-03 'Seeing'
We're taught not to stare. Something in...
02-06-03 'The Perils of Pastry'
Enjoying a Pop-Tart Pastry Swirl, my eye...
02-05-03 'Thoughts'
A few very thoughtful people have written...
02-04-03 'Assassins!'
Jason, a coworker within earshot of my...
02-03-03 'Sleep'
I am so grateful to Rachel for...
02-02-03 'LensWork'
The Feb/Mar issue of LensWork is on...
02-01-03 'Seventeen'
I was 16-years old the first time...
01-31-03 'The Mind's Eye'
"In photography, creation is a quick business...
01-30-03 'News'
David Hoye interviewed me for part of...
01-29-03 'Google Image Search'
So I've noticed my images are now...
01-28-03 'Turning The Corner'
Though most evenings the atmosphere is milky...
01-27-03 'Numbers Game'
World domination doesn't come cheap. I was...
01-26-03 'Salty & Crunchy'
Sunday is my day for grocery shopping,...
01-25-03 'I Haight Ashbury'
Today, deciding it might be fun to...
01-24-03 'Clip Clap Clump'
Nick has a fun challenge this week...
01-23-03 'Death Valley Print'
I ordered a print from Noah's recent...
01-22-03 'Of Knives And Forks'
We stopped at a Denny's for breakfast...
01-21-03 'Penne Con Dito'
Dull. Dullness. What I thought was a...
01-20-03 'A Dog'
As in sick as one. I realized...
01-19-03 'Saturday Mornings'
I've been preoccupied shooting an original series...
01-18-03 'San Francisco Peace March'
I'm taking a one day break from...
01-17-03 'B-52'
When it's as foggy as it was...
01-16-03 'The Art of Crapping'
The skill of aiming one's ass and...
01-15-03 'Movement'
I will begin posting a new miniseries...
01-14-03 'Up Past My Belly Button'
I will never be the kind of...
01-13-03 'Photobloggies & Other News'
Rannie's got a fun thing going with...
01-12-03 'I Am An IT Nightmare'
I enjoy eating carrots. In fact the...
01-11-03 'Car Decals, Revisited'
People aim to tell you a lot...
01-10-03 'Happy Birthday, Mom!'
Today is my mom's birthday. While I...
01-09-03 'Melissa & Maria'
"melissa is a photojournalist at the south...
01-08-03 'Ire, mon!'
Something annoying happens to white guys who...
01-07-03 'Wanton Violence'
Preston hinted he wanted Grand Theft Auto:...
01-06-03 'Learning To Drive'
I'm convinced parents should never teach their...
01-05-03 'Questionable Hiring Practices'
At an old employer, a dot-com that...
01-04-03 'In Her Defense'
Dave, a homeless man with a wide,...
01-03-03 'Family of Dogs'
To this day, our dad will call...
01-02-03 'Stammerpuss'
My brother used to call me 'stammerpuss'...
01-01-03 'The First Word'
Burritos. That's the first word of the...
12-31-02 'The Last Word'
I will neither eulogize 2002 nor will...
12-30-02 'Urban Mimes'
If you hang around Union Square or...
12-29-02 'Excessive Ass Loading'
We ate at Godfather's Pizza last night;...
12-28-02 'Digital Wallet'
I get a ton of questions each...
12-27-02 'Father Time'
Christmas and my birthday are almost six...
12-26-02 'Boxing Day'
December 26th is Boxing Day. A day...
12-25-02 'GI Joe'
I hadn't thought about GI Joe since...
12-24-02 'Notes to Self'
Over the holiday break, I have the...
12-23-02 'Ups A Baby'
Sunday, in Union Square, the father of...
12-22-02 'Stealing Souls'
I had my first unhappy subject today....
12-21-02 'Berkeley Hills'
I spent the day in Berkeley at...
12-20-02 'Baci'
Albert, A God-like coworker of ours, brought...
12-19-02 'The Wunderkinds'
Another story from the Roots file. To...
12-18-02 'Air Quotes'
I've developed the disturbing habit of using...
12-17-02 'No Crying In Baseball'
I drove behind a minivan this weekend...
12-16-02 'Stepping Through Kristina'
My buddy Damon's girlfriend, Kristina, has a...
12-15-02 'Photo Friday'
About ten days ago I was approached...
12-14-02 'Coming Up For Air'
If I had to say in a...
12-13-02 'Clawing'
So I've been a real asshole to...
12-12-02 'Oceans'
As close as I get to my...
12-11-02 'The Gift Of Suffering'
I'm trying to remember a time when...
12-10-02 'For Rachel'
During the ten days I waited for...
12-09-02 'Stillness'
The spots of sunlight on the kitchen...
12-08-02 'Making Spirits Bright'
Working to come out of a holiday...
12-07-02 'Thank You, Heather'
Heather invited me to curate a gallery...
12-06-02 'Christmas, In Bondage'
The first year Preston decorated the tree...
12-05-02 'Winter Comfort Food'
My favorite winter comfort food is a...
12-04-02 'Bathroom Etiquette'
I'm not the kind you should engage...
12-03-02 'Site Update'
I've begun a new series called 'Reflections',...
12-02-02 'Hey Big Spender'
I once tipped a girl $50 for...
12-01-02 'Silent Night'
I'm a freak. In June I'll start...
11-30-02 'It Wasn't Cancer'
The woman from Kaiser was nearly unintelligible....
11-29-02 'Filibuster'
My mother thought she was on to...
11-28-02 'Giving Thanks'
I'm thankful for my health; for the...
11-27-02 'In The News'
In a delightful example of irony, my...
11-26-02 'What The City Taught Me'
I'm off work all this week, and...
11-25-02 'Log Rolling'
The summer camp experiences of an eleven-year...
11-24-02 'This is Me / This is Not Me'
Eating alone. Busy restaurant. Beside me a...
11-23-02 'Grateful Acknowledgement'
I want to thank the following people...
11-22-02 'Slightly Unconventional Baby Names'
The Kabalarians have put up a database...
11-21-02 'Crickets'
This being our first year living on...
11-20-02 'Perks'
Right after finishing up volunteering, I got...
11-19-02 'Anthem'
Fridays I take my son to ToGo's...
11-18-02 'David Hume Kennerly'
I absolutely do not think I have...
11-17-02 'Tricks of Distraction'
If you went to high school with...
11-16-02 'Mail Bag'
Responses to my San Francisco Street photo...
11-15-02 'Safety'
More and more I find I want...
11-14-02 'A Plague of Left Shoes'
There were so many strange, annoying, and...
11-13-02 'Rock on, Dr. Christiensen'
Trying, I think, to front a different...
11-12-02 'Inherited Neuroses'
My family has thing about hearing people...
11-11-02 'Ten Tips For Managers'
1: How To Take Vacation You never...
11-10-02 'Autumn Sky'
It's finally raining in Sacramento, and I...
11-09-02 'The Magic Prostate'
There's this old Chinese bastard in our...
11-08-02 'Seven Blessings'
1: My son, and all his amazing...
11-07-02 'Weather Tantrum'
I woke today to the rhythm of...
11-06-02 'Monkey Boner'
My agent called, saying she had a...
11-05-02 'Thirty'
Wow, it's already been thirty days since...
11-04-02 'TV For Dummies'
I grew up watching no less than...
11-03-02 'Insulting Corazon Aquino'
The truth is, you never know who's...
11-02-02 'The Cigarette Pimp'
I sneaked my first one in the...
11-01-02 '14 Easy Speech Tips For Canadians'
Are you Canadian? Do you want your...
10-31-02 'The Great Pumpkin'
It was Halloween and I was ten....
10-30-02 'Finding Mom's Stash'
It's our grandfather's fault. He gave it...
10-29-02 'Memories Lost'
I don't remember how I found it,...
10-28-02 'They Must Be Renters'
My son and I have lived in...
10-27-02 'The Little Mafioso'
About 22 years ago, around this time...
10-26-02 'Everybody's Dude'
I'm one of the old guys where...
10-25-02 'I'm Not Feeling Very Well'
By fifteen I was convinced my calling...
10-24-02 'The Lesson of Change'
My mother taught me, "You can't always...
10-23-02 'The Bull's-Eye'
The best description for introversion I ever...
10-22-02 'Remembering Roma'
My aunt and uncle had an apartment...
10-21-02 'On Being Vegetarian'
There's a dumb joke that goes, "I'm...
10-20-02 'Inventing Wish Chips'
When we were kids, my brother told...
10-19-02 'House Calls'
To be a physician is very different...
10-18-02 'Mamma's Boy'
My mom was considered a real hotty...
10-17-02 'The Copier Guy'
Cubicle sitting is all about strategic placement....
10-16-02 'Between The Fence And The Garage'
Vancouver houses, at least in the region...
10-15-02 'Overcoming Road Rage'
San Jose was a much more hostile...
10-14-02 'A Normal Breath'
The only cure is confrontation. All tricks,...
10-13-02 'Karma Yoga'
We used to torture a kid named...
10-12-02 'A Good Volunteer'
The summer after graduating high school I...
10-11-02 'Listening To The Boss'
I worked for a now-dead but once-infamous...
10-10-02 'Shoe Sneezers'
A decade ago, or more, I worked...
10-09-02 'Furniture That Moves Itself'
I worked as an extra on TV...
10-08-02 'Dorothea Lange'
The Getty is having an exhibit of...
10-07-02 'Honk At The Photographer'
So what's the deal with drivers honking...
10-06-02 'The Mirror Project'
The Mirror Project is undeniably a cool...
10-06-02 'A Blog is Born'
The world trembled in anticipation while I...