Facebook Friend #19 – Julie Salkowski

Facebook Friend #19 - Julie
Facebook Friend #19 – Julie

Julie is a Montreal based painter, designer, and occasional horticulturist who married one of my best
friends, Michel. We met when I visited for their wedding in 2009 and I have adored her (and their four
cats) ever since. She’s quiet, but don’t be fooled, she’s mischievous, too.

Side note: I took her photo in front of Silo #5, the home of the Silophone.

My Facebook Friends Portrait project began when I hit 1000 friends on Facebook in 2012. The project is on-going and shall continue until I take a portrait of every FB friend I have.

Mike & Karina

Mike & Karina

Smootches!

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Attacks!

Mike’s girlfriend is a sweet, appealing girl with a fast smile and clever eyes. (He met her while living in Santiago, Chile). She primarily speaks Spanish, which I mostly understand but can no longer speak, while I primarily speak English, which she can read, but not easily comprehend when spoken. We both lack the complex vocabulary. Mike acts as a guide between us, he explains and untangles our words. We all laugh in the right places, though, and manage complex topics like feminism, family structures, culture maps, information design, game theory, and politics. The language gap could have been awkward had we been other people, but instead it became entertainment, a brainteaser we share and enjoy.

365: The month of June

365: 2012/06/15 - ferret foster 365: 2012/06/28 - transparency 365: 2012/06/09 - my better half 365: 2012/06/05 - I miss my chair
365: 2012/06/06 - sing to the memory of light 365: 2012/06/08 - wrecked and broken bridges
365: 2012/06/07 - googly eyed for you 365: 2012/06/02 - the emerald city 365: 2012/06/29 - "now you take one"

365: 2012/06/23 - punk rock princess 365: 2012/06/13 - basin cat 365: 2012/06/16 - expect us
365: 2012/06/22 - I go with the house 365: 2012/06/20 - his father's knife (I know the answer, but not the question)


Near the end of the private wake for friends and family of Joe “Vito” Albanese, 52, (aka Dexter Mantooth or Meshugana Joe) murdered along with best friend and bandmate, Drew Keriakedes, 45, (aka Schmootzi the Clod) at the Cafe Racer killings in Seattle. Both men performed with Circus Contraption and founded the band God’s Favorite Beefcake. This video is my only 365 shot that I am not specifically in. I believe, however, that I am reflected in everyone there. I am that moment as they were that moment. It is still a self-portrait. The best kind there is.

365: 2012/06/11 - innocent when you dream 365: 2012/06/12 - washing out 365: 2012/06/14 - the second child

365: 2012/06/17 - Flower Power 365: 2012/06/25 - here comes science
365: 2012/06/18 - the bath
365: 2012/06/10 - we fight crime

365: 2012/06/27 - if you were here now, what would you see?
365: 2012/06/24 - "as big as my head!"
365: 2012/06/01 - switching hats with sammy 365: 2012/06/03 - late nights 365: 2012/06/19 - familiar
365: 2012/06/21 - solitary 365: 2012/06/26 - politics of desire