{"id":4753,"date":"2014-01-29T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:24:03","slug":"100x2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/100x2-4753\/","title":{"rendered":"100&#215;2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written my second 100 pieces in the past year and a half. Observations\u00a0about artists and their exhibits in white-walled galleries and hair salons, reflections on experiences that moved and inspired me&#8211;from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/man-who-fell-3735\/\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Baumgartner&#8217;s 24-mile freefall<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/balancing-act-3188\/\" target=\"_blank\">tightrope walker<\/a> practicing a few feet above the pavement&#8211;books I liked and movies I didn&#8217;t, and zombies of course, learning something new with every piece. I&#8217;ve written for SF Weekly, Alameda Magazine, Oakland Magazine, The Alamedan, and Alameda Journal, and for this, my own little blog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/100x2-4753\/attachment\/200\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/200.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"708,576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"200\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/200-300x244.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/200.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4757\" alt=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/200.jpg\" width=\"708\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/200.jpg 708w, https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/200-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to meet some remarkable individuals, including photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/who-shot-andy-warhol-4376\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thom Lafferty<\/a>, who passed away shortly after our interview, iconic punk graphic artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/gee-whiz-4198\/\" target=\"_blank\">Winston Smith<\/a> (who&#8217;s still kicking), and scores of artists in every conceivable medium whose work blew me away. \u00a0As if that wasn&#8217;t reward enough, along the way I was named\u00a0Best Local Blogger in both 2012 and 2013 in the Bay Area A-List, thanks to your support.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll take a moment to flip back through my archives and read a few posts you may have missed, and perhaps leave a comment, as\u00a0nearly 40,000 spammers have so far. If you enjoy what you read I&#8217;d appreciate <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.cityvoter.com\/michael-singman-aste\/biz\/600821?r=badge\" target=\"_blank\">your vote<\/a> again in the A-List. Voting ends March 2. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Warm Regards,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4760\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/100x2-4753\/michael\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"432,314\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon MX920 series Network&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1391012206&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"michael\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael-300x218.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael.jpg\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4760\" alt=\"michael\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><br \/>\nMichael Singman-Aste<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.PostdiluvianPhoto.com\">Postdiluvian Photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written my second 100 pieces in the past year and a half. Observations\u00a0about artists and their exhibits in white-walled galleries and hair salons, reflections on experiences that moved and inspired me&#8211;from Felix Baumgartner&#8217;s 24-mile freefall to a tightrope walker practicing a few feet above the pavement&#8211;books I liked and movies I didn&#8217;t, and zombies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-misc","category-musings","category-raves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sPxQO-100x2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4774,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}