My expenses were more than covered, I got to dust-off my Spanish language skills and now I have an international news story in the bag.

Washington-based artist Dale Chihuly showed up at Luis Kahn’s Salk Institue in La Jolla for a short photo op with his latest exhibit of glass sculpture.

After over a YEAR, I have finally updated my website ladies and gentlemen.

I’m still working on it (the scans of all my published work are not cooperating). Will would like me to take down my essays except for my most recent “Forever Young,” but since I haven’t been working on stories, I don’t have anything else to fill in here at this moment. What do you think?

It should be obvious that when your duties as a photo intern have almost nothing to do with the company’s emphasis, the internship is a bullshit call for free labor. Just in case, let’s have a little fun examining the above listing.

I’ve been teaching a class at 3rd Ward called “Learn Your Digital Camera” for the past year now. 3rd Ward is a “member-based design center” that offers sweet classes from mine to skateboard deck making (I’m dying to take this one).

A piñata in a window caught my eye walking down University Avenue in City Heights, and I knew I had to see if this so-called ‘pinata house’ would live up to its name.