The Darth Mall a personal website

2015

Playing Gomoku with 木三 (Musan)

A Go board sits on a wood floor with two dozen black and white pieces on it; a person’s hand is visible on the left side of the frame with their middle finger resting on a white piece after having just placed it on the board

媽媽 (Mama) in 陽明山國家公園 (Yangmingshan National Park)

A black and white of a woman holding an open umbrella on a foggy day standing on a stone path; she is wearing a light colored hat with a brim that goes all the way around, a dark jacket, and dark trousers and is carrying the umbrella over her shoulder as she looks down at the ground towards the right edge of the frame; the path is paved with irregularly cut stones that are placed to form a relatively flat path with shallow steps leading from teh bottom center of the frame off to the right edge of the frame and is surrounded by trees and bushes

Hiking in 陽明山國家公園 (Yangmingshan National Park)

A black and white photo of a woman walking away from the camera along a stone path on a foggy day; the paving stones are large and irregularly shaped, but they form a flat, regular path heading off into the distance; the pathis surrounded by trees and bushes; the woman is kicking up her left heel as she walks and waving her arms above her head, she has long, dark hair and is carrying a purse draped over her right arm

(Former) Tobacco Factory

A black and white photo of two arches of a cloister; in the left arch, a lamp hangs from the ceiling, illuminating a double sliding glass door leading to a large empty room with white walls, a concrete floor, and an open ceiling with visible duct work; in the right arch two blurry figures in the center of the arch are walking along the cloister towards the left edge of the frame, the wall behind them is dark except for a vertical white rectangle containing three characters written in Chinese

Two sets of train tracks run down the center of the frame and then veer off to the right, they are surrounding by bright yellow roofs on the left and right; the roof on the left ends in the wall of a second story made of tiled glass blocks topped with a similar yellow roof; in the distance are tall buildings, and beyond that green mountains

A Dog Awaiting Their Human

A small white dog with a little reddish brown fur on its ears stands on the small platform of a gray scooter parked at the side of the street; its ears are up and the tips are flopped over forward as it looks out from the side of the scooter towards the left side of the frame as if it is watching something

A 北投區 (Beitou) Alley

An alley lined by apartment buildings; many of the buildings have awnings or metal cages protruding from the side of the buildings over the windows; a large tree on the right side of the frame grows up and over a concrete wall, providing a canopy at the entrance to the alley; the alley is concrete and has some inlaid square tiles forming two parellel lines down the center of the alley, with rows of perpendicular tiles at regular intervals dividing the concrete up into rectangles between the two liens

A black and white photo of a man in the middle distance standing at a bar; he is holding his hand over his mouth, with one finger under his nose and the other three curled around his chin, and is wearing round glasses, a dark button-down shirt, and has short, dark hair and a close-cropped beard; he is illuminted from the left side of the frame by an old table lamp with tassles hanging from the shade; dozens of wine glasses hang by their stems from the ceiling, and in the foreground a woman bartender in a dark shirt with white vertical stripes mixes a drink

NOT ART Near the Brooklyn Public Library

Seen through the bars of a black wrought iron gate, the words “NOT ART” in all caps have been spray painted in black through a stencil onto a bright red patch of wall, each word is on a line by itself so that the letters of each word line up with one another; the surrounding wall is a dull brown with patches of red paint; at the top of the wall is more wrought iron fence, behind which is lush greenery

A woman in a white gown laughs as she is lifted up by a crowd of people inside a large white tent; the tent is illuminated by string lights and camera flashes

An amusement park surrounded by trees sits at the edge of a large river that occupies the bottom of the frame, three tall thin towers stick up from the park above the horizon; in the distance, the roofs of city buildings can be seen just above the treetops; the top three quarters of the frame is occupied by a dusky blue-gray sky with long thin clouds

Swedish Royal Guard

A parade of people in bright blue uniforms, some wearing cylindrical hats, others with silver and gold helmets with a spike on top, ride horses down the street toward the camera