This man's love of music is beautiful to watch/listen to...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
An almost summer Thursday
A guitar 'workshop' of sorts with IgorA this evening. Two hours of counting the first 8 beats of "Where it Goes'. Great work, but my brain was fried by the end.
A bunch of truly interesting job prospects have surfaced in the last week and I am trying to get applications in for them all. So a large chunk of the day was spent with this here computer. I managed to get a walk up and down Phinney Ridge in this morning and made a few images along the way. Here are two from today and another from earlier in the week.
A bunch of truly interesting job prospects have surfaced in the last week and I am trying to get applications in for them all. So a large chunk of the day was spent with this here computer. I managed to get a walk up and down Phinney Ridge in this morning and made a few images along the way. Here are two from today and another from earlier in the week.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Ballard Spunk
Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a story on the passing of Edith Macefield.
Photo: Karen Ducey / P-I
Photo: Joshua Trujillo / P-I
The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. She was 86.
"I don't want to move. I don't need the money. Money doesn't mean anything," she told the Seattle P-I in October.
She continued living in the little old house in the 1400 block of Northwest 46th Street even after concrete walls rose around her, coming within a few feet of her kitchen window.
Photo: Karen Ducey / P-I
Photo: Joshua Trujillo / P-ISaturday, June 14, 2008
So much to catch up with...
I keep putting this off, but the longer I do the more behind I get...
OK, so what are the pencils about?
Well, they are about the extravagant birthday gift I bought for myself - a pencil sharpener:
For years I have been using a small, hand-held pencil sharpener. Recently, I was given reason to suspect that the irregular sharpening motions of the hand-held sharpener was at least part of the reason my colored pencil leads were breaking as often as they have . So, for a whopping $11, I decided to go on a spree and buy this nifty little battery powered pencil sharpener. And guess what - it seems to work just fine. I have had only three pencils leads break in the sharpening of all my pencils, whereas in the past, almost every other pencil would break. The ones that are breaking now are likely doing so because the pencil was dropped and the 'lead' has cracked.
I had a wonderful birthday. The evening prior to teh actual date, I was joined for a birthday cupcake and a movie: Prince Caspian. That was quite enough birthday celebrating for me and I was entirely content that night. The following day, on my birthday proper, emails started flying around in the morning notifying various individuals that it was my birthday. By the evening, plans were in place to meet at Travgor's where we ended up having pizza and a rich, dense chocolate torte while watching an Elvis DVD. We also snuck in a Battlestar Gallactica episode before the evening was over.
But that wasn't all! The following evening, after the Tuning the Air performance we met for our usual post-show relaxing at the High-Life and,MB presented a beautiful and tasty raspberry tart that she made and we did the birthday thing again .
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Tuning the Air: Though we haven't completed the current season, I'm beginning early planning for next season. The poster design is one piece of this early planning - and this is the first draft...
There is more to catch up with ( like the job I didn't get) but that is enough for now....
OK, so what are the pencils about?
Well, they are about the extravagant birthday gift I bought for myself - a pencil sharpener:
For years I have been using a small, hand-held pencil sharpener. Recently, I was given reason to suspect that the irregular sharpening motions of the hand-held sharpener was at least part of the reason my colored pencil leads were breaking as often as they have . So, for a whopping $11, I decided to go on a spree and buy this nifty little battery powered pencil sharpener. And guess what - it seems to work just fine. I have had only three pencils leads break in the sharpening of all my pencils, whereas in the past, almost every other pencil would break. The ones that are breaking now are likely doing so because the pencil was dropped and the 'lead' has cracked.
I had a wonderful birthday. The evening prior to teh actual date, I was joined for a birthday cupcake and a movie: Prince Caspian. That was quite enough birthday celebrating for me and I was entirely content that night. The following day, on my birthday proper, emails started flying around in the morning notifying various individuals that it was my birthday. By the evening, plans were in place to meet at Travgor's where we ended up having pizza and a rich, dense chocolate torte while watching an Elvis DVD. We also snuck in a Battlestar Gallactica episode before the evening was over.
But that wasn't all! The following evening, after the Tuning the Air performance we met for our usual post-show relaxing at the High-Life and,MB presented a beautiful and tasty raspberry tart that she made and we did the birthday thing again .
~~~
Tuning the Air: Though we haven't completed the current season, I'm beginning early planning for next season. The poster design is one piece of this early planning - and this is the first draft...
There is more to catch up with ( like the job I didn't get) but that is enough for now....
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Coldest June in more than a century
With less than two weeks to go until the summer solstice, snowplows were busy on Snoqualmie Pass in one of the coldest Junes ever.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366473_weather11.html
At least 7 inches of snow fell in the pass overnight Tuesday, contributing to a trailer-truck rollover near Cle Elum, as June saw the coldest first week since records began in 1891, the National Weather Service in Seattle said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366473_weather11.html
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Let's go downtown
While lengthy backups (that is another story) were running on the computer, it seemed a good time to take advantage of free First Thursday at the Seattle Art Museum and see what else might be opening tonight. Hopped on the MT15 bus to downtown (and that too is another story) and found myself in front of Benham Gallery. Well why not? The current show is a two person exhibition; Franco Donaggio and Dorothy Monnelly. I don't recall much about Monnelly's work, but that may simply be that I was so taken by Donaggio's that I didn't pay sufficient attention to what was on the other side of the room.
Donaggio's works are large (I guess approx 24" x 36") Lamba prints (Technical notes: Donaggio uses Kodak's ENDURA Metallic Paper and has these mounted on aluminum. Though his images are B&W, Endura is a color paper.) The work was beautiful. Reminiscent of a number of photographers (Burkholder, Uelsmann, Wynn Bullock, etc) yet the overall impression was of a direct, clear and decidedly dramatic vision. I found it difficult to believe the assertion that there was little Photoshop machinations to achieve these clear, clean prints, but no matter. The result is worth whatever work was required.
