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Month: May 2006

  • Summer (almost)

    Summer isn’t official in my book until the solstice. But I just made myself iced coffee so it’s kind of here. I would have made iced green tea but I guzzle iced green tea and I was still full from dinner of fried tofu and chili bean paste (doesn’t heat up the kitchen). Marty went…

  • Robot vs the monster (H.o.p's epic)

    And here’s H.o.p.’s second claymation. Which was way toooooo ambitious. Again, he did the claymation, photographing everything himself in sequence, did the story, models and all. Then I helped him put it together first in Photoshop then Quicktime. We experimented and went with six frames per second and had most of the dialogue displayed at…

  • A robot goes bowling

    H.o.p. has done plenty of onionskinning. Lately he’s been prepping himself to do some claymation, and today you see his first real claymation short, which will be followed immediately by the posting of another one, both done during the past few days. He did all the claymation, photography, models, story etc. (Need to get him…

  • More tributes to Rick

    Nick at The Scratching Post writes: Most of all he was a nice guy, and I’m not just saying that to be polite. He’s another reminder that it’s not the things we leave behind that we’ll be remembered for; it’s the way we treat other people.

  • "Folks Behind the Faces"

    The fire that ate Rick’s house will have eaten his old Martin D28. Will have eaten his old Telecaster. May have left untouched the Graphite that George Coates talked Rick into buying, just like Rick should have left it on the music store wall, so Marty told him. The fire will have eaten his “Come…

  • Article on Rick Huff’s death

    Folly singer killed in fire Rick Huff recorded 2 CDs chronicling life at the beach BY NITA BIRMINGHAM AND PRENTISS FINDLAY The Post and Courier FOLLY BEACH – Singer Rick Huff, who penned songs that captured the soul of this Mayberry by the Sea, died Thursday in a fire at his house. Huff’s death in…

  • Rick Huff crossing over

    Rick Huff used to live in Atlanta but a while back moved to Folly Beach SC, which he loved. We don’t know the details but his house caught fire sometime Wednesday night/Thursday early and he died. He was a good friend of Marty’s and a friend of mine. But I think Rick was friends with…

  • Pig at the Hanford Animal Farm (declassified)

    Pig at the Hanford Animal Farm (declassified)

    Rumors spread far and wide of an entity named Charlotte who loved Wilbur and showed the world he was some pig Pig at the Hanford Animal Farm, declassified 2006 20 w by 15 in h Digital Painting Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement This…

  • Romance on the Atomic Frontier, declassified

    Romance on the Atomic Frontier, declassified

    Gun-toting dancer, Declassified Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 The couple dancing is from one of the Atomic Frontier Days festivals celebrating the friendly merging of a gun-toting old west with the glorious nuclear future. The photo of the sign collaged over the couple is one…

  • Crossing Guard (declassified)

    Crossing Guard (declassified)

    There’s a reason for which I keep bringing up sex and Hanford Crossing Guard, Declassified 2006 13 w by 20 in h Digital Painting/Digital Collage Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement DDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number “N1D0053447” Accession Number N1D0053447 Document Number…

  • H.o.p. is not a salesman, he says

    H.o.p. in a shirt with his T Rex painting on it, courtesy his store at Cafe Press. This is the pic in which he is standing still for his mom. And here he is being H.o.p. and unwittingly assuming a Shiva pose. (That’s Marty in the background fixing supper.) And here he is with his…

  • The Shape of Things to Come (declassified)

    The Shape of Things to Come (declassified)

    The future belonged to men in tights, women in veils, and flying saucers The Shape of Things to Come, Declassified 200620 w by 12 in h Digital painting Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project…