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Month: September 2006

  • Portugese Man O' War were a hit

    Brainpop is launching Brainpop Jr., geared for K-3. Right now it is free but will later be subscription. H.o.p. and I realized it was there today and he’s been tooling around it this evening and is so far enjoying it. Agh, it will be a separate subscription service from their regular Brainpop. More bucks. Maybe.…

  • Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

  • Gack. Trials and tribulations of 2D animation software are just beginning

    Taught H.o.p. the Base 2 mathematical system Monday using “The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat” for introduction only. Penrose the cat certainly opened the door to his being inteested but it wasn’t thorough enough. H.o.p. was all excited about the idea of a cat that could do math and then I had to burst…

  • Some thoughts on "A Woman Is A Woman"

    Communicating feelings with book titles I put on “Une Femme est une Femme” last night and watched it through, thinking I’d blog it and then decided no, it’s an impossible film to blog. It’s a wonderful film, a stunning film. I know I didn’t begin to get it when I saw it the first time,…

  • Tree and Tourists, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Tree and Tourists, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Tree and Tourists, Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

  • Heston Listening Party

    I don’t do parties but decided to do this one. Heston was having a listening party on the roof of the 17 floor William Oliver House downtown for his upcoming CD (Marty engineered and mixed 11 of 14 songs), part of the purpose of which was to do a survey and pick the first single.…

  • Girl with Windswept Hair, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Girl with Windswept Hair, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Girl with Windswept Hair, Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

  • Oh yeah, the acting class

    I gather they were kittens, lions and mice on Saturday. That’s all I know. H.o.p. is having a great time with the class but when I grill him he says it was forever ago and doesn’t remember any more than what he’s told me. The assignment for his next class is to come with his…

  • Blogging Jean Luc Godard’s "Band of Outsiders"

    Gardez vos yeux d’enfant[clear] Blogging Jean Luc Godard’s 1964 “Band of Outsiders”! Here we go. I’ve got a cup of hot coffee, and we’re deep into September. Perfect time of year for this particular Godard flick. A Janus Film. Believe it or not they used to show Janus films like at 11 or midnight way…

  • Silly Wooden Models, by H.o.p.

    OK, now this one…this one is worthy. And it’s funny, at least to me, the end is. Cracks me up every time. H.o.p. had seen these wooden artist models last spring or winter at IKEA and he had to have them. He decided this was what he needed to start practicing stop animation. But then…

  • The Boogie Man Monster, by H.o.p.

    So, H.o.p. shot thousands of pics over the summer for uhm stop animation, and I say “Uhm, stop animation” because it all turned out to be slide shows, really. At spring’s end he had done, for a kid, this major opus of a stop animation. And then suddenly he went Lego crazy and after viewing…

  • Bryan Jewelers, Augusta, GA, 1970s

    Bryan Jewelers, Augusta, GA, 1970s

    Bryan Jewelers, Augusta, Ga. 1970s Digital tinting of black and white photo approx 8 in wide by 5 in h © copyright J Kearns Would wander the streets looking for what I thought were interesting images in the then decaying downtown area. Go home and develop. This one caught my eye because of the marble…