Archive for March, 2009
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Chuck Jones extravaganza on TCM. H.o.p. was on pins and needles, waiting all week. Watched the bio in reverent awe. But he hadn’t realized Jones was dead…
“He lived to be 90!” I told H.o.p.
He was still sad because so many of his heroes are…well…dead.
“Is he/she alive?”
“No, they’re dead.”
“Why is everyone dead?!”
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No joke. Military.discovery.com (Discovery channel) offers this quiz. “If you were a gun, what kind would you be?”
The quiz begins with romance and champagne.
It is too bizarre. So I took the quiz to see what the questions would be. The first question, as mentioned above, frames the gun as a romantic partner. After 10 questions, I was informed, “You are an Uzi!”
While taking the quiz, I tried to imagine the minds of the individuals who came up with this idea. Then wondered what was going through the heads of the web designers who had to implement it.
Watching the spacewalk live via helmet cam on NASA-TV.
Not Very Educational Illustration of the Wright Brothers
March 17th, 2009 |Posted In: Uncategorized
H.o.p. was reading a brief bio on the Wright brothers. The illustration for their childhood showed boys playing with blocks and toy cars.
Marty says, “Maybe they invented the time machine.”
Which was what H.o.p. said.
I was thinking H.o.p. just went in to use the bathroom but instead he is shooting a movie in there now called “Super Agent Luigi Meets the Sewer Rat”.
The above pic is from the Views from the Road 2005 set. It was commented on at Flickr that it reminded of Tit Mountain between El Paso and Austin. This is more like a stripper’s pastie, I suppose. The pic was taken on lands near the Petrified Forest National Park and that’s a big piece of petrified wood sitting atop that lovely cone of Painted Desert. When the Museum of the Americas was still open, they had a little drive thru you could make on their land to see all the petrified wood there and an occasional lurking dinosaur. That’s where this photo was made. However, there was something about the positioning of many of the logs that gave me the feeling they’d been given perhaps a little assistance in their placement, just a little too perfect, the scent of a stage hand lurking in the wings, and I have found that Roadside America shared the same suspicion. Still, it is entirely possible the logs have been lying there exactly like that (or almost) since before human kind first stubbed its toe on the Continental Divide.
For several years, on trips out west, I took photos from the car window with the intention of later working on them to create a mix of different levels of the fuzzy dreaminess that landscapes, towns and cities can take on in the traveler’s memory, sometimes only moments after being viewed, as one pushes on to the next horizon.
Well, I think I finished the 2005 Views from the Road set, which can be viewed here on my art website.
The above pic is from the Painted Desert area in Arizona.
We used to have goldfish. For six years we had a few goldfish. Now we keep a tropical aquarium. At least for two weeks we have. In it are guppies and neon tetras and snails and a couple sucker fish and several teeny tiny transparent catfsh and two African dwarf aquarium frogs.
Rarely do the frogs present themselves and when they do it’s one at a time. They hide. H.o.p. named them Kermit…both of them, as we can’t tell the difference between the two yet as we only see them one at a time and they are so similar that to our eyes we’ve been unable to note any distinguishing markings.
Kermit 1 (or Kermit 2) came out for a bit today. I always worry Kermit is starving since I never see him/her and thus never see him/her eat.
Fall Ioway Fall Encampment Photos from 2005
March 5th, 2009 |Posted In: American Indian, Art-Photos
After nearly 4 years, I finally completed processing work on the few potentially decent pics I came home with from the Ioway Fall Encampment in 2005. Problems were presented as I that weekend I was using a foul Nikon Coolpix that comprehended the world as a dizzying blur. But a few were salvaged which I mostly processed in black and white or sepia. Also finished finally last night a digital painting of Anah based on a pic from the same set. It’s presented problems for nearly as long. I kept returning to it wondering what I was doing wrong and finally have something with which I’m fairly pleased.
There are a couple of nice photos in the set. Not many more than that. A couple.
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This year’s snowfall. Always a rare event in the South. They’re anticipating an accumulation of 1 to 3 inches for us.
I don’t think there will be any snowman building for us this year. The flakes are nice and fat coming down, but they are sloshy wet flakes. As soon as they touch ground they become slush.
Last year, H.o.p. and I were out in the snow quite a long time building our snow man and only felt our fingers and feet were freezing off toward the end. This year, Marty and H.o.p. went out and sooner than later were back in and stripping off sopping wet shoes, clothes and gloves.
