Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Four houses were destroyed. Several families barely escaped with the clothes on their backs. The Monday night / Tuesday morning fire that tore through a block of houses on Madison Avenue was scary, it was frightening, it was devastating. Now it’s time for us – as a community and as good people – to help…
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Preparing for the New York State Fair’s contests is both exciting and arduous. All six of my photography entries are properly printed and matted and ready to go (thanks McGreevy Pro Lab and Hobby Lobby). And as for the three entries I’m submitting in the Arts and Crafts category – two milk crate entries, Hi…
Read MoreThere was once a time – around the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s – when popular songs were shaved down to a paltry three minutes or less … in order to get more tunes crammed into Top 40 radio. Although like “Hey Jude” and “American Pie” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” buck the trend of the…
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A couple of weeks ago, I crafted a hope chest from old wooden Coca-Cola soda crates. It was a fun project, and I had a great time bashing out the wood and re-assembling everything. So much so, in fact, that I decided to build a second chest. This chest will incorporate various other popular sodas…
Read MoreWhat you see here are two postcards from my previous Iowa State Fair submissions. Five entries sent in 2014 … four entries sent in 2016. All nine entries were rejected like Chuck Miller on date night. And yet, I’m trying one more time. Such is the masochist in me.
Read MoreWe have an amazing crop of blogs this week, and they really deserve your attention. As per our Saturday formula, I’ll list seven blogs from my community blogging friends at the Times Union, and then seven blogs from my blogroll. And if you have any suggestions about blogs or bloggers that I should include in…
Read MoreTen years ago, I cobbled together a desktop computer tower. Rather than go to the local CompUSA and buy a tower off the shelf, I ordered all the component parts and jiggered them together. The tower survived a couple of hard drive crashes – one in 2010, another in 2015 – as well as an…
Read MoreOn this edition of K-Chuck Radio, I’m going to dive into the wild and wonderful world of dance music from the 1970’s. Back when discos stopped calling themselves discotheques. These tracks were monster hits in the clubs and discos, but sadly they’ve drifted off to rarities status. Except for here, where I dust them off…
Read MoreYou know it’s coming. That moment when you’re watching the news, or your checking your Facebook feeds, and you hear about the new outlandish, shocking, what-the-hell-was-he-thinking tweet from President Donald Trump. And you know, once you hear what the President has said that morning, whether it’s one single tweet or a six-message tweetstorm, that there…
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Last year, someone gifted me a solar lens filter, with the challenge of photographing the upcoming total eclipse on August 21, 2017. I take challenges seriously. Believe me, I do. Heck, it took me two years of planning to capture the “blood moon eclipse” two years ago – everything from scouting possible shooting locations to…
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