Hi everyone, hope you’re having a good start to a great weekend. Yes, folks, it is the weekend, the time we’ve been waiting for during the work week, and then when we get there, we’re so worn out that we don’t really have time to do much before we have to start back on the…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for August 16, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2024 Big E Photography Competition are …
The Eastern States Exhibition (the “Big E”) is essentially New England’s mega-fair. And I’ve had plenty of success with my photography entries in this show. Last year wasn’t as successful; one of my two entries was bounced; while the other earned an honorable mention. Which means … I must try harder. Here’s my problem. The…
Read MoreThe Altamont Fair photo results, 2024 edition
Fifteen years. I’ve entered the Altamont Fair’s photography and fine arts competition for the past fifteen years. And in those fifteen years, I’ve achieved some amazing highs and some soul-crushing lows. And here I am once again, driving that windy road off Route 20 to get to the Fairgrounds on the Fair’s opening night. It’s…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2024 Altamont Fair Fine Arts Competition are …
It’s Tuesday morning. Judging at the Altamont Fair Fine Arts Competition is complete. And once I know that the judging is finished, I can at least post the four entries I’ve submitted. Why do I wait until now? Why don’t I just post the images after I drop them off? Simple. I do not want…
Read MoreInstead of painting this … I’m sanding it. Sanding it to a mirror finish.
When I get involved in a continuing art project … I have a lot of fun with it. Seriously. A LOT of fun. But that “lot of fun” also involves putting together new and unique ways to challenge myself on projects like this. Case in point. During the warm summer months, I can work outside…
Read MoreThe Iowa State Fair Photography Salon results, 2024
And let’s start Competition Season off. The last news I heard, three of my four entries were accepted by the Iowa State Fair’s photography salon. Which makes me very happy. And now I have the results of which ones got selected and which selected entries picked up silks. But it’s not like I can just…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, August 10 2024
It’s a busy weekend for me – today is “drop-off day” at the Altamont Fair, and I’ve got my four entries in the car already. Tomorrow I’m driving downtstate to pick up some Craigslist purchases, and inbetween all that I have other chores and household stuffs to complete. But I can’t do anything right now…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for August 9, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show, a rebroadcast from March 19, 2021, is a special retrospective of the 1980’s record label Rocshire. Time Artist Song Release…
Read MoreThe Return of the Snowflake Ride
There are photos in my archive that, for one reason or another, I just love to enter into competitions. Case in point – a photo I took a few years ago at the New York State Fair, a photo of a scrambler thrill ride in mid-scramble, is still part of my catalog and, on occasion,…
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