This morning I woke up and discovered that we’re now headed for a Trump presidency.ย And I thought the side effects of my new pain medicines couldn’t make me any more nauseous. With that in mind, I’d like to bring up a thought. In my lifetime, I’ve experienced Presidential administrations going all the way back…
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The results of BUILT 2016
For the sixth consecutive year, I am fortunate in that my artworks have been accepted to the Capital Region’s premier charity art show, Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT: Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes.ย Three of my artworks – Coca-Cola 2015, The Pew of Holy Innocents, and Dream Window 17: Friday Night Fish Fry – are among the…
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Who wants some eyebleach?
So I’ve had a rough couple of days, which culminated yesterday in a hospital visit.ย Thankfully, I received some medicine to get better, but still… it’s been rough. And there’s so much crap about the 2016 Presidential election… at this point, choosing between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is like my wanting to pull out…
Read MoreThe legs of a horse
Sometimes my mind remembers things it shouldn’t always remember. This happens in time. And one of those times involves the memories of a statue. And the thoughts of a little kid who asked, for him, a thoughtful question. Background. As a kid, I would spend summers living with my Grandma Betty in Boston, rather than…
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The last days of color, and a retouch
It’s Saturday morning, and the wet, miserable rain is pouring down around the Capital District. I know only one thing about this moment. Get out there with the cameras and capture those soggy leaves as they fall around the area. So I took a quick road trip down to Greene County, and decided to follow…
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Braking for beauty
Yesterday, I took some time to photograph the Adirondacks.ย Nothing major, just a little drive through various locations that I’ve photographed in the past, hoping to capture them as the foliage changes. Yes, I’m a sucker for foliage.ย But I’m also a sucker for “tiny beauty.”ย You know, that moment when you’ve photographed something big…
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Third place in a one-horse race?
On Saturday, I drove to Syracuse to pick up my award-winning creation The Cathedral of St. Philco, and the blue ribbon attached thereto.ย It was a bright spot in what has turned to be a dim Competition Season 2016, with my entries (outside of Altamont) receiving rejection throughout. But hey, I got a big blue…
Read MoreSome post-9/11 memories…
I have two stories to tell.ย One of the stories took place on the anniversary of 9/11, one only tangentially involves 9/11.ย So bear with me. The first story takes place on September 11, 2004.ย It’s the three-year anniversary of that somber date.ย At the time, I was freelancing for an antiques and auction publication…
Read MoreIdiot cosplayers wear flaming 9/11 Twin Towers costumes
We all know where we were on that horrible Tuesday in 2001.ย We saw the aftermath of the planes crashing into the tallest structures of the World Trade Center, into the wall of the Pentagon, into a field in western Pennsylvania.ย We mourn the death of the innocent, we champion the bravery of the flight…
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2:00 a.m. creativity
I can’t sleep.ย Again.ย Insomnia is like a tone-deaf bugler at a Boy Scout campout.ย And he’s playing Revilee six hours early. I roll over.ย Still can’t sleep. Okay, may as well get up and do something.ย Anything. Hey, maybe that wild petunia that was growing in my outdoor flower pot might still have a…
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