It’s Thursday night and I’m taking some “me” time for a dinner at the Halfmoon Diner. Sometimes I need to do things like this, just to recalibrate myself. I’m looking over the menu… hmm… lots of good things here… You know what… it’s just a normal evening, a normal time… I’ll just get something to…
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Five photos in an old hard drive
Last night I was going through the recovered files from a crashed hard drive.ย I was able to save all the old iTunes tracks and some archived photos.ย Everything else, so far, has been nothing but digital junk and deletions and temporary Internet files from ages ago. And then, nested in one of the folders…
Read MoreHe would…
He would be 49 today. He would have a wife, a couple of kids, maybe a dog. He would have his own house and run his own business. He would have served his country overseas, doing whatever it took for good. He would be a baseball fan. He would support local causes.ย Probably participate in…
Read MoreWhere rejection is growth
So let’s cut to the chase.ย Rip the bandage off and hope that I don’t scream too loudly. None of my three submitted artworks made the cut for the Wild Center’s “The Forest and the Tree” exhibit at their Tupper Lake museum. I’m okay with that.ย Surprisingly okay. Now for those of you who have…
Read MoreGoin’ fishin’…
By the time you read this, I’ll be out the door, cameras in hand, heading for a very special location. And I’ll take pictures at that location.ย Day and night.ย Weekday and weekend.ย Film and digital.ย Standard and experimental. I’m not going to post the pictures online … at least not yet.ย Not until the…
Read MoreBob & Ron’s Fish Fry and A Charlie Brown Christmas
I have many memories of good meals and quiet reflection at Bob & Ron’s Fish Fry on Central Avenue.ย Last Wednesday’s news that the restaurant was closing its Albany location kinda hit me hard. I should explain why. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.jsLike thousands of Albany residents, I grew up on their fish fry dinners.ย I ate at the…
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I will never understand the minds of madmen. I will never comprehend why anybody would randomly kill people or take hostages to kill them or force demands.ย And for what? I will never find a way to make sense of all this. Suicide bombers.ย Assault rifles on patrons at a concert hall.ย Explosions outside a…
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The Char-Mar Ceramics Christmas Tree
I saw them just as I was headed toward the movie theater at Colonie Center. One of the holiday merchants, who set up a small pop-up store along the Colonie Center concourse walkway, had a small forest of them on display. Beautiful vintage ceramic light-up Christmas trees. You’ve seen them.ย A big ceramic green tree,…
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The Cathedral of St. Philco
My latest crafted project brings together spirituality, patience and an old cathedral radio frame. Hope you enjoy seeing it from conception to creation.
Read MoreA prosthetic arm to make kids feel extra-special
Gizmodo recently reported on a company, Open Bionics, who is crafting something extra-special for children who, either through a birth defect or an accident, have lost a hand or an arm. And I have to say – this is absolutely incredible and amazing. Open Bionics, a leader in low-cost myoelectric prosthetic arms and limbs, has…
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