Friday’s the day. I haven’t been this nervous in years. This is now an opportunity for my work to be seen on its own – not as part of a multi-person gallery show or in a competition, but as its own distinct entity. “A Dream in the Dash.” My very first art show. Debuting at…
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How Wendy Carlos inspired my work
All the pictures are hung. All the artworks are labeled. Friday’s coming. Opening night for “A Dream in the Dash,” the St. Agnes Cemetery Art Gallery opening that will feature a solo showing of my photos and Dream Windows. And I was asked by Kelly Grimaldi, the Historian at St. Agnes Cemetery, if I had…
Read MoreShamrock Tobacco: A cure for artistic insomnia
3:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. I’ve got a headache and I can’t sleep. May as well get out of bed and do something. I’ve had a few ideas for some art projects, but I couldn’t put anything together that would make a cohesive sensible final product. Most of these ideas involved a ghost sign I photographed…
Read MoreThe crêpe paper poppies
Yesterday I had to run several morning errands, and one of them involved stopping at the Walmart in Latham. As I parked my car and walked toward the entrance to the store, I saw an elderly man at the Walmart entranceway; he was a veteran from the Zaloga Post and was selling Memorial Day crêpe…
Read MoreCollarworld: Jackson and the Beach
Mother’s Day was a special time in Collarworld, the afterlife waystation for pets who wait for the blessed reunion with their human masters. For on Mother’s Day, the pets remembered not only those who gave birth to them and nurtured them, but also the caring masters who took care of them and protected them from…
Read More“Comedy for a Cause” on May 30 at the Comedy Works
They are advocates for those who are too young to have advocates. They are the members of the Albany County Department for Children, Youth and Families, and their duty is to protect children and families. They help find programs for children with special needs or who have mental health concerns; they operate programs to engage…
Read MoreTetrameter and the Bell Tower
One bright Friday morning, as I happened to meet Some friends of mine in downtown Watervliet I asked, “Has St. Patrick’s bell tower come down? “It must be the talk of all over the town.” “Not yet,” said my friend, “But it will come down soon “It has to, or else there will be no…
Read MoreGood grief, Peter Robbins is a blockhead…
Peter Robbins is a 56-year-old man from Oceanside, California. He was dissatisfied with the plastic surgery breast augmentation that his girlfriend Shawna Kern received; his disappointment turned to anger and frustration at his having to pay over $12,000 for the procedure. So Robbins started stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend. He called her house dozens of…
Read MoreThe “like farm” scam on Facebook: we’re not talking Farmville here…
I saw this report from Yahoo! reporter Becky Worley and it confirmed my suspicions. It also explained why so many people out there get trapped by what they think is an innocent “like this” picture on Facebook and discover, weeks or months later, that someone is making money off of their “like.” You’ve seen these…
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s bell tower in efke and filters
Sunday morning, May 5. 6:30 a.m. Nobody gets up this early on a Sunday unless they’re going to church. Yep. You know it. Chuck’s going back to church. On Saturday, I took some experimental, artistic photos of the bell tower of St. Patrick’s Church in Watervliet – the bell tower being the only remaining structure…
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