Yes, I’m still working on Dream Windows, my specialized art project in which I take salvaged window frames and repurpose them into dedicated artworks that chronicle my life experiences. Last year, I finished my fifth Dream Window, entitled The Thirst Quencher. If you want to see how that one was constructed, I chronicled everything in…
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Week 19 of the $2,000 2013 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
As I sit at Elbo Room, munching on a club sandwich and listening to the questions asked this week, my mind is on other things. Things of support. For example, although I’m playing solo tonight, I’m also cheering on my current Street Academy teammates Jeremy and Katie, who are in California right now. Their Ultimate…
Read More“Amish Mafia” episode review: The Reckoning
I swear, when I hear this disclaimer that the Amish church disavows any knowledge of the Amish Mafia, I wonder if I play the disclaimer backwards, it will provide some secret message like “Try my cousin Ephraim Yoder’s shoo-fly pie, it will make thee very happy…” Well, I thought we were all done with this…
Read MoreThe volunt-amat-communi-blogger
I’ve written this post at least six times and thrown it away eight times. Put your calculator away. Yes, I can count. Yes, I’m being metaphorical. What kind of blogger am I? According to the Times Union, I’ve been referred to on various occasions as a “reader-blogger,” a “community blogger,” an “amateur blogger,” a “volunteer…
Read MorePower lines and trackless train trestles
Yes, I’m still experimenting with shooting “redscale” film, in which the film is inserted backwards into the camera so that the film’s back emulsion layers are exposed first. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when it works… wow it works. Case in point. December 21, there’s maybe a chill in the air but there’s…
Read MoreThe dairy barn and Svema film
I’m going to find a way to make this wonky, gritty, industrial Svema B&W film work to my advantage. Yes, I’ve said it before. Yes, I’ve even said it before that. So a couple of weeks ago, I packed my Nikon F100 camera with some vintage Svema film and went out for a little shooting. …
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Dear Allen…
Dear Allen… I was thinking about you today. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I think about you a lot. Maybe not every single moment, but you’re always in my mind. It was a weird weather day – Sunday felt like springtime, even though I know it’s mid-January. Lots of fog in the air. Misty, ethereal…
Read MoreAnd so ye shall recline…
The best part of purchasing any product today is that when that product finally falls apart, you are confident in the knowledge that said item has provided exactly what it was built to provide, and then some. About sixteen years ago, I purchased a recliner. It was a La-Z-Boy recliner with a blue fabric exterior,…
Read More“Music From The Yiddish Radio Project” is an album I want to be buried with
Haven’t put a new album in the casket yet, but this one’s a great choice. Several years ago, an archivist found a collection of old radio station acetate recordings in a New York City storage locker. What was on the acetates? Recordings of music and commercials and songs and news reports, all from 1940’s-era Jewish…
Read MorePlaying trivia for Big Brothers Big Sisters
First off, let me state that no matter how I did last night – first place, last place, somewhere in the middle – the big winners were the Big Brothers / Big Sisters of the Capital Region, whose “Big Brains” trivia night at the Latham Holiday Inn had reached its fundraising goal before the first…
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