The skill and dexterity of carving jade is something that completely amazes and astounds me. The thinner jade is cut, the more translucent it becomes. But one small errant nick, one tiny misplaced cut, can turn your jade artwork into a mess. Artisans today use diamond-tipped bits and burrs to carve jade animals and jade…
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Update on the Stained Glass Dream Window of Kenwood Avenue Project
Update. In an effort to create a new art project, last December I purchased a glass-paneled window from Silver Fox Salvage in Albany’s warehouse district. I replaced most of the border panels in the window with swirled “end of day” slag glass, which were carefully trimmed to fit along the window’s perimeter. I then took…
Read MorePhotographing the St. Patrick’s Day Parade … the big one in New York City.
I had a photo assignment from one of my clients, and it required me to travel to New York City on Saturday. As I started to plan my trip, I realized that if I traveled to New York that day, I would be traveling in the middle of traffic for St. Patrick’s Day. This meant…
Read MoreHelp Sergeant Rex, a war veteran, reunite stateside.
Sergeant Rex served America with honors in Operation Iraqi Freedom. In his two tours of duty, he helped find IED’s – the roadside bombs that have injured and killed thousands of soldiers – so that the bombs could be disarmed. He and his team – which included Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, a decorated Operation Iraqi…
Read MoreHey, look at who’s doing this blogging thing now!
As you regular readers know by now, I have a daughter named Cassaundra who lives in Seattle. She’s a good kid, she’s gone through some tough times but has never given up. She’s still in college, and she’s still a member of the National Guard. She’s even saving up money to buy a new car…
Read MoreE=mc♯
“Words are the canvas of an actor. His lips are his brushes, and his tongue – the colors of the spectrum. And when he speaks, he paints portraits.” -Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl The title of today’s blog post E=mc♯ is a relationship formula, where E is positive emotion, m is compatibility and c♯…
Read MoreI want Chuck Miller, but I don’t want Chuck Miller…
That’s kind of a yin-and-yang headline, but you have to bear with me on this. One of the issues I’ve dealt with in my 48+ years on this planet is a feeling of inadequacy. Of not being good enough. Of not feeling wanted or accepted. It might have started when my father clearly explained to…
Read MoreYep, that’s me on the Glenn Slingerland Situation TV show…
About a year or two ago, I appeared on an episode of The Glenn Slingerland Situation as “Dead Body #2.” Of course, appearing on Albany’s cool hipster avant-garde music video TV show has its perks… especially when you mention to someone that you’ve appeared on The Situation and they ask, “Did you get to hold…
Read MoreIf Mike D’Antoni quits the New York Knicks… why not hire Micheal Ray Richardson as his replacement?
Okay, wasn’t it a few short weeks ago that everybody was heralding the New York Knicks as the new team to be reckoned with in the NBA – oh yeah, Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudamire and Tyson Chandler … oh yeah, the Knicks are going to win it all, bay bee… Yeah,…
Read MoreRecreating The Prokudin-Gorskii Discipline: or, how I shot color images with black-and-white film
This guy was so far ahead of his time, that it would be the equivalent of Leonardo DaVinci creating the iPad. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer who, in the early years of the 20th century, found a way to create color images from monochromatic photography. He would expose three images on glass photographic…
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