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…
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“The Rise and Return” – an Amish Mafia sequel?
Background. A few years ago, I had fun doing a snark-filled episode review of the Discovery Channel fake-reality TV series Amish Mafia.ย The show purported to pull back the curtain on the secret culture of Amish and Mennonites in South Central Pennsylvania.ย For four seasons, we watched the wacky adventures of Lebanon Levi King Stoltzfus…
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Dream Window 18: Friday Night Fish Fry
I’ve previously built Dream Windows that featured the Capital District’s iconographic artwork and architecture.ย Dream Window #5: The Thirst Quencher captured the Coca-Cola advertisement in Schenectady, for example. Now comes a new challenge – to build a Dream Window based on a disappearing Capital District advertising sign… and to make that sign dance once more,…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, January 21, 2016: Ten for Thursday
What a great resource the Times Union’s blogfarm has become.ย We have the most talented, articulate, dedicated community and independent bloggers in the area, and you can read all their works and thoughts and dreams and desires and irritations and wishes in one collective portal. In fact, if you take a moment today and read…
Read MoreThe Super 8mm World
Way back in ancient times – well, “ancient” meaning at least the 1970’s – if you wanted to watch a motion picture at home, there were few options.ย You could wait until the local television station broadcast it as a “Movie of the Week,” or you could purchase the movie and watch it at home…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Goin’ to the Hoop
I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.ย There’s a rap song dedicated to New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porziลฤฃis.ย No kidding.ย Brace yourself. Now what do you think would be more brain-banging than a rap song about Kristaps Porziลฤฃis? Okay, how about a SECOND rap song about Kristaps Porziลฤฃis, complete with snow-drifting…
Read MoreWell, look who’s still in business…
Every so often, my stat-metrics program will alert me that one of my vintage blog posts got linked somewhere and people are commenting on that old blog post. Last night, I discovered that one of my photography experiments – specifically, my shooting with vintage Agfachrome – Okay, that’s nice, I tried Agfachrome, it didn’t pan…
Read More“And Down Goes Miller! Down Goes Miller!!”
Yesterday was a very scary moment for me. Let me explain. Yesterday morning, as the snow fell in the Capital Region, I “went fishin’” for the morning – taking pictures at a special location for a year-long project.ย Got a good photo here, got a swank photo there.ย Now if I drive up this hill,…
Read MorePat Robertson said what about David Bowie?
Rev. Pat Robertson is many things.ย He is a Southern Baptist minister, he is a television commentator, he is a former Presidential candidate. And he also has said some truly outrageous comments on his television program The 700 Club. I don’t have to reiterate them here, mostly they concern comments about God causing both the…
Read MoreThe view from Brown Tract Pond, in Albany Saturday
You remember my photo Star Trails of Brown Tract Pond, don’t you? //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Yes. That one. Tomorrow, this picture, along with many others from may different artists and craftspeople, will be displayed at the New York State Museum on Saturday from noon to 4pm as part of a one-day Museum exhibit called “Great Places –…
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