This ought to be fun. I recently acquired a 100-pound burlap sack from Fort Orange Dairy in Albany, New York.ย Fort Orange Dairy was a brand of farm and poultry feeds and seeds, produced by Barber & Bennett, who had their offices at the corner of Arch and Church Streets in Albany. Here’s an old…
Read MoreChristine, Bumblee and Dracourage?!?
You’re familiar with the Stephen King story Christine, with a possessed car? You’re familiar with the Transformers car Bumblebee, which depending on your fandom is either a yellow Volkswagen Beetle or a yellow Chevrolet Camaro – both of whom are sentient beings? Well, apparently over the last few days my 2013 Chevrolet Cruze “Dracourage” may…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, June 30, 2018
My fellow blog readers, before I begin with this week’s “7 and 7” blogroll harvest, I want to address something very important. And it concerns my relationship – or what was left of it – with the Albany Times Union. As you know from reading my blog posts over the past year or so –…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: It’s All About That Bass…
On occasion, if I’ve heard a song on the radio more times than I care to count, I’ll start focusing on a specific part of the song itself – the drummer, the bassist, something to find a nuance that I hadn’t noticed before. On today’s K-Chuck Radio, I want to take you into the rock…
Read MoreAluminum illumination
As far as my art prints go, my printer of choice is McGreevy Pro Lab in downtown Albany.ย They can print my photos into stunning artworks, and I can get my works in a variety of formats – glossy print, matte print, gicleรฉ print… But they’re not able to print my artworks on metal. It’s…
Read MoreThe Children’s Bicycle Detention Center
There’s a very curious building on Green Island.ย It looks like a manufacturing complex, and it has a chain link fence surrounding it. And inbetween the building and the chain link fence? Children’s bicycles.ย Lots of them.ย Some are in various stages of repair, others look like they just rolled off the Huffy factory floor.…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Gorillaz in our midst
When the studio group Gorillaz first released records way back in ancient times – what, the late 1990’s – I wasn’t sure what to expect.ย The songs were a mixture of R&B, rap, funk, deep groove – with a premise that four animated simians were creating the tracks.ย Yeah, think The Archies or The Chipmunks…
Read MoreThere are FIVE Albany Patroons in the TBT Tournament this year!
Just because the Albany Patroons’ 2018 NAPB basketball season has concluded, doesn’t mean that I’m not keeping tabs on the guys and what they’re doing in the offseason. And it looks as if some of the Albany Patroons are involved in a different type of championship run. And it involves the independent $2 million TBT…
Read MoreSubmissions of a single section of scarlets and shades
Many years ago, I tried to submit some of my artworks to a major art event, the annual Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region.ย My images were not accepted.ย And in that unacceptance, I received some comments about WHY my photos were rejected… At the time, I had submitted a mixture of different film techniques…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, June 23, 2018
I’m a little busy right now, gotta make sure that my kid made it all the way from Washington State to New York for a couple of weeks.ย And while all that’s going on … I still need to find time to take care of the 7 and 7.ย I don’t want to leave all…
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