Sunday morning. With all the depressing, horrible, unfathomable news – both in my life and around the world – I needed some private time. And that “private time” meant bashing up a wooden crate for a future crate art project. After taking out my frustration on the scrap wood box, I realized I would need…
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Postcards from Syracuse … NINE OF THEM
It’s Saturday afternoon and I just came back from a little trip. Oh, looks like the mailman has arrived. Time to reach in the mailbox and … I can feel them. Little cardstocks with postage. My fingers flip through. Six … seven … eight … nine of them. The postcards from Syracuse have arrived. Six…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday: August 12, 2017
It’s morning in America, rise and shine, grab your coffee and breakfast and enjoy these great blog posts by my friends and colleagues. Seven posts from my former haunt at the Times Union, and seven posts from my blogroll. Guaranteed to make your day a little bit brighter. Let’s start with the TU community blog…
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Dream Window 21: Head, Heart, Health and Hands
I apologize for keeping this Dream Window from you for so long. I’m really, really sorry. I actually built this thing about twelve months ago, but I wanted to save showing it off in the blog until today. And when you read this post, you will understand why I employed an information embargo on this…
Read MoreAgro’s Cartoon Connection – a children’s show that’s not for children?
Every so often, I find a vintage television show on YouTube that catches my interest. And for various reasons, I want to find out more about it. Such is the case with an Australian program called Agro’s Cartoon Connection. If you tuned on your Oz TV in the mid-1990’s, you might have seen a puppet…
Read MoreChuck Miller Creatives is now on Etsy!
Last week, I offered up a question to you, my many blog readers. If I were to put my photos and other artworks up for purchase through my own personal site or through an online store, would you purchase them? The overwhelming response was “Yes.” Okay, you responded, so I’m building a store. And the…
Read MoreThere’s something very interesting about these how-to videos…
When I started working on my crate art project, I initially had no idea what to do or how to do it. Sanding, stains, nails, screws, all that stuff, you may as well have tried to explain the infield fly rule to me. So I did what any self-respecting DIY person would do. I gorged…
Read MoreWhat’s better … “partly cloudy” or “mostly sunny”?
With only two weeks left before my planned trip to photograph the 2017 Great American Eclipse, the first advance weather forecasts have appeared on various online weather websites. I’ve been worried about my trip – only because if I’m traveling twelve hours to capture an eclipse, the last thing I need is overcast skies or…
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Silver Fox Salvage helped me build a bird house
What you see here is a custom-made birdhouse. This was actually made out of one of the various carrying crates I’ve acquired recently. I wasn’t originally planning on building a birdhouse. In fact, I’m not really sure what my plans were when I acquired this Canadian Coca-Cola crate. All I know is that when I…
Read MoreHey Times Union, tell your telemarketers to stop calling me!
It’s been four months since the Albany Times Union and I parted company, and I left their blogging portal. In those four months, I’ve continued to write and blog and photograph, and I’ve moved toward new goals and new pursuits – as well as a new audience. But lately I’ve received several phone calls from…
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