Archive for July, 2007
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
MOCA
The girls and I had some time today so we headed over to MOCA in Los Angeles. I hadn’t been there in way too long, and had forgotten what an awesome place this is. We crawled into one exhibit and hung out on the floor and talked, with q-tips and blue super balls hovering around us in various sculpted shapes. The carved lipstick exhibit was another awesome find in the Poetics of the Handmade, as was the exhibit crafted out of Mexican paper money. The skateboards and surfboard were very cool, and the reliefs made out of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil were awesome.
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
When you want to get serious about relaxing…
You really owe it to yourself and your significant other to visit the Collingwood Inn in Ferndale, CA. The food is exquisitely prepared, the owners Chris and Peter do an outstanding job of creating a friendly and relaxed stay… It’s one of the best places I’ve ever stayed, and I travel a lot. Looking forward to many return trips. 
I’ll be writing more about WHY I think the Collingwood is such a gem, but in the meantime, visit their website at www.collingwoodinn.com
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Just dessert
“What a difference a day makes…” It’s a cliche, but true. I think about my own children and how astonishing it was to see them grow as babies. Even now, they’re 13 and 8, and not a day passes when they do something that just blows my mind. That generally is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it just makes me laugh and shake my head. My younger daughter has this habit lately of wiping her hands on her shirt. So there we were yesterday at a restaurant, she finishes her cupcake, and before I could say anything, wipes her frosting-covered fingers across the front of her shirt… For the rest of the afternoon until we could get home, she had finger tracks…
Monday, July 9th, 2007
Wait a minute… make that a few hours..
I’m writing this while waiting for a plane at Denver International. It’s become almost a cliche with airline delays again… For the past few years, I’ve been really lucky with flights and getting through airports fairly quickly, even with the gear I usually carry. But not tonight. Weather outside of Chicago made the plane late to Denver, which is the aircraft I need to get to L.A. So here I sit, waiting for a guy I don’t know to get the plane here and get me home. A lot of life is waiting — waiting in line at the bank, waiting for a train to pass, waiting for the rain, waiting for the right time to ask the question… let’s make the most of those moments of waiting. Talk to the people around you, or at least observe and enjoy them. I’m upstairs at DIA in a computer station and an Asian dude in a bad suit is to my left pounding on his laptop to some tunes I can hear through his ear buds. The guy on my right has Bose-style headphones on and is having a VOIP conversation wtih someone, half of which (his half) I am hearing at full volume. This is broken by sporadic announcements from an over-annunciating airport service rep for various customers… Kids scream and leap in a nearby kids play thing, their dad standing with a comatose glazed stare… I talked to a woman earlier who had been at the airport since the previous DAY. Ideally, I’d like to be on my way home. But things could be worse, and it’s not a bad way to spend a couple hours. If I end up staying here till tomorrow, I’ll probably have a totally different opinion…. LOL
Sunday, July 8th, 2007
OPT – other people’s technology
Last night, my MySpace account stopped functioning. It basically disappeared. No warning from MySpace — no violation of terms of service or anything like that. It just WENT AWAY… taking my 1700 friends, their lovely page and picture comments and my penetrating thoughts on the universe with them. OK, no great loss on that last part… lol
Saturday, July 7th, 2007
On the road again…
Today I’m in Denver, Colorado, an absolutely beautiful part of the country. I love how big the sky is here, and the clouds. I’m a huge fan of clouds, as many of you probably already know or guessed. You have seen a cloud theme in a lot of my work, especially the wide-angle variety…
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Independence
Happy 4th of July!
This day is filled with fun, barbecues, water balloon fights, kids laughing, families coming together, and of course, fireworks!
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Back in business!
As you know, this site has been experiencing some MAJOR glitches with the portfolio galleries. My web developer tried numerous coding fixes without any success, and finaly trashed the entire site and started over. The problem has been fixed and the galleries should be populating with images over the next 24-48 hours. Please refresh your browser to make sure you’re viewing the latest version of the site.