Archives for 2023
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You can't un-know something
You can't un-know something
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Low stakes, magical drama
Reading Murakami
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Old Mountain
Visiting Machu Picchu
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The road to Machu Picchu
Chinchero, Moray, the Sacred Valley
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Two nights in Cusco
Gasping for air in the thousand-year-old Inca capital.
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Three nights in the Amazon Rainforest
Time stops on the riverside.
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Day 2 in Lima
Are hats illegal here?
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First full day in Lima
Our connecting flight from Atlanta touched down softly. The immigration line was a breeze and our bags popped up on the baggage carousel quickly. The…
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Business party
The mullet theory of work / life balance
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Poodle thoughts
My beloved poodle’s world seems to be shrinking. He had a bought of kennel cough recently. I learned that kennel cough is basically the same as a “cold…
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A new coat of pixels
Thinking technically, minimally
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Notes on the approaching darkness
Foreboding winter
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Suddenly St. Louis
From here, it’s the gateway to the east.
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Notes on an app
Software is made of compromises
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New work: May December
The avocado is a metaphor.
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New work: 11am Continental
Iconic clouds over the Pacific City coast
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Business art: the art of performing business
On Blake Gopnik’s Warhol
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Studio sale
Making room for more art
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Memories of Ireland, England, and Spain
An old travel journal from 2019
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Saturday art walk
Visiting Froelick, Augen, Nucleus, Talon and Antler on a sunny Saturday
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Seattle Art Fair
Overnight in Needle Town
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Local tourism
Visiting my own city
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By hand
Gardening, painting, and other manual labor.
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Considering space goggles at Slim’s
The future intrudes upon my breakfast reading.
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“Donk” is the sound of failure
Adventures in home ownership.
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Shmetaverse
Why do so many visions of the future look like a late 90s video game?
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The center of the earth is full of ghosts
With a few notable exceptions
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Expo Chicago
When someone asks if you’re an art advisor, say ‘yes’
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Go by train
I’m realizing my long-standing daydream of traveling cross-country by train. I boarded the Empire Builder line in Portland, OR around 4:30 yesterday…
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Iconic Clouds
In a new painting titled "Quarterly"
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Meet me at Slim's
I have a rare Saturday to myself so I decide to treat myself to a coffee and a pastry. Maybe I’ll buy a croissant and bring it home, slice it half, and…
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Unhappy little clouds
I have had three free weekend days to get some real physical painting done and three times I have failed to paint clouds. I have two surfaces prepped…
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Rabbit
I first ran across Bobby Abrahamson’s photography in our local St. Johns wine shop. We came in for a glass and sat at one end of their L-shaped bar. I…
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Dog food
Each can of food (Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Adult Urinary SO Loaf Canned Dog Food, 13.5 oz can, case of 24) is the start of four meals. First I put…
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The painted word
Notes on the virtual reality of paintings.
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No notes
The symphony reminded me of college
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Ephemeral mushrooms
A little this and that for a midweek update.
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Practice, practice, practice
My first full week back to work after the holidays had me in jury duty. I was hoping I’d get to hang out at the courthouse for a day, using the time to…
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Deep thoughts with a poodle
It’s 6am and I’m standing in the rain with my poodle. We arrived in Netarts, OR last night around 7. It’s January in the Pacific Northwest, so the sun…
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Their mozzarella sticks are the best
New painting from a portrait study, local landscape, stars, and birds.
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A rainy day in LA County
Alarms are set for 4 am. The poodle is safely snoozing at the in-laws. I pop out of bed and head to the shower. I never sleep soundly the night before a…