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Saturday May 12, 2007

May 12, 2007
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Gee, I really expected more comments on my last post -- silly me. I hope it's that everyone felt that what I said was obvious and needed no comment, and not that I offended anyone with my, um, non-mainstream ( confused ) views on death. Oh well. whatever

This past week was exciting. At my "day job", we went live with a new version of the software I support, and this caused about two days of mayhem. For reasons only marginally related to the upgrade, we had some database corruption issues that ended up with about a day and a half of the system being either unstable or down, and running this whole week without any redundancy. Things have settled down, finally, but it was a little nerve-racking and required some long days at work.

On a lighter note -- and really something that set my mood much more than the problems at work (more on that later, maybe) -- there is a juried art show at the Columbia Art League currently, called "Figuratively Speaking". It's for works of art (any medium) based on the human figure/form. They had aproximately 90 works submitted from about 50 artists (you could submit up to two works). I was very fortunate to have one of my works juried in -- only 30 were accepted. And then I received an honorable mention (they awarded 1st, 2nd, 3rd and two honorable mentions)! That may not sound like much, but for me it's really significant praise. I have a real desire to do photography as art, and a belief/delusion that I can do it; that I am an artist. Being juried in, and then receiving the HM really helped me believe. I'll include a small version of the shot at the end. It's called simply "Bodyscape 3" and is from a series of bodyscapes I did with the wonderful local model Felicia Hollis.

In other news, I'm NOT heading out to Colorado this week, but instead will be working on stuff at home -- hopefully getting my workspace into some kind of order -- I may do some before and after pics. I also have a couple sets to edit, a couple more to shoot, and a bunch of work to do for VISTA Expertise Network. I've mentioned this group before (though not with this name). Before you get excited, it's not anything to do with Microsoft Vista. This is a not-for-profit company that will be supporting, developing, and disseminating the VISTA health-care system -- a complete hospital and laboratory package, developed by the Veterans Administration and available for free by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It's a company with a very unusual structure, that, while fascinating to me would be boring to you, I suspect. In any case, I'm the Chairman of the Board of Directors for this thing, and have lots of things to do for that, now that it's starting to get off the ground. Just what I need -- something more to keep me busy! hahah

I also have to mow -- big tim e. The grass is about 10" high and going to seed. We need to shave our dog Molly, too -- she's part Chow Chow and wayyyyyy to furry for this hot weather! I'm also going to try and put gravel down on our driveway this week. It's been needing it since we moved in here, 15+ years ago, but now, with the recent rains, it's really turned into more mud than anything else. I figure it will take 2 or 3 dumptruck loads to bring it up to grade.

I'm thinking about putting up my webcam on SG chat (or maybe another site) while I'm working on the office -- would anyone be interested in seeing the transformation?

Ok, enough rambling. Here's the picture that got the HM in "Figuratively Speaking". If you're near Columbia, go see the show. It's at the Columbia Art League, in the City Centre, on 9th between Elm and Cherry.

Love y'all! kiss



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dmac:
Nice to see you staying busy and out of trouble! wink Sounds like you have fabulous and promising things going on in your life. Awesome!

Here's a picture I came across of Flea, from the Red Hot Chile Peppers. Apparently he started up a music school in L.A. because fine arts training is so bare-bones minimal these days. I guess he's actually taking a year off to do some teaching there, too. How cool is that? Anyway, saw this photo and thought of you.


now THAT is what I call a big ass tuba!!!!! biggrin
May 12, 2007
salome:
Asbestos underwear sounds mighty uncomfortable. wink Thank you for your thoughts.
May 15, 2007

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