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Month: February 2006

  • The oak tree revisited

    In the summer we helped host a couple of benefits for the tree that’s the subject of the below article, the first benefit rained out by hurricane Dennis. I’d like to note first that the AJC reports that Atlanta is still the city of trees with a canopy that spreads “forever”. What they don’t state…

  • In case you hadn't noticed

    It looks different around here, doesn’t it? But I’ve got some tweaking to do. A fair bit of it. Am not settled on the shades of white to gray thing. I’m doing the web equivalent of This Old House while I am trailing tissue paper all over the place. And so has been H.o.p. When…

  • New gallery for H.o.p.

    He’s been practicing drawing dinosaurs. It’s the main interest right now, dinosaurs and dragons and robots. I thought he did a great job with the below airplane. Love how it’s scowling. Slowly, I’m putting together galleries for 2005 on back. It’s interesting to look at them and watch his skills evolve. I have also now…

  • How to buy modern furniture

    If you don’t know how to buy modern furniture, this 1952 Dupont ad will tell you how. I’m curious, but not curious enough to purchase it. Our source for modern furniture is now Ikea, which finally arrived in Atlanta. All our old lamps, collected from various attics, basements and closets of places we’d lived in…

  • Koto! and other studio news

    I never post studio news and I ought to. Marty’s going to be recording jazz pianist Takana Miyamoto and koto legend Junko Takeo. And that’s exciting. From elsewhere on the web: Junko Takeo is one of the most appreciated and talented Koto (Japanese traditional instrument) players in the world. She has been playing this magnificent…

  • Big truck people demoralized by people with Hummers

    Obviously, big truck people have been demoralized by people with Hummers, which is the only excuse for this. Which I came across at I Blame the Patriarchy, and have previously observed but forgotten about and observed and forgotten about but after being reminded again of their presence I decided to comment because it occured to…

  • Insane people say and do insane things

    So South Dakota’s senate makes it the first state to pass an all out abortion ban. And Governor Rounds says he would look favorably on it if it would “save lives”. An argument which doesn’t begin to hold up when one considers the costs of life-sustaining therapies that take them out of reach of the…

  • Little Atom

    Little Atom

    [clear] Little Atom 2006 Approx 25 h by 22 inches w Digital Painting Based on a photo © copyright Jk Little Atom, Burt Pierard, trained with Tony Prince, The Atomic Clown, and was ten years of age, in 1952, when he became the youngest registered clown in The Circus Clown Club of America. Note: This…

  • The woman washing cars with a hamburger is funny stuff

    H.o.p. right now is excited about any movie that comes out, as long as it’s not frightening. He wants to see that movie “…about mermaids! There’s going to be a movie about a mermaid! I’ve never seen a mermaid!” Then when there was the commercial for the horror film about mutants from the Manhattan Project…

  • For people who love fractals and art

    Terry Wright at Blog with a view does art based on fractals, and comes up with the most incredible names for the pieces. It would be impossible for me to select a work that I liked best. There are too many. But here are some favorites (links to the galleries because Terry’s too damned prolific…

  • For people who love their bikes

    Taliah Lempert paints portraits of bikes.

  • Pac Men and Global Warming

    In one of the memes going around once was, if I remember correctly, the question who would you talk to in history if you had a time machine. My thought was one of my Ioway ancestors. I would have wanted to go back to what they were facing as Anglos encroached. I imagine there were…