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  • Animation of robot walking

    Here’s an animation H.o.p. did of a robot turning and walking. From some time back in late fall, early winter.

  • Wild Women Sing the Blues at the Atlanta History Center

    Marty Kearns is on keys backing up Heaven Davis last night and tonight at the Atlanta History Center. The program is called Wild Women Sing the Blues. In the band are Marty’s old friends Kenny Kilgore on guitar and Roger Gregory on bass. Roger just moved back to Atlanta after his house was demolished in…

  • Link to H.o.p.'s latest animation

    It’s of Tim and Moby cutting off a lightswitch. Keep in mind that he’s working under the constraint of a primitive program in which he can only use 18 frames. He’s really getting the idea of slowing down the action. (And yes he spelled “off” incorrectly.) The blue dots at the end of the short…

  • Fury of the artist

    H.o.p. is furious at me. He believes I lost a drawing of his. I probably did. I probably threw it away. He draws ten thousand pictures a day and it’s impossible to keep them all, which he would do if he could. We haven’t the room so I sort them out occasionally and throw away…

  • Ice, cold, valor and vanity

    Mardi Gras. Marty’s sick but of course has back to back gigs this week, had a Mardi Gras gig tonight and is still a couple of hours out, heading home. He called and spoke through sniffles. It’s a slow-burning cold and H.o.p., after trailing Kleenex for a couple of days, insisting it was allergies (did…

  • 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…

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