Charts -- my dear friend Charlotte Cremin
Would love to know
Lacuna
Because it's in the gap
18 April 2009 @ 07:40 pm
11 April 2009 @ 05:15 pm
Lily at age 5
Lily is my son's sweetheart's daughter. The original was taken at our holiday celebration. This is my first attempt with using the Mask feature in Photoshop.
06 April 2009 @ 05:18 pm
Jeffurry and Qaqaq
aka Jeffrey Schwartz and Trip Payne
aka Jeffrey Schwartz and Trip Payne
This was a threesome but the third Musketeer did not want to be cartooned so I edited him out. Enjoy.
04 April 2009 @ 03:19 pm
04 April 2009 @ 07:30 am
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw.
Two of my closest friends. Madly in love after all these years.
Two of my closest friends. Madly in love after all these years.
02 April 2009 @ 11:53 pm
01 April 2009 @ 04:48 pm
16 February 2009 @ 10:58 am
www.waywordradio.org/l-u-r-v-e-love/
A Way With Words is a wonderful show about language and slang and words and all that yummy stuff! Hope you enjoy it. I'm about 30 minutes in and every show they have a member from the National Puzzlers' League (
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npl ) play a little game with them. This was my week. I did about as well here as I did on Jeopardy!.I should also mention that Greg Pliska (
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gnatural) and John Chaneski (chainsaw) do a puzzle segment on the show and in "my" show, Greg has a great game where you remove a unit of measurement or length from a long word that leaves another word. Go NPL!22 January 2009 @ 10:27 am
Woot! Link to Article.
Bri thinks she likes like a man and Thien doesn't like his face in this picture. What's new?
21 January 2009 @ 09:31 pm
But until I do, here's something you and your kids will like that artners Thien and Briana are doing in conjunction with the Market Street Poster Project now on view on Market Street in SF.
Sunday, January 25
1 to 4 pm
YOU DO IT workshop at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum You don't have to know how to do anything artsy. Just come on over and Thien and Bri will walk you through a fun experience where you will do your own skilcreening and try your hand at creating a comic panel.
More info?
http://www.cartoonart.org/
655 Mission Street
San Francisco CA
08 January 2009 @ 10:26 am
My son,
lucaskrech lit this play. It is at The Crucible in Oakland where they play with fire. This is amazing. Two nights are already sold out. It's different and so worth the cost of admission. Go here for ticket information. The Crucible is across the street from the West Oakland BART station.And here's a little clip to enjoy.
And here is another bit from ABC News: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6587
27 December 2008 @ 06:28 am
The economic tsunami has hit home. I knew it was coming and they were decent (or I made it easy for them, depending on how one might look at it). Four people in my office of 16 were laid off. I have word that at least one person from each of the other two offices also lost their jobs. We are all old-timers (some with more than twenty years) who were well-paid. As many of you know, I had an incredibly easy gig, and it always surprised me that they were okay with that. But last Monday, the 22nd, it came to an end. Even though I knew it was coming, It's been a whirlwind of emotions since Monday evening.
( Details behind the cut to spare the innocent. )I had to prepare for the first christmas in nine years with both my children and their SOs and struggled with lots of emotions. So grateful to my daughter for coming over and being my sous chef. She prepared a scrumptious feast for all of us and was a solid rock of support throughout the prep time. I am happy to report that on the 24th, we had a joyous evening. Pics are here and here, if you'd like a look-see.
If anyone has any leads for any work as a researcher, librarian, any kind of basic computer stuff (power user, not programming and such tho able to handle simple HTML, javascript, basic stuff), anything with teaching, training, project management, organization, I don't know what..., please keep me in mind. I'm stumped as to how to be 64, a bit disabled, and unemployed.
Another cog, I know. I also know that I am in a much better position than so many Americans right now. I have no debt. I pulled out of the market last March so have not lost any money there. I do not have children to feed, clothe, and house. I can cut my spending, my car is paid for. I am so lucky in all that and feel for those who are really left with nothing when they lose their job. I have been there in my life and that is truly terrifying. I am not in Darfur. My children are healthy and both are deeply in love with people I like.
I have a lot and I know I am okay at least in the short term, but I get very scared. There is so little that is stable for all of us right now. Please let me know if you have any ideas about any options. I'm not a big LJ contributor, and I think this is sort of silly to write out here, but who the heck knows. Certainly not me.
09 December 2008 @ 06:21 am
It's not like I'm trying to be a show biz mother; it just works out that way -- in part because mum never advertises herself, ever. And yet, they find her...
San Francisco Bus Kiosk Poster Exhibition: A romantic comic book story about The Might Defender unfolds across four repeating series of six poster designs installed in consecutive order in 24 triangular kiosks on Market Street between Van Ness and the Embarcadero from December 22, 2008 until March 19, 2009. The posters, designed by artists Briana Miller and Thien Pham, were commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission's Art on Market Street 2008 Program.
Artists Miller and Pham set out to create a comic book story that can be read in both directions, so that pedestrians can read the story regardless of the direction they are walking on Market Street. Both the first and the sixth posters were designed as comic book covers, each with a different title: the first poster begins a story titled Love’s Unsung Hero and the sixth poster begins a story titled The Mighty Defender . The stories, which include a hero, a sweet romance, and an encounter with dastardly villains, both unfold in San Francisco with images of the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridges, the Ferry Building, and The Mint.
More at: http://www.sfartscommission.
Briana/mum did the drawings and her artner Thien did the color and backgrounds. They both do the silkscreening. There are some nice pics and video of them working on silkscreening some other projects on Briana's Flickr page. You'll have to go to Market Street and ride the streetcars if you want to see and read the comic.
San Francisco Bus Kiosk Poster Exhibition: A romantic comic book story about The Might Defender unfolds across four repeating series of six poster designs installed in consecutive order in 24 triangular kiosks on Market Street between Van Ness and the Embarcadero from December 22, 2008 until March 19, 2009. The posters, designed by artists Briana Miller and Thien Pham, were commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission's Art on Market Street 2008 Program.
Artists Miller and Pham set out to create a comic book story that can be read in both directions, so that pedestrians can read the story regardless of the direction they are walking on Market Street. Both the first and the sixth posters were designed as comic book covers, each with a different title: the first poster begins a story titled Love’s Unsung Hero and the sixth poster begins a story titled The Mighty Defender . The stories, which include a hero, a sweet romance, and an encounter with dastardly villains, both unfold in San Francisco with images of the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridges, the Ferry Building, and The Mint.
More at: http://www.sfartscommission.
Briana/mum did the drawings and her artner Thien did the color and backgrounds. They both do the silkscreening. There are some nice pics and video of them working on silkscreening some other projects on Briana's Flickr page. You'll have to go to Market Street and ride the streetcars if you want to see and read the comic.
08 December 2008 @ 05:37 am
My son, lucaskrech , was the lighting designer for The America Play, now at the Thick House Theater in San Francisco. I should have gotten this up sooner but didn't catch the review until today.
On Thursday, I'm going to see it, so I cannot give you my opinion, which I'm never short of, much to the occasional annoyance of my children. But if you are free and want to see some good local theater, I think you will enjoy it. Lucas's lighting is usually so beautiful -- lush and saturated -- and from the review it sounds like the lighting will be featured, they way lighting is a dancer in a ballet. Lucas says that the best lighting is when the audience doesn't notice it, except for ballet. So this might be of particular interest to theater lovers from a production point of view. It helps that the play is good.
( I went on a jag about me and this wasn't really supposed to be about me, so I'll take all this and put it behind a cut. )
lucaskrech , was the lighting designer for The America Play, now at the Thick House Theater in San Francisco. I should have gotten this up sooner but didn't catch the review until today.On Thursday, I'm going to see it, so I cannot give you my opinion, which I'm never short of, much to the occasional annoyance of my children. But if you are free and want to see some good local theater, I think you will enjoy it. Lucas's lighting is usually so beautiful -- lush and saturated -- and from the review it sounds like the lighting will be featured, they way lighting is a dancer in a ballet. Lucas says that the best lighting is when the audience doesn't notice it, except for ballet. So this might be of particular interest to theater lovers from a production point of view. It helps that the play is good.
( I went on a jag about me and this wasn't really supposed to be about me, so I'll take all this and put it behind a cut. )
20 November 2008 @ 01:27 pm
Now, the reasons for my lurking on Facebook instead of joining Facebook are many, and there are moments when I would like to say... Oooo Ooooo I want to know that person... but I have a hard enough time over here in LJland with this weird personal exposure to the whole world paradigm. I'm just skimming the surface of Flickr as a viable way to store images. I don't didn't have a cell phone until two weeks ago when some other people on game control for Ghost Patrol thought it was imperative, or maybe just really a good idea, that I have one to use when we ran the game. But now I keep it in a mylar bag in the hope that the GPS is baffled the same way FasTrak is baffled. FasTrak also freaks me out and I switch between showing it and not showing it, just to feel better about them always knowing where I am and how fast I'm going. I use cash for almost all my purchases because I hate that thing my bank does where it shows you where you used the card and the bank or credit card or store knows every single thing I have purchased and can market to me based on that very accurate information.
I now know that I was an early adapter back in the 80s and 90s -- before there were early adapters and I am now a Luddite. I tell myself I am just trying to maintain some semblance of dignity vis-á-vis my privacy but, really, I'm balking at this changing world. I am rapidly gaining an appreciation fora guy named Jim (maybe) who, back in the early 1970s, traveled everywhere by horseback or walking. I lived in the backwoods (really backwoods) in Humboldt County, doing things with botanical life that would have put me in prison for many years or forever if we had been as idiotic then as we are today.
Anyway, Jim walked his horse every week or ten days down the mountain to Redway to pick up his mail and whatever few things he was unable to manufacture on his own. One day, I stopped my truck to say hello and I asked him why he kept riding a horse when a car was much faster. Well, he said, I got a truck. I'll use it if I have to. Hell, I grew up with them. But I don't like them. Why, I asked. Don't really know, he replied. Just don't. Maybe it's because my horse goes about the same speed as me. (Or something like that. Who the heck knows what he said. This took place almost forty years ago.)
So I think that's kind of where I am with this new world in which I find myself. I just don't like it but I'll use it if I have to. And I am more comfortable with a speed that is more in line with the speed I'm used to. So, I have evolved from an early adapter to a Luddite. Yay for me.
Call in Gay on December 10. If nothing else, it might be a pleasant shock to say it and who knows, maybe we can chip away at another bigotry. One prejudice at a time, perhaps?
I now know that I was an early adapter back in the 80s and 90s -- before there were early adapters and I am now a Luddite. I tell myself I am just trying to maintain some semblance of dignity vis-á-vis my privacy but, really, I'm balking at this changing world. I am rapidly gaining an appreciation fora guy named Jim (maybe) who, back in the early 1970s, traveled everywhere by horseback or walking. I lived in the backwoods (really backwoods) in Humboldt County, doing things with botanical life that would have put me in prison for many years or forever if we had been as idiotic then as we are today.
Anyway, Jim walked his horse every week or ten days down the mountain to Redway to pick up his mail and whatever few things he was unable to manufacture on his own. One day, I stopped my truck to say hello and I asked him why he kept riding a horse when a car was much faster. Well, he said, I got a truck. I'll use it if I have to. Hell, I grew up with them. But I don't like them. Why, I asked. Don't really know, he replied. Just don't. Maybe it's because my horse goes about the same speed as me. (Or something like that. Who the heck knows what he said. This took place almost forty years ago.)
So I think that's kind of where I am with this new world in which I find myself. I just don't like it but I'll use it if I have to. And I am more comfortable with a speed that is more in line with the speed I'm used to. So, I have evolved from an early adapter to a Luddite. Yay for me.
Call in Gay on December 10. If nothing else, it might be a pleasant shock to say it and who knows, maybe we can chip away at another bigotry. One prejudice at a time, perhaps?
05 November 2008 @ 11:56 am
The first time I walked in a civil rights march was in 1958. I was 14. What a day it was.
November 22,1962 1963, our 45 46-year-old, only-Catholic-ever-President was assasinated. Barack Obama was 15 months 2 years old. What a day it was.
On November 4, 2008, the United States of America elected that African-American man to be the 44th president of the United States. What a day it was.
On November 4, 2008, I turned 64. What a day it was.
Happy birthday to me. It's the best birthday present I've ever had.
November 22,
On November 4, 2008, the United States of America elected that African-American man to be the 44th president of the United States. What a day it was.
On November 4, 2008, I turned 64. What a day it was.
Happy birthday to me. It's the best birthday present I've ever had.
05 November 2008 @ 06:17 am
05 November 2008 @ 06:05 am
Obama's acceptance speech in Chicago last night.
I'm still in shock.
I'm still in shock.