Yes - No - Maybe - Can You Repeat the Question
Often when going thru our photos, it is hard for Dr. Professor Wifey and I to remember who took what. We are usually passing back and forth the camera as we walk, and often taking different perspective photos on the same object. Sometimes we ask the other with the camera to take a particular shot or suggest one. We are a such the creative team! Who knew I'd be lucky enough to find someone with a great camera eye and can remember to mail out the bills on time? (Hint: anybody who really knew me.) Only the best for Craigola

August has been one hot month. Drinking plenty of water, which is good, but the humidity has taken away the pleasure of a nice schweppy ginger ale. In Europe, I would alternate between agua sin gas, and Fanta Naranja (orange Fanta). Now do not be mistaken, that this would be like having an orange soda like one gets in the States. No this tastes completely different. They manufacture it over there, and it must be a combination of a slightly different formula (less corn syrup?) and most likely the simple fact that water tastes different everywhere. European water in Fanta just makes it better!

The second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is upon us, and yet New Orleans is still struggling not to be forgotten by us. I'd like to post a version of my first photo-lithograph that was inspired by Hurricane Isabel, a storm that hit Virginia and brought disaster to many coastal fishing communities. Nature is sublime as the Romantics expressed in their art.

Signs, signs, everywhere there are signs. What are the signs telling you?

There are many of us printmakers who have a fascination with "mark-making." We go gaga over the beauty of lines be they purposeful, random chance or accidental. The grace of a line can be as beautiful as an entire Miro painting. In fact many of his paintings sprang from some early fragment on his canvas which became the guiding foundation of that piece. Nature using man-made objects as it's matrix is probably the best mark-maker. Photographers of the Aaron Siskind perspective appreciate these as much as printmakers. I wish I could capture those works of wonder as well as he could. This photo is a digital effort from my travels in Spain. I believe it is the remnants of poster glue on a wall in Valencia.

You ever get the feeling that our Nation has been turned inside out. Not the everyday life - but what we stand for in this world. We of Alternative America need to rally and protect our ideals from the jingoistic bastards who are trashing the Constitution. Ever notice that THEY get upset about symbolic burnings of the flag - well no one ever symbolically burns the Constitution. The present administration unfortunately is actually destroying our most precious document!

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Better to rust than to burn out.