something in the air. pneuma. antioxidents waft.  something fading the figures in the park. more to the point i redid this image and had a lot of... fun? focus? inattention? grace?

bout to put blog out to pasture - again - but iv'e got too much to do and not much to say at this now. onward to the new and unknown, guided by my trusty trust in the precise surprise that rivets me, or catatonic seizure in front of some new method of expression. 3D smellovision might work. the liquid and fresh airs moving through the highest mountain passes could do, crawling wounded on the ground in a world unraveled is another possibility. sometimes i feel a coward for not hoisting myself on my own petard, but doing as much as i do is what i do, so i'll walk down that warm dirt highway, barefoot, that smell of high rain on dust warm dust. to dust.

ps took the photo this afternoon along parkway, good walk.

Amazon.com: Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It (9781607144588): Dan Hurley: Books:
"Why the rate of type 1 diabetes has been rising just as fast and just as long as the rate of type 2, transforming a childhood disease that was once exceedingly rare into one that now affects most elementary school systems in the country."

used a lot of mojo on this shot. along with a little freeware thingy called HDRtist which i suppose is a toy but gets some interesting effects. 

saw a white squirrel yesterday. walked with neighbor up the old route i used to take with bobby. when i got back i nodded off for about an hour. convinced me to really walk every day. well, maybe every other day.

just finished diabetes rising by dan hurley. thought it would be crackpot medical but it turns out to be pretty lucid 50,000 foot view of diabetes, it's medical history, the science that has been about to "cure" it for 30 or so years, and the bio-neurological possibilities. but the statistics were astounding; we all know that type II is exploding but i had no idea of the rise in type I.

i played catch the stick w/ this guy last week. he won. by the way this is hdr image done the easy way, no tripod.

and you think your printer is a hassel: try printing w/ water:
TVKim- Watching: Kim's Picks- Water Painting

panoama taken last week, still pecking on it.

you are looking at a work in progress - maybe better is play in progress - click on it foe larger image.

making breakkthrough on the chinese puzzle of "stuff" arrangement.

been working on keyboard tangled up in blue.

listened to nat king cole this afternoon, some mp3s from his early seattle trio before he sang much. 30s-40s r&b. the layer tracks, after fame are not my style but they are pretty damn good. plus i remember hearing him on the AM radio on top of the icebox, along w/ fillwemagee and molly (?) and sky king.

i found my shoes and lapsteell steel.

metaorganizarion. iy's containers of flow. easy.

trying to install dictation software on PC because my small rtping skills diminish daily

as an elderly geek this blew me away. you will be amazed.
Haiti earthquake: 360 degree video - Special Coverage on CNN.com

doing fine roday until i relizedBG was over 500. for no reason i could think of. and it came down slowly.

well it happened again.

remember to remember

that you are here to forget

you don't know

not quite finished. something else to do tomorrow. plan ro get out of the bunker and spend a day two w/ moriah and charlie.

i recall seeing this in the varsity theatre early 60's. the stones and james brown performances blew everyone away, at least the row where i was seated along with a bunch of protohippies who were properly receptive. almost half a century ago.
The T.A.M.I. Show Trailer

today's take, give or take.

zbrush keeps sucking me in. i wonder what it says.

truck is in the shop, i'm stranded which is good. keeps me home where i can get things done: scanning, fixing audio card on pc and gathering email addresses of far flung family.replaced mouse batteries on G5.
i received 2nd DVD from netflix and like the first one it stopped about 20 minutes into movie.

now for some: check these f0lks out:

Odyssey - A Paragliding Expedition in the Himalayas: "Himalayan Odyssey
A Paragliding Expedition across the world’s most renowned mountain range - the Himalayas"

another version of yesyerday's image. these will be posters at some point.

today i will start another blog, this one private for a collaboration on a book/dvd of family picture and history. the idea is to collaborate between family members and to nudge me into scanning and identifying the many photos i have.

another version of yesyerday's image. these will be posters at some point.

today i will start another blog, this one private for a collaboration on a book/dvd of family picture and history. the idea is to collaborate between family members and to nudge me into scanning and identifying the many photos i have.

wonder how many folks are wondering around in the lostness of the cities, as the "offficial" drama being played out floods the collective world?

altho i have developed a deep aversion to the idea that the politics can solve any of the human dilemmas that the world faces today, this Video is worth a peek. it's short.

at least it does away with the notion that the "problem of the good germans", ie how could the germans in the 30's turn into nazis, is unanswerable. today i guess we can all agree it can happen.

the short ad in the front for something i don't remember should be included as part of the document. two worlds? nope, the same world we live in.

Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine? - Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman
"Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?

Why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.
By Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman"
good video about the megamachine that has us cornered.

i'm tired. i don't know if it was the party i dreamed early this morning or being pecked to death all day by the alligators of unfinished non-optional business.

today's picture resembles today, a rime to curl up and coop. typical march.
i took a phone call that was a poll by rep. shuler. any data they get from this thing is seriously twisted. each question has 2, 3, or in one case 4 possible responses.
impossible to express your actual opinion, thought and intention.

i might or might not be for the current health care legislation depending on if there a chance a simple one-payer idea were possible to pass. the 2 parties are the megawealthy and the rest. the animated cartoon,is a spectacle whose purpose is to distract.

morman's came by yesterday. three of them, looked a little like sci-fi because of their coats (still cold out) some kind of hi-tek garb. today Melvin the Jehovah's witness came by.

so i guess it is eime to wash the dishes and vacuum the 10,000 things.

from today's eeee-mail:
"you're a very classy babbler my friend--bring it on"

squeezed this snapshot of the post-aquarian conspiricy today while i was attending to too many undone tasks.

WHILE OUT OF HERE IN THE WEST I WANTED TO MAKE A FEW PANORAMAS. SNOW AND TRAFFIC PROHIBIRED RHIS, BUT I GOT ONE: MY DAD'S BACK YARD. HERE IT IS.

JUST DISCOVERED CAPS LOCK SEEMS RO BE PERMANANRLY ON. BEAR WITH ME.

back from long trip. saw a lot of people, thought a lot of rhings. noticed it was getting more difficult for me to travel, which of course makes me want to head for the road. we'll see. presently in the usual post-travel chaos, putting things away and remembering what i have to do that i haven't done - yet.

back in prescott az after week in santa fe. friend jeff doing very well, hope he has finished book by fisk so he can send it to obama. (name of book escapes me, will get into it later.) pleasant interlude with lisa and micheal. john and leah returned early to aville, leah not feeling well. several very snowy days, one evening went outside at what would have been sunset and saw the eeriest orange light. sister jane coming up tomorrow or monday and we will be in phoenix midweek.

i am using dave's mac pro laptop with verizon card in it which is educational, drops signal often and slow.

my insulin pump finally bit the dust yesterday morning, switching to lantus, should be interesting. did not get many pictures because of weather. happy to say my father is doing well at 92 years. happy birthday to his grandson and my nephew jonathon who i hope to see next week.

if i get my stuff ortganized i'll see if i can get a picture up.

signing off for a few weeks. this is what i leave behind.

leaving town for a few weeks. nor raking any computer stuff, nor lapsteel which i am ambivalent about. if i can find some yoyo strings today i'll take a yoyo.

today's thought.

geezerland.

Sixth sense computing
found at kim kommando's site this is worth watching. it is right out of william gibson's later books.

winter passes...so far.

nother day nother doodle.

nother day nother pic. no rant today i'm too busy. consider yourself lucky.

i'm so dazed and confused it's getting to be the status quo. i've been on a 30 day run reorganizing the cave, tied to 3 computers i want to use files from, learning too many new software applications, not eating right, and no walks to lighten up.

the two tiered culture we have bumbled into is hopeless: the populist right is not wrong, and the "progressives" are oriented totally backwards, emulating the past institutions that are no longer functional. the political and economic institutions of the nation states hold on to the status quo with a vengeance, and the giant mega-persons (corporations) are colliding giants while underneath their klanking the experience of personal life dries up to machine-like interchanges of talking points.

is this cultural and personal evolution? yes. does that mean there is progress towards a teleological better world? no. evolution creates a plethora of possibilities, and some are dead ends.

the personal face to face sharing of experiences is the only thing that might redirect culture away from the insane and pathological. have you had any lately?

Psilocybin and the Concept of Natural Intelligence | Reality Sandwich: "In ascribing intelligence to the technological achievements of bio-logic, I should here point out that this does not necessarily mean that Nature is consciously intelligent (although Nature might well have mind-like characteristics), but rather that intelligence represents a particular kind of process, or capacity, that can manifest in realms other than the human brain/mind."

The Official Website of Andrew Vachss : The Zero 5.0laf

The Official Website of Andrew Vachss : The Zero 5.0laf

another day another cryptogram.

i'm reading haiku by vachss. short little book by a master nyc noir mystery author.

in this book there are some absolutely magical poetic sentences that i run across, they are really too much. i'll see if i can find one:

"in our world, contradictions are not confronted but absorbed."

not talking here about the world, but the gestalt of a small band of characters who inhabit it in an unusual way.

put up just to see if anything can be done with it. i think i'll...have something to say in the morning. almost finished w/ final mix of CD. it's different isn't all.

beautiful day, finally got a walk in. went downtown and walked a couple of hours, a little shopping. it's been so long since i've visited downtown, a lot of new places, faces, spaces. i think i'll do it more often.

In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture | Reality Sandwich: "Those who still live are all now older and wiser than we were in those literally heady days, and we may finally be ready to tell such truths without setting off another round of conflict."

as our lives, language and world disappear into some weird concoction of disneyland and non-personal ideation, see if you recall the sensation of standing on the earth and feeling that you belonged there.

had a day yesterday when either i or the stars were wrong. everything i touched fell apart. i was lost in the wilds of bits and bytes that morphed and slid in every way. made me mad i'm sorry to report. actually i'm not sorry. it was the way it was.

just saw avatar 3D which makes my yearly movie. i liked it. parts were very twiggy and barky, the organic messy fractal world of nature's heart, parts very hiTek with the best military money can buy - you know, good guys and bad guys - henri rousseau - beautifully executed if a little corny, think action movie. words like "corporate" and "insane" used. all the characters were prefab like tv, cartoons of attitudes we all know. but as a marker of presnt world, hard to beat even with or maybe because of being so generic.

not to even mention the 3d where they had a lot of un and so did i.

Starbucks Love Project

this is a good thing. great idea and execution. give yourself a boost, check it out.Starbucks Love Project

does 2010 sound like a year to you? me neither.

unless maybe we can call it "the year that checking underware for explosives began".

i am really getting tired of these goofy pictures. i do one first of the morning, post it and then attempt to see what it foreshadows of the day.

superstition. yep. never, or hardly ever, works.

and from the image above, that's a good thing.

broke lapsteel again last night. will repair once more taking care to solder correctly. maybe install new pick up. good thing i have a list of things to do next year somewhere.

a picture a day
it's all a play
ok?

caught this minute of grandaughter natalie riffing. the camera was slung around my neck, i just turned it on and let it hang. luckily it was pointed to princess natalie.

Color-Shifting Contact Lenses Alert Diabetics to Glucose Levels - Eyes - Gizmodo

Color-Shifting Contact Lenses Alert Diabetics to Glucose Levels - Eyes - Gizmodo

got back from quick trip downhill - mountain - to see kids and grand kids. above is picture of natalie delivering the grand finale of xmas melody. it was a short but pleasant visit.

Out along the highway
There’s work that’s being done
Heavy dancing gases
Playing with the sun

Another ageless darkness
In the parking lot
Shadows shouting chrome:
Another evening shot

Down along the river bend
It’s always Friday night
When the south wind blows real good
You know there’ll be a fight

Underneath the boardwalk
Lost lovers contemplate
The missing moon and stars
They thought that they could make

“which world?” asked the ticket master
behind his missing throne
“any world but this one”
replied the message on the phone

Outside the winds were howling
They blow that way you know
When you get there tell them
That I’m the one who told you so

Discourse in hybrid harmony
No longer takes the chance
The open door stands asleep
Dreaming words that dance

The far plateau you thought you knew
Is well placed in this mess
Must have been the misplaced map
Or else a lucky guess

The clouds they are outrageous
No laughs at all tonight
Relatively pointless
The moon shines it’s delight

As we tiptoed through the forest
Peculiar plants were glowing
Like someone’s smile we know
And couldn’t help enjoying

Microscopic biscuits
Had long been bird’s delight
They huddled like the seashore
Retreating from last night

Avoid the void they said
Standing tall and straight
When the elevator stopped
They didn’t hesitate

Every night the light forgets
The shadows amber glow
If I wasn’t in a hurry
I’d be just as slow

The beast meanwhile was loose
Events were overflowing
Annoying nonreflection
Kept anyone from knowing

“so long” yelled the hobo
sliding down a trance
without a detached head
He never had a chance.

---

cleaning up files, came upon this piece of cyberdoggeral.

found out that my old friend bill wasson died recently. we knew each other since 1955 on and off. thank you for being a friend bill.

From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone - NYTimes.com

From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone - NYTimes.com: "Professor Wang said he would like to democratize the process of making music, so that anyone with a cellphone could become a musician. “Part of my philosophy is people are inherently creative,” he said. “It’s not just people who think of themselves as artists.”"

yeah i know i ended daily blog postings but thought i'd post this (very) recent foto of myself. new computer i am slowly getting together. space problems (don't you hate space problems) dictate that i rearrange entire living module to do this.

terminus of daily blog. at the recent blogarama, after gordon mentioned me as the longest running blog in aville, someone asked "what does he find to write about?"

the answer is for the last few years, nothing much. it has become all images. so i'm pulling the plug on daily postings. might add something from time to time that signifies something.

the action will transfer to modernpeasant.com where i will add a category of fresh doo-dads and a way to subscribe to rss feeds, that way when something new shows up you'll know it.

been awhile. i've been working on the gallery, and catching up on what is left of my personality. changed the picture above. better?

today's totem is a classic example of the way i work: hell i can't talk about it. i mean can't, not won't. found a jpeg no idea of when or what, probably scan of watercolor. played with it awhile and this is what i got. i like it.

BTW this is what i will add to the image gallery found at the mothership, modernpeasant.com soon: something like "picture of the day" or "recent work".

picture of jim he took last week here. as usual i have nothing much to report. slowly getting to the point of catching up. then off to chatham county usa.

i urge you to spend some time at this site. organic math. don't read it, check the rendered 3D renderings out.

this is penultimate post to the blog. i have redone image archive and i'll leave the blog up as an archive of a long 7-8 years. go here for new image archive.

from email i got a link to keirsey personality test and took it: seems based on myers-briggs and this is part of the results:

"Conscience looms large for you; in almost any situation, you feel compelled to measure yourself, other people, and the conditions of the environment against your personal morality. You have a tendency to perceive questions of meaning in even trivial matters and to worry about far-flung consequences of your actions. In your ideal job, you are free to pursue depth rather than breadth and quality rather than quantity. You feel rewarded when your projects and daily tasks allow you to immerse yourself in your process as deeply as you "need to" in order to satisfy your inner standards of quality. You are uncomfortable with the notion of authority per se and may avoid leading, as well as being led, either consciously or unconsciously. As you experience them, adhering to fixed roles and rules amounts to an abdication of your responsibility to exercise your conscience."

a little nonsense from last wednesday. a very rough cut.

&

letter i wrote to obama and members of congress friday:

"As a citizen who worked hard for the Democratic Party during the last election I must express to you my disappointment at the manner in which health reform is being stifled by the Republicans.

But even worse is the democratic lack of response to the will of the people.

I am a “liberal progressive” who worked and voted for “change”. That meant the Democratic Party. But the current Health Reform debate and the Democratic Party’s lack of response to the will of the people is eroding this.

There are some things worth more than profit. Open up the process and bite the bullet: whether we personally like it or not, different solutions to problems are called for when what formally worked no longer does. This applies not only to Health Reform but also the continued success of both parties as meaningful entities.

this just in from our intrepid Far East Correspondant:

Among the many wonders and amazing offerings displayed in China Airlines' 174 page glossy “Sky Boutique” in-flight sales magazine is its “B. H. Plus ‘Gran Turismo’ Carbonic Germanium Bracelet,” about which the ad copy says, ‘carbonic germanium design combined with the latest technology from Japan. Each bracelet is equipped with three 99.99% certified germaniums, two 600 gauss magnets, tourmaline and titanium capable of readjusting electron imbalance in the human body. This bracelet continuously emits negative ions found in the forest.’

Germaniums? Why not daffodils or hydrangeas?

And I would have thought that wise forest kings would have expelled negative ions long ago to keep the forests jolly. . .along with morlocks and krell and bucolic poets. Pixie dust is just the ticket for that.

It was also unclear how often you had to take your bracelet back into the forest to find more negative ions. How long does it take for your bracelet to find them? Ten minutes? Two weeks? Or do you have to find them yourself? A person with recently balanced electrons doesn’t have time to just hang out in the forest waiting for his or her bracelet to find some more negative ions, and if you’ve got to find them yourself, why do you need the bracelet? If your electrons become unbalanced due to a lack of local negative ions in your neck of the woods, will you be able to find your way home? And if you have enough time and live close enough to take your bracelet to the forest to find more negative ions, why do you need the bracelet anyway? Particularly the German traveler! Surely there must be ample supplies of both forests-full of negative ions as well as a wealth of germanium there. Magnets are available in toy stores. Tourmalines and titanium should be available. They could all be attached to the vegetable strainer one already wears on one’s head to keep out the bad vibrations from the morlocks, the krell, the CIA mind control projects run by failed bucolic poets.



But Wait! The scrivener scrove too impetuously! There are pages and pages of these ‘natural’ health devices in ‘Sky Boutique’ magazine which I had overlooked. Why, if simplicity of life is the way to good health, these health trinkets will quickly rid your body of unhealthy, unwanted dollars, euros, yens and wens.

Some of the items described have silicon (but no magnets). Some are stainless steel. . .because that’s ‘the best.’ Some reduce the body’s acidity (a sort of Rolaids for the wrist) while others are even acid resistant (as if to imply that with other, non-acid resistant models, the battle against acids might just turn against you in a deadly, mortal sort of way). Some items facilitate blood circulation or soothe sore muscles. Some have bezel-set crystals and mother of pearl.

On another page is the ‘Japanese Camellia Necklace,’ guaranteed to ‘take people’s breath away.’ This item is displayed on a different page than the ‘Cambodian Plastic Head Bag,’ or the ‘Japanese Ninja Garrote’ or the ‘All-American Wash’n’Water Board,’ all three of which also promise the same result as the ‘Japanese Camellia Necklace’.



But enough on that matter. I read this morning that in order to fight the long-term decline in the value of the US dollar, the Department of the Treasury has announced that ‘in order to conform the new reality of a stable, successful euro,’ the US dollar will hereafter be conformed to the euro in name if not in value. Effective January 1, 2010 the US dollar will be called by its new name, the ‘zero’. As of that day the former $100 will be written Z100.

When journalists from the UK’s ‘Independent’ (newspaper) noted that outside North America the numeral ‘0’ is pronounced ‘zed’ and not ‘zero’, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither cryptically responded, “Yes, and two guineas makes a kilo,” which it does not, since it takes two guineas plus two shillings to make a kilo—as any dolt must know.



Concerning China Airlines, since their rescheduling me required a ten hour lay-over in Taipei airport (one of the seven most boring wonders of the world), I tried to get them to book me to Singapore on some other airline. (Their confidential print-out of my transaction showed that they had made the reschedule and flight change on October 22, the day after I had reconfirmed my booking by telephone, but they didn’t contact me until November 4, the day I departed!) They were willing to ship my body to Singapore on an earlier flight but—no earlier flights were available. And the one they had originally booked me on had indeed been cancelled. Since I had ten hours to wait, they offered to give me a hotel room or a pass to the VIP room. I took the VIP room where I have been for the last six and a half hours drinking tall cool tropical drinks, eating dim sum, sipping double espressos, listening to Elgar and Beethoven gently in the background, watching business drones hacking away at endless spreadsheet matrices on their computers while I write inane tripe, beholden to no one. Except you, my readers, whom I hope have been more cheered by this email than bored or embarrassed. Did I mention the endless bottles of Cognac or 12-year old Scotch sitting on the counter? I’m in the Business Class VIP lounge. In the First Class VIP lounge they probably have reefer and coke in golden bowls. . .for all I know.



The in-flight magazine was interesting, but the best in-flight item I’ve ever seen is the Air Minnesota camo bikini panties. Now who would want those?

yesterday elk mountain parkway with jim. too windy for panorama.

i am still trying to cap and terminate the blog and transfer effort to images for postcards and prints.

and i'm tired of posting "i have nothing to say".