Pouring My Art Out

Just clearing some photos off my phone… part 1…

Posted on September 6, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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I take a lot of pictures, especially at work where I am a security enforcement officer protecting a cancer research center. I see some weird stuff as I wander in and among the buildings.

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I also get to see some kick-ass San Diego sunsets.

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Oh yeah.

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I have been filming some of the good ones in time lapse, so if I ever update the blog to let me post videos…

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It will get really weird around here.

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Weirder…

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A scorpion stuck in a glue trap. So, I have shared black widow spiders with you, and a tarantula, raccoons, and now a scorpion. I see the coyotes, but haven’t gotten a good photo, and a rattlesnake is in my future!

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But sunsets…

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I like sunsets.

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Yes indeed.

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Sunsets.

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Also, the pretzels in my lunch think I am the Devil… so…

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 5… and this is where things start to get weird…

Posted on September 4, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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So, you know how I have been going out in the yard and spraying spider webs with a mister bottle to make fake dew, in order to get that one perfect photo of sunlight turning all the little drops to diamonds? I still have more photos of that, but last night, I decided to get a little creative and let the crack squirrels in my head run wild.

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I thought, hey, what if I try shooting some pictures in the dark, holding a flashlight, to light the wet webs from below?

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And I’m not sure if my pictures live up to the dream I had in my crack squirrel-ravaged mind…

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But I gave myself bonus points for creativity.

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I moved on to an orb web. I had to hold the camera in one hand because I had a flashlight in the other. I could hear the long pause after I clicked the button, because the shutter stays open longer in the dark. And I knew I should have gotten out the tripod. I knew these would be shaky.

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But I thought one might turn out.

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Well it turned out that none of them turned out. But, then I remembered those wiggly light pictures I was experimenting with a while ago. So I started moving the camera while the shutter was open on purpose.

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Now we have something. It might not be nature photography, but it sure the heck is art!

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Oooooh… now I need to do this with colored lights!!!

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Which sort of led to me going inside and grabbing the laser pointer we use to entertain the dogs…

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So next time, I will share more of those.

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Along with the rest of the pictures I took during the day… and maybe some crazy new experiments.

Posted in dogs and other animals | Tagged animals, art, humor, nature, photography, spider webs, spiders | 4 Comments

A father’s love for his daughter, as expressed in directions on how to babysit her when she was a baby…

Posted on September 4, 2019 by pouringmyartout

I hope it is big enough so that you can read it. Somebody found this in their old memories and sent it to me. I don’t remember who was babysitting Jessica. I don’t even remember writing this, but it has me all over it.

Posted in Stories of my life | Tagged babies, babysitting, family, humor, kids, love | 1 Comment

Please come to my blog page and join us on my post that has 44,712 comments, and help us set a world record!!!

Posted on September 3, 2019 by pouringmyartout

Basically, I invented the chat room blog post. You can rant, rave, do stand up comedy, seduce yourself… or others, as long as you are tasteful. This is a family blog, dagnabbit! Go in and leave random comments, answer old comments, add your story or just add to the craziness. But you can’t do it from here, because I am a computer moron, and links are hard. So go to my actual web page, and look in the top right corner, and click the blue words that say:

Help break the WordPress Record for most commented post!!!

Wait… did I just do a link by accident? Somebody click on it and tell me if that takes you there!

Be a part of history, and help us get to 50,000!!!

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A wildlife adventure from the jungles of San Diego… part 2…

Posted on September 3, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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Beneath the calm surface of the water lurks grim death with razor-sharp teeth.

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As my mom likes to say: Nature in the wild is seldom mild. That is true even here in San Diego.

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The waving palms are just camouflage for vicious killing machines!

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They also look cool reflected in the water.

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Where they help to hide the tiger and leopard sharks, not to mention the cobra sharks, the scorpion sharks, the wolf sharks, the grizzly bear sharks, the hammerheads and the nailheads, and the rare but dreaded skunk sharks.

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I’m just sayin’, man.

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I’m pretty sure that is a sea monster… or two big fish swimming in line.

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Did you spot the seagull by the waterfall? He is preening… probably snatching small mites and crushing them in his ferocious beak.

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That is an actual feeding frenzy. I know it is just fish, but still, the circle of life, baby!

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So beware the wild creatures, teeming in our very midst.

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Don’t let the sun and the gentle breeze and swaying palms lull you into a false sense of security.

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The wilds abide with wild things.

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That’s where the wild things are.

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A wildlife adventure from the jungles of San Diego… part 1…

Posted on September 3, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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Hello, this is your nature guide, Arthur, speaking to you from deepest, darkest San Diego California. Today, we will observe the splendor and terror that is nature in the wild.

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Hey kid, you might want to get out of the water.

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Even the big fish are fleeing!

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And the small fish are swimming in a circle, trying desperately to confuse the predators!

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I know, you didn’t think that San Diego had jungles. But it does, even though, technically, it is a desert.

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What bloody, ravenous nightmare is being enacted under those turbulent waters?

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As large fish turns upon small fish, to sate his savage hunger.

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In the wild, you must constantly look over your shoulder… wait, do fish have shoulders?

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The school of sleek, deadly carnivores grows, as they stalk their prey.

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The small fry abandon their circle, and flee, hoping to outrun their hideous destiny.

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Under the swaying palms and tranquil waters death death lurks in every shadow.

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Ready to pounce on the unwary. Okay, I have to go, my food and fancy adult beverage with a tiny umbrella just arrived at the table.

Man, next time I go there to eat, I am bringing a bottle of red food-coloring. That would spice this story up.

Posted in dogs and other animals, Pictures of me | Tagged animals, art, fish, humor, jungle, nature, photography, san diego, sharks, southern california | 4 Comments

Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 4… once again with special super-close-up-cropped portions of each photos below the original photo!!!

Posted on September 1, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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Original.

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ZOOOOOM! I like that there are smaller strands between the main strands. Is there another, smaller spider sharing the web, or can this one make two sizes of web???

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Original photo.

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ZAP! I like the way that order is mixed with the chaos. No spider web is actually perfectly symmetrical.

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He got lazy in the middle.

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I guess he figured that, hey, that jerk is going to come out and spray my web with that stupid mister/spray bottle, so why should I bust my as… uh… abdomen??? And that is Mister stupid mister to you, spider!

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A perfectly nice picture.

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Sublime artistic transcendence.

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Nice.

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Nicer. I am still trying to figure out if I can somehow use my digital photographic microscope on a wet web… without getting the lens all wet.

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Meh…

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Oh, yeah!

Posted in dogs and other animals | Tagged animals, art, humor, nature, photography, spider webs, spiders | 4 Comments

Another cool thing I did over the weekend, which isn’t really a weekend, because I work on weekends, so it was actually a Monday and a Tuesday, but I call it the weekend because it makes me feel like I have a weekend…

Posted on August 31, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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I took a pottery class. This was on the day after our Legoland adventure with the adorable cousins. My daughters were still in town.

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My older daughter, Jessica, set this up. She is the one who got me into blacksmith classes and glassblowing. And made me a Scottish Lord. She signed me up for another glassblowing class for last Christmas, but the shop closed down, so she thought we could try this together, as long as she was visiting from New York.

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It was a charming little studio.

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The teacher showed us what to do.

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She made it look so easy.

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It is not easy.

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There I am, practicing with the foot pedal that gives you different speeds on the turning wheel.

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We made some stuff.

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Not overly impressive stuff.

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Jessica did better than me.

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I am hoping that when they finish slow drying, and I go back and put a kiln-fired glaze on them, they will be more exciting. Also, Jess is going to set up another lesson with me and my younger daughter, Mollie.

Posted in Stories of my life | Tagged art, clay, family, humor, kids, photography, poettery | 2 Comments

Two awesome days of excellent adventures, with lots of pictures of cute kids… part 6… the final chapter… sort of…

Posted on August 30, 2019 by pouringmyartout

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I say this is ‘sort of’ the final chapter, in so far as these are the last pictures of the day I went to Legoland with my little buddy, Olivia, pictured above, and with my cute little cousins and my two daughters.

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There is the newest little cousin, Maeve, being snuggled by my younger daughter, Mollie.

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But this was just one of my weekend days… which, as you may recall, fall on Monday and Tuesday.

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Love that kid.

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That is when she saw herself in the mirror.

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She is so sweet. She still has crazy hair from the water park.

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I love that my daughters got their faces painted.

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I don’t care that you got married and moved to New York, you rock that face paint, Jessica!

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Jessica and Olivia. I think I shared a picture of Mollie with her face painted already.

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On one of my working days, while both kids were still in San Diego, they went to a spa.

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Jessica knows how to pamper herself, and she has that New York cool now.

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And Mollie… Mollie is just Mollie.

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My girls.

Okay, I do have one more post coming, about the second day of my ‘weekend’, in which Jessica and I did something awesome. See you soon.

Posted in Everything Else | Tagged art, family, fun, humor, kids, love, photography | 11 Comments

Let’s build a wall… to keep Russia out of our freekin’ elections…

Posted on August 29, 2019 by pouringmyartout

Seriously, these people do not understand irony. Russia, the people that made idiots like these hide under tables when they were in elementary school, to prepare them for the nuclear weapons raining from the sky. I thought you people hated foreigners? Also, this sounds strangely treasonous to me. Send these two back. To Russia. Even if they have never been there before. They can wear the shirts there, I am sure they will be a big hit.