Self-promotion… some ad ideas… part 1…

I thought that as long as I am trying to get people to look at this blog and listen to my podcast, I might as well work on some ideas for commercials.

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Another art project begins… part 2…

Well, I told you I would keep you posted on that post I am carving in a vine pattern, by posting posts about the post, so here is another post about the post that I am posting.

This time I took two photos of edges of the post, instead of four photos, one of each side, so you can sort of see how the vines are going to curl around it. I still don’t know if I am going to carve deep enough to do an underlaying level of vines, but it should be cool when I paint and varnish it.

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Droning on… part 9…



Well, this is the first video I shot with my first drone when I got back to San Diego after that Christmas two years ago.

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Digital art?… part 4…

The water web of waves.

The neon night web.

The vortex web.

The smoke web.

Web of color.

The golden orb web.

All just digital magic done to a photo I took of a spider web.. after, you know, I sprayed it with fake dew from my mister bottle.

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Digital art?… part 3…

No, no explanation at all. If you have been following along for a while, you know what that is. If not, you have to wait for the next post in this series.

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Droning on… part 8…


This is, I swear, the very last drone video I shot in the Bay Area the Christmas before last, when I got my first drone. My younger daughter Mollie and two friends she invited to my mom’s house to join us for Christmas, are mugging it up on the deck. You can see the Christmas tree in the window.

Thanks for letting me share these with you. I am leading up to something big.

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Opinions are not the same thing as facts… (or); Some things are true, and some things aren’t… a guide to some common misconceptions… part 7…

Masks work. That is a fact. Once again, you are entitled to your own opinion, but this is social Darwinism at its most basic. Maybe masks aren’t magic. They aren’t 100% effective. But they help. Is it really too much trouble to put up with the discomfort to maybe save a life? Maybe even the life of someone you know?

This isn’t some major sacrifice. We aren’t asking you to go overseas and fight Nazis for four years, for crying out loud. It’s a mask. You know damn well that if Democrats had said masks were bad you would all be wearing them. That is my opinion… but you know it is probably a fact.

So stop whining, wear a freekin’ mask, and we can all go back to living normal lives that much sooner.

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Digital art?… part 2…

Just some digital magic…

Nothing special…

Making some art…

And it all started with a simple photo…

That I took by wiggling my camera while I shot a photo of some lights in a dark parking lot…

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Digital art?… part 1…

What is it? I will get to that… in the next post.

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Opinions are not the same thing as facts… (or); Some things are true, and some things aren’t… a guide to some common misconceptions… part 6…



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Thinking that you can beat up any Asian you see on the street because they are responsible for the virus is an opinion, not a fact. In fact, this is a stupid, evil and racist opinion. That is my opinion, but I like to think they are facts. Another fact is that beating up people is against the law.

Let’s break this down. Aside from the fact that you do not have the right to attack people physically because they did something you don’t like or they disagree with you, according to this logic, any Native American should be able to assault any Caucasian person. Because that is where Smallpox came from, right?

Also, here is another fact for you. Not all people of Asian heritage are Chinese. And even if the virus actually did start in a lab on purpose, this is the act of a few people in the Chinese government, not every person who can trace their roots back to anywhere in Asia

.And as long as we are on the subject of attacking people because you are unhappy, this goes for everybody. Stop doing that. Protest peacefully. Express your opinions. But you can’t storm the Capitol just because things aren’t going your way, not an you hang Mike Pence. I know, who hasn’t thought of doing that once or twice, but still, don’t do it.

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