This past weekend a friend showed me how to get “xp mode” up and running in Windows 7. It actually isn’t already in the install – you have to jump through a few hoops and download some files to get it to work. I’m experiencing some other problems with W7 (had to buy a new […]
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NoHoPac
Last night Aaron and I met up to visit our old neighborhood of North Hollywood. Garen was playing guitar for Ken Christianson in the monthly NoHo music festival. Too bad this wasn’t going on when I was living two blocks away four years ago. Ken wouldn’t be on for another 40 minutes when we arrived so […]
Artograph Easel
I made two “large” purchases this summer in support of my artistic endeavors. This week I made two more – but those are really for business (Windows 7 and Adobe CS5). This summer I purchased a wooden easel and an Artograph projector. Artograph is the open secret that many artists use (but apparently don’t talk […]
Art Walk July
Like any other 2nd Thursday of the month, Sam and I met up for the Art Walk downtown. After walking through the new “Art Mart” at 501 5th ave. we met up with Garen. The “other” art market was open without an admission fee again and had food vendors. We decided to eat philly cheese […]
July 4th
We had planned to go to Marina Del Rey for the fireworks, but an upset stomach required us to stay a little closer to home. So we went up to the roof to see what we could see. We saw fireworks all around, although mostly in the distance along the coast, which showed up as […]
these weekends
After watching the fail whale eat our soccer team I headed south on Saturday. Sam made a delicious gumbo for us to eat before going to a full moon hike at Franklin Canyon Ranch. Full moon hikes have good and bad points. The bad is that (at first) you’re chugging along with fifty people. Another […]
purple butterfly girl painting
I don’t dabble in the “fantasy” genre much, but some time ago I drew this fairy creature with butterfly wings writhing around as if her hands were bound. From this I decided to make a painting sometime in early 2010. I asked Sam to pose as it was going to be difficult to “fake” the […]
it is important to keep friends who can “tell it like it is”
Art Walk June
Last night, Sam and I walked the downtown Art Walk. We got started about 90 minutes earlier than last time and were able to walk more briskly before the masses showed up. Unfortunately that also meant that most of the food trucks (which we’d planned to check out) weren’t even “open” (in this sense literally […]