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December 24, 2006
click image to read my 2006 message
June 29, 2006
March, 2006
March 9, updated March 30 Music to Speak of
Issa Bagayogo's CDs, Timbuktu and Tassoumakan) They make me feel good. Click here for my review, including links to song samples.
March 1
I will be showing up to three original prints
February, 2006
February 22
for you here tonight, (and you had access to that music) I would list some highlights of the playlist here tonight.
I'm VERY happy to find a CD of Santana, of the early variety, that is new at least to me.
The CD's called Mystical Spirits
Get it, if you like early Santana.
Lots of great guitar,
some live sloppiness,
and must-have late sixties and early seventies guitar rock,
and some really good update remixes.
Classic, must-have Santana. A much-welcomed surprise.
Santana, Mystical Spirits
February 20 Sometimes when I view my images, I see and feel silence. This can be a shortcoming of photography and graphic arts. My pictures are almost always born in the midst of an abundance and magnitude of music. (I also prefer to view completed images with music.)
I'm searching for a song to go with Her Inspiration. I'm sure it's out there. Haven't found it yet.
The Construction series of images is primarily inspired by, and is a tribute to, Trilok Gurtu. (Specifically his songs, Bad Boys, and Believe.) But on the morning when I took this picture, Her Inspiration, I was listening to the music of another most-masculine performer: Miles Davis, and his ground-breaking CD, Bitches Brew. This is the foundation of the image, and maybe of this series: masculinity.
And what do I know about that? Ha ha! Not much!
But I'm inspired lately by the character of Chris Stevens (John Corbett) -
Still listening to songs, looking for something audible to accompany this image, Her Inspiration.
Something not as sympathetic as the voice of Kate Bush, singing to and with Peter Gabriel in his song, Don't Give Up, on the CD, So. I love that song.
But the feminine feeling of sound that I'm looking for, isn't sympathetic or maternal. Can you hear it? Do you know what it is? (Please tell me if so.)
(Yes, I know it's something in my imagination, this gracious, peaceful, energizing, femininity that I see in this image.)
Yet maybe it's not so mythical. Yes, in its purest, this femininity might elude all of us for a time. But even now, I do believe in and know a representation of it. Okay, there are many representations of it and I acknowledge them (you) all. Yet I am currently the most fortunate recipient of this, of this highest-potency and-purity dose of feminine spirit.
Still looking for music. Lots of really good stuff here, but not for this. But for tonight I'll leave you with this: an older live performance by Carlos Santana, one sure to raise a tingle above your scalp, and maybe make your thighs squirm. It's Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile), from the CD, Moonflower. (The live version of the song.) It may not quite be about femininity, but it does address something as pure and lofty, and brings it all to the level of our ears.
I reserve the right to review, edit or delete the preceding in the morning. I prefer to sleep on this kind of stuff before uploading it. But not tonight.
Goodnight.
February 17
A new original print, Her Inspiration, is online on the Construction page.
See the print now at the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria Look 2006 Show February 10 to 26, 2006 Map: http://www.cacgv.ca/contact.html
In addition, I was given the opportunity to participate in a display
February 15 When I was a kid, a young teenager if that, there was a record store called something like Kelly's, on Yates Street in Victoria, B.C., Canada. (Before A&B Sound came along.) They used to have, in the early seventies, a little room at the back, with black-light posters, and late-sixties and early-seventies rock and other music playing. It was a small room with no furniture, and people sat around the perimeter, listening. I can't remember knowing anyone in there. The faces and bodies, in my memory, are like ghosts. But we were together - listening, watching, feeling. This is what I'm dreaming of providing here. Some form of visual thing, with easy access to suggested music. The tools and laws are increasingly enabling and allowing this, but I'm not quite there yet. Any help, comments or ideas would be appreciated.
E-mail Eric
February 10
Sting and Ry Cooder, playing together. Yes, that's my vote for president. Ooops, I'm Canadian.
Hey for 2006. February 7
where are you?"
He was my hamster, until last week.
Some Ground Hog Day, that. He died.
He became mine several years ago,
after he bit my daughter.
I keep wanting to talk to him when I go into the kitchen.
So I'll talk to you.
December, 2005
I planned to send a Christmas greeting.
And more on the name, Swine Hall.
Dec.19 These rock concerts, with living stars we knew from the sixties and seventies — they're as much about aging as they are about music.
Music mysteriously bridges us across boundaries of culture, race and generation; if life has kindly left us able to sing.
I've just watched two music DVDs. Highlights for me: Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival: Robert Randolph
And, The Strat Pack, Live in Concert: Joe Walsh, again, and
I HAD to get something out tonight. Dec. 5
It was a stormy night.
Actually it was a stormy morning, a month ago.
I was glad not to be in a boat, or under uncertain trees.
November 3, 2005
November, 2005
November 18 I looked at this site from several other computers on the net recently, and found that many of my images look horrible. This is very disappointing and discouraging. I have several images waiting to be printed and uploaded here, but now so many online to go back to and correct. (I'll just remove some of them.) The text colour is wrong too.
Tell yer friends -- some day -- there'll be good images here.
F......flounders, and applesauce.
If you'd care to comment on the miserable experience you've had at your monitor, I'd be delighted to hear from you. But really, any useful feedback you can offer, or stories of how your dog got sick in front of my site, please let me know.
While I was at that page (the "let me know" e-mail link) I cleaned up the welcome mat.
Now, to get back to printing. The good news is that the post-calibration match between my monitor and this printer, at least on this image, is promising. If I can zero-in on the standard appearance for my monitor, then future prints of my images and their appearance on your monitor, ought to be kinda close to what I see here.
Now online, from the Swine Hall, Other Stuff page, The Swine Hall of Links page!
Here's a song I play over and over, by Glen Velez. It's called Pan Eros, from his CD of the same name. I have the song here on a Times Square Records compilation CD called The World of Drums and Percussion. I want to find the original CD. I can't find much on the net for you in the way of links to pages about this song. But the current sound at Glen's home page is indicative of the drumming and percussion soul you'll hear on it. It's persistent and powerful enough to get under my skin and takes me somewhere, repeatedly. Wait for about three and a half minutes. With a picture, http://www.emusic.com/artist/10560/10560752.html http://www.artist-shop.com/cmp/ I don't have an image to go with the song, but wanted to pass it on anyway. Subwoofer recommended.
Some beauty seems to come from someone seemingly capturing the overwhelming, exquisite enjoyment of a climax of his or her life.
Other times, it seems to come from a miracle, exploding out of a tragedy.
They do appear, if we watch for them.
October, 2005
One last question, before the end of this month comes in a few minutes. I need help with Colour Management, here with the monitor, calibrator, camera and new printer. Right now the gaps between the prints and the designed appearance on this monitor are unacceptable. Yikes man. Send me an expert! So many products here, trying to talk to one another. No one of them seems to produce a manual to make the whole group talk well. Epson R2400, PC and Dell flat panel monitor, Photoshop.. So many settings. I gain some ground and figure some out, and then hit a completely lousy resemblance. Very frustrating.
There is so much I want to print.
Whoa. Could it be a miracle? Not one hour after asking the question above, I get an e-mail with a link to this Windows XP colour management tool.
before trying it.
(smile) Thank you
And last week,
If you can tell me where to find music videos or DVDs to rent in Victoria, B.C., Canada, I'd love to hear from you. And tips on where to buy 'em too. Paying something for music is a good thing.
October 25 Constructing
And from,
September, 2005
And a quote for ya: At bottom every man knows well enough
August, 2005
On seeing beyond Tangent, August 25, 2005
August 18
Studio 16 1/2 are presenting a photography
exhibition in their funky upstairs studio in Fan Tan Alley, opening the
evening of Friday, August 19 through August 29. I submitted seven small
framed prints for the show. Six of my photographs were taken within a
stone's-throw of Fan Tan Alley. I like the way this show was
assembled and presented.
Soul
Where can I find it?
Where is it in an image? I want it.
July, 2005
July 25 I have two images accepted this year to the Sooke Fine Arts Show. The two images are part of a larger series called A Battle Against the Elements, which I hope to show soon. They are from maritime settings, and explore the wondrous beauty which might be found preceding the passing from this life to the next. The two are called Letting Go and Glory Pre-departure. The Sooke Fine Arts Show runs from July 30 to August 7. http://sooke.museum.bc.ca/fainfo.htm
July 25 Ian Morris
June, 2005
May, 2005
April, 2005
Saanich Peninsula
I love this place. Every corner of it.
There's so much to see.
I found an excellent link today: Google maps.
What fun!
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