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Finally found out who he is.
Jake is also lead guitar and vocals with The Ripe, another Austin, TX band.
The Black Angels
Firebird
St. Louis, MO
May 8, 2013
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Started as left and right handed together, but after the first 10 minutes, converted to strictly left-handed with right-handed erasing.
180 minutes... so far.
First day is brownish color.
Second day is purplish color.
Third day is greenish color.
Fourth day is greyish color.
Fifth day is lighter greyish color.
6th day is um the color of left shoulder...
My hair finally looks a little less like a plastic cap, and there's almost room for a brain in there but so far I'm sticking with the 'Pinhead' title.
I'm trying to pick colors that are the same value, so the piece will be cohesive at the end, yet have a visual trail of how it was constructed. Unfortunately it getting hard to find colors that are close but distinguishable.
Helix Bridge, Singapore - 2015
The Helix bridge links the Marina Centre with Marina South, or the Bay Sands resort to the Flyer and F1 track. It is a pedestrian only bridge, inspired by "left-handed" DNA, made from stainless steel and glass, is 280m long, and weights 1700 tonnes.
"Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker."
('Rocky Balboa' and 'Apollo Creed' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
Sat 7 Aug 2010 - Cricket - Kent Regional Cricket League - 1C - East. - Ramsgate Corinthian 1st X1 v Minster 1st X1. - Jacky Baker's Sport Ground, Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, UK. - Corinthians won the toss and decided to bowl. Ramsgate won by 3 wickets. - Minster batsman #5 Dom Vernon caught out by Vic Medus off David Amos for 16 runs. - Losing balance and falling forward.
The Boston Red Sox played the Philadelphia Phillies. The Red Sox won 8-0.
Here is the team's 2015 opening day roster:
Starting pitchers
LHP Cole Hamels
RHP Aaron Harang
RHP David Buchanan
RHP Jerome Williams
Bullpen
RHP Jonathan Papelbon
LHP Jake Diekman
RHP Ken Giles
RHP Justin De Fratus
RHP Luis Garcia
RHP Jeanmar Gomez
LHP Cesar Jimenez
RHP Dustin McGowan
Catchers
Carlos Ruiz
Cameron Rupp
Infielders
Chase Utley
Ryan Howard
Freddy Galvis
Cody Asche
Darin Ruf
Cesar Hernandez
Andres Blanco
Outfielders
Odubel Herrera
Ben Revere
Grady Sizemore
Jeff Francoeur
The Phillies also officially placed lefthanded reliever Mario Hollands (elbow strain) on the 60-day disabled list and righthanders Chad Billingsley and Jonathan Pettibone on the 15-day disabled list. Billingsley is working his way back from consecutive seasons lost to elbow operations and Pettibone is coming back form June shoulder surgery.
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/phillies/Phillies-set-...
August 13th Happy International Left-Hander's day! My Kyusu (tea pot for green tea) for Left-handers
Scott Houston McGregor (b. January 18, 1954) is a former MLB pitcher who spent his entire career with the Baltimore Orioles from 1976 to 1988. He is now the pitching coach for the Aberdeen IronBirds. He was a high school teammate of George Brett in El Segundo, CA. Brett was a second-round draft pick in 1971 while McGregor was a first-round draft pick of the New York Yankees in 1972.
In 1974 the New York Yankees sent 20 year old lefthanded pitcher Scott McGregor to Syracuse to begin the season in the Chiefs rotation under second year manager Bobby Cox. He was named I.L. Rookie of the Year, represented the Chiefs in the 1974 I.L. All Star Game and went 13-10 with a 3.44 ERA.
On June 12, 1976 the New York Yankees in an effort to capture their first Pennant in over a decade traded prize prospects Dave Pagan, Tippy Martinez and Scott McGregor to the Baltimore Orioles for lefthanded veteran pitcher Ken Holtzman.
He won 20 games in 1980 and was solid in two postseasons with the Orioles in 1979 and 1983. McGregor sent the Orioles to the World Series by clinching the 1979 ALCS with a Game 4 shutout of the California Angels. He also pitched a complete game victory in Pittsburgh in Game 3 of the World Series that year and, despite taking the loss in Game 7 of that series, yielded only 2 runs in 8 innings to Willie Stargell and the eventual champion Pirates.
After the 1983 World Series, he remained a starting pitcher on the Orioles for the next five seasons. He made his final appearance on April 27, 1988.
MLB debut - September 19, 1976, for the Baltimore Orioles
Last MLB appearance - April 27, 1988, for the Baltimore Orioles
Career statistics:
Win–loss record 138–108
ERA - 3.99
Strikeouts - 904
Teams:
Baltimore Orioles (1976–1988)
Career highlights and awards:
All-Star (1981)
World Series champion (1983)
Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame
Link to all of his issued baseball cards - www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/3848/col/1/yea/0/Sco...
Posed in front of a new painting, Biolchini enjoys the golden years of over four decades as one of Southwest Florida’s most illustrious painters and a teacher of international renown.
Charcoal
www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215766768593...
In case you didnt notice, i am signing my work at the moment backwards, just because i can, i am lefthanded, that and having to live with PD is reason enough to do something funny :D
One of the most famous peaks in La Plagne, French Alps. Picture was taken with left arm only as the right one was broken. Anyway I am lefthanded via 500px ift.tt/28WJlfo
Halfstock percussion rifle made by Theodore Clark Spangler, in either Neponset or Annawan, Illinois. It is .34 caliber, with back action lock, and made for a left-handed shooter. Left handed firearms were very rare during the 19th Century. If one was born left-handed, it was considered a birth defect. Most were "converted" to be right-handed at home or in school.
Theodore Clark Spangler was born in Center Township (now Wyanet Township), Bureau County, Illinois, July 11, 1850. He was one of twin sons (Theodore & Theory), born to Jacob Young Spangler and his wife, Jane Clark, who came to Bureau County from Ohio, in 1847. The family moved to Manlius Township, Bureau County, in 1852.
Theodore Spangler is listed as "Gunsmith & Town Marshall" in Neponset, Bureau County, in "Taxpayers & Voters of Bureau County, 1877". He is listed in the 1880 census as a gunsmith in Annawan Village, Henry County, Illinois, which is just across the county line from Bureau County. Theodore Spangler married Janetta Peebles, in Annawan, Illinois, December 11, 1871. By 1885 he was a gunsmith in Tabor, Iowa. He died in Nebraska in 1903.
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons, and water, on paper.
Freehand from a photo
~11 X 15 inches
Left and right handed together - but more right than left.
Candid shot of a street musician in Padstow.
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Around 10-15% of the world’s people are left-handed. Why so few? No-one knows. Yet studies show that mathematicians, musicians, architects, and artists are more commonly left-handers than would be expected. When it comes to guitarists, that certainly seems to be true. Let’s look at guitar’s left-handers… some obvious, but others you’d never even know.
The obvious biggies first – Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney and many more.
25/52: Opposites
These are not my hands...just to clear that up! :-)
1 Yongnuo 560 II, off camera behind let, white diffuser, Black Foamie Thing, radio triggered.
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Started as left and right handed together, but after the first 10 minutes, converted to strictly left-handed with right-handed erasing.
180 minutes... so far.
First day is brownish color.
Second day is purplish color.
Third day is greenish color.
Fourth day is greyish color.
Fifth day is lighter greyish color.
I'm trying to pick colors that are the same value, so the piece will be cohesive at the end, yet have a visual trail of how it was constructed. Unfortunately it getting hard to find colors that are close but distinguishable.
TodaysArt 2015
Pier, Scheveningen
A live concert driven by the sea.
Two man angling, trying to catch ‘A tempo Hydro’.
Perhaps the sea will release the Accelerando. and returns to it’s A tempo.
For this piece the environment is the instrument.
The works from Onno Poiesz are very varied. From large 2D works such as; ‘EXIT’ which existed out of stickers made specially for the Central Station of Rotterdam- to glaced keramic airplanes and bronzed doorknobs in the Dutch public transport. For this eleventh edition of TodaysArt , Poiesz created a project intended for the most lefthanded island on The Pier which will be demolished at the end of 2015. This projects is inspired on one of the original ‘ZERO on Sea’ installations. Artist Heinz Mack planned to place pillars made out of mirrors into the sea. Poiesz is planning to wrap the left hand island completely in mirroring foil. By doing so, a new dimension will arise and will change the context of the building. The building will gain body and the exact contours will fade. During the day, light and colors will change and reflect in the sea.
"I can't do it."
"What ?"
"I can't beat him."
"Apollo ?"
"Yeah. I been out there walkin' around, thinkin'. I mean, who am I kiddin' ? I ain't even in the guy's league."
('Rocky Balboa' and 'Apollo Creed' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
Across the Irish Sea,
I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
It's the only thing for me.
The Lego Lefthanded Calendar
Jester loves apples but tends to make a pig of himself at Christmas!
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Started as left and right handed together, but after the first 10 minutes, converted to strictly left-handed with right-handed erasing.
210 minutes... 3.5 hours... so far.
Day 01 - 01/18 - 30 m - red oxide. Left & a little right.
Day 02 - 01/19 - 70 m - deep rose. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 03 - 01/21 - 30 m - leaf green. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 04 - 01/22 - 30 m - payne's gray. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 05 - 01/23 - 36 m - dark purple. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 06 - 01/24 - 30 m - thistle. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 07 - 01/25 - 35 m - dusky purple. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 08 - 02/05 - 30 m - prussian blue. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
~5 hours... so far.
I've been knocked out with a nasty cough and have mostly been drawing on my iPad/iPhone while sitting down and wrapped in blankets. Tuesday I finally had enough energy to haul myself upright for half an hour to get moving on this again.
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons, and water, on terraskin 'paper'.From memory / imagination
~9 X 11 inches
Left and right handed together
15 - 30 minutes
Usually when I draw myself from memory, I leave out the glasses and the hats. It was fun to get that specific, though this is a mishmash of a couple different hats.
As with Yupo, the terraskin can withstand water and not have the surface damaged, but if you use much it pools on the surface, and does extremely unpredictable things while taking a long time to dry.
I do see that even from memory I'm getting the volumes of the head better.
Jean-Marie Le Fennec was one of dozens of artists around the old parts of Eguisheim, Alsace on this day (16th September 2012).
Pencil color drawing on Red with my opposite (left) hand.
YouTube Video: youtu.be/lynjaVnuVxk
#angrybirds #drawing #fanart #lefthanded #art
~6 X 8 inches
Inktense pencil and water, on paper.
Left handed.
Maureen's great artwork: www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/
Photos and portraits of Maureen: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215762428692...
The photo I was working from for all of these: www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/9731687245/
I wanted to work with another subject the way I work with my own image - not worrying about likeness, having fun with process, indulging in whatever artistic impulse strikes me in the time I have each night. Maureen was kind enough to agree to let me have at her 'no holds barred'. I also like to work in series so I chose to make 50 portraits over 25 days, all from the same photo. The images range from likeness to insane, from detailed to quite rough, some interesting and some that I wouldn't ordinarily display, except I'm posting the whole series.
These were all done in a lined spiral notebook with fairly thin paper that I received last year at a computer conference. I had used the first 50 pages for a series of ink self-portraits, and now I turned it over and starting from the back, filled it with these 50 portraits of Maureen. It is now completely filled.
These are, of course, portraits for Julia Kay's Portrait Party (JKPP). If you're an artist and you'd like to join an international community of artists who make portraits of each other, please consider applying to join us at the Portrait Party on flickr. First read the group guidelines here: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/rules/ Then click join here: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/
Gears: Nikon D80 + AF Nikkor 50mm ƒ1.8D
Location: Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.
The band from RTM (the National Broadcasting Dept.) is performing during one of the rehearsals.
The KOM League
Flash Report
for
Friday, November 13, 2020
For those who care, this Flash Report is accessible by going to: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/50597060261/
In a note shared with a few readers on November 12 the following statement was made. “Can you imagine having a Friday 13th in the year 2020? I’m optimistic and believing it will not be a bad omen—Amen?” That message elicited many responses. However, around 5:00 a. m. a message was received from a faithful reader that stated “Charlie Pride RIP.” That was news to the old batboy and this response was sent in response to that terse e-mail. “He and Mickey Mantle used to run around together in Dallas. Mickey's mother-in-law told him she'd like to meet Charlie. Mrs. Johnson told me that around two in the morning, shortly thereafter, Mickey came into her bedroom and announced that Pride was in the living room and to get out of bed and meet him.”
Since it was now Friday the 13th a decision was made to look further into the Charlie Pride story and as a result this message was sent to the person apprising me of Pride’s passing.
“Charlie's death has been greatly exaggerated. He is not dead nor doth he sleep in Biblical jargon” www.wideopencountry.com/charley-pride-death-hoax/
With that rumor out of the way it might bode well that this Friday the 13th will be a great day.
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A great loss
In the October 18, 2020 edition of this publication the following paragraph concluded that report. “This publication regrettably carries the news of many deaths. Someone who has read this and other KOM league publication since their inception is now facing the end of their days. That person happens to have known me longer than anyone currently living. It has become my task, duty, honor or whatever to write that person’s obituary. It is a difficult assignment to reduce to a few paragraphs the scope of a life that has now reached 85 years and if the Good Lord permits will be 86 within the next five weeks.”
On Halloween the person mentioned in the previous paragraph left this world for a much better place. The obituary along with a picture of the deceased is carried on this link: www.knellmortuary.com/obituaries/Janice-Elaine-Pinter?obI...
If you availed yourself of perusing that link you will know that the deceased was the sister of this here guy writing the story. But, there is more to the story. Very few people had as much confidence in the KOM league publications than the deceased. When it was opined the writing effort should come to an end my sister would always have a reason why that shouldn’t happen. On one occasion her opinion was that her little brother did more good befriending the old ballplayers and helping them than he ever did in the various churches he pastored. After thinking over that observation for a little while the little brother concurred.
It was always “Little Brother’s” idea that something would cause the KOM league reports to come to a merciful end if not by death but due to another happenstance. When my sister departed, although she hadn’t read any of the material for a few years, the first inclination was that now was the time to shut it down.
A coincidence?
On the same day of the death of Janice Pinter a letter was penned by a long time reader. It didn’t reach the “KOM League Office and Dusty Baseball Register Archives” until November 2. The letter, which was sent in place of an e-mail, had some things that are direct quotes. “A strong suggestion—quit attempting to stop writing. It is not possible to stop.”
Since the aforementioned came from a guy calling himself “Ol Clark” it was necessary to keep reading. Bill Clark is the real name and he has been around the sports world and the actual world many times. He is a living storehouse of great stories which he promises he’s going to share with the world in the form of three books. This writer is dubious that three will be sufficient.
Much of Clark’s baseball archives were destroyed in a fire, two years ago, but I’m sure much of that remains in his total recall memory bank. So, I await his upcoming literary works as much as pondering what to do about continuation of these reports. However, a constant reminder will be ever present. Clark concluded his remarks by stating “So—writers write even when no one reads them.” And for clinchers he said “No charge for the sermon.”
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In the spirit of the times
With the spread of the Chinese plague one is always concerned about the elderly and those with immune deficient conditions. As readers are aware most of the former KOM leaguers are either at least 90 or are so close to it they can see it on the horizon.
At the start of 2020, the top five oldest living former KOM leaguers included Nicholas Timothy Kucher. In going through the listing of Nick or Nicholas Kucher’s, who passed away, there wasn’t anything located in an obituary listing. On a whim his name was entered into Ancestry.com and there was a Find-A-Grave citation for the former KOM leaguer. www.findagrave.com/memorial/214613060/nicholas-kucher
At that juncture an even more concentrated effort was made to find an obituary for the former Ponca City Dodger was undertaken. Even the standby source, Jack Morris, couldn’t locate one either. At that point Morris was advised that an attempt would be made to come up with some information on the deceased.
Nicholas Timothy Kucher was born November 1, 1924 in New York City to Alex and Mary Kucher who were Polish immigrants. On his Sporting News card the word “Ukrainian” is typed on the top of that document as shown here. digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/112856...
Upon reaching the age of 18 he signed up for the draft and was listed as living at 315 E. 9th St. in New York and was employed by the Baker and Taylor Company at 55 5th Avenue. He filled out his card as being 6’ and weighing 170 with a scar on his left forehead. It would not have been possible for him to call his employer to report being unable to come to work, for any reason, since the family didn’t own a telephone.
Upon reporting to Ponca City in late April of 1947 this profile was shared under the heading “Meet the Dodgers.” Nick Kucher—is an outfielder, 22 years old and played his first competitive baseball with the Seward Park high school in his home town, New York city. A first baseman in prep school, he worked both the initial sack and the outfield with a semi-pro club last season (1946). He served three years in the marines, including duty at Okinawa and Saipan, and was discharged in 1945. He stands an even 6 feet, weight 172 pound and is single. A lefthanded batter and thrower, Kucher trained at Thomasville, N. C. this spring.”
What led to Kucher coming to Ponca City is contained in this late April, 1947 edition of the Ponca City News. “…Business Manager Owen Martinez announced the trade of George Schneider, 18-year-old New York city lad who has been here since last weekend, for Nick Kucher of the class C Three Rivers, Quebec, club. Schneider left Ponca City by plane in an effort to arrive at Three Rivers in time for the Canadian-American league’s opening game today. Kucher is due here this weekend.”
Upon Kucher’s arrival the KOM league season had not commenced but the Ponca City club was playing exhibition contests around the area. The first game he ever saw was from the bench as his new team was playing the Oklahoma A & M Agvets at Stillwater. This was long before that school was known as the Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Ponca City News reported “Nick Kucher, an outfielder who came in last weekend from Thomasville, N. C., on a trade with Three Rivers, Quebec was on the bench at Stillwater with a sprained ankle will probably be out of play a week, his doctor says.”
When the KOM league season began Kucher was in the outfield playing both right and centerfield but not at the same time. In his first nine games he hit nearly .300 but by his 18th contest his average slipped to the .200 level and his baseball days in the KOM league were history. In a long ago conversation with Kucher he blamed the bad ankle for his not being able to perform at the level he wanted.
Not long after leaving Ponca City Kucher returned to New York and married Anne Zatowsky on January 16, 1948. They lived happily ever after until her death in 2017. When this source communicated with the Kucher’s they lived in East Northport, New York at 154 Cedar Road. They later moved to Commack, New York. I believe that Nick even lived in Scottsdale, Arizona for a time in his later years.
It can’t be determined the day and month Kucher passed away but it was in 2020. Thus, he was either 95-96 when St. Peter came calling.
The ninety two year-old penny
Most of what is contained in this article came from scrapbooks kept by a young female fan of the 1946-48-49 and 1950 Ponca City Dodgers. It is my belief she fell in and out of love with someone on each of those teams. Her scrapbooks followed her to California where they were kept for over 60 years before she finally contacted Gale Wade and offered them to him. Wade, who had played at Ponca City in 1947 and 48, didn’t want those items and suggested she get in touch with a fellow who writes about the KOM league.
In those scrapbooks are hundreds of photos of Ponca City and other KOM league players that included future big leaguers Jim Baxes, Chris Kitsos, Gale Wade and former Dodger Boyd Bartley. The scrapbooks featured many social events such as picnics. Most every box score of Ponca City home games is in those scrapbooks along with a comment about the game inserted by the “keeper of the scrapbooks.” In some places a memento of a game or from a social gathering was included.
For over a decade Yours truly has looked at those scrapbooks, from time to time. One item placed under a box score was a penny scotch taped thereto. It dawned on me, in looking at that page, to decipher the number of games in which Nick Kucher played, that the tape was still holding the penny in place. Peeling back the taped it was a bit exciting to anticipate the date on the penny knowing it had to have been minted in 1947 or earlier. What was on the front of the Lincoln head—wheat ear coin was “1928-D.” On top of that it was in good condition. At the time it was placed in the scrapbook it was only 19 years old.
So, I guess I could offer that penny to some reader for their thoughts. Do I have to say “A penny for your thoughts?”
Who remains?
When a former KOM leaguer passes away a quick check is made to see how many of his teammates remain. As of this moment I believe the list includes: William Skeen, Dale Hendricks, George Fisher, Larry Tarbell and Gale Wade. Robert Clark Taylor and Phillip Adams were never located although there is a high level of suspicion where they currently reside.
In reviewing the list of the members of the 1947 Ponca City Dodgers who were once contacted and then nothing being heard from or about them in a long time included John Dominic Ferluga and Donald Andrew Tisnerat.
John Ferluga was a native of Seattle, Washington born 10/28/1926. He graduated from Queen Ann High School in 1946 and was the opening day hurler for the 1947 Ponca City Dodgers. That was the only game in which he played with them. There has never been an obituary located for him but a listing from his high school alumni publication shows he passed away on 2/13/2017 in Renton, WA.
Donald Andrew Tisnerat was born 4/14/1927 in Long Beach, CA . He also pitched for the 1947 Ponca City Club. He had graduated from David Starr Jordan high school in Long Beach and served in the U. S. Navy during WW II. He lived in a number of places and when this source contacted him a couple of decades ago he was living in Las Vegas, NV. That is where he passed away on 6/29/2014. He was buried at the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, CA. That is a spectacular and somber place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_National_Cemetery
4 years ago!
Pen an watercolor on paper.
4 X 6 inches.
From imagination
Pen held between the toes of my right foot, watercolor applied with my right hand. Eyes open.
Original Post
I always like to try something new on my birthday - this time drawing with my foot (though I realized I was sometimes keeping my foot pretty still and simply moving the paper - with my hands!)
Today's Commentary
It was my birthday when I originally posted this, not today.
It doesn't seem surprising that I was an early adoptor of drawing on mobile digital devices - even with the clunky early interfaces, it was easier than some of this other stuff I was fooling around with!
I've meant to try this again and not allow myself to move the paper, but haven't gotten around to it yet. 4 years ago. Sheesh the days just keep rolling by.
This is a past self-portrait from my Daily Portrait Project, in which I made a non-photographic image of myself every day for three years, from 3/15/07 to 3/15/10. Soon they'll all be loaded on flickr, you can find them in this set: www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/sets/72157619599543783/
The first year of the project is now available as a book: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2418516
Volumes II and III coming soon...
~6 X 8 inches
Neocolor II on paper.
Left hand holding three crayons at once.
Maureen's great artwork: www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/
Photos and portraits of Maureen: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215762428692...
The photo I was working from for all of these: www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/9731687245/
I wanted to work with another subject the way I work with my own image - not worrying about likeness, having fun with process, indulging in whatever artistic impulse strikes me in the time I have each night. Maureen was kind enough to agree to let me have at her 'no holds barred'. I also like to work in series so I chose to make 50 portraits over 25 days, all from the same photo. The images range from likeness to insane, from detailed to quite rough, some interesting and some that I wouldn't ordinarily display, except I'm posting the whole series.
These were all done in a lined spiral notebook with fairly thin paper that I received last year at a computer conference. I had used the first 50 pages for a series of ink self-portraits, and now I turned it over and starting from the back, filled it with these 50 portraits of Maureen. It is now completely filled.
These are, of course, portraits for Julia Kay's Portrait Party (JKPP). If you're an artist and you'd like to join an international community of artists who make portraits of each other, please consider applying to join us at the Portrait Party on flickr. First read the group guidelines here: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/rules/ Then click join here: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. John Curley tagged me, but I already did this on Facebook (and tagged my people)...but since he twisted my arm (ever so gently), I posted a self portrait from the only camera I had with me at work today, my minidigi rollei.
1. I have been to the hospital about 11 times in the past year, of that, thrice admitted for at least a night, twice to the ER, yet I have never broken any bones.
2. 9/11/01, the day before my 24th birthday, was the day I decided to get up early and go to work in Manhattan to fix up my portfolio and start looking for a new job. I left my job in Manhattan 6 months later and spent another year looking for full time employment.
3. I was once robbed at gunpoint with 3 other friends in South Philly. I lost waaaaaaay more time and money in the judicial system while the guy (who was caught) was prosecuted than I did in the initial robbery, which was $80. I ended up being the star witness in the trial because I had nothing to drink that night and miraculously identified him in the lineup.
4. I often have hallucinations of things floating over my bed when I wake up in the middle of the night, such as stereos, lamps, furniture and people. It happens at least 3 times a month, sometimes more, sometimes not happening at all for months.
5. I cannot read analog clocks. Well I can, but it takes me a while to decipher. I will only ever have a digital watch no matter how pretty the design of others, it is useless to me.
6. I have a completely irrational fear of radiation poisoning and nuclear disaster. This made K-19: The Widowmaker the most terrifying movie I have ever seen.
7. I really adamantly disliked photos and photo-making until I was in college, now I can't stop.
8. Despite being an abandoned building exploring junkie of four years, its only in the past
two months that I have done any damage to myself in them- once falling through the floor (just my leg, but no other real harm came of it) and running into a house and falling in the door, massacring my knee which still hurts a bit.
9. I would walk everywhere I could if possible, I hate to drive. I also have a completely rational fear of driving on Route 76, the main artery for the Philadelphia area and refuse to use it. I get whiteknuckled even as a passenger on it.
10. I was born a blonde but have been a redhead for 14 years.
11. I am lefthanded.
12. I hate talking on the phone. I don't like voices without visual cues unless I *really* know you pretty well. Pierre you don't count when you call me to tell me you are peeing.
13. I used to draw almost constantly and by the time I was in high school I thought I would be an illustrator. I fell in love with graphic design in college and fell out of love with it after I got my first job in it. It is still mostly paying my bills today. I am hoping to change that in the next two years.
14. As a child I was a nature freak, hoping to one day become the Jane Gooddall of the ornithology world. I also kept pet insects in cages built of legos and referred to my Audobon Field Guides for what to feed them. I had a pet praying mantis I fed peanut butter and pet store crickets that lived well into February.
15. I don't have any real sweeping long term goals but am not lacking in ambition. This year I want to find a publisher and a gallery for my construct series.
16. I drive an ancient piece of crap car that still has a hole in it from my one and only car accident. Driving in the Poconos in a snow and ice storm, my car slid across the expressway and got hooked on the back bumper of an 18wheeler who never even noticed it happened. I have never had a moving violation.
17. I was born via caesarian section a full month over term.
18. One day I will be a full time photographer and artist.
19. My face was on a magazine cover once. I have gotten to a point where I really don't care to see or make images of myself at all after having made self-portraits in different media most of my life.
20. I am a realist. And apparently very much the Virgo stereotype.
21. Feet disgust me. I don't like seeing them, even my own and touching and being touched by them grosses me out no end.
22. I wish I could become invisible at will. Mostly so I can go to the shadiest neighborhoods and take photos without being in danger, and also slip into abandoned buildings unnoticed by everyone. Not so I can be a super spy or a perve. I am already a bit of a perve and not invisible at all.
23. I never want to have children and I am really not fond of them at all.
24. I hate consuming beverages. I have gone entire days not thinking to drink at all. I may be part camel.
25. If I did not have a career in the arts I think I might be a hair stylist. My hair has always had a (rather rich) life of its own.