I have an unhealthy obsession with nuclear war and its aftermath - this influence is clearly stamped on my work. I can’t help it… I’d rather not have this obsession (I watched Terminator 3 for the 4th time today), but the fact remains that I believe in my lifetime at least one major city somewhere […]

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I’m in the middle of another good brain worm… I’ve played the late Elliot Smith’s “Pretty (Ugly Before)” a hundred times this week.

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Wow, what a fantastic show in Portland… Art in the Pearl! Its a great city with great people…
And wow… I didn’t get a single alley shot. Saturday night I was fired up - ready to dive into Portland’s darker, grittier corners looking for diamonds in the rough. I drove and walked around with Pam for 4 […]

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I saw WALL-E last night. Fantastic!!  The film is great on so many levels, but one in particular that relates to my art. The film is set in an apocalyptic future where humans have had to escape an Earth that they (we) have made unlivable. The opening scenes (which then run through half the movie) blew […]

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I got back home this morning… drove all day and night from Denver, with Pam sharing the driving… Now I have today and part of tomorrow to do everything I can’t do on the road.
I fly to Des Moines tomorrow at midnight (with an armful of artwork) to get my van and drive to Chicago for the […]

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TV is a horrible drug… worse than crack… In a cold turkey break, twelve years ago I got rid of my TV. After many offers and many temptations, two years later my dad coaxed me into taking his 3-inch B&W version, which I would occassionally watch in bed, with it sitting on my chest. This seemed […]

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I just finished reading The Road, the Pulitzer Prize winning, post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy (who also wrote No Country for Old Men). Its as dark a tale as you can imagine: a father and son, maybe 10 years after an all out, global nuclear war, travel along a road, trying to get to warmer climes, while evading marauding […]

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I’ve never met anyone with a worse memory than me. I’ve also never met anyone with Alzheimer’s, but I’d surely give even them a run for their money. My memory is not just bad - it’s a huge burden, a constant aggravation, a handicap and also a very real concern. I think its getting worse and […]

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I just found my Brain Worm mascot. I shot this in 1985 during a Montreal winter cold snap - I’m thinking -30 C / -22 F.
For years I wanted to do a whole series of close up frost pictures. I know there would be a whole glorious world to discover in the beautiful intricacies of […]

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I have a song stuck in my head, but I don’t mind. Sometimes the song stuck in your head is a song you like. In this case, its my song-of-the-week. Its stuck in my head because I’ve played it a hundred times in the past 48 hours. This is the way I operate: A song […]

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