Category Archives: Life

Earth Day bottles XV

There’s a nice article about the bottle piece in the Simi Valley Acorn here.

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A weekend of art

We made it over to the opening reception of the studio tour exhibit at the Kavli in Thousand Oaks, where we had the great pleasure of finding Gary Raymond with a pair of his completely fantastic sound sculpture works: “Pandora’s Box” and … Continue reading

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Earth Day bottles IX

TWO stories in the Star: There’s a story in the Simi Valley edition here and a different one in the Moorpark edition here. They turned the Simi story around pretty fast – Jason was there only yesterday afternoon! 

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Tacoma

It’s a long drive North up the Interstate from Portland to Seattle, through old pine forests that look the same now as they did when Lewis and Clark made their way here a hundred and fifty years ago. Puget Sound … Continue reading

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Powell’s / Pod

Portland, Oregon I’m visiting Portland for a meeting of department chairs and division heads, in order to learn how best to promote the department and recruit students. Having the benefit of a morning off, I decided to visit Powell’s book … Continue reading

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Nuclear Physics

I got into a discussion with a nuclear physicist last night, (the hotel is hosting a nuclear physics convention) who told me that in the process of a reactor being prepared to produce electricity the engineers are trained to observe … Continue reading

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Earth Day bottles in the news

There’s a nice piece here in the Ventura County Star about the bottle installation. Kitty Dill ROCKS! 

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Process

Today I achieved almost nothing that one might consider creative. My son and I went to Simi Valley to pick up a bag full of water bottles for the installation, pausing to take pictures of the oak tree, which I … Continue reading

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A labyrinth for Scandinavian Festival 2008

I bumped into Eric Berg this morning while walking to the studio. He’s one of the organizers of the Scandinavian Festival taking place here at the University April 19th and 20th. To my delight he asked if I’d like to make another … Continue reading

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En Grisaille and Velatura

Some words are delicious, and beg repetition. Two words from painting have been on my tongue repeatedly this week: “en grisaille” and “velatura”. They’re lovely rich words, made even richer when you learn what importance they had to many old … Continue reading

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