Welcome to my blog site. Here find media, journal and pics not neccessarily related to myself. Enjoy!

 

3/26/07 - My first entry. Just been adding content to the music videos and thinking of what to include on this page. Thinking that this just should be a portal of web findings that I can share. Lately been a slump creatively. At least according to me. I would like to be doing and producing music as a main output instead of staring at a tube of glass and light or shopping for useless items. Reading is o.k. though. Expanding my attention span is what it is all about. Also, patient acceptance of the present. Seem to be in this constant wall decorating mode when I'm alone at home... trying to find out what inspires is sometimes hard or confusing. Sometimes it all about a song on the stereo when I'm driving to or from work at the University Christian Church... where I was today.
4/20/07 - I found this strat at a garage sale for fifteen bucks along with some acrylic paint. I went a little crazy and painted the pick guard.

4/21/07 - Just got back Monday for an Easter trip down to Utah to visit my sister Tina, her husband Brad, and her 2 year old Will Applegate. We had all my nephews present as I travelled with my other sister Julia and her two boys Wayan and Niels Christoffersen. My dad also drove down for the occasion. We had Easter in Salt Lake City and then went down to Moab to camp for three nights and visited both Arches national park, and Canyonlands national park. Also, with Julia, Wayan, and Niels, we visited a dinosaur quarry outside Price, Utah. Here are a few photos...


Dad looking out on the Salt Lake on Antelope Island.


A juniper in Arches national park.


Julia and all the boys: Wayan far left, Niels in the middle, and Will on the right.


The Three Wisemen in Arches.


View of Delicate Arch.


Tina and Will in Canyonlands.


Tina and Will at the museum in Price.


Julia and Wayan at the dinosaur quarry. Here is a shed over real dinosaur bones.


A squal near Soldier Summit, Utah.

4/27/07

Just got something I was looking for a long while: an Incredible String Band 2 cd set (5000 Spirits and Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.) I am listening as I type. These guys were working on this stuff when I was a baby. Hopefully it will give me inspiration for a song.
Here's some more pics..


Here is a photo I took on a walk around the block... a reflection looking back at me and Aurora.


My friend Dan working on a Reason track.


On another tune...


Photo taken at street anti-war gathering.


Another photo taken on a walk in my neighborhood.


My stereo shrine.


My dad photographing frieght train at the Richmond Beach siding.

5/2/07
Trying out this new guitar Ahmad lent me... still trying to see if I'd like to get it. Also, been rendering some fractal mandalas using Chaos Pro. Here is a link to my fractal mandalas web gallery.

7/9/07

Haven't added anything for a long while, so here is some new stuff. I have been doing a Circle of Friends photography class at the Seattle Center grounds. Here are some images taken while walking around:


Carolyn Hale taking a photo at a Tsutakawa fountain.


Outside the sci-fi museum.


Reflection of indoor carnival.


Greg looking up in the treebranch shadows.


Reflection of taking a picture outside the EMP.

Here are some family pics:


My sister Julia and her two boys, Wayan and Niels, and myself reflected in a curvy mirror at the Science Center.


Dad Niels and Julia at Niels' B-day.

Here is a picture of Gasworks park on solstice day. Welcome Summer!!

Winter 2007 / 2008

Snowin' on Christmas!!

University Prep Class of 1987' 20th reuinon picture.

The Ave on a wet cold day.

Cousin Garen Checkley and my aunt Liz

Kelly Murphy at the Victory Music open mike.

Music on Sunny Winter Day in my room.

Some not to recent pics:

Downtown near the WAC.


Amanita with a bite out of it.


My nephew Will caught in mid-air comming off the slide into Lake Washington in Beaux Arts park.


And another slide shot of Will...


Me playing at the now old Victory Music open mike in Third Place Books in Ravenna.


Car-back musician at Tonasket Barter Fair.


Going way back!! College dorm buddies at Earlham College.


Even farther back... A picture of me in kite festival garb in Hammamastu, Japan back in 1984 I think.


Playing bugle in the festive streets.


My sister Julia and I as kids hiking in the Cascades.

Some New Photoshop filter art from Circle of Friends photo class here>>