Stuff from the Past Month
March 7, 2008 – 1:00 am
Over the last couple of days, Amelia and I have been helping our friend John Nichols set up an upcoming March 16 exhibit at the Santa Paula Oil Museum. The show will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the St. Francis Dam disaster. She and I have been painting the walls with scenes of the disaster from photos that John has provided for us. John Nichols is a local historian and archivist and owns the John Nichols Gallery in downtown Santa Paula. For a comprehensive overview of the St. Francis Dam Disaster, visit John’s website @ http://www.sespe.com/damdisaster/.
I recently reconnected with an old friend of mine named Michael W. Dean. I know Michael from my music days up in The Bay Area. I found out that he’d been living a quiet life as a multi-media mogul over in Conejo, so seeing as we are now practically neighbors, I decided to look him up. Amidst his seemingly endless amount of web propaganda, Michael W. Dean has a collection of his fun and entertaining podcasts at http://www.clonethehomeless.com/, and maintains his blog at http://www.stinkfight.com/. Kids beware; there is some material that could be deemed inappropriate for people under 18.
Lastly, I posted a photo sharing page at http://freekmagnet.deviantart.com/. I’ll be posting some of my recent work there from time to time, and if I get really organized, I’ll put some really old stuff up there too. Having completed three pieces in less than a month, these last few weeks have been fairly productive for me project-wise, so I hope to continue the trend and begin work on another piece over the weekend.