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03.31
Like the shot of Derek a few days ago (see entry for 3/26), this is a case of initially photographing the thing I noticed first: the T-rex shadow, but then realizing that it was probably just one element of a more interesting photo.
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03.30
Derek doing the one-sock shuffle on the couch. As this photo was taken he was describing a recent dream in which he was at school wearing shoes but only one sock.
Twenty of my photographs have been featured at My Ritual, an online art gallery.
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03.29
Debora doesn't like this photo, but I find it humorous. We were at the Science Museum with Derek and had gone out front for a smoke break. I turned the camera on when I saw a strange looking bearded man approaching. The viewfinder on the back of the camera lit up with this image. Seeing the cigarette and the smokestack together I captured it instead.
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03.28
This photo of little Indigo was taken about a week ago at the home of Craig Minowa. Her mother, artist Kjersten DeGaia, is one of the artists that paints live onstage during Cloud Cult performances. The band's two cellists, Sarah Young and Deborah Copperud, jam in the background.
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03.27
Sarah Young jamming with friends in Craig Minowa's kitchen.
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03.26
Sometimes what looks like a good picture is only an element of or a setting for one. This thought occured to me after relizing that I had just taken a picture of a washer/dryer when what I really liked was the light striking it. "Have it strike something better," I suggested to myself, helpfully. As it happened, my son Derek had just finished breakfast and had nothing better to do.
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03.25
The greatest joy in photography happens in the moment of recognition and the seizing of fleeting beauty; the exclamation point that accompanies the squeeze.
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03.24
Another in a series of band photos that were taken of Cloud Cult on Sunday to promote their new album. Putting everyone in a tree was Craig's idea. Having him in the foreground was mine.
Sample Track: Living on the Outside of your Skin
(4.2mb mp3)
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03.23
Another from Cloud Cult's shoot on Sunday. The shot yesterday included artists that paint live during thier performances, this one is of just the band. The mp3, from their album Who Killed Puck (2001), is a rather exhillarating piece called "6 Days to Madness" which quotes the distinguished writer John McPhee:
Compare the six days of Genesis as a figure of speech for what has in fact been four billion years geologic time. On this scale, a day equals something like 666 million years and thus:
All day Monday until Tuesday noon, creation was busy getting the earth going. Life began Tuesday noon, and the beautiful organic wholeness of it developed over the next four days. At 4:00pm Saturday, the big reptiles came. Five hours later, when the redwoods appeared, there were no more big reptiles. At three minutes before midnight man appeared and one-fourth of a second before midnight Christ arrived. At one-fortieth of a second before midnight, the Industrial Revolution began.
We are surrounded by people who think that what we have been doing for one-fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely. They are considered normal, but they are stark raving mad."
Sample Track: 6 Days to Madness (3.7mb mp3)
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03.22
One of a series of band photos that were taken of Cloud Cult on Sunday to promote their new album Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus:
Sample Track: Car Crash (4.2mb mp3)
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03.21
Just a photo-geek joke. Saw the street sign. Couldn't resist.
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03.20
Deb and Angelissa talking at the Dam while I experiment with the geometry of the place.
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03.19
Taken last week in the late morning after a long night of Shakespeare.
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03.18
Oddly, the evil address is that of a vacuum cleaner store next to the porn shop. You can take your chances, but I'm not buying a vacuum from a store with 666 on the door. No way.
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03.17
(no explanation given)
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03.16
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03.15
As I approached the truck to take this photograph, the owner came out and gave me a suspicious glare.
"Do you mind me photographing your flag sticker?" I asked.
"I guess not." he said. So I took one and said to him:
"An apt statement. I would have to say that over the past four years my love for America has become fear."
"The ones that should be afraid are them damn Arabs. "He pronounced it ayy-rabs.
"No," I responded. "We have plenty to fear too. It was Jefferson who said 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.'" With that I thanked him and left before he could realize how badly he wanted to kick my ass.
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03.14
Took this shot immediately after awakening one morning from a dream where my camera was crushed. Just an expression of relief that it was only a dream.
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03.13
Change comes fast in spring. One change upon another.
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03.12
The photo was taken from inside the bar at Luce last weekend and the mp3 is another from Shippie's basement party. The infamous "poopie pipe" mentioned after the song was a drippy (eek!) toilet main covered in a towel (seen in the upper right corner of this shot of The Keep Aways from the same show. As for "hippy meetings," well... um... I wouldn't know anything about that. Enjoy:
Live song: Written on the Wall (6.3mb mp3)
Bonus:
Back in January I posted a short-but-enormous movie of the Turtles rehearsing Widespread Panic's Ain't Life Grand in Banjo Dave's living room. Since then, my brother Casey helped me reduce the size of my video clips without dropping the audio. This was tricky as my digicam creates these crappy muxed MPEG1 files. So what was once 45mb is now only 12mb. I really like this clip because Banjo Dave rarely sings onstage. He has an excellent voice:
High Quality: Ain't Life Grand (12.4mb qt mov)
Low Quality: Ain't Life Grand (1.7mb qt mov)
Please right-click and download the movie to your hard drive instead of streaming it into your browser. This is much easier on the server. Thanks.
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03.11
Another from the backstage area at The Red Carpet. Given what she's up to, the girl in the foreground probably feels as trippy as she looks. The Trampled by Turtles mp3 today is actually from Blake Shippie's basement party back in January. Blake waxes hillarious in the chatter that follows the song:
Nirvana Cover: Something in the Way (5.6mb mp3)
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03.10
A shot taken last month at the Taproom in Duluth during a Trampled by Turtles show (yes, it's Turtlehead week here). Included today is a video clip from that show of Dyin. An mp3 of the studio version of this song was posted earlier this week. Do not be alarmed when the video gets cut off seconds before the actual end of the song. My camera had exhausted it's memory. Enjoy:
High Quality: Dyin (live) (34mb qt mov)
Low Quality: Dyin (live) (4.7mb qt mov)
Again, please right-click and download the movie to your hard drive instead of streaming it into your browser. This is much easier on the server. Thanks.
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03.09
Trampled by Turtles warming up backstage at the Red Carpet in St. Cloud, MN back in January. Today's and yesterday's photos were used on the inside of their new album, Blue Sky and the Devil. I've posted its title track today allowing you to sample their slow sweet side. This song also features Mary Laplant on the fiddle.
Sample Track: Blue Sky and the Devil (6.4mb mp3)
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03.08
Trampled by Turtles recorded around the "campfire" for two days at Dirty Old Town studio in Duluth last December. Before they broke "camp" I had them play Dog on a Leash so I could shoot a simple impromtu music video with my digital camera just for the fun of it. Enjoy:
High Quality: Dog on a Leash (22mb qt mov)
Low Quality: Dog on a Leash (2.4mb qt mov)
Please right-click and download the movie to your hard drive instead of streaming it into your browser. This is much easier on the server. Thanks.
Many thanks to my brother Casey, who worked tirelessly to determine how to take the muxed mpeg1 file created by my camera and reduce the size by two thirds without losing the audio (no mean feat). The original was over 60mb.
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03.07
Trampled by Turtles write bluegrass that is profoundly rock-informed, acoustically vibrant and damn tasty. I am honored that they chose one of my photographs for the cover of their latest release Blue Sky and the Devil.
Sample Track: Dyin (5.8mb mp3)
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03.06
Dave Simonett and his fiancé partying in the red glow of the Lucé bar at the CD release party for the new Trampled by Turtles album. Mandolinist Erik Berry smiles from the far right. I took two of these. The other shot is worth a peek.
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03.05
A hard shot to resist given that Angelissa's name shortens to "Angel."
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03.04
Sorry if this photo seems a tad cliché. I signed a lease today and wanted to commemorate it.
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03.03
I did not pose this shot, though I suppose that Angelissa did. However, she never said "take my picture." We were coming in from getting groceries and she just did that.
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03.02
This was an experiment with sunlight in the parking lot of Cub Foods with the girls while Deb was inside getting groceries. The only adjustment made in Photoshop was to horizontally flip Alexandra's photo. Everything else is what came out of the camera.
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03.01
A shot from Dan's wedding reception. Incidentally, nothing is as it seems in this photo. Johnny's not her man, and wee Greta isn't her baby.
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