Chicago Tap Theatre – Tapish – Playing Tonight
Tap!(ish), playing tonight only at the Athenaeum Theatre 2936 N. Southport, Chicago. Come see it.
Tap!(ish) - Perception choreographed by Kendra Jorstad and Rich Ashworth - Laura Chiuve pictured dancer
Mad Mud Run – Las Vegas
The last section, the mud section, of the Mad Mud Run in the Providence neighborhood of Las Vegas, NV from May 21st, 2011. The total run was 4.6 miles capped off with about 20 yards of crawling though mud with crowds cheering.
Basic idea behind this event is run a long way, deal with obstacles, and finish off by crawling in the mud. There are more photos here of the Mad Mud Run, in a slide show format, if you want to see them all now, otherwise they’ll appear over time.
Paria River Narrows
Paria River narrows in Utah from the White House Trail Head in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. And just to be clear, it goes like this for miles and miles.
My New Favorite Sign
Sign at the trailhead at White House for the Paria River Canyon and narrows in Utah in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Sloan Canyon Petroglyph
A petroglyph in Sloan Canyon in the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area which is part of the North McCullough Wilderness area outside Las Vegas, NV
Sloan Canyon Petroglyphs
Petroglyphs in Sloan Canyon in the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area which is part of the North McCullough Wilderness area outside Las Vegas, NV
Red Cross in Beaver Dam, AZ
Tom Delux gets water from the Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle. Tom is visiting his mother who leaves in Beaver Dam and there are four disabled people in the home he was getting water for.
iPhone Photo Week
Flowers in a beam of light near sun down on Mt. Charleston outside of Las Vegas, NV. This image is part of a quick series done entirely on a iPhone.
My iPhone recently died. It developed a technological version of schizophrenia . I had to let it pass into the electronic afterlife. It was a good phone and treated me well.
So I quickly bought myself an iPhone 4.
Among it’s many other cool and wonderful traits is that the camera is better. I’ve spent the last few days shooting daily life stuff with it, and I rather like it. It’s been a lot of fun.
The images I’m going to post this Monday through Friday are all taken in 24 hours or so with my new iPhone, and all processing was done in phone. I used a combination of PS Express (Phone Photoshop), CrossProcess and ShakeItPhoto for processing.
Enjoy.
Char McAnany
Char McAnany at her son's wedding
And her charming, caring, very similar yet very different son, Damien.
The Wedding of Julianne Ewry & Damien McAnany
Traditional dance celebrating the married couple
This series of images is from the wedding of my friends Julianne Ewry & Damien McAnany. Damien is one of my oldest friends, and an inspiring human being, living his life in ways that fulfill him, trying to help and educate others, and giving through and through. Julianne I know much less well, (I live quite a distance from them) but she is nothing if not full of life and interesting ideas. I wish them both the best.
While I was there as a guest, and danced whenever we could of course, I also celebrated the way I love to celebrate, and that was through making images.
The wedding was held in a Redwood forest outside Sebastopol, CA., and incorporated ceremonies from around the world and from a variety of spiritual beliefs.
And for the friends and family, I’ll be emailing Damien and Julianne once they get back from their honeymoon with the link for all the photos which I’m sure they’ll forward around.
Cairn
The Cairn, while serving a wide variety of purposes throughout the world, and possibly here in Nevada also, for what I’m doing, is usually serving one very useful purpose. For me it’s marking the trail.
Some places, like say the wood hillside of mountain, not such a big deal, pretty, but not so necessary. Out in the open desert though they can be very useful to let you know you’re going the right direction. Or when walking up a wash cairns will be placed to let you know you should still be in the wash, though it’s good to look around when you come to one because they can also mark where the trail exits the wash.
Personally, big fan of the simple solution to a simple problem. Also gotta give props for the feats of balance people occasionally pull off with them.
Western Tent Caterpillars
So these are Western Tent Caterpillars. For me, they’re both really cool, and really gross.
So we can see the five caterpillars on the outside of the tent. That’s what lives inside the tent. The tent is stuffed with them, just stuffed (look at the image below.)
The caterpillars apparently do this to stay warm and digest food. The Great Wiki, of course, has an entry about tent caterpillars as a whole here.
Each black line with blue on the side is a western tent caterpillar. The whole tent was stuffed like this.
