I'm reminded of beauty, light and in a small way... it allows me to
honor those fallen, from time past that served their country, whomever
they are and wherever they may be.
If you're interested in one of these, they can be found at Thorsen Van Elton
The artists name is Dominic Wilcox
I spent some time on 'Threadless.com' yesterday learning about their community and their site. Turns out that *anyone* can submit ideas for t-shirts and the community votes on the ones they want made.
I (humbly) entered my own selection... see here:
I had fun doing this. It was great. As with all communities, there are the 'hard-core' people that always win... but it would be cool for a newbie like me to get a winning design. 'Hey, I did that'
Way to go buddy!
Lori was smart to get the little dishes... it makes the ice cream taste better.
I love this young lady she is becoming.
On this day in Los Gatos, it was HOT, and her cheeks were red. She had
been chasing her brother around the playground. She stopped and had a
conversation with mom as dad and Tucker threw the frisbee.
After T-man and I spent a few hours at the SB zoo, I put him on my shoulders and we did a power-walk once more through the park... like a review of the things we saw. It's a really small zoo, so it was easy to do. A few times I would ask him to smile and i'd blindly point my camera up, guessing if he was looking at the camera (or not). This was one of those images that turned out just fine...
it was totally cool. Tucker says, "I was happy to feed the giraffe. I
was surprised his tounge was black! I was kinduv cool. I would giraffe
again."
fun times...
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I was going through some pictures today and came across a photograph of a card I had taken.
It was a picture of a dog named Cole.
Cole touched our hearts in 2003. Chloe had just received an operation on her foot. She was in the recovery room after a very hard night of pain management. Her little soul was sad…
Then came Cole, a sweet dog that would visit kids in the hospital. She was amazing. Chloe lit up and I’m certain it helped in her healing process. This posting goes out to Cole, his owners and all of the volunteers that take their time and their compassion to help those in need.
Thank you for helping a little girl with a smile in 2003.
I went to the Photoshop Express Online site today (along with every other person in the world) and did some magic on my photos. Super cool site. Lovely Interface. I was able to bring in my photos from Picasa, Facebook, and Photobucket really quickly.
It's a really nice way to edit a photo from a remote location and save it back out.
Here's my own gallery page they gave me...
Today was a treat, because...
Today I got to spend almost the ENTIRE day with Chloe. It was a rare and wonderful thing. Tucker was home sick with mom, and so we just had an all-day daddy-daughter date. What did we do?
Well, not that much, but we DID spend our time (about 3 hours) on a walk with Heather. She rode her bike and I walked Heather. We talked about school, I told her some Scrat stories, then a few about when I was young.
We laughed about 'Walk much?' when she tripped over some rocks. We seemed to appreciate eachother today.
After that we dropped Heather off at home and we went to lunch. We got her favorite burrito and ate it outside at the Memorial park. She played, waved and went down the slide. We ran some errands for mom at the store and came home.... a beautiful, simple day.
We held hands. Thanks Chloe for being my daughter today.
love, dad.
Get better buddy!
I was invited to Lecture at Westmont College as a guest of the Computer Science department. I gave a lecture on "Mashup Culture" where I explored all kinds of trends, behaviors and observations into Mash-ups.
Prior to the talk I spent about 35 min. shooting the campus, whereby I created a collage for the class, as I demonstrated the new VUVOX Collage tool, which is now in Beta.
This is what I created.
02.01.08 ::: Today I visited Westmont Collage to give a talk about 'Mash-up Culture' -- I walked the campus and shot (and built) this collage for the talk...
I started some of it prior to the talk (about 35 minutes worth of work) then began to finish and author it as a live demo...
It was fun!
We've had fun over the last couple of months walking our new dog, Heather and riding our new scooters. Here's some more images from our adventures:
A collection of walks that we've done over the last couple of months....
A new dog and a new scooter helps move things along...
Tucker has had fun the last couple of months as I’ve introduced him to a few of the Star Wars movies. A day doesn’t go by where he doesn’t want to become a Jedi or pretend that he’s fighting for the freedom of the galaxy in some way.
When we wrestle, he tells me the color of his light saber and proceeds to wrinkle his nose and hold an imaginary saber, all the while making the spark and clashing noises.
All I did was visualize what I could only imagine was going on inside his little head. Way to go Tuck man! Love my son…
This weekend we re-arranged the kids room... taking it from a bunk-bed to two individual beds. Toy consolidation was a must...
Last night at the dinner table, the kids had an imaginary exploration at the dinner table.
They each explained what they would want to design if they were in charge of a BRAND new Disney ride at Disneyland. It was fun to hear their ideas…
Tucker: His idea included a Star Wars ride where he could meet all of the characters, have dinner with them and ride in a space ship.
Chloe: Chloe’s elaborate idea involved riding real live horses and meeting all of the princesses, including princess Amidala (new).
Daddy: I wanted a ride based on the Ratatouille Movie, where you could explore
The next time we’re in
Sometimes the light seeks you out. I looked over and knew the light would be nice along the wall. This time Chloe was generous. she said 'sure dad, I'll take some pictures for you' -- and then Tucker joineed 
her.
The most remarkable thing about light is that when you see it... you know that the picture is going to be good, even before you take it.
this one was my favorite...
some of her favorites?
- the time Scrat went to New York City
- The time when Scrat got married
- the time when scrat was a secret agent (and kept humming the MIP soundtrack)
... just to name a few.
On this day, I handed over the camera to my daugher, Chloe.
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She did a great job, aligning the shot and asking me to smile.
It was fun for me to get back to the computer and see the shot she had composed...
I found this mosaic app on facebook. I like creating new galleries of photo mosaics as interesting new visuals... Here is a link to my mosaic gallery on facebook
thank you, nextsport.com
thank you Chloe. dad loves you.
Here's a painting that I've always liked. It's about the irony of having 'fun' taken away by someone... and for a reason that is sometime... unknown. I painted this originally in 2001 and I've returned to the idea in 2003 when I painted this for a show in Seattle.
more paintings are located on Dane's portfolio website
:: Shooting
