Fantasy Art

"Magnetic Storm" Roger Dean and Martyn Dean. Crappy photo due to the flash, but it is interesting the effect the flash has on the artwork itself. One could muse that the existence or absence of the flash 'creates' art as in a different perspective of the same subject.

Same shot without the flash. Click on both pics to see the differences.
"The Studi"
I took all of these photos in my 'cave' at night, so the lighting was terrible and the flash kept insisting on being a part of the process. With the flash turned off the result is a less than defined image. I had to run all of these through image software to make them as presentable as they are now. I had a long day and this was last thing to do on the list.

This book is where most of the art that follows came from.
"The Flights of Icarus"

Reminds me of a girl I used to date...

I wanted to live next to this guy. How cool would that be?

This one always made me think of certain Black Sabbath tune.

This one reminds me of star wars.

This is just a bunch of crabs. ,

Party Time

In the beginning, there were 250 lbs. of crawfish.

The kids were very interested in 'helping' me 'clean' them for the boil.

Cleaned and ready.

Glad I'm not a crawfish.

We managed to get a decent sized batch. Most of the bags were about 18 - 20 per pound with maybe 20 dead per bag. Not too bad really.

Yummy and gone.

How many can you eat? We got plenty.

Another pile ready to boil.

Oh man. Gimme some rice, couple jalapenos, piece of cornbread...

We're lucky people.

Throw in some corn after you get the crawfish out. The water is tasty and ready to flavor the corn.

This went on for some time.

If you've never been to a crawfish boil, I highly recommend it. ,

A New Day in America

Iraq - Six Years Later

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Georgetown, Guyana

These are a few photos I took the first week in Guyana. Georgetown is a very colorful and vibrant city. I really enjoyed our time there before we headed off to the interior. ,

Surama Village, Guyana

Since the last post: lost my ass selling my house which was supposed to fund my education, went to South America for an anthropology course which has turned out to be my last class for a year due to losing my ass, working a job full time now to get the money to finish my time at UVA, and gained 12 pounds.

The top photo is a view of the rainforest from Surama Village and the bottom photo is the benab where I and two other researchers 'lived' for five and a half weeks. That hammock is where I slept for all but two or three nights. There's another benab just to the left of this one where the other four researchers lived.

Lots to write about and lots of pictures to show regarding this trip to Surama. I'll try to "update my shiz" on a more consistent basis. ,

J'ai fini mes examens.

Thai peppers. ,,,,,

Let's move to peace. ,