I was getting rid of an old single drawer filing cabinet and had to turn it on its end to lift it. Something inside shifted. I thought it was empty, but when I looked there were several papers and a small baggie with some slides. One of the slides is the pastel of my old …
Category Archives: Old stuff
latin banquet
After my mother died, my brother and I had to find time to clean out the house we grew up in- an old three story, full-basement brick almost victorian home in Pottstown. Over that spring and summer we’d each take several days off to drive back to Pottstown hoping to clear out the junk. Instead, …
earth day, 1970
I ran this first in my Penn State blog. Is this the fifty-fifth anniversary? Maybe I should just bring it forward every year? Anyway, I thought it deserved a retread. A student committee asked if I’d host the art room discussions about ecology. I was in the room practically all day anyway; it was my …
End of Second Life Recap
This is the first of two posts about the online 3D virtual world known as Second Life. It’s a re-posting of a Penn State blog post from 2010 I’d like to try to recap several years in Second Life. Brett asked how educators were using our environment, and not being an educator I thought I’d …
old cover experiment
This, along with several sheets of vellum showing different arrangements, just tumbled out of a pile of old papers. After 30 years, I had forgotten all about it. Back before I started at the university, I’d left the restaurant to try to make it as a commercial artist. I bought a list of different businesses …
Old slides
I came across a sheet of old slides, mostly of much older pastels. I taped them to a window and photographed them. The onion and tomato image was recovered from my parent’s house after my mom died; drawn in 1976. Over the winter it’s easy to plop something from the fridge onto my drawing table …
poster fair
In the early 2000s I did a yearly workshop on preparing graduate and undergraduate poster fair posters. I did them for over five years and eventually I reached a point where I couldn’t find the time. And I thought a move to digital presentations was inevitable. I kept the material in my Penn State web …
Laurie’s photo
When Laurie posted the image on Facebook, I was caught completely by surprise. My eyes filled with tears and I stopped breathing. I had no pictures. My mother had saved a few, but by the time my brother and I cleaned the house after mom passed, the pictures were gone. Mom loved Celeste, too. A …
first birthday picture
I’ve done over 30 birthday cards for my daughter. I recently found this- the first picture I did for her birthday when, I think, she was three. It wasn’t a card, though; it was a framed pastel. The actual card had only one lizard on it and a poem/riddle that spelled out her name. The …
The Vic
I was talking with an old friend over the holiday. We briefly compared notes about Thanksgiving at the Victorian Manor. Her restaurant. She’d done a web search for Maurice, the chef, and turned up this essay from my very old (early 2006) web space: At one time, this link loaded the Victorian Manor’s Web page. …