A Budding Young Expert

Prosper (1st Born Son) and Me.  This photo is strange, and I really like it.  

Note the super contrasty processing as mentioned in a previous post.

Lever the Landing 

Living with light

Up with the family

Laughing all night

How do you sleep now 

With Curtain drawn tight?

How is the Winter

Both cloudy and Wet?

And how is your dreading

Of when you’ll be set

Stick with the faithful 

It’s always best bet

Under the stars

Acting the show

I lose all I want

And forget all I know

I’ll prooceed lonely 

Before I’ll not go.

My second summer in Alaska, and quite a surprise welcome.  The previous summer, these homey little cottages had been perched nicely on their wooden rail foundations.  However, the winter of 06/07 had dumped a record amount of snow (in excess of 30 feet) upon the lovely little warm-springs equipped bay in Baranof Island.  This was the result.    

What can be fair in farewell, dear?

I don’t normally think of Oklahoma in this way anymore (as home), but the other day I had this idea and put it together on my flight from Chicago to Oklahoma City.  How quaint!

London, England.  This is a stern warning, and it presented a situation to me that I never would have even considered, until the City of London’s finest had suggested it to me.  The sign had the same effect upon me as the sound of running water.

Anyway, I’m proud to admit that I am a law abiding citizen, and had no desire to be dealt with by the Police or watched on video surveillance.  It would have seriously depressed my short visit to London.

Prosper, almost 3.

This lighting set-up has given me so much success in the past, I was itching to try it again.

This is the interview segment that occurred during my appearance on the G Spot, back in July of 2004.  I remember feeling amazingly relaxed during this session, and learning a ton.  Music recording was pretty familiar to me, but video production might as well have been Greek. I fondly remember the crew having a blast and being relaxed but methodical in their processes. 

The interview closes out with me performing a rendition of “Happy Together” by the Turtles.

Though Geoffrey is a bit of a loose cannon in this interview, he really does an amazing job of keeping it flowing.  I realize in retrospect that I was a too-cool-for-school 21 year old, and probably proved to be a hard interview what with my “clipped, vague answers” as one recent fan pointed out to me.  I give him lots of credit for making it happen.

“Tears In Heaven” by Eric Clapton.  This is some footage from about 7 years ago, back in the hay day of my guitar playing.  I was in my third year at Texas State University - San Marcos, and was, I’m sure, feeling pretty on top of it.  I’d had a wildly successful Junior Recital, and was spending the summer back in OKC decompressing. 

A friend of mine that I played ice hockey with had become involved with Geoffrey Michele, and the G Spot cable access show in Norman, OK.  They graciously invited me to perform and interview in their studio that summer.  This is one of the pieces that came from it.