zendergarden

gouache on paper

2011-04-01T23:51:00.000-07:00

quick painting on paper.

the pedal mower

2008-09-24T15:27:00.000-07:00

It was fun to throw the two together.
Rusty reel mower with old Sears three speed.

painting

2008-05-29T11:14:00.000-07:00

acrylic on 5"x7" canvas

india traffic weaving

2007-07-31T00:30:00.000-07:00

Now where is that trail?

2007-03-26T10:24:00.000-07:00

prismacolor markers

2007-02-24T23:40:00.000-08:00

pillar detail: ajanta caves

2006-12-05T21:59:00.000-08:00

Greetings from Maharashtra

2006-10-27T08:51:00.000-07:00

Bodhisatvas at Ajanta Caves.

2006-07-10T13:08:00.000-07:00

Buhl Skatepark, in Buhl Idaho

2006-07-10T11:32:00.000-07:00

mountain vimana

2006-06-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

pencil then some more digital pencil

Factory

2006-02-22T10:26:00.000-08:00

photoshop

Snow on Pine Branches

2006-01-30T11:26:00.000-08:00

Black pencil.

Drawing

2005-12-14T07:08:00.000-08:00

Mountains.

Snow That Melts Quickly

2005-12-09T11:14:00.000-08:00

It is gone within days.

Landscape

2005-12-01T11:31:00.000-08:00

A quick sketch in photoshop of one of my favorite places in the Idaho desert.

Happy Tuesday!

2005-11-01T14:50:00.000-08:00

A quick landscape.

The Green Spot and the Water Bill

2005-09-26T17:44:00.000-07:00

After watching the lawn dry out this summer and a snakey green patch grow from the hydrant to the house I finally realized that the high waterbill and the evergreen patch could only mean one thing. A leak in the water line!!!

After a soggy dig at the lushest green spot the leak was located. A previous repair job in evidence with pin sized holes spraying out into a gurgling puddle. I shut off the main and replaced the section with some galvanized pipe, then later replaced the galvanized with some cpvc. Now that spot will dry out like the rest of the lawn. All the easier to thatch and re-seed and start watering from the top next summer.

om

2005-09-21T11:29:00.000-07:00

swaha

This blog.....

2005-09-16T13:23:00.000-07:00

can now be found through a google search.

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Looks like they put a search window up on the
dashboard too.

ufo freeway?

2005-08-27T14:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.komotv.com/stories/38802.htm

Local Seattle news organ komo has a story
about a possible ufo freeway over the earth
with constant alien traffic nightly.

Misty Fjords

2005-08-18T20:05:00.000-07:00

Here is a shot from the Misty Fjords National Monument
in Southeast Alaska. Three thousand foot cliffs rising
almost vertically from the sea, awesome. I've been back
from Alaska for a week now and have not posted till now.
It has been back to work like mad. More shots to follow.

Freaky Friday

2005-08-05T14:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the graphic image. This scene was right outside
on the corner of the house in Klawock. The boys next door
were soaking the heads of their deer. Supposedly to get the
antlers off easier. But I was suprised to come walking around
the corner and see the submerged staring deer eye looking at
me though blood tinted water. We went for a drive out to sandy
beaches yesterday and saw plenty of living deer on the way back.
I'll be posting some living deer images soon.

Klawock Village in the 20's

2005-08-05T00:54:00.000-07:00

Found this photo of the village of Klawock taken in
the winter of 1927. I'm currently hanging out here
with family on vacation. Enjoying the quite and peace.
Even though at high tide the the salmon are jumping
right outside my window and there is a constant
drumming of raindrops on the roof, all is calm up here
in the northern territory.

Alaska Sunset

2005-08-05T00:38:00.000-07:00

Greetings from Alaska!

2005-07-19T17:59:00.000-07:00

Happy Tuesday Smile

"Who Here is On the Graveyard Shift?"

2005-07-13T00:13:00.000-07:00

2005-07-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

Another Happy Tuesday!

Subterranean Lament

2005-07-09T00:05:00.000-07:00

2005-06-27T18:21:00.000-07:00

Space Station

2005-06-27T16:12:00.000-07:00

fast photoshop scribble

2005-06-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

Old sketch page

Vehicles of the Future

2005-06-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

A spinning rust blade.

The Alien Base

2005-06-24T21:55:00.000-07:00

The alien base was never found.
That does not mean that it does not exist.

2005-06-21T15:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Tuesday!!!

2005-06-17T19:02:00.000-07:00

mooo...

2005-06-14T10:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Tuesday!

2005-06-09T18:03:00.000-07:00

..........

2005-06-07T16:16:00.000-07:00

mmmm....coffee

2005-06-07T14:32:00.000-07:00

ninja coffee break

2005-06-03T08:56:00.000-07:00

2005-05-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

Yoda

2005-05-13T15:34:00.000-07:00

Olaf as Stephano

2005-05-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

Hook Handed Man

Concepts

2005-05-13T13:34:00.000-07:00

Olaf's Eye Door

This is a concept I did in Painter in the early
design faze of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
game for the PC.
Mi amigo El Snoozo has been posting some of his
great drawing and concept work for various games.
Check out all of the excellent artwork on his blog.
Suspended Animation.

Alley in Delhi

2005-05-10T18:21:00.000-07:00

Alley wall

This is a photo of an alley wall in Delhi India.

Area 51 turns 50

2005-05-10T18:13:00.000-07:00

And past area 51 employees are talking.

Under the Blackout Pen

2005-05-02T11:20:00.000-07:00

The memoryhole blog has a few links to the Sgrena
report issued by the US Army. Guilaiana Sgrena is the
Italian journalist rescued from kidnappers in Baghdad, Iraq
by Italian military intelligence agent Nicola Calipari who was
killed by US soldiers after the escape. The driver Andrea Carpani
and Sgrena were both injured in the incident.
About a third of the report is classified but thanks to mistakes
in their blackout technique it is possible to see under the pen
and read what was meant to be secret. The report is in PDF
format, by copying and pasting the text you get everything out
from under the blackout pen.

http://www.thememoryblog.org/

Alien base in backyard?

2005-04-15T14:20:00.000-07:00

Lawnsaucer

I was mowing the lawn this weekend and came across
a strange buried tube concealed by the overgrown crabgrass.
Upon further inspection I found that the tube is a 3" pvc pipe
buried vertically in the very corner of the lawn and filled
with sand. Digging the sand out of the top of the tube revealed
a 3" diameter top section with a rubber seal about a foot down
connecting to a 2" diameter piece. Now I am only speculating
at this point but I may have found the decomissioned breathing
tube for an a underground fallout shelter or tunnel complex.
Yet most likely it is something completely mundane and normal.

Slowblog

2005-03-31T07:54:00.000-08:00

.......

More posts coming soon.

2005-03-25T10:20:00.000-08:00

Full Moon

2005-03-23T17:57:00.000-08:00

World Water Day

2005-03-22T18:03:00.000-08:00

March 22, is "World Water Day"

from article-

"Some 2.4 billion people have no toilets or sewers, and 1.1 billion do not even have drinkable water. Every day, an estimated 22,000 people, half of them children, die of diseases borne by polluted water, such as typhoid, cholera, malaria and diarrhoea."

http://guerrillanews.com/headlines/1558/Today_is_World_Water_Day

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=622743

The Smoldering Giant

2005-03-16T10:16:00.000-08:00

St. Helens

webcam: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

Current status is Volcano Advisory (Alert Level 2); aviation color code ORANGE

Saturday Night Fireball

2005-03-14T09:39:00.000-08:00

meteor

We were driving south on I-5 Saturday night and witnessed
a bright white light get brighter and spawn a magnificent
blue-green tail. It looked like it crashed to earth but
scientist guess it went into the Pacific. It looked so close
but people saw it from Portland to the Tri-Cities and
all over Seattle. Wow! I was too stunned to grab my camera.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/meteor_pnw_050314.html

2005-03-10T14:32:00.000-08:00

2005-03-10T14:02:00.000-08:00

Bright Lights

The Original Playa from the Himalayas

2005-03-07T17:27:00.000-08:00

Go Dutt!

It is not rare to be a traveler in India and find yourself in front of a
television screen filled with images of sweaty pro-wrestlers. You may
even find the people around you cheering for their favorites.

From an Indiatimes article on the newest Indian pro-wrestler.
"The Original Playa from the Himalayas"

http://people.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1042912.cms

Mysterious Radio Waves

2005-03-03T09:22:00.000-08:00

radio in space

"A MYSTERY object near the centre of our galaxy is sending out powerful pulses of radio waves. It is unlike any known source."

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524896.300

no-thing

2005-03-01T16:05:00.000-08:00

nothing

in the morning

2005-03-01T07:44:00.000-08:00

two

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because
there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Therefore having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short contrast each other;
High and low rest upon each other;
Voice and sound harmonize each other;
Front and back follow one another.

Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching
no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
Creating, yet not possessing,
Working, yet not talking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.

-LaoTsu
from the Tao Te Ching

anti-gravity research

2005-02-25T09:06:00.000-08:00

If you would like building your own flying saucer check out
the website of JL Naudin; an anti-gravity researcher
from France. Ever feel like making an advanced plasma reactor
out of you microwave oven? Great photos and diagrams.

http://go.to/jlnlabs/

Or the folks at American Antigravity have a nice web resource
with lots of good replications of the lifter experiment.

http://www.americanantigravity.com/index.shtml

disney and the ufo

2005-02-23T16:50:00.000-08:00

alien broadcast company

"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing"
airs Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC

"It was Ward Kimball, who at the July 1979 MUFON UFO
symposium in California, told of his interest in the
subject of UFOs. Then to a stunned audience he related
the story of how the American government had approached
Walt Disney himself prior to Sputnik to make a UFO
documentary to help acclimatize the American population
to the reality of extraterrestrials."
-from Disney, UFOs And Disclosure
By Grant Cameron

http://www.planetarymysteries.com/ufo/disney.html

trout

2005-02-23T10:02:00.000-08:00

buhl skate park

This summer I will have to make a pilgrimage out to Buhl Idaho, my hometown, the trout capital of america, now home to the largest "cradle" in the world. The cradle is a half-sphere of smooth concrete formed inside a marvelous skate park built with support from the city by the guys at dreamlandskateparks.
We would have worshiped at this temple morning and night if it was around when we were kids in Buhl. Instead we were chased from the bank steps, skated the gravelly sidewalks, snuck into the metal grate banks of the simplot wheat bins, surfed the tennis court banks, and took polyurethane to anything we could find.

eye

2005-02-15T09:21:00.000-08:00

watching you

Bloggers beware. If you are a worker your boss might not like what you have to say.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/14/news/economy/blogging/index.htm?cnn=yes

from the article;
"Even though employee blogging ranks behind personal Internet and e-mail use at work, Google and other companies are starting to crack down. "

over the mountain

2005-02-14T09:45:00.000-08:00

tahoma

A photo of mount rainier. The original is color, turned it to grayscale to match the aesthetics of this blog. Ansel Adams has set the standard in black and white wilderness photography we simply have fun in the mountains and snap a few shots hoping to capture the legendary flying saucers hovering above the mountains. The term flying saucer started over this mountain in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold; a pilot flying near mount rainier reported seeing nine bright saucer like objects. Some nice ufo photos here too. http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/photohome.asp
Who knows?

2005-02-11T19:08:00.000-08:00

grey

Happy New Year

2005-02-08T18:30:00.000-08:00

year of the rooster

Tommorow begins the Chinese New Year. Year of the Rooster.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4245597.stm

"The rooster, seen as a blunt but hard-working bird, will bring better times for business, say the soothsayers, but a bumpy ride for politicians in the months to come. "

2005-02-07T18:53:00.000-08:00

mountain

2005-02-07T18:52:00.000-08:00

volcano

state of the union

2005-02-02T15:53:00.000-08:00

goats?

State of the Union? I can't watch it, to much swagger. I'll listen on the radio. Listening for breathing patterns that might indicate the onslaught of WWIII.

inky blog

2005-02-01T11:11:00.000-08:00

hi there

Thanks for all the inspiration phosphorous.
http://www.digital-eel.com/phosphorous/

coffee haiku

2005-01-31T18:52:00.000-08:00

mmmm......coffee

icy winds close door
in the window grey hills froth
taking coffee black

wondertoonel

2005-01-27T23:08:00.000-08:00

detail

Finally got over to the Frye Museum to view the many wondered paintings of Mark Ryden. Amazing paintings with intensely detailed frames. Great show. Viewing these painting I get an odd reminiscent feeling of our collective human past. Like exploring an old attic and finding a plaster faced, stuffed bunny tragically and gleefully staring out from among the antiquities. Mark Ryden has a great ability to gather this storm from the collective unconscious and shape it into a symbolic narrative of the present. I'll go back for another look.

wheel on the lawn

2005-01-26T18:19:00.000-08:00

wheel

centered on the axis
the wheel spins
without a cart
simply standing

from the ground

2005-01-26T11:41:00.000-08:00

ufo '52

This is a photo of a ufo over New Jersey in 1952.

farm in '52

2005-01-26T10:05:00.000-08:00

from the air

Aerial view of the farm in Buhl Idaho shot in 1952.

2005-01-25T16:50:00.000-08:00

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