"Gotta Get...Back To The Garden"

Outside on this bright and comparatively cool summer day in the garden. Sorry for no posts for two or so weeks. I have been busy with a few projects, and procrastinating on even more.

As I continue with a decorative plantation shutter project in the backyard, I paused to watch a bumblebee doing its thing on a flower...mere inches from my eyes. It reminded me of a video I made a few years back for my wife, Angela. She was away on business and a bit sad that she wasn't home with her 18 month old baby, her garden (and me!) So I shot and edited this little ditty one morning and posted it on the web.

Some summer video memories from four years ago:
(though it looks like it could have been shot yesterday!)

Happy Bloomsday, One & All!

My first post of the summer. And unlike Joyce's epic tome Ulysses, I'll keep this very brief.

This seasonal blog will chronicle, for what it's worth, a number of projects I intend to work on this summer for a variety of purposes. Some of the work will be for my media arts and video production classes. Some of projects will be for further learning on my part. And still others will be just for the fun of it...like photoshopping my mug (above)! Actually, this before and after sequence is an activity under development for next year's media arts class. Students will learn basic Photoshop techniques as part of a marking period length study of portraiture creation. And no, the students won't be subjected to working with my face as inspiration for their art. They will have fun "re-imagining" their own likenesses (though I'm sure some would love to get a crack at digitally manipulating my countenance!)

That's all I got for now. Hey it's summer, remember?! I was going to head downtown to my first ever Bloomsday reading of Ulysses outside the Rosenbach Museum today, but the event is now moved inside at a nearby church. Not the same experience as hanging outside on Delancey Place in Center City. Oh well...next year perhaps.

-Marty