September 1, 2011
Dandy Treeclimbing, Camp Latgawa
Serena
Session 1 Advisee Group
Christian, Jeannie, Ia'ala, Yared, John
Community Meeting, Session 2
Angry Mob Takes Blake to the Swimming Hole
Christian, Reanna, My Knees
Reanna, Ia'ala
Reanna, Nathen, Camp Myrtlewood
July 15, 2011
Tilke Elkins, my favorite living painter, has her first gallery show and it is great. It’s open for one more week, until July 22, so you can still make it if you live in Oregon. It’s at The Voyeur in Eugene, 547 Blair Boulevard.
I may be biased by my years as the marketing director of her magazine, All Round, by my many more years living with her as she used our house as a gigantic art project, and by my even more years as her friend. (Plus, she did the album art and most of the photography and fliers for my band–here‘s an example).
I do not believe, though, that I am biased because of any of that. I’ve just had the great fortune to have spent so much time drenched in her aesthetic. I am not one of Abraham Maslow’s visual “advanced scout,” of superior sensitivity to color and form. It takes me a while to really appreciate an artist. I’ve had that time with her and it has really paid off. Tilke, on the other hand, is an advanced scout. When I am in doubt about a visual decision, I ask her and can trust to find her correct, eventually.
Photographs cannot do justice to her work–to my eyes, it seems to glow from the inside–but here is a shot of the gallery, to give you an idea:
Art by Tilke Elkins at The Voyeur, July 2011
Also, Tilke is starting an art school in Springfield, Oregon, this fall. She’s offering three classes:
Experimental Drawing Techniques and Materials: Tilke paints with natural pigments, many of which she makes herself, out of rocks and plants. She also paints on found materials.
Art for Synesthetes: This may be the first art class for people with synesthesia, whose senses behave quite differently from other people. (See my post on synesthesia here.) Tilke has synesthesia and it is part of how she works.
On Being a Metamodern Artist: I have no idea what this is but it sounds intriguing. Check the “art school” link above for more information.
July 8, 2011
2011 Cohort (I love these people!) by Hillary Nadeau (I'm at the top right, hatless)
Jeff, Deanna, Christian, (Faculty) In Regalia, photographer unknown
Post-Graduation With Reanna's Family, Dad, & Robert, by Aly
Post-Graduation With Reanna's Family, Aly & Robert, by Steve Lester
Faked Post-Graduation Shot With Pikes, Including Grandpa Bob
Goofy Faked Graduation Photo With Pikes
Sealing the Deal by Dunking in the Willamette, by Steve Lester
June 26, 2011
I love how hot it is in Joshua Tree. I love the feeling of the heat on my skin when I go outside. I love how palpable the sunlight is. In Oregon, sunlight is mostly just something to see by. In Joshua Tree, it penetrates you. You breathe it in. It fills up a vital part of your psyche. I love how quiet it is at night, and dark. I love how it is just slightly cool and perfect for looking at the stars and the Milky Way, which are clear and brilliant.
Today, I loved lazing around in the living room with almost my entire family, talking about food and posture and babies, and listening to the Brandenburg Concertos. And after that, I loved lying in the hammock, drinking a mango lassi, listening to the warm, dry wind move through the elm leaves above me, watching the sky turn colors as the sun set.
JT Sun, Back Porch
Living Room 1
Living Room 2
Ely, Christina, Oliver Lee
Damian, Oliver Lee
Hammock, Mango Lassi, Gilmore
June 24, 2011
I don’t have good language for this experience, but as soon as I held my new nephew I could tell that the existence of this tiny person changes everything, that my knowing him is one of the major before-and-after events of my life.
With Oliver Lee, June 22, 2011
May 11, 2011
This kind of project is right up my alley. I wonder when we’ll have the first time-lapse face project of an entire life?
This is the slickest one I’ve seen:
This one is not as slick but neat because she’s so young and changes so much:
15 years of aging:
I like the way you see this guy’s apartment shifting behind him:
So many hairstyles, and different shirts–if I did this kind of project, the major source of variety would be bedhead.
This one isn’t time-lapse, but it covers 41 years:
May 8, 2011
My Formal Case Presentation is due tomorrow, so I did not have time to write anything in honor of my amazing mom, but here are a couple of my favorite photos of her with me:
Nathen's First Photo: 1971
Nathen, Mom, goats, Jericho Way: 1975?
Happy Mothers Day, Mom! I love you!
December 5, 2010
September 10, 2010
This year, the Oregon sessions of Not Back to School Camp were combined into one session so I got to have the same advisee group for two straight weeks for the first time. It was great. In advisee groups, we meet every day and create a new family. We had twice the amount of time to get to know and support each other this time. This was my first advisee group, for example, that had time for each member to tell a short version of their life’s story.
Here they are:
Nathen's Advisee Group, Oregon 2010
On top of the swings are Jonah, Ahren, and Matteo. Below are Lani, Emily, Catie, me, Tina, Kayla, Elijah, Patrick, Laura, and Duckie.
August 15, 2010
I took these images from Suren Manvelyan on Photography Served, via my friend Aria’s consistently interesting tumbler feed. [Note to Aria: Could you slow down the pace a little, though? I’m busy!] I love them. I’d like to have photographs like this of Reanna’s eyes.
One interesting thing about them is that they are labeled Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike, which apparently means you are free to do anything you want with the images as long as you don’t use them to make money or suggest that Manvelyan endorses you or what you’ve done with them. Pretty cool.
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Nathen's Miraculous Escape 