The Seniorita, a Ghost Ship and a Flight of Dreams

Well, life and art go on for Martha and I. While she has been busy with grand kids and all the joys that go with spending the summer being grandma Nana, I have been busily continuing my photo and video project of documenting the transformation of the Pybus Steel Plant into the trendy market it will be by next spring.

So, each day I travel over to Wenatchee, takes some photos and video of the guys doing the work there and do a ride by on my bicycle to take video on the move that will eventually be spliced together to create a moving video version of a time laps photography. I’ve gotten a lot of great photos and video both inside and out of this whole transformation thing going on over there.

In a related effort, I have also begun putting together the basis of an historical video using old photos from the late 19^th century and early 20^th century as well as some mid-century photos and my own photos relevant to telling the historical story of the Pybus building and it’s founder E. T Pybus.  For this I have written my own narrative and recorded a preliminary voice over for the visual story. Further work will entail getting more and better historical photos and getting the right sound effects and music to help carry forward the story.

Other photo activity on my part has included taking some really colorful sunsets photos and using my new camera to take pictures of the craters on the moon. I’m putting some of those moon photos together with some music created by my son Austin AKA Cosmic Atlas. That’s a fun bit. We’ll see how it turns out.

This Monday evening I attended a meeting of various local artists and art advocates at the Pybus building. There we all put our collective heads together to see what if any art or craft venue could be put in place there. A lot of interesting ideas were floated about. We’ll see if anything comes of that.

Related to the Pybus project, I did publish the first short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5cWW0dKXWc&feature=plcp   of the work being done at the Pybus building and so far it has become pretty popular pretty fast. My son Austin has informed me that it has taken on a bit of a Twitter life as well. Hey, that can’t hurt.

Last night, I took an excursion out to Soap Lake, where I visited with Gavin Seim the photo pictorialist. He really is an awesome photographer. After, visiting with Gavin at his studio an learning about the various projects he has going, I went on down the road to the 3^rd Wednesday presentation put on by the Soap Lake Art Guild. I was interested to see and hear the presentation there by a young computer graphic artist, who is herself the daughter of the well known landscape painter Don Nutt. I write more about my visit with Gavin and the graphic art presentation in my next blog for Arts in the Valley and Beyond.

On the way back from Soap lake I couldn’t help but stop and take some photos of the Ghost Ship along the highway and try to get some good landscape and sunset shots as the smoke in the air was really creating some impressive sunset color.

This morning, Martha called from Texas first to tell me that she received and email that one of her paintings the ‘Seniorita’ has sold at Two Rivers Gallery and that I am to take something down to replace it when I go to gallery sit this morning. I’m going to miss that piece, but it’s good that it is going to a good home to live. so I am taking her Flight of Dreams painting down to the gallery later.

Well, now it’s time to get over to Wenatchee to do my photo/video work before I ride the loop trail with the ‘B’ Team and docent at the gallery. There I should be able to finish putting photos to this blog and publish it later today.

Bye for now,  the Artful Blogger…. Hmmm, I like that. Perhaps that will be my new moniker.

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