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My sister got married a couple of weeks ago. It was a great celebration and an amazing time with family. To really get a feel for the type of exceptional time we had you might want to take a moment to study this photo of my aunt and uncle killing/owning the dance floor. This is how my family gets down. Full commitment.

I am starting to see some uncanny shared appearances with myself and my son in some recent pictures. What can I say the little guy has my genes. It it is so bizarre that a mix of nature and nuture create these facial resemblances. We are born and if we wish and are blessed we create a lineage through new humans. I get this sense that I am apart of an amazing cycle of existence in this way.

The challenges as I see it as time spends itself are to impart behavior, values, and a sense of action in life that is true and significant. Obviously you can't be something you are not, but children cause a deep interior challenge to be engaging, loving, and full of forgiveness. Those things though seemingly full of ambiguousness become concrete when I step in my house from a long day of whatever to be met by a little human saying "hi, hi" who hopes to share a simple moment of aliveness.

Ok. I am a music snob. I want to be first on the block and I want discern quality and beauty before someone tells me what quality and beauty are. That said, when I went to see Sufjan Stevens perform Monday at the Paramount. I wanted to be on time. Why? I wanted to see My Brightest Diamond. Since Shara Worden's rock project was released this late summer I have been like a cheap addict listening to the full album stream from Asthmatic Kitty's website repeatedly I admit. The penchant I have for emotion and truth are met in this fine spread of sound. So I wanted to be on time because I knew after seeing Sufjan a perform a few times before this that the experience would be like watching tv at a close friend's house....but oh the newness of music performed that is under your skin. That is tasty. That kind of experience is more comparable to say... going to concert of someone you want to see perform! Also the excitement was kicking because a rock show in a theatre means everyone has to sit down and listen to all music played...little talking and much listening. It was wonderful...I hung on each note allowing this incredible voice wash over me. Nothing like letting gorgeous music press into you like a brisk, warm spring wind.

Blown away this week by photographer Thomas Allen's work. Simple, minimal, but incredible rich in the meta-narrative of story and media intake.

Kanye West is under my skin. I was home for my sister Kaebra's wedding and while using her car I popped in her copy of Late Registration and I was in from the first hook. Check out the opening track heard em say.

The production is incredible and his old school 'you can hear what I say and it means something' approach causes some laugh out loud moments and some serious head nods.

Great video work by Karolina Sobecka. Imprint and Wildlife are radically different yet hit a deep chord.

I realized after viewing the work that she is a TA for my video course...

A chunck of my MFA education at UW will involve studying in the DXARTS dept. I will be getting to study experimental video with Shawn Brixey who will indeed give me a perspective into motion imagery which will be a unique to my previous video training especially considering his edge as scientist/artist which will be a great challenge to my poetic language based approach to artmaking. We are expected to keep an electronic journal for our projects in the course. Today mine is called principle action. Take a look if you are interested.