loosening screws

As interesting as it was to buy a second hand digital camera off eBay and shoot a few hundred pictures with it before it went absolutely awry, it was equally as fun to remove 30 or so tiny screws from the thing and sniff at and otherwise examine the remaining parts. what a clunker, but lovely my canon powershot with the 2.1 megapixel and 32 mb memory card, and you might think it descended from the sea of europa if you got a close look at one of like 100 tiny parts. shiny copper tiny weaving bits coated in plastic. sharp soldered wires on tiny green boards with alien switches and silkscreened writing. the mad thing sparked at me a few times as i discovered several batteries located within, included one mega so flash battery that made smoke fly! how fun. now all the pieces fit nicely into a large yogurt cup on my bookshelf, as I hunt for its progeny behind glass cases, at the expense of precious time and of course, funds.

I opened my email after a few days of non-email-checking and was happy to see emails from friends and family i don't communicate with so frequently. i'm definitely feeling less and less so enthused with phones each day, and the obligation of having to pick them up when they ring, well that's almost too much to ask. my first impression of the blog reaction is like this -> one either has no idea what it is (like me) or they are savvy and generous with other blog places they've gone and seen. to get this out objectively, i have no idea and/or expectation of what this is going to taste like in the near or far future. i do want, however, to openly invite contributions from anyone who finds this blog interesting in any way (well, i may have just eliminated everyone!).

Lastly, per what might constitute as a request, i would like to post some more art on occasion up here, and may actually write a few words about it, provided i can get remotely proficient at putting images up to a URL and crash land them on this page. i plan on having a booth at the semi-obscure but so on Cherrywood Art Fair this solstice season - www.cherrywoodartfair.org chill, with food, live music, ALL ORIGINAL ARTS AND CRAFTS, and it's in an elementary school in east austin (how great is that!). i received amazing feedback from local residents, and would not pass up the opportunity to participate again this year. i'll end there, skaters.