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Shardfest!
August 09, 2010 - Our friends the Perkinses, who hosted a buncha artists over the Sutton's Bay Art Fair weekend (and Bill helps run the fair, too), have this house in town made out of recycled ingredients. Their driveway has two stark retaining walls. Their ceramic artist pals decided this year to take things into their own hands and spruce up the ... > Read
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Martha's Show Booth
August 08, 2010 - Have I shown you a pic yet of M's art fair booth? Here's what we've set up 7 times this summer... > Read
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Dwellable...
August 08, 2010 - This house along Co Rd 204 north of Leland (I think) has to have made it into "Dwell," doncha think?
I could party there. > Read
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Northport Airport -- home sweet home?
August 08, 2010 - Martha wants to live at the Northport Airport. > Read
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Dave Kober: Master Woodcarver of Michigan
August 04, 2010 - On the drive south of Cadillac on M-115 we stopped by a road garage-shop that caught my eye.
The kids groaned and stayed in the minivan awhile but I soon talked them into checking out the colorful folk artist whose work was inside the building. (Some kids are so conservative, eh? They stay within their comfort zones. It's not l... > Read
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Harbor Sights & Farther North
August 04, 2010 - Here are a couple points of interest regarding Harbor Springs and Pellston, with a sprinkling of Cross Village on the side (when I can get more pics).
It's worth appreciating and looking into some of the key history of Harbor Springs at the Andrew Blackbird Museum.
Blackbird was an Indian chief in the region and was the firs... > Read
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Visit to Gwen Frostic Prints
August 03, 2010 - It's been a few years since I visited Gwen Frostic's print shop in Benzonia. She has since died and her shop has gone thru many hands and many tough times but it's back open again and in action just like the last time I saw it. No changes that I can see. Good.
Martha has visited more regularly. We love her stuff.
http://www... > Read
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"Do What Ya Can with What Ya Got" vs. "All Work and No Play"
June 10, 2010 - What can ya do with all these big long daylight hours? I'll tell ya! You can keep going and going. Pile it on! ...Even during the work week!
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I don't want to jinx anything, but I had to laugh at an email I got today. And I have to share it with you.
To set the stage, I haven't gone on a Fun Ride yet this season.... > Read
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Michigan's Burning Man: June 24-27
May 28, 2010 - Didja hear there's going to be a Burning Man event in Michigan this June. I guess it's our first.
Burning Man is a big "participation art festival" that's held in the Nevada desert. Thousands attend and make stuff, share it, and party.
Maybe it's a bit like a Rainbow Gathering only for art.
I haven't attended, but it seems... > Read
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Robert Frost reading "Birches"
February 23, 2010 - Here's a great poem for the winter or icy time of year.
And here's a link to the master himself reading his poem. There are several versions out there, some by other readers, one where Frost might be older and sloppier, but this one is the best: http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/012294_harp_ITH.html
This good reading ... > Read
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All I ask for is a little weather awareness...
January 29, 2010 - I don't care what people do, only that they aren't ignorant about obvious things.
Like Michiganders who say they don't like the winter because it's cold.
Ugh!
Nobody likes the cold. Nobody can stand the cold. Cold kills. If you're cold you eventually die. That's why anyone who grows up around here, in reality (rather th... > Read
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Nizzbone's Railroad Spikes and Broken Bones Artwork
January 27, 2010 - Martha ran into the artwork of a nice guy named Nizzbone at this season's underground Shadow Art Fair in Ypsilanti, MI.
He does a cosmic play off of the things of the hobo world: roadkill, scrap metal, homemade tattoos...
He has an Etsy shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/nizzbone ... but right now he looks to be sold out.... > Read
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The Shadow Art Fair: Ypsi's Alternative to the Hype
January 27, 2010 - Ann Arbor has a huge monster sized Art Fair every summer. It's more like several art fairs in one. I remember a protest one year: "It's not art and it's not fair."
Ypsilanti is a town next door that is still like AA used to be. Funky and affordable.
Nowadays in early December they hold a counter-art fair in a local brewpub... > Read
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The Films of Bill Mason: online, free
January 26, 2010 - Bill Mason was a stalwart Canadian filmmaker who featured heritage-baed canoeing in many of his films. His other films were mostly about nature in one way or another. He was also a painter. And a canoeing educator and writer. He had great acclaim for his work.
I sell DVDs of his classic movie, "Waterwalker," which has a sound... > Read
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Native American Subsistence: food for thought
January 26, 2010 - As I've posted and hinted here many times, NA subsistence practices and theory are a fascinating topic to me.
Here's a rare link to an NA report on the topic. This has been a subject cloaked in secrecy and contentiousness.
I tend to take a bit of a postmodern anthropology angle about it.
Here's how the report starts:
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