05 Feb Steal This Song – The Video
Now that I had music and lyrics for my new tune “Steal This Song”, I decided that I would try and make an amateur music video for it. I was in Durango, CO for a couple of performances, so I took a pen, paper...
Off The Kitchen
Come see what's cooking!
03 Feb Steal This Song – The Music
If you're following along with these last couple of posts, in 2013, I undertook to write a road song during a tour of the Midwest. You can see the inspiration for the song in the Steal This Song - Redux post and how that inspiration turned into...
01 Feb Steal This Song – The Lyrics
In the summer 2013, I took on the challenge of writing a road song. During a tour out to Michigan, I gathered inspiration from things I overheard and saw. Check out my previous post Steal This Song - Redux to see a list...
29 Jan Steal This Song – Redux
What goes around, comes around...
27 Jan Bookulele
"Bookulele" is finally in the dictionary ...
25 Jan Art in Nature – Blinksy
So I'm sure you've heard of Banksy, the anonymous street artist who has created incredible, socially conscious works in England and all over the world, but do you know who Blinksy is? Blinksy is what I call Banksy's rural counterpart. She's an artist who creates pieces in...
19 Jan Don’t Judge a Book Without Its Cover
As I mentioned in my previous post, my daughter is making a ukulele out of a book for her personal project at school. In order to do this, she bought a very old dictionary (it doesn’t even include the word “selfie”) and removed all the...
15 Jan Passing on the Crazy
I think it's becoming obvious that I have passed on some of my propensity for hare-brained ideas to my children ...
13 Jan Drawing Challenge Day 5: Jumping Jack
Well, the final challenge in the 5 Day Drawing Challenge was to create a "Jumping Jack". This was really more of a craft project, but still fun and rewarding. I struggled a bit trying to think of a good idea. I thought about making one that...
11 Jan Drawing Challenge Day 4: Found Object
Well, I found an object alright! If you're following along, I've been participating in a 5 Day Drawing Challenge. So far I've drawn a distorted human form, drawn on a rock and drawn a mythical creature. The fourth challenge was to incorporate a found object...