(Untitled)- November 19, 2005 NEW BOOK, CAPTIVATING IDEA: THE INVENTED CAMERA, published by Freedom Voices, San Francisco, 96 pages, color and bw hardbound Recycled objects transformed into working cameras, each paired with its symbiotic photograph. A battered suitcase photographs an old motel. A gas can peers up at abandoned filling station pumps. A shinola tin observes its polished boot. A VW van snares roadside attractions. This collection documents 25 years of pinhole and simple-lens tinkering and...http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/18.html#a1515 (Untitled)- November 18, 2005 SCIENCE NOTES: Loss of Fear Factor Makes Timid Mouse Bold Researchers have identified a fear factor radical a protein the brain uses to generate one of the most powerful emotions in humans and animals. The molecule is essential for triggering both the innate fears that animals are born with radical such as the shadow of an approaching predator radical as well as fears that arise later in life due to individual experiences. Eliminating the gene that encodes this factor makes a fearful mouse...http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/18.html#a1514 (Untitled)- November 18, 2005 R.I.P. Vine Deloria. I have only just learned of this. Again, peace to you.http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/17.html#a1513 (Untitled)- November 17, 2005 Post-opening depression. But not really. Just a great descending ahhhhhhh..., and a slowness, wandering quietly around the quiet shop, straightening, dusting, sitting at the desk, still, gazing out the windows, watching frost melt back off Modoc Street as the day brightens. Another clear warm one. I'll continue with stencil-cutting today. Jesse will drive in soon, I hope, and spend some time here before leaving for Chico to return the borrowed car. It has been such a beautiful time with my...http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/17.html#a1512 (Untitled)- November 17, 2005 SON JESSE ON OPENING DAY... Taking time off from his job pricing books in a used book store to come here and price books in a used book store. Door logo detail:http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/17.html#a1511 (Untitled)- November 16, 2005 OK, folks. How weird is this: my son Jesse actually did come up to visit&151;yesterday evening&151;and as I opened up the shop this morning he took a stroll down Main Street. And bumped into some folks he thought were a couple of out-of-town yuppie tourists with cameras. And he very considerately directed them across the way to the grand opening of Golden Egg Books. And so they stopped in. And they were reporters for the Los Angeles Times, up here for a story about Modoc County (why do people...http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/16.html#a1510 (Untitled)- November 16, 2005 ON THE WAY HOME, FROST MOON 2005http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/16.html#a1509 (Untitled)- November 15, 2005 This is the third time I've restarted the laptop tonight. I couldn't sleep last night either. It's the double-whammy: (1) the midday coffee to make up for sleep missed the night before, and (2) I ran out of tofu several days ago&151;my own version of HRT. And now triple-whammy: I'm not close to being ready for the Big Day. I ought not to have lingered abed this morning, and yet I do not regret having done so. I could not have known I would spend all my shop time today greeting...http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/15.html#a1508 (Untitled)- November 14, 2005 TIME OUT The window's open a crack. I hear magpies complaining to each other. Maybe about the weather. We phoned it in this morning. We aren't budging for a while. It's Monday. The shop is closed today, anyway. We'll go in at noon. You can do all the painting you need to do in four hours. This feels good, lingering with creatures, even the everpresent housefly. The world around us is sodden and dead. Leaden sky. PJ stopped in with her morning coffee around 8:30. I sat in my pajamas,...http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/14.html#a1507 (Untitled)- November 14, 2005 NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH Probably not the best bedtime reading. But I was looking through the Fall 2005 Tricycle magazine and found an article on these exhibits&151;http:www.bodyworlds.com and http:www.theuniversewithin.org. I am a little shaken, not stirred. I will have to think this over. What do you thinkhttp://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2005/11/14.html#a1506 |