The dark side of the moon, eclipsing the sun.


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April 7, 2026 - A variant of the voicemail and emails I sent to my three congressional representatives this morning. Alt text contains the text as well.

Hokay, so…

Working toward starting a print club because I really like the idea of making accessible art, and I’ve been experimenting with some processes and materials toward that end.

This is the first experimental image - I took a photo near Spital, Austria, and after some editing I converted it to halftones, because I’ve long been a sucker for vintage offset printing in comic books (grew up around Archie and Sad Sack comics from the 60’s) and Roy Lichtenstein and screen printing, etc.

When I was a photography student in undergrad I was always drawn to alternative photo processes, especially those where I got to remove intermediate machines/tools, etc., and feel like I was working more directly with the image with my hands.

Here I pushed that a little farther, with a rubber stamp of the halftone dot pattern. Felt like I was pushing a photograph into existence with my bare hands, which was fun.

This print of the Austrian sky I sent to my friend and longtime beloved critic JD in Michigan both because he deserves nice things and as thanks for his insight and opinions as I’ve thought through things around this print series.

When I finally get around to it in the hopefully near future, my first print club image will be related to this image and will be free (as a promotional effort to hopefully land on folks’ radars again with my art). I’ll let y’all know when that happens so you can check it out.

Until then, I’m just pleased with and proud of this li’l experimental piece.

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Okay, not to trivialize the real and awesome science here, but I'm a very visual person (I know, go figure), and this (incredible) real Artemis photo of the moon eclipsing the sun triggered some deep memory, ("I know there's a similar image somewhere in my brain... what is it?"), then it just dawned on me - Han Solo to the rescue at the end of Star Wars.

Spent the weekend in a Yurt near Newport, Oregon. It was a super low tide weekend with lots of beach to comb and tide pools to explore!

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Robert Smalls' birthday was yesterday; Smalls, who became one of the most remarkable figures of the Civil War, was born into slavery on April 5, 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina.

After working as a sail-maker and longshoreman, Smalls achieved a position of responsibility as a pilot in Charleston Harbor. On the evening of May 12, 1862, Smalls and the enslaved crew of the CSS Planter, a small Confederate transport, had been left aboard the ship overnight.

They arranged for their families to visit and bring them dinner, then hide on the wharf. In the pre-dawn hours of May 13, they picked up their families and, with Smalls mimicking the Planter's captain (wearing his uniform and a straw hat) and delivering the correct hand signals, sailed out through Charleston Harbor past Fort Sumter. They then raised a white flag and delivered the Planter, four artillery pieces, and a naval code book into the hands of the US Navy.

Smalls, with his excellent knowledge of the harbor (including mine placement), began serving with the Navy as a consultant and civilian pilot. In August, 1862, he traveled to DC to help convince Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to allow Blacks to enlist in the US Army.

In 1864, Smalls was invited to Philadelphia to serve as an unofficial delegate to the Republican National Convention; following the war, he purchased his former enslaver's house in Beaufort after it was seized for non-payment of taxes. He used his savings, including significant prize money from the capture of the Planter, to form a short-haul horse-drawn railroad (with an almost entirely African-American board of directors) and start a newspaper in 1872.

Beginning in 1875, Smalls, who had learned to read while in Philadelphia, served five non-consecutive terms in Congress as a Radical Republican, including sponsorship of a (failed) amendment to integrate the Army.

Smalls is commemorated in a number of ways, including the Army transport vessel USAV Major General Robert Smalls and the Robert Smalls House, a National Historic Landmark in Beaufort. Smalls died of complications from diabetes in 1915.

A picture of the Earth and, way up in the left corner, the moon, as seen from Artemis's window.

a girl and her pet toad, venice beach, California, 1936

I went for a walk this afternoon. For the first time in a long time, my walk was completely unrelated to either patrolling my neighborhood, dealing with anxiety, or both. I made the specific decision to return to a former (rough) route that is outside my immediate neighborhood and to listen to music instead of be on high alert.

It was glorious. I listened to Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee, prompted by a friend who I reconnected with last night over dinner after a relatively short, yet significant deliberate stretch of time apart.

There were many chalk drawings on sidewalks, undoubtedly from yesterday when the afternoon was warm and families were gathered for Easter. Those all made me smile, but I was moved to photograph this lone car drawing on the walking path along Minnehaha Creek.

location for the next/first global mltsh(p) meetup?

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Can't imagine why people wouldn't embrace this technology.

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Mrs. Otaman was busy creating pysanky for customers & clients. I think she made about 36 just in the past week! I only got a few snaps of the leftover ones here. Top right is my favourite – a new design for this year. I also love the wonderful accident on the bottom left. This egg got some moisture inside during one stage of dyeing (my wife works on emptied eggs), and the moisture negatively affected how the blue dye adhered. The resulting starry-sky effect is really cool though, and I'm calling this the Artemis II egg.