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    Goodbye, Bella

    We had to find a new home for one of our African Grey Parrots, Bella. Not too long after we got her in 2007, she started plucking/chewing off her feathers. Which is evidently not unusual for an African Grey.  We did a …


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    Detroit News covers “Twisted Toys & Mad Scientists”

    Detroit News wrote an article covering the event I will be DJing this weekend. “Twisted Toys & Mad Scientists” will present work from across the alternative Do-It-Yourself spectrum, from straightforward visual artists to Victorian-influenced steam punkers to the wizards associated with those …


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    Inline Social Media Buttons in Custom Post Template

    I’m teaching myself some PHP and getting up-to-date on CSS so will probably post things I come up with here that I had difficulty finding answers for. I was trying to figure out a way to display Social Media buttons for Pinterest, …


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    Loft Project

    I have been flirting with the idea of moving the the Eastern Market for years, and for various reasons, some out of my control and others not so much, it has just never happened. In 2009, my kung fu Sifu Owen initiated …


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    2011 Top Ten Albums

    Generally, I am awful at narrowing things down to ten, but to prevent myself from listing 100 favorite albums of 2011, I forced myself to list just ten. And here they are. These are not in any particular order. Exitmusic, “From Silence“ Falling somewhere in the darker shoe-gazey sort of sound, Exitmusic’s short release is …


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    Field Rotation, “Cloud Observation”

    I decided to create a small photo series of my cloud observation that I did in the mountains recently. The often ghostly pictures appeared due to an extremely cold and rainy weather period although it was meteorological midsummer. These stills have been …


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    Svartsinn Remix

    A remix I did for Svartsinn’s “All the colours are fading” that was released on Cyclic Law in 2009. Disabled download since this album is still available for purchase, but figured enough time has passed that it is fair to share it. …


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    Memories, flyer from old show

    My friend Brent unearthed a copy of this flyer from a show we did in Lansing almost ten years ago. I probably still have some amazing photos of Grey brutalizing sheet metal and scaring off the occasional person wandering in from the …


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    About This Blog

    I want to revisit briefly the nature of this blog. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I have been active on the internet since around 1994, engaging in online communities as a means for building a social and creative network. I am usually …


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    Pretty amazing concept and extremely well executed. Will probably pick up the book next week.