Sorry Kids for being gone so long. The Boca Show has taken over my life. I"m almost done. The display was finished up today, along with the framing. Not all the framing but the hard stuff is out of the way. This image is one of my all time favorites. The by-line sums up my life as of lately. This one will be in the show BUT it will not be for sale. This one belongs to Andy Montgomery. So if you want to see it in person come to Boca Raton or travel to Chattanooga, Tn.....thats where Andy's house is

Audio

Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - (Some say) I got the devil - Domino -
Earth - An inquest concerning teeth - Southern Lord
Halma - Slumberland - Sunday Service
Einsturzende Neubauten - Tageland weiss - Potomak
Marsen Jules & Tri Yara - Oeillet Sauvage - cdr
Murcof - Camino - Leaf
XXL - jciautistico! - Important
Unknown - Unkown in Mawal/Choubi style - Sublime Frequencies
Saing Saing Maw - Khin kam - Sublime Frequencies
Ah Jiwen, Pu Meifand, Hou Baoyun, Shu Wanhong - Tobacco box dance - Zhengzhou Dongdong Cultural Dissemination Company Ltd

Daniel Meteo - mix
jaz z - encore instrumental - dj promo
carl craig - angola (pepe bradock get down dub) -rca
the orb - ripples - kompakt
am/pm - foolish thing to do - sud
dj kent - second moon - bear funk
theo parrish - anansies dances - ubiquity
omar s - always there - whit/omar s
pepe radock - erectus rework - honest jons
carl craig - sandstorms - planet e
melchior productions - go deep - playhouse
frivolous - outside the lines - karloff
ras t weed - jingle - promo
ferdinand fehlers - hearth - meteosound
meteo/thiel - bass and go portable remix - meteosound

Last night I also made it out to dinner with JR. We went to one of our regular haunts, the lovely Mildred's in Soho.Mildred's is a wonderful place that serves vegetarian, vegan, and wheat-free delightfully cooked delicious food. And it's not expensive. Our whole bill, including drinks and service, was £26.That's a bargain where I come from.The only thing I would say to Mildred's detriment is

Last night I went to get my haircut. Actually it wasn't as traumatic as I was expecting. Previous hairdressing experiences have left me in a state ofa) angerb) fearc) upsetd) seeking the immediate services of another hairdresser to fix the mullet effect.I won't talk too much about the time I went to the hairdresser only for him to begin trying to tell me that he thought fox-hunting was great,

Righty-ho. Today's post comes to you from the laughable work environment I call 'the Office'. I shouldn't technically be doing this but right now I wouldn't urinate on my boss were he emitting flames and I certainly wouldn't care if they fired me.At lunchtime today, I went for one of my thrice-weekly trips to the gym. I have come to love the gym, since I discovered Mistress Krista in the

#2 from the Boca show. This one only has one freaky face in it! I think I might do a whole butterfly series. I know it sounds gay doing a series of Polaroids on butterflies and all, but for some reason these little creatures have always fascinated me. Don't know why but they have. Trying to catch these little buggers....now that is work...

So, today is 'sit at home and study' day. I've had insomnia for the last few nights so I didn't manage to get up til nearly 9am (bad, bad...I have so much to do) and then wasted a further hour ditzing around, going to the post office and eating breakfast. Then I fretted about the noisy neighbours.The noisy neighbours live upstairs. My home is a victorian maisonette (maisonette = living area where

Well, no great surprise here, but I seem to have screwed this up already. Apparently my blog, my creation, my joy, is not found on this server. Or whatever.Generally speaking, me and technology don't get along too well. I have a computer, I use Word and the Interweb, and occasionally I can find things I've lost in the depths of my hard drive. I even have an ipod and it does appear to work,

Preview of some of the Polaroids that I will be selling at the Boca Show. I will have more to come.

Audio

Peggy Honeywell - Smile and Compliment - Agenda
JOMF - Rockaway - ATP atprcd20
Nigerian Army Rhythm Group - Ebawa se - Honest Jons
Iragi National Anthem
Ja'afar Hassan - They taught me - Sublime Frequencies
Bullwackies AllStars - Hurricane not I - Wackies
Barrington Levy - A Yeah we deh dub - Auralux
Susumu Yokoto - Purple rose minuet - Leaf
Seaming - Vibes1 (Mummy is awake)
Kode9 & SpaceApe - Backward - Hyperdub
Koji Asano - Spring Estuary 1 - Solstice
Theo Parrish - Falling up (Carl Craig remix) - Third Ear
Amadou and Mariam - Senegal Fast Food - All Other
Billy Pikkel - Me and Babies - Eli Records Eli
Brenda Ray - Sweet Sweet - Tamoki-Wambesi-Dove
The Be Good Tanyas - Lakes of Pontchartrain - Nettwerk
Dave Swain - Media Monkey - Gore Infidel G.I 11CD
The Legendary Shack Shakers - Iron Lung Ompah
Archie Bronson Outfit - Cherry Lips - Domino
Ral Partha Vogelbacher - aeroflot - Monotreme
Buzzcocks - Wish I Never Loved You - Cooking Vinyl
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Electricity and Drum Will Change Your Mind - Domino

Sorry I haven't posted in a while things have been crazy....I have been feeling really tried lately. But no sleep for the......#$%@ I forgot how the saying goes. Boca Show update, frames are in, flyer will be finished today, diplay will be finished tomorrow....How about that!!!! sleep aaa who needs it, Boca Show Polaroids coming soon.....

Thanks to all the people that made this a special day.....

Did you know that you can use bleach to take the Polaroid image complety off? Well you can... to bad you can't use bleach to erase certain memories. I have a few that need to be erase. Some people say you learn from these memories...I say......why keep learning!

Steph says I'm angst ridden today. So be it.

#1 — Why is it that the cabs in Charlotte, NC always STINK so damn bad? I don't mean from cigarettes, though that would be understandable in the land of the cancer-stick. Instead, they stink of CHEAP-ASS incense or those air freshener things with the Playboy bunny or shaped like pine trees. One air freshener is certainly not enough for these cabs. A few dozen, perhaps. I swear, every time I get into a cab in Charlotte it always stinks like a cheap whorehouse! And then my eyes start watering and I start sneezing. Guys, could you lay off the cheap air fresheners, please? If it wasn't freakin' cold outside I'd open the window and stick my head out, but for the moment that's not an option unless I want frostbite.

Think of the business travelers. Please.

#2 — What is with the ridiculous ID checks that I have to go through at so many client sites. A few weeks ago in Chicago I showed up at a banking client's office, gave the guard my ID, he gave me a sticker allowing me into the building. OK, no problem. Next morning, the same guard was there. He said hello to me. I signed in. He asked me for my ID. I looked at him and asked "Did my ID change from yesterday?" This generated puzzled looks, so I gave up my ID and he let me pass. By the next day he stopped asking for ID. Smart man.

Today I had a similarly surreal experience. New city, different guard. I sign in and state I am going to room XYZ. He says "OK, I need to see your ID." I put it on the table and slide it to him facing sideways. He glances at it and hands it back to me. What exactly did this charade accomplish? He didn't validate my identity in any way before giving me access to the "protected" area of this building. All he did was make sure I had an ID card, in this case my drivers license, and never checked that it was real nor did he check it against the signin sheet where I could have written "The Unabomber, 404-555-1212".

Security can be so pointless sometimes...

Guess what Florida faces its coldest days of the year. And I don't have any heat.....my space heater went out at the end of winter last year and I have yet to tell my landLord. I guess it is time to break out the sub-zero sleeping bag..... yes sweet days are ahead. This Polaroid was part of the original 20 that I display for Platform Florida. I was sad that it was sold but its hanging I'm sure in a warm house with lots of heat. o sweet summer, bring me dreams of bikinis and 100% humidity.

Audio

Donald Byrd - Think Twice - Blue Note
TJ Swann - Get Fly - Headphone Heroes
Radio City Featuring Bajka E.P.one - Everything - Ubiquity
Sunburst Band - For all Eternity Z Records
Taana Gardner - No Frills - West End
Common feat. Joy Denalane - GO - Getting out of our dreams
Pam and Dodi - Don't Have to - MCA
Full Force - Turn you On - Dazz Records
Edwin Starr - Just Wanna Do My Thing - Headphone Heroes
AfroHeat - Vol 4 - Afroheat
C Brand - Wired for Games - ZR Records
Jihad Muhammad - Asahikawa - Downtown 161
Cafe Soul All Stars - Urban Jungle - uentertainment
Mr Ali - Imagine Freedom - Unified Freedom
Julian Jabare / Masters at Work /Soul Heaven - Swimming Places - Defected Records
Peven Everett - Sexy One - Unified
Wood Brass and Steel -Funkanova -emi

This Polaroid was completed in 2005, it is a tribute to William Blake. The site is a great resource for his works, some of the stuff I never seen before. On the home front. I ordered my frames for the Boca Art Festival. Things are coming together slowing but I think by show time I will be ready. I still have to do a few more Polaroids. Its always hard to judge how much work you should display. Well, I hope you guys have a great Friday. Please if you visit RapidView, leave a comment. I'll hit you back with a thank you or a whatttssssup....And if you have any ideas of how to get this blog out into the cyber world.....Drop it on me

Change of plans on my upcoming trips...

ATL - SAT - ATL (5 days)
ATL - CLT - ATL (4 days)
ATL - SEA - ATL (3 days)
ATL - BOS - ATL (5 days)
ATL - EZE - GRU - ATL (12 days)

Too bad I'm only in EZE for a night. It's a city I really wanted a chance to see more of...

Have you ever heard of Denison Witmer? Well, I just got a chance to hear him live at the Polk, he is an amazing talent. His music made me realize that society isn't always bad. That there is good out there, you just have to find it. Don't let society or people hold you back from what you want to accomplish. I confess,...I dreamed society was good. It was a good dream.

"The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at full gallop on a fine day." A quote from Fanny Kemble; A Passionate Victorian. Did I read the book...no but I did use a lot of words and quotes from the book. She was a rebel....and everyone needs a good rebel now and then......look at Cuba....where would they be without Fidel....Vive la Cuba

I have been wanting to post a butterfly shot for sometime now but that image brings back a lot of bad memoirs, so I waited and decided to post this one. I think the phrase is very interesting. Nature often effects how we consume things, and of course the same goes with us. There will always be a war between nature and Humans. A film maker that convey's this point pretty much in all of his movies is Terrence Malick. If you haven't seen his movies your missing out on a dying form of cinema.


Speaking of a Battle....This is Super Bowl Sunday. I'm picking the Steelers to win over the Seahawks. Score 27 to 21..... Rothlisberg is only in his second year.....Un-real..I'll be cooking up some Rothlisbergers and some duck. Next year i'll be in Miami watching the Bucs win there Second Super Bowl.

Audio

Pigmeat Markham - Here comes the judge - Chess
Geraldo Pino & the Heartbeats - Let them talk - Retro Afric
Tom Ze - Gloria - Soul Jazz Records
Sargento Garcia - A cabal mal - Trikont
AFX - Laughable Butane Bob - Warp
Lady Sovereign - Ch'ching - Mental Groove
The Orb - LunikTM - Kompakt
DJ Koze - Barock am ring - Kompakt
American Analog Set - Immaculate
Kinski - Hot stenographer - Sub Pop
EchoBoy - 43 - enraptured
Mogwai - Friend of the Night
Jeffrey and Jack Lewis - Don't be upset - Rough Trade
Ant - Footprints in the snow - Homesleep records
Bush Chemists - East of Jaro - Roir
Lion Face - Rise Up
The Skatalites - Garden of Love - Trojan
65 Days of Static - Radio Protector - Monotreme Records
The Knife - Silent Shout - Brille
Arab Strap - Speed Date - Chemikal Underground
Billy Bragg - Milkman of Human Kindness - Cooking Vinyl
Gati Bongo - Gati Bongo - Baka
The Lobi Traore Group - Jugu - Honest Jons Records
clinic - Jigsaw Man -
Archie Bronson Outfit - Dart for my sweetheart - Domino
Evan Ziporyn - Ngaben - New Albion

We arrived in San Antonio quite late last night. Too late to do much except a quick jaunt down the River Walk and a drink at Casa Rio. We're staying right on the river at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio with a balcony that overlooks the river. Sweet.

Today we woke up early, walked over the the Alamo and did a quick tour. I think Steph was quite surprised how small it is. Having been there before as a kid I knew what to expect. I was thinking of doing like Ozzy and peeing on it, but decided that getting arrested would suck.

We then walked around town and did some shopping at La Villita and El Mercado before hopping in the car and heading out to New Braunfels to have a look around.

Speaking of the car, we had reserved a mid-size car at Enterprise. Cheap rate of $20/day, what a deal! We arrive at the lot and the employee tries to give us an SUV, of course that would also cost more in gas and fees, so we declined. I soon figured out why they wanted us in the SUV so bad. They were out of midsize cars so WE GOT A CONVERTIBLE! Yeah, its a P.O.S. Sebring that needs a brake job, but what the hell! It's 75 degrees F here today and we drove with the top down to and from New Braunfels, woohoo!

Anyway, in New Braunfels I stopped in a cigar shop for some cigars. We wound up spending an hour or so in there, smoking a cigar, drinking beers and hanging out with the cigar shop guys. Totally surreal experience, they just whipped out a few beers and started chatting with us. That was the only thing going on in town. Carl, who "works" there on the weekend -- work consisting of smoking cloves and cigars and drinking mass quantities of beer with his buddies -- gave us a $20 donation to our Hike for Discovery. Thanks Carl!

We're off for a night of eating, drinking and debauchery. I'll post more once I've downloaded some pictures and have additional tales to tell.

This Polaroid is based on the last Supper, all 12 disciples are present in the polaroid. Over time you will see a lot of spiritual themes pop up in these Polaroids. Its a huge part of me and my art work. No news to report on this Rainy Friday,.. ooooo the sound of rain with a slight twist of lightning.

Here we go with a bunch of Polaroids. These are Polaroid Colleges as I like to call them. I use Sx-70 film and then I add different elements to the back of the Polaroid. I make up words and phrases to go along with the image. They say every picture is worth a thousand words. This technique goes away from that. The only thing digital is the black boarded around the polaroid. I have to use it because my background is white. This technique was developed over a year ago by me and now its pretty much all I do. I have sold a bunch of these and I had to scan them to keep a record of them, and now that I'm blogging I can share them with you. I hope you enjoy the month of February.