archive for June::2010

Joe’s Cafe

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Mercy Hospital cafe

30::June::2010 20:14 → permalink

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Mercy Hospital

30::June::2010 20:14 → permalink

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south-by-southwest
  • place: en route Glade Park - Ouray - Silverton - Durango, Colorado

29::June::2010 23:31 → permalink

coming off the Glade into the Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction, Colorado, June 2010
the yurt raised, a futon installed, some clean-up work left, remediation, a stove for winter, in this glorious location. the month almost gone, and now heading south. coming down from Glade Park, Rock Ridge Lane. and doing the Western Slope: en route Glade Park – Durango and Richard and Holly’s place there, via Ouray and Silverton. classic Colorado drive. hard to leave this place.

and my Self wandering away from everything again, to Oz. this does not seem to be auspicious, ever, for whatever reasons. I do not know what to think of this anymore. the desire to live in Colorado truncated by the inabilities to re-frame the self and the skills possessed in order to work / to live. or is it merely a change of perspective that is necessary? I would suspect the latter as there are more than five million people living in Colorado right now. Most of them manage to live. Given, of course, that 11.2% of them are below the poverty level, that leaves 88.8% that keep at least one nostril above the water line. Of course, I could survive there, without any other degrees or knowledge-bases: it’s all in the (internal) perspective.

whilst the travelog shudders along, firing on less than four cylinders, knocking on too much ethanol, and not going fast enough. (I post this more than six month into the future from the now in the images, damn.)

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184361
  • place: Grand Junction, Colorado

29::June::2010 09:24 → permalink

Western Convenience, 2525 South Broadway
5.818 gallons
$2.829/gallon
$16.46

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final tour
  • place: Glade Park, Colorado

28::June::2010 22:49 → permalink

a final view of the yurt showing the support platform structure, Glade Park, Colorado, June 2010
Collin and Marisa are up and off early to Grand Junction, so I make a circuit of their land, stopping to wallow in some sincere jealousy regarding the yurt and how well they have managed to bring such a situation into being. it takes a real and dedicated long-term focus to gather the resources to make such ordered and rejuvenating configurations rise, Mongolian yurt-like, out of the chaos of the world.

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wind chimes

28::June::2010 20:13 → permalink

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yurt raising
  • place: Glade Park, Colorado

26::June::2010 22:51 → permalink

yurt framing, step one, Glade Park, Colorado, June 2010
up early, wrestling with the rather small pile of parts — the lattice wall, the door, the skirting, and main fabric roof, insulation panels, rafters — but surprisingly little ‘stuff’ to make a whole house. yurt raising, surprisingly easy (except for a few points) with a small crew of smart folks, a few tools, a couple dogs, and about 6 hours total: no glitches; friends make a heli over-flight, and we chill out for a barbecue in early evening.

the particular points that I can recall: the fabric roof is DAMN heavy; the installation jig (wood tower) is essential (remember to attach firmly to floor!); even-ing out both the roof and wall fabrics is tricky; that’s where a crew of 5-6 is good. two people doing the job would be very tough if not impossible; cabling around the door frame is non-intuitive; all-in-all, it’s pretty darn easy, it was completely done by 1400, so, about 6 hours work. and it is a spacious and comfortable space.

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48-Stunden Neukoellen
  • place: Glade Park, Colorado

26::June::2010 20:31 → permalink

radio aporee presents flickering wastelands IV: another round of the 48-Stunden-(Berlin-)Neukölln Kunst und Kulturfestival at Udo’s place, so I prep this 30-minute video piece of flickering wastelands from the Wendover residency, et al. Ambient sounds included.

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building the yurt

26::June::2010 20:12 → permalink

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heading west
  • place: en route Boulder - Glenwood Springs - Grand Junction - Glade Park, Colorado

25::June::2010 21:15 → permalink

I-70, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, June 2010
and suddenly time is up on the Front Range. head west on I-70 to participate in the raising the yurt. along Glenwood Canyon under stormy skies, then once out of that, on to the Grand Junction Airport to meet Collin and Marisa at their offices.

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184207
  • place: Eagle, Colorado

25::June::2010 13:21 → permalink

Loaf n Jug #47, I-70 & Spur Road
4.319 gallons
$3.069/gallon
$13.26

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184074
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

25::June::2010 10:16 → permalink

Valero #4057, 1884 Folsom Street
5.069 gallons
$2.839/gallon
$14.39

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heads up, feet up

24::June::2010 13:03 → permalink

J.

How are you?
Where are you?

I’m still smokin’ it
in Nueva York….

Plenty of uncertainty—–
so far nothing has clicked.

I’m still showing little serious
or humourous interest in
writing and reading.

I’m so bereft of “creative” “impetus”
(almost sounds like “oedipus”)
that it is funny….

I’m waiting for Thunder, Rain, and Deluge—-

(certainly not the “thunder” that Eliot
spoke of….and I think that Pier Paolo
Passolini, in Teorema, and in Edipo Re,
presents an authentic vision of
horrific sterility and horrific waste…..)

I’d like to take all this horribly coded
language…..turn it upside-down and
invert it…..

Feedback and Redundancy,
emperors and tyrants….

so much for “modernism”…..

Body, Psyche,
come to us with colors
which cleanse and heal life.

Anthony

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terrestrial physics
  • place: Denver, Colorado

23::June::2010 20:13 → permalink

Jim Sanborn's Terrestrial Physics installation, DMCA, Denver, Colorado, June 2010
drop by Jim and Dona’s place, head to the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art for a quick tour of Jim Sanborn’s Terrestrial Physics installation. it is only to look at. suggestive of something, lots of work, like the set of a 1960s sci-fi flick. kind of functions, but isn’t. balancing on the art-science barrier/boundary/frontier. otherwise, no jolt available to be received from the installation.

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Farmer’s Market crepe stand

19::June::2010 20:08 → permalink

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Farmer’s Market ice cream stand

19::June::2010 20:06 → permalink

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Farmer’s Market ambience

19::June::2010 20:06 → permalink

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Farmer’s Market busker

19::June::2010 20:04 → permalink

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183944
  • place: Longmont, Colorado

18::June::2010 14:30 → permalink

K&G Petroleum #534, 1051 South Hover Road
10.529 gallons
$2.779/gallon
$29.26

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Lynne’s
  • place: Five Points, Denver, Colorado

17::June::2010 22:55 → permalink

on the Platte, Denver, Colorado, June 2010

drop by Lynne’s and end up picnicking for the whole afternoon down at the Platte in downtown Denver. watching the constant stream of human drama passing by.

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Trident Cafe

16::June::2010 20:09 → permalink

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Costco check-out

16::June::2010 20:04 → permalink

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the girls
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

15::June::2010 22:47 → permalink

Nora and Eliott, Boulder, Colorado, June 2010

drop by EJ’s to get a group pix, but Bridget isn’t around, but after a round of some very fine Tequila with EJ, hanging on the back patio, I get Nora and Eliott to find a spot (Nora took the lead on this task, heading right up the tree in the back yard. Not surprising in Light of the memory of her shimmying up the 12-foot steel supports in the kitchen like a little monkey when she was, like, six years old.) Eliott is packing for six weeks of summer camp near Estes Park starting tomorrow, lucky!

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Chris’ birthday
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

12::June::2010 22:26 → permalink

dinner, Boulder, Colorado, June 2010

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World Cup at the Darkhorse

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group portrait, Craig’s woodworking class
  • place: Boulder, Colorado

11::June::2010 22:05 → permalink

group portrait, Craig's woodworking class, Lafayette, Colorado, June 2010

Pick up the kids over at the Alexander Dawson School, meeting Craig Angus, their teacher for a wood-working course. Craig is a former student from my first years of teaching Master Black and White Printing at CU waaay back in the 1980s. He’s now the teacher with the most seniority at Dawson!

The kids made some pretty fine bedside table/cabinets that were still wet with polyurethane. Fortunately I had room in the truck to stash them safely for the ride home to Boulder.

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CF&I
  • place: en route Pueblo - Boulder, Colorado

09::June::2010 20:32 → permalink

panorama, CF&I siding, Pueblo, Colorado, June 2010

drive back up north, preceded by a stop at the old CF&I siding and parking lot in the middle of Pueblo.

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physics lecture

09::June::2010 20:12 → permalink

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on the Ark
  • place: Pueblo, Colorado

08::June::2010 21:32 → permalink

memorial, Arkansas River, Pueblo, Colorado, June 2010

long cycle ride with Bill first down the Ark which was partly over the bike path at one point. that made for a challenge going back up against the current in a foot or more of fast moving water — the river is definitely at spring flood stage! Then all the way back upstream to the Pueblo Dam which was open and blasting snow-melt downstream. pretty damn hot, but along the river in the shade of the huge cottonwood trees, all is chill. at the end of the ride, I was tuckered, but also impressed with the urban green-space development that Pueblo is undertaking.

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dogs and a chopper

08::June::2010 20:11 → permalink

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birds in backyard

08::June::2010 20:10 → permalink

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  • place: en route Pueblo - Guffey - Pueblo, Colorado

06::June::2010 22:22 → permalink

portrait, bikers, Colorado, June 2010

Bill and I do a road-trip up to meet Rick, Sally, and Karen for lunch at Rita’s Place in Guffey. another instance of being on a road that I’ve never been on before: in Colorado that’s unusual anymore these days. it’s a nice drive, through Cañon City, then north on Route 9 a bit then turning off for Guffey and Rita’s. She’s got a nice little place to have a lunch stop when on a Sunday afternoon drive in the mountains. Karen had to leave early, but the rest of us take a slow wander around the ecentric little village. Then back to Pueblo for a few more days in the +100F heat.

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dinner
  • place: Pueblo, Colorado

05::June::2010 22:45 → permalink

portrait, John, Harry, Bill, Wendy, Jimmy, Chris, Pueblo, Colorado, June 2010

dinner with John, Chris, Wendy, Harry, Jimmy, and Bill, all us old-time School of Mines guys. well, except for John, somehow he got tangled up with us, bully fer ‘im!

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down south
  • place: en route Boulder - Pueblo, Colorado

04::June::2010 16:11 → permalink

head down to Bill’s to prep for the small dinner party tomorrow night.

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183662
  • place: Pueblo, Colorado

04::June::2010 14:44 → permalink

Shell, 1812 West US Highway 50
9.116 gallons
$2.899/gallon
$26.43

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