Michigan Fall

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Darcy Lynn's Snack Shop

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"While you sweat over a hot stove slinging hash

Work my fingers right down to the elbows

Yes I may be good-for-nothin'

But I'm still your sweet hunk o' trash"

Billie Holiday-Sweat Hunk O'Trash

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. 
– T S Elliot

Berwyn's Toys and Trains O Gauge Train Layout

Worked on a new movie......Simple and it was done simply in Photoshop CC 2014.

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"There is nothing wrong with hardships and obstacles, but everything wrong with not trying."

-Werner Herzog

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"The enemy of photography is the convention, 

the fixed rules of 'how to do'. 

The salvation of photography 

comes from the experiment."

- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Rustic

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"If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person"

– Jay Maisel

Road Less Traveled

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Happy 4th......Celebrate America

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“I must create a system, 

or be enslav'd by another man’s.” 

— William Blake

Cal's Bar Chicago

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"Regardless of who you are, regardless of your social position—the highest or the lowest—have always as your goal to have a lot of strength, a lot of determination, and always do everything with a lot of love and faith in God. Because one day, you will get there. Somehow, you will get there."

-Ayrton Senna

You can hear this in the Nike Ad.....in Portuguese for the workd cup.

Senna Ad

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 "The majority of photographers still seek “artistic” effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, —photographic quality."

-Tina Modotti

In Honor Of My Father

Memorial day is day that honors those who served........Today I honor my father who served in World War II. A good man with a kind and loving heart who raised two great sons.

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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!"

-Vincent Van Gogh

Mothers Day 2014

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"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense." 

– Pablo Picasso

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"I am not designed to come second or third, 

I am designed to win" 

-Ayrton Senna. 

Today is the 20th anniversary of his death.

Billiken Type Dance

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A little fun with a custom Billiken photoshop brush and the program Typo-Painter.

The Gonzo Illustrator

“I still think the computer has so confused us that we don’t quite have the strong moral compass that we should, I always say to people that I like to see wet ink. A computer leaves me unable to do what I live for: to find something unexpected.”

-Ralph Steadman

I'm interested in seeing the documentay film.

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At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes. 

- Paul Caponigro

Easter Greetings!

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Quote of the day: The past cannot be changed. 

The future is yet in your power.

 - Mary Pickford

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“People don’t like to think. 

If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. 

Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

― Helen Keller