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Anika – No One’s There

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Anika – Officer Officer

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This weekend I am at Moogfest in Asheville, NC and although I have been slacking on the updates I could not miss the blog’s four year anniversary. Sadly I wasn’t able to catch up to what should be post #209 (eep!) but I do have ambitious hopes of catching up at some point. There are a number of bands I am excited to see this weekend and thought I’d share this one because she is new to me and her eerie voice suits the Halloween weekend quite well . . . have a listen to Anika.

It doesn’t seem that long ago, but it’s been two years since I etched this piece along with three other copper discs. It has been sitting in my toolbox all this time waiting for me to do something with it and I finally decided to make it a brooch.

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Crystal Stilts – Departure

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My friend Dirk moved with his family to DC from Luxembourg three and a half years ago for a temporary work assignment and this past weekend his stay here came to an end and he moved back to Luxembourg. I met him two years ago when I was getting more interested in photographing abandoned places and have really enjoyed getting to know him and going out on photo-excursions with him. He will be missed but I fully intend on making it out to Luxembourg sometime to visit.

As a going away gift, a group of us decided to make him a t-shirt. There were several design ideas going around, but the one we settled on was a graphic of his face in a comic book “kapow!” style. Here is the original design I created and a photo of Dirk wearing the shirt. We had the design printed at CustomInk and were really happy with the results.